Upcoming Events
Pre-School Ballet and Tap Combo - (Ages 4-5)- Monday from 4:00pm-4:45pm
Children will learn the beginning elements of ballet including the positions of the arms body alignment, and center work. Students also develop a sense of musicality and rhythm through the basics of tap dance. The class will also encourage the growth of gross motor skills through musical movement activities, games, and the use of props.
Tuition is $50 a month: Instructor– Angela Brooks
Ballet Classes
Jazz I (Ages 6 and up)- Thursdays 4:45-5:30
An introduction to the energy and dynamic of jazz technique. Students will be introduced to parallel positions and begin to explore the direct, decisive, and sharp facet of jazz technique and its various rhythms. Students will work on the fundamentals including flexibility, jumps and turns. Students will also touch on hip hop, funk, and musical theatre in this one of a kind class. Tuition is $50 a month -Instructor: Angela Brooks
Jazz 2 (Ages 8-up)- Tuesdays from 4:45-5:30
A continuation of Beginning Jazz, this class teaches technique for stability of movement will be a strong understanding of body placement and center are focal points of jazz class. An emphasis will be placed on explanation of terminology, warm-up, isolation, barre, and center with emphasis on strengthening turns, jumps, flexibility, technical execution, and combinations. Students will also be taught segments on at least one year of jazz and successfully mastered Beginning Jazz.
Tuition is $50 a month - Instructor: Angela Brooks
Jazz 3 (ages 11 and up/teacher recommendation)- Mondays 5:30-6:30pm
A continuation of Jazz. This class is for students with a sound dance background. Dynamic, energy, placement, improvisation, and intermediate level jumps and turns will be worked on. Classes will alternate between classical jazz, pop jazz, hip hop and musical theatre jazz.
Tuition is $55 a month. - Instructor: Angela Brooks
Jazz 4 (ages 14 and up and teacher recommendation)-Mondays from 6:30pm-7:30pm
A continuation of Jazz 3, this class is more technically and musically challenging. Attention is paid to the quality of movement in addition to correct execution. Advanced progressions of turns and leaps are emphasized as well as other styles of jazz such as lyrical and modern as students' dance artistry continues to strengthen.
Placement by Instructor
Tuition is $55 a month - Instructor: Angela Brooks
Advanced Jazz 5 (ages 14 and up and teacher recommendation)-Thurdays from 5:30pm-6:30pm
Placement by Instructor Tuition is $55 a month - Instructor: Angela Brooks
Contemporary Dance
2019-2020 Tuition Rates
- One 45 minute class: $50 a month
- One 1-hour class: $55 a month
- Double Class Discounts : 10%
- SIbling Discounts: 10%
- Private Lessons: $30 per hour
Ballet 1B - (Ages 6 and up)- Tuesday from 4:45pm-5:30pm
This class will continue to follow the footsteps of Ballet 1A and advance as students begin to concentrate on combinations and beginning adagios. Students are required to have at least 1 year of ballet training.
Tuition is $50 a month- Instructor: Emma Armstrong
Beginning Hip Hop A- (Ages 7-11) - Thursdays from 5:30pm-6:15pm
Beginner classes are designed for entry-level students with no prior experience. Hip-Hop evolved out of street and break dancing and is characterized by its athletic and bouncy style. Hip-Hop is set to a strong, contemporary beat, builds stamina, and emphasizes body isolation, attitude, coordination, freestyle movement, and rhythm. This class features age-appropriate hip hop choreography with no suggestive music/movement. This is an excellent class for high-energy boys and girls who want to take a fast and fun dance class.
Tuition is $50 a month- Instructor : Diamond Gullett
Beginning Hip Hop B (Ages 7-11) - Mondays from 6:30pm-7:15pm
Same class as Monday but different time offering. Tuition is $50 a month- Instructor : Diamond Gullett
Intermdiate Hip Hop (ages 12-15)- Thursdays from 6:15pm-7:00pm
This intermediate Hip Hop class is designed for students who have had have had at least 2 years of basic hip hop or jazz and/or atleast ages 12. This class continues to build on the core foundations of hip hop, integrating street hip hop as well as other generes of hip hop for a fun and energietic class.
Tuition is $50 a month- Instructor : Diamond Gullett / Angela Brooks
Advanced Teen Hip Hop (Ages 13-18)- Thursdays from 7:00pm-8:00pm
This advanced-level class requires a minimum of 2 years of intermediate Hip Hop dance experience as a prerequisite or solid jazz dance background. In this class, students will progress into very advanced combinations and movements including freestyle dance, breaking, and other challenging choreography pieces.
Tuition is $55 a month- Instructor : Diamond Gullett
Pre-School Ballet and Jazz Combo - (Ages 4-5)- Thursday from 4:45pm-5:30pm
Children will learn the beginning elements of ballet including the positions of the arms body alignment, and center work. Students also develop a sense of musicality and rhythm through the basics of jazz dance with kids bop syle music. The class will also encourage the growth of gross motor skills through musical movement activities, games, and the use of props.
