General Curriculum Overview

Dance disciplines taught

Ballet

A highly formalized and structured style of dance originating during the Renaissance, that follows a classical format. Dancers create a level of strength, mobility, and refinement that improves overall capabilities and performance.

Pre-Pointe & Pointe

Pre Pointe is a heightened focus on increasing the foot and ankle strength to allow the dancer to safely progress to dancing on Pointe. Advanced ballet dancers who exhibit strength and maturity can graduate to dancing on pointe. This form of dance requires a specialized shoe with a stiff toe box, that allows the dancer to work through full range of movement in their feet and execute movement on their toes.

Jazz

This style of dance involves high energy warm-ups, across the floor, and a fun choreographed dance that allows dancers to work on form with a lively and stylized approach.

Tap

Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion. The dancers focus on finding rhythm with basic steps and combinations executed to all types of music.

Hip Hop

Originating from freestyle street dance, Hip Hop pulls from multiple styles of dance including breaking, locking, and popping, leading to athletic, expressive, and original movement requiring coordination and strength.

Contemporary & Lyrical

Dancers use their foundation in ballet and jazz to create a unique twist of movement and dances.

Conditioning

A Pilates based class focused on strengthening and lengthening the lines of dancers.

Modern

A sidestep from ballet, modern classes focus on building a level of strength, mobility, and refinement in the dancers’ movement. Modern is an overarching term encompassing many sub-styles such as Graham, Limon, Cunningham, and so on.

Musical Theater

This class involves a theatrical expression of movement and performance that is typical of what you see on Broadway. Foundations in technique are used and encouraged.

Preschool Classes

Preschool classes are offered to two different age brackets:
Tiny Tutus is a ballet based class that runs for 45 minutes for children ages 2-3.
Preschool classes include 4 options: Hip hop, Story Ballet, Ballet/Tap, and Jazz/Tap. These classes run for 45 minutes for children ages 3-5.