Classes We Offer
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Dance With Me
Dance with Me invites caregivers in the classroom to avoid separation anxiety and allow students to be engaged and supported in their first dance experience. Students will learn the fundamentals of ballet and jazz technique and express themselves through movement with creative stories, miming, games, and basic tumbling skills. This is also a fun way for mom, dad, or a caregiver to move and bond with their child!
Available for Ages 2-3.
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Creative Dance
Creative Dance introduces dancers to the fundamentals of ballet and jazz dance in a positive, creative, and fun manner. Activities and movements are incorporated in class to enhance cognitive and social development. Students learn classroom etiquette, discover rhythms, and are encouraged to use their imaginations to express themselves through movement.
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Ballet
Ballet is an architect for the dancer’s body to become strong, balanced, and flexible for all dance disciplines. We teach a traditional ballet class beginning at the ballet barre, moving to center floor, across the floor, and ending with a reverence – all to classical music. Ballet strengthens the body, increases flexibility and creates agility and grace of movement.
Available for Ages 6-Adult.
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Jazz
Jazz is the style of dance often seen on Broadway or television. Students warm up with stretching, isolations, strengthening exercises, and “across the floor” exercises including turns and leaps. We’ll incorporate a combination that is usually fast-paced, rhythmically-based and danced to traditional jazz music and uplifting popular music. Jazz is a great discipline to help a dancer discover the joy of moving and responding to music.
Available for Ages 6-18.
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Tap
Tap is a discipline in which sounds and rhythms are created with tap shoes. Tap creates music with the body and is great for patterning skills for the mind and body. Students begin learning the fundamentals of tap including shuffles and flaps, and progress to learning wings and pull backs. Class is usually fast-paced, rhythmically-based and danced to traditional jazz or uplifting popular music.
Available for Ages 6-Adult.
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Music & Me
Music + Me teaches students the building blocks of music through the use of instrument play, voice, and movement. Enriching the growth and development of the whole child as they are exposed to music and bond with their caregiver. One caregiver per child is preferred.
Available for ages 2-3.
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Hip Hop
Hip Hop began as social street dance and continues to inspire many dance forms. Our Hip Hop classes focus on isolations, stretching, rhythms, upper body strength, and funky footwork. All music and movement is age appropriate. These classes are very fun and very popular!
See Pop Hop for availability.
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Ballet, Jazz, Tap Combo
This class combines the disciplines of Ballet, Jazz, and Tap, giving the dancer exposure to multiple genres. Ballet lays a strong technical foundation for all dance genres. It creates poise, flexibility, strength, and extension. Jazz is the style of dance often seen on Broadway or television that challenges dancers to quick foot work, weight changes, and strong musicality. Tap is a discipline in which sounds and rhythms are created with tap shoes.
Available for Ages 6-18.
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Pop Hop
This class combines the elements of Jazz and Hip Hop and other popular dance moves. Dancers are inspired to respond and move to the upbeat, and age-appropriate music used in this class.
Available for Ages 6-18.
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Brothers & Sisters
This 6 week special-session is designed to encourage sibling, friend, and family bonding while learning new dance techniques in a fun environment. Students will get a workout while learning choreography that builds every week. It will culminate in a performance at our PA Spotlight Show.
Available for Ages 6-18.
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Dads & Daughters
This class is for dads and their daughters! This fabulous 8-10 week class features dancing and bonding with your friends and dads! Both fall and spring sessions end with a performance. You are welcome to register for both sessions.
Available for Ages 7-18, and 18-99.
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Boys Class
While all of our REC classes are co-ed, this class is designed especially for active boys who desire to train separately. Through popular “pop hop” dance moves and tap techniques, dancers will cross-train, stretch, build strength, work isolations, learn floor work and funky footwork, improve coordination and increase their musicality with Mr. Jake! This class is fun, quick, and upbeat!
Available for Ages 6-10.
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Adult
Our adult classes are designed for everyone’s enjoyment; no experience is necessary! Adult participants range from the “curious dance parent” to the adult who danced through most of their youth. Try something new to improve the well-being of your body, mind and spirit with ballet and tap adult classes!
Available for Ages 18-99.
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Musical Theater
Musical Theater classes are designed for the aspiring singers, actors, and dancers among us! This class focuses on the fundamentals of Jazz and Tap dance with an emphasis on performance, characterization, and musicality. Students not only dance in class but also have vocal warm-ups and occasionally play theater/performance games. Recital pieces include a vocal aspect.
Available for Ages 6 & up.
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Sacred Dance
Sacred dance is dance set apart to be an expression of one’s Christian faith through dance. Our sacred classes teach a variety of techniques from Ballet to Modern to Jazz using classical, instrumental or popular Christian music. Sacred classes also may include devotional and prayer time. All classes perform in a local church service throughout the year. It is our hope that our Sacred dance students become better dancers while discovering an exciting new way to worship.
Available for Ages 6 & up.
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Acro Dance
The Acrobatic Arts program is based on safe and effective progressions with proven results in five divisions of AcroDance: Flexibility, Strength, Balancing, Limbering and Tumbling. Developed with input from professionals and experts in ballet, modern dance, jazz, contortion, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, sport acrobatics, yoga, acro yoga, pilates, physiotherapy, hand balancing and more. Simple thoughtful progressions take the beginner preschool level dancer from log rolls and summersaults to the advanced dancer tumbling effortlessly across the stage!
Available for Ages 6-18yr.
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Teen Ballroom
Step into the vibrant world of ballroom with our new dynamic class Teen Ballroom. This class is designed to introduce you to a variety of styles including Swing, Mambo, ChaCha, and more! With infectious rhythms and energetic movements, you'll groove through each step, experiencing the essence of many Smooth and Rhythm dance forms. No partner needed, just bring your enthusiasm and get ready to whirl into a world of social dance and fun!
Available for ages 13-18.
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Adult Pilates
No experience required. Through low-impact exercise with emphasis on core strength and proper form, each workout provides the information and guidance to practice the skills of coordination, strength, endurance, balance, and integration, and the opportunity to try new challenges every time. Pilates is useful for any age or occupation, and this class allows participants to connect with and strengthen their own bodily knowledge and to cultivate healthy, happy, and whole selves.
Available for ages 18-99.