Community Dance   

Little ones experience the joy of dance, music and imagination in this class. Through guided and free play, movers explore shapes, pathways, levels, props, storytelling, and obstacle courses. They will learn movement fundamentals like marches, gallops, leaps, skips, and hops. This class is for all incoming students ages 3-4 and returning students placed in this level.

This course requires a mandatory waiver.

This class is for students in Ballet V and up. It includes a practice of movements in modern and contemporary dance including Horton, Graham, Limon, & Cunningham techniques. It is an excellent class to prepare students interested in studying dance within a university setting.

This course requires a mandatory waiver.

The class continues strengthening the body for pointe work, focusing on the necessary stamina and stability for rising up on and off pointe at a variety of tempos and durations. This class is for all incoming students ages 13 and up with 3 or more years of pointe experience and returning students placed in Ballet levels VI, VII, and VIII.

This course requires a mandatory waiver.

This class continues to incorporate imaginative dance exercises and games from Creative Movement to instill a love of movement. Dancers are introduced to fundamentals in classical ballet and tap including basic positions and vocabulary such as: parallel first, first position, second position, demi-plié, tendu, ballet skips, walks, runs, tap flaps, shuffles, cramp rolls and ball-change. This class is for all incoming students ages 5-6 and returning students placed in this level.

This course requires a mandatory waiver.

In preparation for developing intermediate skills, the class builds upon previous classical ballet and tap vocabulary with an increased focus on correct body alignment, maintaining turnout, coordinating the arms and legs at faster tempos, and clear timing. Movers will expand their knowledge of ways to travel through space with steps, like pas de bourre é , chain é , piqu é passe, arabesque saut é, Irish, buffalo, flap runs, broadways, pull backs, and riff walks . This class is for all incoming students ages 9-10 and returning students placed in this level.

This course requires a mandatory waiver.

Students will be introduced to Broadway, Street, and Contemporary styles of jazz dance. Dancers will learn essential skills like percussive isolations, spinal articulations, flat back, pivots, laterals, tilts, syncopated and swing rhythms, jazz walks, jazz squares, layouts, kicks, leaps, and turns. The class focuses on strength building, musicality, flexibility, body awareness, and character expression. This class is for all incoming students ages 7-10 and returning students placed in this level.

This course requires a mandatory waiver.

This class continues to incorporate imaginative dance exercises and games from Creative Movement to instill a love of movement. Dancers are introduced to fundamentals in classical ballet and tap including basic positions and vocabulary such as: parallel first, first position, second position, demi-plié, tendu, ballet skips, walks, runs, tap flaps, shuffles, cramp rolls and ball-change. This class is for all incoming students ages 5-6 and returning students placed in this level.

This course requires a mandatory waiver.

Pre-Pointe or Beginning Pointe utilizes previously learned ballet technique for pointe work. Each class includes barre exercises, center floor work, and across the floor combinations to condition the feet and ankles on flat or in pointe shoes (at the instructor's discretion). This class is for all incoming students ages 11-12 and returning students placed in Ballet levels IV and V.

This course requires a mandatory waiver.

The class combines various jazz techniques from the previous level and hip hop grooves, such as Broadway, Street, and Contemporary styles of jazz dance. Classes include stretch and strengthening exercises, floor work, and across the floor progressions in addition to a center floor combination. Rhythmic expression, turns, leaps, transition steps, and body line are focused on. This class is for all incoming students ages 11-12 and returning students placed in this level.

This course requires a mandatory waiver.