Tuition is $50 a month: Instructor– Diamond Gullett
Creative Dance A - (Ages 3-4)- Mondays from 5:30pm-6:15pm
Designed to develop your child's movement and skills through creative play, music and dance. This class focuses on creative movement which builds on the necessary gross motor skills and rhythm needed for primary dance instruction. Students will also engage movement with props such as scarves, stuffed animals, hoops, balls, etc, and learn introductory ballet steps. Students are read creative movement stories that enhances the development of fine and gross motor skills as they balance, skip, leap, coordinate, isolate and move to the music. Social skills are also developed through, collaborative, and co-operative games.
Tuition is $50 a month: Instructor- Diamond Gullett
Creative Dance B (Ages 3-4)- Thursdays 4:00pm-4:45pm - Diamond Gullett
This class is the same class design as Monday, just another day/time option
Ballet 1A - (Ages 5 and up)- Tuesday from 4:00-4:45
This class emphasizes the beginning development of classical ballet skills with a focus on proper placement, alignment and coordination of port de bras with leg and footwork. Students will learn ballet vocabulary through barre and center work while building strength and flexibility. Tuition is $50 a month Instructor: Emma Armstrong
2019-2020 Season
Creative Dance &
Pre School Dance
Tap Classes
Jazz Classes
Hip Hop Classes
Technique Classes
Contemporary Dance I (ages 11-up)- Mondays from 6:30pm-7:30pm
Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet. Contemporary dancers strive to connect the mind and the body through fluid dance movements. Contemporary dance stresses versatility and improvisation, unlike the strict, structured nature of ballet. Contemporary dancers focus on floorwork, using gravity to pull them down to the floor
Tuition is $55 a month- Instructor :Emma Armstrong
Contemporary Dance II (level 3-4 dancers- Teacher Placement Only)- Fridays from 5:15pm-6:15pm
Tuition is $55 a month- Instructor :Emma Armstrong
Ballet 3 - (Ages 11 and up)- Mondays from 4:30-5:30pm
Advanced students continue practical skills, muscular self-control and basic coordination and expression. Students will aim to develop strength and stability in the demonstration of the pirouettes, balance, control, extension, fluidity, and in petite and grand allegro. Advanced students also study classical technique, repertoire studies, character dance, adagio studies, music, ballet history and body conditioning, concentrating on the mastery of more complex movements and combinations.
Tuition is $55 a month- Instructor: Armstrong
Ballet 2B - (Ages 10 and up)- Tuesdays from 5:30-6:30pm
This class emphasizes is a continuation of Ballet 2A and will begin to focus on intermediate turns and adagios and variations. Students will continue to work on combinations as well as barre and center work. Students are required to have at least 2 years of ballet training or placed by teacher.
Tuition is $55 a month- Instructor: Emma Armstrong
Ballet 2A - (Ages 8 and up)- Wednesday from 5:15pm-6:15pm
A continuation of Ballet1 series in a 60 min class with a larger focus on beginner turns, and increased ballet terminology.
Tuition is $55 a month- Instructor: Emma Armstrong
Homeschool Dance Classes- tba
Ballet 4 - (Ages 14 and up)- Mondays from 5:30-6:30pm
Advanced Ballet Class. Placement Only
Tuition is $55 a month- Instructor: Emma Armstrong
Pointe Class - (Ages 14 and up)- Wednesdays from 4:15pm-5:15pm
Advanced Classical Ballet Class working in pointe shoes. Placement Only
Tuition is $55 a month- Instructor: Emma Armstrong
Strength and Conditioning Class : ages 12 and up / previous ballet experience required: Wednesdays from 6:15pm-7:15pm
This hour-long class focuses on building core strength and increasing endurance and flexibility through a variety of exercises while continuing to build a strong ballet founation foused on technique. Student's will focus on strength building by using their own body weight to increase strength and flexibility, flexibility through Pilates and deep streching, as well as cardiovascular endurnace and plyometics.
Tuition is $55 a month- Instructor- Emma Armstrong
Tap I (Ages 6 and up)- Thursdays from 4:00pm-4:45pm
An introduction to the rhythm and coordination of tap
dance. Students will learn the proper tap technique to
create clean distinct sounds and later be introduced to
rhythmic layering. Students learn fun upbeat
combinations to music favorites of classics and rock!
Tuition is $50 – Instructor: Angela Brooks
Tap 2 (Ages 9-up) Tuesdays 4:00pm-4:45pm
A continuation of Beginning Tap, this class will provide
students with a strong understanding of basic tap
foundation, terminology, timing and rhythm. An
emphasis will be placed on explanation of terminology, execution of basic steps through more challenging rhythms, precise tap sounds, improvisational techniques, coordination, syncopation and technical execution. Students will jam out to exciting music creating one of kind sounds. This age appropriate class is for students who have had at least one year of tap and successfully mastered Beginning Tap.
Tuition is $50 a month – Instructor: Angela Brooks
Tap 3 (Ages 12 and up) Wednesdays 4:15pm-5:15pm
A continuation of tap education with more emphasis on percussive style rhythms and challenging variations of steps and combinations. Students will learn full length tap combinations that will focus on precise steps and foot articulation, rhythmic awareness and layering, movement through space and will incorporate the use of arm and full body dynamics used in performing tap.
Tuition is $55 a month – Instructor: Angela Brooks
Tap 4 (Ages 14 and up and teacher placement) Wednesdays 5:15-6:15pm
This course is for dancers with advanced tap experience.
Tuition is $55 a month- Instructor: Angela Brooks
May 20th- August 18th: Summer Break
August 19th: First Day of Fall Classes
