Class Descriptions

​We know if this is your first time looking into dance, all of these class names can get confusing! So we put this page together to help you understand what classes we offer and the difference between styles of dance.

Class Levels

Summer classes are not separated by class levels. Teachers are able to increase or decrease skill difficulty for individual students or for overall class needs.

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Dance With Me
​Ages 2-3

Our Dance With me class is a 30 minute, adult involved class where 2-3 year old dancers are introduced to the classroom setting and start to work on building their gross motor skills. This class will use a modified version of the first 30 minutes of our 3-5 year old combo class to introduce new dancers to how our classes are run and help them make a smooth transition into taking class without the help of mom, dad, or another adult when they move into our 3-5 year old combo class.

​Ballet/Jazz or Ballet/Tap
Ages 3-5

Our combo classes are designed for younger dancers who are not quite ready for a full hour of a single dance style. These classes start with 25-30 min of ballet, learning ballet positions and basic techniques. After a short bathroom and drink break, class resumes with learning tap or jazz steps as well as working on gross motor skills. Most classes end with a game of freeze dance and a stamp or sticker to reward good classroom behavior.​

Ballet
Ages 6+

Ballet is the foundational dance form characterized by precise movements, formalized steps, grace and precision.
​All classes strive to teach ballet class etiquette as well as proper ballet technique. 
As students progress into higher levels of ballet, classes become more intense and focus on correct posture, exceptional balance, and perfecting technique so that they can learn more challenging steps.​
​Our teachers primarily teach a mixture of Cecchetti and French methods of ballet.

Jazz
​Ages 6+

​Jazz is a dance style that has been developing into new and interesting iterations in the past few years. Our jazz classes are centered around classical jazz technique which allows for the leaps, turns, and tricks that wow audiences. When choreographing dances, we encourage our teachers to introduce our dancers to all sorts of jazz styles including Broadway/musical theater, jazz funk, character, and classical jazz. 

Tap
​Ages 6+

Tap is a dance form that teaches rhythm and musicality through the use of fine motor skills, coordination, and balance. Our classes aim to provide our dancers with the ability to learn combinations of classical tap steps from the dance style's rich history as well as allowing the dancer to develop an understanding of timing and the aesthetics of sound and how they are used in modern tap dancing.

Contemporary
Ages 6+

This dance style is one of the newest and fastest evolving styles of mainstream dance. Starting out as a natural movement alternative to ballet, modern was the jumping off point for dancers to express themselves through dance in a way that ballet didn't allow. Lyrical soon followed as songs with lyrics, rather than the classical instrumental songs of ballet, were used to choreograph more emotional dances. Contemporary sits somewhere in between. It can encompass techniques from a great variety of different dance styles.
Our contemporary classes aim to teach our dancers how to listen to music and connect to it and share the experience with their audience.

Lyrical
​Ages 18+

As it's name suggests, lyrical dancing is strongly tied to the lyrics and emotions of a song. Rather than the classical instrumental music of ballet, lyrical dancing strives to tell a story through the lyrics and emotions of the song. This dance style has a very strong base in ballet techniques but allows for more expressiveness, creativity, fluidity and innovation within the movements. 
​Our lyrical classes aim to teach dancers to listen to music, find an emotional connection and tell a story with their dancing.

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