Class Schedule
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Children’s Dance Class Details
Pre-Dance is for our youngest dancers, ages 2.5-3. This class allows students to explore their creativity with a combination of basic ballet technique and imaginative play. The focus is on body part recognition, spatial awareness, and development of gross motor skills. Small class sizes allow dancers to benefit from direct attention from their instructor. All Pre-Dance classes are taught by the Artistic Director, Alexa Astarita, who has specific training in working with the very young dancer.
Ballet provides essential foundational technique to our dancers. Students will work at the barre, in center, and across the floor to develop muscular strength, hone their fundamental technique, and gain an appreciation for classical artistry. With a huge focus on anatomical awareness, our ballet teachers guide their students towards an empowering knowledge of their body. Dancers may opt to pursue further ballet studies in our Pointe track, beginning in Pre-Pointe, and, after passing their evaluation, progressing from Intro to Advanced Pointe. Our goal in our ballet program is not perfection, but rather progression.
Creative Movement classes serve as an introduction to Modern Dance. Students focus on the three elements of dance: space, time, and energy. Through guided improvisational activities, students will develop their individual movement styles and will be given the opportunity to choreograph their own dance phrases as they gain the tools to view dance through a more artistic lens.
Modern builds upon foundational ballet technique, but expands into bigger, freer movement phrases. Dancers will discover use of their spines, a head-tail connection, inversions, and floorwork, and will be encouraged to develop their unique style through individual and group work. Our Modern program is centered in Limon, Graham, and Horton technique, but students will be exposed to a broad range of styles within the Modern framework.
In this class students are encouraged to explore their creativity and let go of their expectations, eliminating the idea that dance can be right or wrong. Through a combination of improvisation tasks, floor work exercises and choreographed phrase work students aim to create a sense of availability and limitlessness within their moving bodies - releasing inhibitions and fear along the way. While simultaneously analyzing space, dynamic action, and relationships students learn to develop their own unique movement identity.
Jazz classes are centered around upbeat, fast-paced movement! The Jazz dancer will learn about isolations, leaps and turns, weight shifts, and more advanced rhythmic structures such as triplets. Students will be asked to demonstrate both subtle and bold movement, encouraging a sense of artistry and performative expression. Our Jazz program also focuses on muscular strength and development, so conditioning exercises will be a part of each class.
An extension of our Jazz program, Jumps and Turns allows dancers to dive more deeply into their center and traveling work. This class focuses on strength, control, and stamina, asking the dancer to display more dynamic and technically advanced steps.
This conditioning class provides the more serious dancer with a cross-training experience that supports her work in technique classes.
