Youth Dance Classes

 

 

Dance-Nastics
This class will combine balance, strength & flexibility with hip hop moves. Dancers will have a warm-up, learn combinations along with tumbling skills.  

Dance Movement for Three's (3-year-olds)
This class offers younger children an exciting and fun introduction to the world of dance. Emphasis is on having fun through a variety of activities using music interpretation, movement, and imaginative thinking.

Dancing Fours (4-year-olds)
This class offers your dancer a glimpse into three forms of dance. We will explore the basics of ballet, tap and jazz. This class is great for your first-time dancer as well as dancers who have little to no experience. Dancers must have tap shoes or a hard sole shoe for tap.

Ballet
Ballet is the foundation of dance; it helps to build a strong base for all other dance styles. Positions, technique, and musicality are learned from ballet and applied to all other dance styles.

Tap
Tap is a percussive footwork that develops a dancer’s rhythm, style and sound.

Jazz
Jazz is a classic dance and is incorporated in everything from Lyrical to Hip Hop to musical theater and tap.

Lyrical
Lyrical combines ballet and jazz with a little contemporary. This dance style helps the dancer express themselves through movement.

Hip-Hop
Strength, agility, and coordination. Hip Hop is full of high energy moves, and yet sometimes it is in learning the small moves that make this style so intricate.

Musical Theater Dance Lyrical Dance/Hip Hop
As a musical theatre performer, you will want to be well trained in all forms of dance. Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Theatrical (Broadway), ballroom, and even hip-hop.

Intermediate/Advanced Tap
Tap is a percussive footwork that develops a dances rhythm, style, and sound. 5+ consecutive tap years needed, or instructor permission.

Pom Dance
Pom Dance combines upbeat choreography with the energy and excitement of pom-style movement. Dancers will work on coordination, musicality, performance skills and age-appropriate dance technique while learning fun combinations using poms. Classes are designed to build confidence, teamwork and stage presence.

Technique for Leaps & Turns
This technique-focused class gives dancers additional time to strengthen the skills used in leaps, turns and other dance combinations. Dancers will work on flexibility, strength, balance, control and proper technique through exercises and progressions appropriate for their experience level. This class is designed to complement a dancer’s other training and is not a recital class. 

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DANCING BALLROOM STYLE | Age 18+

Learn classic ballroom dances including the Rumba, Swing, Cha Cha, and Foxtrot in a fun and welcoming environment. Participants will learn traditional ballroom dance holds, partner connection, and the fundamentals of leading and following while building confidence and enjoying great music. Registration fee is per person. You are not guaranteed a partner if you register as a single. Partners will not rotate. Wear comfortable shoes. Recreation Center, 1501 Barnsdale Road

9/30-10/21 Wednesdays  7:00-8:30pm R/NR $75/$85

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