Youngest Student Classes
Fairy Tale Ballet
For our youngest dancers, Fairy Tale Ballet provides a perfect introduction to ballet. We are taking well-known fairytale stories and setting them to music and movement. Improve your toddler’s locomotor skills, balance, and coordination in this fun class that weaves together music and movement.
Boys in Motion
Improve your toddler’s locomotor skills, balance, and coordination in this fun class that weaves together music and movement. He introduces dance concepts to help kids engage in a classroom setting.
Pre-Ballet I
Imaginative movement activities introduce your child to musical, body, and spatial awareness while developing coordination and motor skills.
Pre-Ballet II
Building their basic foundation, dancers begin to explore patterns, the flow of movement, and musicality.
Pre-Ballet III
As a dancer’s fundamentals expand, coordination of movement and music is the focus. Students face the mirror and the teacher to build fine motor skills to prepare for more formal training.
Pre-Ballet IV
Classical ballet terms in French help students discover technique while enhancing coordination, musicality, spatial awareness, and flexibility. Children refine steps, learn new ones, and develop balance, concentration, grace, posture, confidence, memory, and imagination.
Level A Technique
Classical ballet terms in French help students discover technique while enhancing coordination, musicality, spatial awareness, and flexibility. Children refine steps, learn new ones, and develop balance, concentration, grace, posture, confidence, memory, and imagination.
Level B Technique
Students focus is on strength, flexibility, body placement, and coordination. Mat work strengthens the core, back, legs and feet and improves flexibility. Elementary barre exercises teach proper placement of the body and legs. In the center, jumps strengthen legs and feet, while simple combinations using polka, waltz, and pas de basque improve coordination. These elements prepare your child for the continued study of ballet in the classical program.
Level C Technique
Students focus on strength, flexibility, body placement, and coordination. Barre work emphasizes alignment for pre-pointe preparation, while mat exercises strengthen the core, back, legs, and feet. Elementary barre exercises teach proper body and leg placement. In the center, jumps build leg and foot strength, and simple combinations like polka, waltz, and pas de basque enhance coordination. These elements prepare students for continued study in the classical ballet program.
Tap (Ages 7 – 12)
This tap class is designed to help students master rhythms and footwork patterns through proper technique while also embracing personal style and creating clear, distinct sounds. The curriculum includes a variety of tap styles, from Broadway to Rhythm tap, making it ideal for dancers who are passionate about rhythm, precision in footwork, and creative expression. The lessons aim to build strong technical skills, while also encouraging students to explore and develop their artistic individuality.
Jazz
Students start training in other styles of dance, starting with Jazz. Identifying elements of jazz dance include isolations, grounded movement, syncopation, and contractions.
