Classes
Tots
These classes are full of energy, excitement, and exploration! Your little one will be involved in various activities that encourage exploration of different types of dance from all genres.Dancing Tots will keep your little one moving and grooving!
We provide a safe and encouraging environment for your child to socialize and learn. This class features exciting and fresh music students love. No parents allowed! Your child should be comfortable with some parent separation.
Ballet
Dancers will begin class with floor stretches specific to developing strength in their feet. They will be taught about maintaining correct posture—everything from the bottom of their feet to the top of the head.
They will learn the names of the steps and what they are called in the RAD and/or BATD syllabus. Dancers will attempt new jumps and execute them with more repetition. Class time will also be spent learning basic floor barre skills.
Jazz
Jazz is an expressive and energetic dance style that encourages strong technique, builds strength and promotes an individual style. Class begins with a thorough warm-up and centre exercises.
Students will then progress through a series of jumps, turns, and combinations moving across the floor. In our jazz classes, we use fun, popular, as well as classic jazz and Broadway music.
Acro
A style of dance that combines classical technique with precision acrobatic elements. A defining characteristic of acro is the smooth, graceful transitions between dance and acrobatic movements.
Acro teaches flexibility, balance, strength, muscle control, and above all else, discipline and concentration.
Tap
Tap Dance is a timeless art that combines dance and percussion. Tap dancers in musicals, movies, television, commercials, and concerts inspire us with their rhythms. Tap Dance classes explore the traditions of rhythm tap (hoofing) and Broadway tap. Class begins with warm-up exercises in the center that help with control, proper tap technique, coordination, and rhythm, followed by across the floor exercises that teach dynamics, shading, phrasing, and musicality, concluding with extended rhythmic phrases and improvisation exercises.
Hip Hop -Boys Only and Co-Ed
Hip-hop is a high-energy class that infuses the latest styles of street dancing, breaking, popping, and locking. Classes will encourage students to step outside of the box by bringing their style, personality, face animation, and expression to the movements. Hip-hop dance requires students to have muscle control, strength and stamina to successfully perform moves. Therefore the class may include upper and lower body conditioning as well as a rigorous warm-up to help prepare students for more intense movements.
Contemporary
Contemporary dance tends to combine the strong but controlled legwork of ballet with modern styles that stress the torso. It also employs contract-release, floor work, fall and recovery, and improvisation characteristics of modern dance. Unpredictable changes in rhythm, speed, and direction are often used, as well. Additionally, contemporary dance sometimes incorporates elements of non-western dance cultures, such as elements from African dance including bent knees, or movements from Japanese contemporary dance.
Musical Theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole.
Coming Soon - Tik Tok Time
Following popular dance trends, Tik Tok Time classes will have roots in both Hip Hop and Jazz while offering fun and appropriate group dances.
This class does not require any previous dance experience and is simply a great way to get some exercise and work as a group while listening to popular Tik Tok songs.
Coming Soon - Kids Glow In The Dark Yoga
Glow yoga is a hatha-style yoga class featuring black lights. For full effect, you will want to wear your brightest, whitest, and most neon attire so that you'll glow under the black lights. Your kids will have a blast working on their strength and flexibility.
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups. Classes are instructor led, with encouragement of independence so that children are both taught skills and allowed time to perfect skills that they enjoy.
Kindergym
Kindergym is designed to provide boys and girls, ages 2-4, with an introduction to floor gymnastics, tumbling, acrobatics, gross motor development, and movement education through self-exploratory play. Kindergym instructors work to build each child’s self-esteem and independence. Mats, low safe beams, and obstacle courses are utilized throughout the curriculum. The proper timing and use of this program should enhance the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development of the children while building their sense of self and others. This program does not have a specific curriculum as the goal is to encourage children to feel safe and accustomed to the equipment, staff and space.