NEW in 2024-25 is our Street Jazz style Hip Hop class! This class is unique not only in the style but also in that it is what we call a performance class - students will have the opportunity to learn choreography in class and perform at different festivals throughout the year. This class welcomes dancers of any age who are at an intermediate to advanced level.

Street Jazz blends jazz technique with hip-hop and funk. It is high-energy, expressive, features sharp isolations, intricate footwork, and powerful gestures.

Students will utilize previously learned ballet technique while working in pointe shoes. Each class includes barre exercises, center floor work and across the floor combinations. These exercises focus on strengthening the feet and ankles.

For students who have been in Ballet 2 in the past and need an accelerated training before joining Ballet 3. A complete technique class with barre, center, and across the floor movement.

This class introduces ballet terminology and follows a traditional ballet class format, but without barre work. It includes warm-up, basic ballet steps, center movement, simple choreography, and free dance time. This class should be taken before or with Beginning Ballet I.

Moving beyond the Intermediate Level. Center work will consist of an adagio, a tendu combination, jumps – including petit allegro and batterie, and pirouette preparations and turns. Dancers will begin to work on attitude positions, as well as, develop their grande rond de jambe and rond de jambe en l’air. Corner work will consist of jump, waltz, and various traveling combinations, including grande allegro, kept in time to the music. These combinations may exceed 2 eight counts of movement. Dancers will learn basic kinesiology and stage placement. They will be given literature on anatomy for dancers. dancers must have at least four years experience, take at least one other ballet class a week, and have the instructor’s permission to register for the class. Class is recommended for dancers ages 11 and up. Returning students should always refer to their spring evaluation to determine the appropriate fall class to take.

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Stretch and Strength is a great conditioning class for dancers 10+. This will target weak and stiff areas of the body and work them in productive and safe ways to making an all-around balanced dancer.

Jazz/Tap combo class for 8-10 year olds

Jazz/Tap combo class for 5-7 year olds

Jazz/Tap combo class for 3-4 year olds

Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking which was created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the United States.

Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking which was created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the United States.

Moving beyond the Intermediate Level. Center work will consist of an adagio, a tendu combination, jumps – including petit allegro and batterie, and pirouette preparations and turns. Dancers will begin to work on attitude positions, as well as, develop their grande rond de jambe and rond de jambe en l’air. Corner work will consist of jump, waltz, and various traveling combinations, including grande allegro, kept in time to the music. These combinations may exceed 2 eight counts of movement. Dancers will learn basic kinesiology and stage placement. They will be given literature on anatomy for dancers. dancers must have at least four years experience, take at least one other ballet class a week, and have the instructor’s permission to register for the class. Class is recommended for dancers ages 11 and up. Returning students should always refer to their spring evaluation to determine the appropriate fall class to take.

This class is for students who are ready for increasingly challenging combinations while adding musicality, choreography, and artistry to their ballet technique.

This class is for students who are ready for increasingly challenging combinations while adding musicality, choreography, and artistry to their ballet technique.

This class is for students who are ready for increasingly challenging combinations while adding musicality, choreography, and artistry to their ballet technique.

This class is for students who are ready for increasingly challenging combinations while adding musicality, choreography, and artistry to their ballet technique.

For students who have completed ballet I and are ready to commit to more formal training focusing on a strong technical foundation. A complete technique class with barre, center, and across the floor movement.

Age 8-12 This class follows a traditional ballet class format, starting at the barre focusing on posture and alignment, continuing with stretching and strengthening exercises. Center movement and traveling steps are added as the class progresses. No former training is required.

Variations are solo dances from classical ballets. Some are relatively modern, plucked from ballets of the last century, while others have been recreated from notes and illustrations of ballets nearly 200 years old. These solos can stand alone without the need of the whole ballet for context.

Learning variations is a very special way to learn about the history of ballet through the act of practicing these dances, with their unique stylizations and characters, while also serving as a great opportunity to simply dive into more ballet choreography.

*Please keep in mind that this class is different from most of our other classes in that students are not guaranteed to perform in the recital. However, they may perform at other events such as Festival of Trees and for the public schools! This class is meant for dedicated advanced students and most variations will be performed en pointe.