YOUTH DANCE CLASSES


 

 

Dance XPress Instructor: M. Ritacco, C. Selig

 

A variety of dance instruction for girls and boys of all ages where participants will have fun learning new steps and routines while gaining grace, poise, and self-confidence.

  

Proper footwear for each class required (ballet, jazz, tap shoes, and a gym or fitness shoe for Hip Hop). Tap dancers MUST have tap shoes by the 2nd week of class.

 

The program will be 24 weeks: Classes run from September 2023 through April 2024

 

Tuesday Classes – 9/26-4/16
Skip: 10/31, 11/14, 11/21, 12/26, ½, 1/23, 3/26

 

Class

Age

 

Time

R/NR

 

 

Dancing Four’s 

4

 

3:30-4:15pm

$160/$170

 

 

Ballet/Tap/Jazz  

5-6

 

4:15-5:15pm

$175/$185

 

 

Ballet/Hip Hop/Tap  

8-9

 

5:15-6:15pm

$175/$185

 

 

Intermediate/Advance Tap

10+

 

6:15-7:00pm

$185/$195

 

 

Jazz/Lyrical/Hip Hop

12+

 

7:00-8:15pm

$185/$195

 

 

 

 

Thursday Classes – 9/28-4/18
Skip: 11/16, 11/23, 12/28, 1/4, 1/25, 3/28

Class

 

 

 

Age

 

 

 

 

Time

 

 

 

R/NR

 

Dance Movement for Three's

3

 

3:30-4:00pm

$150/$160

 

Jazz/Tap  

5-6

 

4:00-5:00pm

$185/$195

 

Tap/Ballet/Jazz

7-8

 

4:00-5:00pm

$165/$175

Dance-Nastics

8-10

 

 5:00-6:15pm

$150/$160

 

Musical Theater/Lyrical/Hip Hop      8-10                                     5:00 -6:15pm              $160/$170   

 

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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. This class will be taught by Miss Cassidy. 

 

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.