Class Description
Mini Movers
Mini Movers is a class for the youngest of dancers. We offer two levels, 3-4 yrs old and 5-6 yrs old. This class is designed to get your littles dancing , improving balance, learning to move their bodies in fun safe ways and exploring the very basics of ballet and tap.
Our mini movers classes are a non-stop class to keep your little ones engaged. Our teachers will lead them thru stretches, fun exercise, games to teach different emotions, actions and dance moves. The students will also spend time learning to very basics to tap and ballet.
Ballet
Ballet is a form of dancing in which “conventional poses and steps are combined with light flowing figures” It will help dancers find their center of balance, gain strength and agility and move gracefully.
*Advanced Ballet is required for all Pointe Students
In our ballet classes, our students will have time for warm ups, barre work, center floor work and work on ballet combinations for their appropriate level.
Modern
This is class is for our advanced dancers. Modern is a fusion of dance styles that use the movement vocabulary of ballet, jazz, modern, hip-hop, Afro-Caribbean, capoeira and post-modern dance in the same choreography.
*prior advance dance experience required
Ages 15+ or teacher recommendation
Jazz
“Jazz dance is a social dance style that emerged at the turn of the 20th century when African American dancers began blending traditional African steps with European styles of movement.” Some elements of jazz dance are isolation movements, precise movements of the body and a variety of jumps and turns. Jazz dance is a diverse and energetic style of dance.
In Jazz, our students will do strength building and safe stretching to help with leaps, jumps, floor work etc. etc. This class will be mostly across the floor and center floor work along with learning combinations to help them learn and remember choreography quickly.
Tap
Tap dance is a dance style characterized by tapping sounds made with the feet. Students will learn to make audible beats by rhythmically striking the floor using their feet.
During tap class, our students will have a number of foot warm ups they go thru, tap barre and center progressions along with tap combinations.
Technique
In this class students will focus on strengthening exercises for the whole body and proper technique of a variety of turns and jumps. Learning good dance technique is essential to a student’s success. Good technique will ensure a dancer’s longevity, help prevent injuries, build strength and flexibility, and refine movement quality.
This class is not in our annual recital.
In technique students will start off with variety of strengthening exercises and stretches for the entire body. The students will focus on proper technique and body form for each skill learned in this class.
Pointe
Pointe is offered to our most advanced dancers and must be recommended to join this class. Without proper skill, strength and muscle/bone development your dancer can risk injury attempting Pointe before they are ready.
*This class requires your dancer take Advanced ballet and Technique.
All pointe shoes must be professionally fitted at Tutus and Dance shoes by appointment only, after approval of the teacher.
Hip Hop
The Hip-Hop dance style isn’t limited to just one style, like krumping, breaking, or popping and locking. Instead it’s a mix of all of those styles and more! It’s an approach to choreography that is consciously in tune with the music and beats without being defined or limited by some of its unique characteristics, like freestyling or the cypher
