Fairytale Ballet: Music, costumes, and dance props encourage 2-year-old princes and princesses to use their imaginations as they learn basic ballet steps through the magic of fairytales.
Tutu Toddlers: This class is designed for the 3-year-old who loves music and wants to dance. Participants will concentrate on creative movement using large motor skills choreographed to all their favorite songs. Dancers must be potty trained.
Budding Ballerinas: This class is designed for the 4-year-old who will learn ballet fundamentals which is similar to Tutu Toddlers.
Tappin’ Tots: Toe, heel, step. Three-year-old dancers will learn their first tap steps in this class. This class will focus on coordination and rhythm.
Tiny Tappers: Four-year old children will improve their coordination and rhythms as they practice first tap steps. Classes include dance combinations designed especially for this level. No previous dance experience is necessary.
Jazz N’ Juniors: Kick, turn, and develop coordination in this beginning level jazz dancing class. Dancers may be three or four years old.
Lil Jammers: This class teaches hip-hop basics with upbeat music. Dancers may be three or four years old.
Level I: The class structure includes isolation and flexibility warm-ups for Jazz, barre and centre work for Ballet and Tap. Students will build on the terminology and technique learned in the Basic Level.
Levels II-V: Dancers must have completed the level prior to the satisfaction of the instructor and have permission to enroll. These levels build on skills learned in the previous level. Students will clarify technique to become stronger dancers. Each level will introduce more complicated technique and combination work. As students advance, a more disciplined atmosphere is enforced, and highly technical steps will be performed.
Ballet: Light, graceful, fluid movements, and highly formalized set steps and gestures.
Hip-Hop: A mixture of street moves and jazz.
Jazz: A popularized dance form by the big bands of the swing era from a profusion of dance styles.
Lyrical: A combination of ballet, jazz, acrobatics, and modern dance. Dancers must be enrolled in Ballet Level II or given permission to enroll.
Modern: A broad genre of western dance which includes ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing. Dancers must be enrolled in Ballet III or given permission to enroll.
Pointe: Technique and strength are the focus of this class in order to support all body weight on the tips of fully extended feet within pointe shoes. Dancers will not start out in pointe shoes. Dancers who are enrolled in Ballet Level III may register for Pointe I.
Tap: The use of metal affixed to the heel and toe of shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion, coupled with characteristic and interpretative body movements.
