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Jazz: These classes use stretch and strength exercises to promote proper body placement. Students will learn turns, kicks, leaps, and footwork. Jazz is a combination of technique and style. Influenced by ballet and other dance styles, it is a uniquely American dance form that is contemporary and enjoyable.
Lyrical Jazz/ Contemporary: Lyrical and Contemporary Jazz are more interpretive styles combining jazz, ballet, and modern dance. Not as regimented as ballet but very disciplined. Lyrical is a type of dance that relies on a direct relationship between the lyrics of various songs/poems and specific dance movements. Ballet experience or enrollment required for these classes.
Hip Hop: An urban dance form choreographed to hip hop and rap music (clean and edited). Hip Hop incorporates rhythm, isolations, arm movements, and footwork. These classes teach popping, locking, waving, breaking and more. Hip hop enhances strength and good cardiovascular fitness.
Ballet: Classes emphasize the development of classical ballet skills with a focus on proper placement and alignment. Students will learn ballet vocabulary through barre and center floor work while building strength and flexibility.
Musical Theater: A style seen on Broadway, in Las Vegas, and on movies and television. Musical theater classes incorporate dramatics, jazz and tap dance, comedy, singing, and lip synching. These classes are high energy, interactive, and fun. Jazz dance experience for higher level classes required.
Tap: Done in special tap shoes, this dance form highlights the importance of rhythm and sound created by your feet. The higher the level the more intricate the steps and sounds.
Combo: A combination of tap, ballet, and jazz for preschool and elementary aged children. Designed for the young dancer, this class uses age appropriate music and dance movement to enhance coordination development and self esteem while learning the fundamentals of tap, ballet, tumbling, and jazz.
Creative Movement: A class for preschoolers that uses games and structured play to enhance coordination development. Basic dance and tumbling plus all sorts of fun games and props.
Tuff Guys: This class is geared towards preschool aged boys to help them develop motor skills and coordination. Little guys will love this class filled with music, dance, games, tumbling, and fun!
Jazz Technique: This class does not do a dance for our year end production. Focus is on body placement, balance, stretch, and strength. Turns, leaps, jumps, and tricks are learned.
Tumbling: Forward and backward rolls, cartwheels, round-offs, and other basic tumbling skills are learned. Stretch, strength, and conditioning exercises are use to improve tumbling skills. Not a recital class.
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