FALL CLASSES START AUGUST 18

This specialized class is designed to help dancers build the strength, endurance, and technical precision necessary for excelling in various dance styles. Through targeted conditioning exercises, detailed technique drills, and across-the-floor progressions, dancers will enhance their physical capabilities and refine their movements. The class focuses on core strength, flexibility, balance, and overall muscle conditioning, creating a solid foundation for improved dance performance.

This class offers a supportive environment for dancers to develop their skills and form connections with like-minded individuals. Experienced instructors provide personalized attention and guidance to assist each dancer in their unique journey.

*Prior dance experience is recommended.

Contemporary blends several types of dance into its own unique style. It includes elements of ballet, jazz, modern, and even hip hop. Contemporary dance encourages dancers to be versatile in their expressions and to be able to portray a wide array of movement styles and emotions. It focuses on spatial and body awareness, use of body weight, floor work, technique, efficiency of muscle usage, musicality and safe body alignment. Technical dance experience is recommended for this class.

*Prior dance experience required.

Commercial dance is a highly stylized dance style that focuses primarily on learning and embodying choreography. It incorporates movements from hip-hop, jazz, house, and contemporary dance. It features a mixture of hard-hitting, detailed movement contrasted with fluid and sustained choreography. A strong emphasis is placed on performance quality and building confidence within your own execution.

Heels and sneakers are both used in this style, and dancers will explore each as their technique and confidence grow.

If you are new to dancing in heels, please make sure that you are comfortable walking and moving in them before wearing them in class. Wear heels that are supportive to your ankle. If you are uncomfortable in heels, any comfortable shoes are welcome!

*Prior dance experience recommended.

This class is for advanced dancers with previous technical training. This class will build on prior knowledge and the ability to develop precision and accuracy in technical skills. Dancers will work on proper alignment, strength, flexibility, understanding of body awareness, and mobility to help improve their execution of leaps, turns, jumps, extensions, and other dance skills/tricks. Class will include warm-up, isolations, stretches, and across-the-floor progressions. It feels incredible to nail these moves, and it is the closest feeling you'll get to flying!

*Prior technical dance experience required.

Ballet provides an excellent grounding for other dance styles and is the ultimate in body control. It is easy to begin at any age and will help improve pretty much every aspect of your body's fitness, including posture, muscle tone, flexibility, core strength, and even artistic expression.

*Prior dance experience required.

Movement Mends is an expressive dance form with a free, artistic, and creative feel through contemporary-styled movement. This class focuses on performance and movement quality while centering your energy through body-mind connection. Dance is a way to mend and heal—this is the perfect class to get in your feels. Whether you've never danced a day in your life, you used to dance when you were younger and took a break, or you're advanced, this class helps you put the YOU in your dancing.

*Some prior movement experience is recommended.

Industry Hip-Hop is a fast-paced and energetic dance style that encompasses a wide range of street styles. This class specifically focuses on performance quality, dynamics, and coordination while encouraging individual style. Hip hop is a culture, which includes a lot more than dance. Hip hop uplifted generations of people in difficult socio-economic conditions, particularly in the African American and Hispanic communities of the Bronx where it originated. There is so much more to this culture and history, so feel free to chat with us if you are interested in digging deeper!

*Prior dance experience required.

This class reviews basic ballet steps and vocabulary. Ballet provides an excellent grounding for other dance styles, and Ballet is the ultimate when it comes to the control of your body. It will help improve every aspect of your body’s fitness, including posture, muscle tone, flexibility, core strength, and artistic expression.

*Some prior dance experience is recommended.

This fun and rhythmic class introduces dancers to the fundamentals of tap while continuing to build on technique and timing. Dancers will work on basic to intermediate steps such as shuffles, flaps, cramp rolls, time steps, and simple combinations. Emphasis is placed on musicality, clarity of sound, and building confidence through rhythm and repetition. This class is perfect for dancers with some prior tap experience or enthusiastic beginners ready to learn in an encouraging, upbeat environment.

*Some prior dance experience is recommended.