Classes we Offer
Ballet -
We offer an intensive nine level Ballet program, and while we train in a variety of styles, we use the Vagonova Syllabus as the basis for our class structure.
All classes in our Ballet program include a full Barre warm-up, stretching, Centre work including Adagio, Petit Allegro, and Turns, and Across the floor exercises including Grande Allegro. Students will study Ballet vocabulary, technique, and history.
Our students will also have opportunities to attend performances by professional ballet companies; In the past we have attended performances by American Ballet Theatre, Alonzo King's Lines Ballet, and the Joffrey Ballet.
Ballet is the most important style of dance to study for every classically trained dancer, it is the foundation of technique, and therefore as a pre-requisite, the student must be enrolled in at least one Ballet class per week in order to enroll in any Jazz, Lyrical, or Turns and Leaps class.
Our Ballet program is offered for ages 7 (with instructor approval) and up.
Pointe -
We offer pointe classes for students ages 11 and up who have at least two years minimum of intensive ballet training and are enrolled in level 3 or higher in our ballet program.
Pointe training is not an alternate style of ballet, but rather an additional skill that ballet students acquire in their training.
Pointe work is never guaranteed for any student, physical limitations may not allow for Pointe work for every dancer. All students must take a Pointe exam before beginning classes, as well as checking with their physician.
Students who qualify for the exam will receive a "Pointe Packet" regarding information on their examination and other important information.
Tap -
Tap dance was born in the United States during the 19th century and now is popular all over the world. In tap, the dancer is not only executing dance movements, but is also functioning as a percussive musician. Our tap classes will help the student gain coordination, rhythm, musicality, and balance.
Each class consists of a basic warm up, tap drills focusing on learning correct rhythm and control of the feet and ankles, traveling steps, and combinations.
We offer both theater and rhythm tap dance classes for ages 7 (with instructor approval) and up, beginning through advanced levels.
Jazz -
Our Jazz classes will help the dancer gain style, strength, flexibilty, and coordination. Each class includes a full warm up including isolations, strengthening, and stretching, center work, across the floor exercises, and combinations.
Jazz classes are open to students age 7 (with instructor approval) and up in Beginning through Advanced levels. The student must be enrolled in at least one ballet class per week in order to enroll in any Jazz class.
Lyrical Jazz -
Classes will be a fusion of Ballet, Jazz, and Contemporary technique and will focus on gaining skill in balance, extension, isolations, and control with emphasize on movement quality and expression.
Lyrical Jazz classes are offered to dancers who are enrolled in Ballet Year 1a and Beginning III Jazz or higher. Classes are offered for Beginning-Advanced. The student must be enrolled in at least one Ballet and Jazz class per week in order to enroll in any Lyrical Jazz class.
Boys Classes -
Our dance classes are not just for girls, all of our classes are open for male students and not only are vauable for strength, endurance, and discipline, but the exercise and principles studied can help the male dancer perform better in all areas from athletics to academics. Benefits include increased strength and flexibilty, coordination, improved posture, increased self-confidence, music appreciation, discipline and focus.
*We offer special tuition rates for our male students, please contact use for enrollment and to find out more!
Hip Hop -
By its widest definition, it can include a wide range of styles such as breaking, popping, locking, house dance and even electro dance. It can also include the many styles simply labelled as hip hop, old school hip hop (or hype), hip hop new style and freestyle.
We offer hip hop classes for ages 5 (with dance experience) and up for beginning-advanced. Each class consists of a warm up followed by a hip hop combination that will allow the student to gain style, musicality, and performance quality.
Contemporary -
Contemporary dance is an evolving collection of interdependent training systems and choreographic approaches arising from the drive of 20th and 21st century dance artists to make dance performances relevant to the contemporary culture. Various physical and compositional techniques have arisen through processes used to explore the structure and dynamics of bodies in space to create a dance.
Contemporary dance combines elements of modern and post-modern technique, and in such is not a unique dance technique, but rather an exploration of modern dance in all its forms.
Petite Stars -
A half hour Creative Movement/Ballet and Tap combo class designed for girls and boys ages 2-3.5 years of age.
This class gives our youngest students their first dance class experience in a fun and structured enviroment. Students will improve gross motor skills, coordination, self expression, and musicality as they are introduced to basic dance movement, class structure, and working with others.
Mini Stars -
A one hour Ballet and Tap combo class designed for girls and boys ages 3.5-5 years of age.
Students learn basic steps, positions, vocabulary, and movement patterns in both ballet and tap. Class emphasis is on learning to love dance, continued improvement of motor skills and coordination, and how to behave in the structured enviroment of the dance studio. Students will work together and as individuals in exercises in the center, and across the floor.
Shooting Stars -
A 1.5 hour long Ballet, Tap, and Jazz combo class designed for girls and boys ages 5.5-7 years of age.
Students will learn pre-ballet technique and vocabulary in exercises at the barre, in the centre, and across the floor. Basic Jazz technique is introduced including simple isolations and stretching, steps in the center and across the floor, and basic movement combinations. Tap technique and vocabulary is studied in the center and across the floor.
Turns and Leaps -
Our Turns and Leaps classes are technique only classes that include a basic warm-up and the entire class will focus entirely on techniques involved with the execution of a variety of turns and leaps.
Improvisation and Choreography -
Our improvisation and choreography classes give the student a chance to experience new types of movement and allow them to begin to express themselves as unique artists and individuals while developing creativity, and dynamic performance and stage presence in the dancer. As most professional dance auditions now incorporate some type of improvisation, this is an essential skill for dancers to posses. Classes will consist of a brief warmup followed by guided improvisation exercises.
Improvisation and Choreography classes are open level classes for students enrolled in levels Beginning III and Up. Students must be taking at least one Jazz class per week and all Jazz pre-requisites to enroll.
Stretch and Strength -
These classes are specifically designed for dancers who want to increase flexibility, extension, and control. Classes will consist of various stretching exercises that take the student beyond a normal class warm-up, as well as cardio and strength training exercises. Strength training may include plyometric workouts, light weight resistance, balance exercises, and floor barre.
All parts of this class are designed to help the dancers gain greater mobility and power in all types of dancing. Students must be enrolled in a Beginning II level Jazz class or higher, as well as all jazz pre-requisites, in order to enroll in a stretch and strength class.
Class Schedule 2011- 2012.pdf
