Our dance studio offers a variety of technique classes in the following dance genres:

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Ballet

Ballet is the foundation of all dance genres. In this class, students will focus on proper technique and discipline as it relates to posture, placement, strength, body awareness, and grace. 

 

Jazz

Jazz, one of the more popular dance genres, will focus on technique with an emphasis on strength conditioning and stretching, as well as leaps, turns and progressions. Students will also learn different jazz style dance combinations.

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Hip-Hop

Hip hop, which started as a freestyle dance form relying on a variety of dance styles and backgrounds, has become a mainstream favorite for dancers. Although its emphasis is based on a very personal experience for each individual, students in this class will learn how to bring the best out of their own style. For optimal success, students focus on core strength and endurance to keep up with this often fast-paced dance style. Key focus in class will be on isolations, dynamic moves, footwork, breakdancing and learning a variety of the different hip hop styles. Students will apply what they learn in fun dance combinations and in the art of freestyling.

 

Contemporary

Contemporary dance is a very popular genre for formally trained dancers. It's an expressive dance form where a dancer uses technique and free form to connect with a story or feeling of a song. Students in this class will work through a thorough warm up, incorporating many of the common contemporary steps. Technique will draw from ballet, lyrical, jazz and modern.

 

Musical Theater / Theater Jazz

Musical Theatre dance is a theatrical dance style that includes dance technique and acting to songs from broadways and musicals. This class will also focus on fundamentals and introductions to singing, voice, scene work, monologue work, and character development. 

 

Acro

The class is designed to bridge the gap between the athletic skills of acrobatics for dance with artistry. The focus of this class is to help develop the strength, flexibility, balance, muscle control, discipline, concentration and abilities to seamlessly integrate acrobatic movement into choreography. Examples of skills developed include handstands, chin stands, elbow stands, cartwheels, back bends, walkovers, balance, & contortion tricks. Advanced variations of these foundational skills will expand into creative elements as dancers progress in their own personal abilities.

 

Foundations

Similar to The Godfrey Method, our foundation’s class is about building the elements of strength, balance, flexibility and control that will help a dancer deepen their ability to execute technique and movement. This class involves the use of equipment, such as blocks, bands, foam rollers and more.

 

Technique

Technique class is tied directly to our foundation's work. This portion of class allows the instructor to translate all of the elements of strength and flexibility established in foundations and inform dancers how to apply that into movement and their bodies.

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Choreo & Improv

Choreography and Improv class is designed with two intentions in mind. Choreography is for dancers  to work on the skill of learning choreo quickly and to be executed as intended no matter the genre being taught. The improv portion of the class is for dancers to gain confidence in their abilities to move independent of the learned choreography, refine the details of their movement in relation to the music and apply artistry to their improvisation.