BALLET
Classical ballet provides a great grounding for all other dance styles. Ballet is the ultimate when it comes to the control of your body.
It is easy to learn at every age and will help improve pretty much every aspect of your body’s fitness. Posture, muscle tone, flexibility, core strength, artistic expression and musicality. Each class will start at the barre’ and then move into the centre.
One of the most popular dance styles, ballet is best known for the “pointe” technique where dancers use shoes that are especially created for dancing on their toes. However, this is only one facet of ballet – one that requires a whole lot of training before the dancer masters this move.
Ask any professional Jazz/Contemporary/Hip Hop dancer and they will advise to do Ballet!
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JAZZ
Jazz is of the most popular and well known forms of dance. Jazz dance includes strength, flexibility and conditioning technique and progressions including turns, kicks and leaps. In a Jazz class the dancers also learn many fun and trendy dance steps that are used for all forms of dance. It is a wonderful class to get a well rounded variety of all dance steps. Dancers will learn choreography to popular and age appropriate music of today along with vintage styles of jazz from the last decades
TAP
Tap dance enables a dancer to create a percussive sound with their feet.
Tap classes are offered to all students ages 3 and up and focus on rhythm, musicality and timing. All classes begin with an energetic warm-up, across the floor exercises and combinations. Our beginner students explore the fundamental steps of tap dance, learn tap terminology and develop the ability to maintain correct body placement. Intermediate classes further develop skills, focusing on clarity of sounds and increasing speed as well as dynamics and musicality. Our advanced tap dancers are challenged through improvisational exercises, intricate rhythms and footwork.
Tap dance enables a dancer to create a percussive sound with their feet.
Tap classes are offered to all students ages 3 and up and focus on rhythm, musicality and timing. All classes begin with an energetic warm-up, across the floor exercises and combinations. Our beginner students explore the fundamental steps of tap dance, learn tap terminology and develop the ability to maintain correct body placement. Intermediate classes further develop skills, focusing on clarity of sounds and increasing speed as well as dynamics and musicality. Our advanced tap dancers are challenged through improvisational exercises, intricate rhythms and footwork.
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HIP HOP
Hip-hop is a very energetic form of dancing. It is unique in that it allows its dancers to perform with freedom of movement, adding in their own personalities.
The classes are hard hitting and funky, our hip hop classes mix the latest urban music with fierce dance moves. Come and learn a routine in a fun and friendly class that encourages you to let loose and find your inner gangster.
Hip-hop is a very energetic form of dancing. It is unique in that it allows its dancers to perform with freedom of movement, adding in their own personalities.
The classes are hard hitting and funky, our hip hop classes mix the latest urban music with fierce dance moves. Come and learn a routine in a fun and friendly class that encourages you to let loose and find your inner gangster.
CONTEMPORARY / LYRICAL
Contemporary is an expressive dance form with a free, artistic and creative feel. Contemporary draws a lot of its technique from ballet but unlike ballet, contemporary often focuses on floor work and dancers will usually perform with bare feet. Principles of contemporary dance include centering, alignment, gravity, contraction, release and suspension.
Lyrical dancing uses emotions and expression through dance and combines the skills and disciplines of ballet and jazz
STRETCH & TECHNIQUE
Stretching plays a vital role in keeping muscles and joints strong and pliable so they are less susceptible to injury. That is why it is so important to keep up your stretching over holiday breaks so all the hard work you have put in during dance classes is maintained.
Stretching can also help you manage stress more effectively giving you a chance to momentarily shut off outside stressors, and focus, physically and mentally, on your activity.
Stretch and Technique classes consist of teaching correct technique for kicks, leaps, jumps and turns and is a fantastic class for students who wish to strengthen their technical dance ability. These skills can be applied and adapted to suit all dance styles and provides students with the knowledge and skills to become a highly versatile, skilled and technical dancer.
This class focuses on improving a dancer’s muscular strength, flexibility and endurance.
Stretching plays a vital role in keeping muscles and joints strong and pliable so they are less susceptible to injury. That is why it is so important to keep up your stretching over holiday breaks so all the hard work you have put in during dance classes is maintained.
Stretching can also help you manage stress more effectively giving you a chance to momentarily shut off outside stressors, and focus, physically and mentally, on your activity.
Stretch and Technique classes consist of teaching correct technique for kicks, leaps, jumps and turns and is a fantastic class for students who wish to strengthen their technical dance ability. These skills can be applied and adapted to suit all dance styles and provides students with the knowledge and skills to become a highly versatile, skilled and technical dancer.
This class focuses on improving a dancer’s muscular strength, flexibility and endurance.
'Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another'
