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Dance Curriculum

Explorations:

Movement explorations are an important part of the developmental process.  Play-acting, creative movement, rhythm skills, and an introduction to basic dance technique and terminology are provided in a safe and fun environment.  In movement explorations, children are taught to love movement.  Through development and growth, they can then be taught to dance.

The pre-ballet and pre-jazz/combo classes are more structured movement classes aimed at easing the transition to the technique levels.  The combo class combines pre-jazz skills with an introduction to tap technique.

Ballernazz combines ballet, modern, jazz and creative movement in a fun filled action packed class.

Technique Classes:

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Ballet (ages 8 & up)  Classes focus on vocabulary, placement and alignment, core strength, musicality and fluid ballet technique. Pointe students are required to take ballet technique twice a week.

Jazz (ages 8 & up)  Dance technique inspired by vernacular dance and movement. Students will explore a wide range of jazz styles. Technique, strength and flexibility, placement and alignment are important as we focus on elements such as swing, isolation and rhythm.

Contemporary (ages 8 & up)  Fundamentals of modern dance technique combined with improvisation and composition.  These classes explore space, going in and out of the floor, upside down and right side up and all the fun places in between, by yourself and with partners.

Fundamentals (teen through adult)  Always wanted to try dancing?  Danced when you were younger and let it slide?  This class will work on the skills needed to join a technique class.  Every year people ask “Am I too old to start dancing?”  The answer is NO!

Hip Hop (ages 8 & up)  Fast paced street dance.  Hip hop is aerobic, athletic and fun.

Afro fusion (teen through adult)  A fun blending of African, jazz and contemporary dance.

Performance Dance. Performance dance is a by-audition only class for dancers ages 8 & up.  It is a class aimed at the serious student who wants a pre-professional dance company experience.