Upcoming Events

Pre-School Ballet and Tap Combo  - (Ages 4-5)- Monday from 4:00-4:45

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

Tap I (Ages 6 and up)- Thursdays  from 4:00-4:45 

 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 4:00-4:45

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. 

Tuition is $55 a month – Instructor: Angela Brooks

Tap 4 (Ages 14 and up and teacher recommendation) Wednesdays 5:15-6:15pm

This course is for dancers with previous tap experience or who have successfully mastered a majority of elements taught in our beginning level tap courses. 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

Contemporary Dance 

2018-2109 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 4:45-5:30

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

Junior Hip Hop- (Ages 7-11) - Thursdays from 5:30-6:15  

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

Junior Hip Hop (Ages 7-11) - Mondays from 6:30-7:15

Same class as Monday but different time offering. Tuition is $50 a month- Instructor :  Diamond Gullett

Intermdiate Hip Hop (ages 12-15)- Thursdays from 615pm-700pm

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 11.  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 12-18)- Thursdays from 7:00-8:00

This advanced-level class requires a minimum year of 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 : Candace Johnston / Angela Brooks

Creative Dance I - (Ages 3-4)- Wednesday from 4:00-4:45

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 II (Ages 3-4)- Thursdays 4:45pm-5:30pm - Diamond Gullett

This class is the same class design as Wednesday, 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

2018-2019 Dance Classes 

Creative Dance &

Pre School Dance

Tap Classes

Jazz Classes

Hip Hop Classes

Jan 21st: First Day of Spring Classes

Technique Classes

 Musical Theatre Combo Class

 Technique and Conditioning Class (formerly Pre-Pointe): 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 

Musical Theatre Dance and Beginning Acro Combo Class (Ages 7-12): Mondays 4:45-5:30

This fun and exciting class alternates between musical theatre dance and beginning aco!  In Musical Theatre Dance, students will incorporate a combination of Jazz and acting. With this style of dance, students are working through Jazz technique while portraying a character. Using songs from Broadway, the class focuses on bringing out their inner actor/actress!  The class will alternate with AcroDance which incorporates elements of gymnastics, jazz, balancing, tumbling, and basic contortion. Students learn Acrobatic tricks such as handstands, cartwheels, chest stands, elbow stands, walkovers (front and back), side and front aerials and tumbling.  AcroDance offers more depth and variety to your choreography and creates a much more versatile dancer.

Tuition is $50 a month- Instructor: Angela Brooks

Contemporary  Dance I (ages 11-up)- Fridays from 5:15pm-6:00pm

 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 $50 a month- Instructor :Emma Armstrong

Contemporary  Dance II (level 3-4 dancers- Teacher Placement Only)- Fridays from 6:00pm-7:00pm

 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 530-630pm

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 4:45-5:45

A continuation of Ballet1 series with a larger focus and increased terminology.

Tuition is $55 a month- Instructor:  Emma Armstrong  

Homeschool Dance Classes

Ballet (Ages 6-9): Mondays from 11:00am-11:45am

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

Ballet (Ages 10-14): Mondays from 11:45am-12:45pm

This class will continue to follow the footsteps of Ballet 1A/2A and advance as students begin to concentrate on combinations, terminology, and beginning adagios.

 Tuition is $55a month Instructor: Emma Armstrong

Jazz/Tap Combo (Ages 6-9): Tuesdays from 11:00am-11:45am

This class will alternate weeks between jazz and tap techniques. In jazz, students will work on the fundamentals including flexibility, jumps and turns. Students will also touch on hip hop, funk, and musical theatre.  Tap is 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 a month Instructor: Angela Brooks

Jazz/Tap Combo (Ages 10-14): Tuesdays from 11:45am-12:45pm

This class is a level/age continuation of the Ages 6-9 combo class, with classes alternating generes each week.                                                                                                                                       Tuition is $55 a month Instructor: Angela Brooks

Feb 18th: President Day- Closed

April 19: Good Friday- Closed

May 3rd: Student Holiday- Closed

May 18th: Spring Show Studio Rehearsal

May 19th: Spring Show @ the Murphey

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)- Saturdays from 11am-12noon

Advanced Classical Ballet Class working in pointe shoes.  Placement Only               

Tuition is $55 a month- Instructor: Emma Armstrong

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