Dance Curriculum

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18 month to 3 years old: Hop, skip, clap, stretch, and bend. Singing and dancing with Mom, Dad, or caregiver. A dance movement and motor development clas working on musicality, rhythm, flexibility and much more. 

3 to 4 years old: Dancing with our crowns, wands, and beanbags, this program is designed to develop the motor skills, creativity and balance in children. By increasing their knowledge of body movement and awareness. With movement memory, rhythm training, tumbling, imagination and ballet vocabulary, the student will increase coordination, grace and flexibility with children appropriate music. 

4 to 6 years old: Classes focus on building ballet technique and terminology to lay the groundwork for success in higher level dance classes. The program i designed to further develop the motor skills, creativity and balance in children, while establishing a sound basis of strength and coordination. 

3 to 5 years old: Pre-gymnastics - designed to develop coordination, grace, and flexibility for the very young, increasing gross motor skills as well. 

A program concentrating on the importance of rhythm, timing, and phrasing based on sound. It will develop rhythmical coordination which is not found in any other dance form.  Split from the Tap/Jazz combo class allowing students to just focus on Tap only. Tap combines dance and percussion and focuses on exercises that increase control, coordination, and rhythm. Each of the classes include across the floor exercises that teach dynamics, progressions, and musicality along with extended rhythmic phrases and improvisation exercises in the center. The goal is to develop tap dancers that are equally strong as dancers and performers.

A program that incorporates the technical training of classical jazz with other various jazz styles including the latest moves as seen in pop culture. It originates from Ballet, but allows the dancer more individual freedom of expression and style. Split from the Tap/Jazz combo class allowing students to just focus on Jazz only.  The class focuses on developing strength, flexibility, correct alignment and coordination which will draws heavily from ballet technique. Students will gain a sense of individuality and will develop into dancers who are expressive, dynamic, and passionate.