Dance Techniques

  • Ballet: The ABC’s for any dancer. Students learn body placement, strength, and coordination.
  • Tap: A technique where students learn to utilize a shoe to isolate and coordinate sound.
  • Jazz: A technique that pulls from a Ballet class and puts it into a style that isolates body parts and weight changes.
  • Lyrical: A technique that is defined as Ballet to Lyrics. Lyrical uses contemporary music and has more movement than that of a Ballet class.
  • Hip Hop: A 21st Century technique that uses current style music and teaches the style of dance that is seen in most Music videos.
  • Gymnastics: Basic Floor/Tumbling Skills
  • Modern: A form of dance that expresses complex emotions and abstract ideas.
  • Theater Jazz: Broadway style Jazz class

 

 

Class Schedule

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Dress Code

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Class Name Level Leotard Color Tight Color Shoe Type/Color
Creative Age: 2 1/2- 3 yr. Pink Pink Pink Ballet Shoe
Pre Ballet Age: 4yr. Pink Pink Pink Ballet Shoe
Ballet/Tap I Age: 5yr. Light Blue Pink Pink Ballet/*Bloch Tan Tap
Ballet/Tap II or Ballet/Tap/Hip Hop II Lilac Pink Pink Ballet/*Bloch Tan Tap/Sneakers
Ballet Beginner – Advanced III Black Pink Pink Ballet Shoe
Tap Beginner- Advanced I Black Pink *Bloch Tan Tap Shoe
Tap Advanced II & III Black Pink Bloch Jazz/Tap Oxford- Black
Jazz Beginner- Intermediate I/II Black Pink Black “Tie” Jazz Shoe
Jazz Intermediate II- Adv. I Black Pink Bloch Black “Slip-On”
Jazz Advanced II & III Black Pink Barefoot
Theatrical Jazz Advanced Level Black Pink Bloch Tan “Slip On” Jazz
Lyrical Beginner- Advanced Black Pink Barefoot
Modern All Levels Black Pink Barefoot
Gymnastics All Levels Any Color Any Color Barefoot
Hip Hop All Levels Street Clothes No Jeans Sneakers

*Bloch Tan ‘Mary Jane’. Tap Shoes. Shoes should not have ‘bows’.