Dance Class Descriptions
Technique and Progressive Conditioning: Progressions and combinations center and across the floor incorporating turns, jumps, and extensions. This is a wonderful way to improve your dancing but this class focuses just on technical issues and no dance combinations are taught.
Strength Training: Designed to build muscle strength while creating proper body placement and alignment. The exercises involved in this class will help develop balance, flexibility, and an understanding of the body. The emphasis is on keeping the body healthy and preventing injuries. This class does not teach combinations.
Ballet: Ballet is the basic foundation for most forms of dance. Whatever you learn in ballet, it translates to values that can be used to pursue other forms of dance. The alignment and musicality it requires are only some examples of important qualities in most dance styles. It improves posture, balance, and agility. It is recommended for all dancers.
Jazz: Jazz is a form of dance that showcases a dancer's individual style and originality. Every jazz dancer interprets and executes moves and steps in their own way. Jazz dancing is energetic and fun, consisting of unique moves, fancy footwork, big leaps and quick turns. To excel in jazz, dancers need a strong background in ballet as it encourages grace and balance.
Contemporary: In contemporary dance classes, students learn to use their bodies in a variety of ways, and they focus on breathing, posture, and emotional state to establish a mind-body connection. Students may learn choreographed works, or they may be encouraged to improvise dance pieces. A contemporary dance composition may take the from of a personal narrative, an allegory, a commentary on society, or an integration of cultures, and it can feature a wide variety of dance techniques, reflecting the melting pot nature of contemporary dance.
Lyrical: Lyrical dance is a dance style that blends ballet and jazz dance. Lyrical is generally smoother and a bit faster than ballet, but not quite as fast as jazz. A lyrical dancer uses movement to express strong emotions such as love, joy and anger.
Tap: Tap is an exciting form of dance in which dancers wear special shoes equipped with metal taps. Tap dancers use their feet like drums to create rhythmic patterns and timely beats. The term "tap dancing" is derived from the tapping sound produced when the small metal plates on the dancer's shoes touch a hard floor or surface.
Hip Hop: Although Hip hop dancers require skill and experience to perfect, we recommend hip hop for students interested in starting to dance for fun. It is a more relaxed class environment. Hip hop dancers practice a lot in order to master basic steps and movements that appear simple when performed. Dancers with a good sense of rhythm find it easier to learn hip hop steps.