COMPANY PROGRAM

The RISE Dance Company provides intensive training, performance, and travel opportunities for students whose dedication and interest in dance goes beyond recreational. Students are selected based on their class performance, potential, skill level, enthusiasm, and commitment.

Eligibility for company is based on class and hourly requirements. Company dancers are required to take ballet, contemporary, jazz, and tap.  For additional information regarding the company commitment, contact the RISE office. Acrobatics and hip hop are electives and although encouraged, cannot be used toward company requirements. Company members are required to keep 90% attendance throughout the year and commit to the rehearsal and performance schedule.

Required Classes Include: Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, & Tap

Ages 7+

  • Ballet

    Each ballet class consists entirely of technique and is partitioned into barre work, port de bras, center barre, adagio, and allegro. Dancers acquire strength, balance, and placement. Ballet is the foundation from which all forms of dance originate. Therefore, our staff recommends that all students take ballet to ensure proper technique and form.

    *REQUIRED

  • Jazz

    Jazz is an exciting and ever evolving dance form full of rhythm, syncopation, passion and life bringing energy and life to all those who dance it. Classes explore body isolations of the head, shoulders, ribcage, feet and arms and encourage individual expression and the development of personal style. Jazz can be powerful and percussive or expressive and lyrical. Ever evolving, jazz dance is taught with the music of today together with the classical jazz of yesterday.

    *REQUIRED

  • Contemporary

    Contemporary combines an eclectic yet accessible mix of Modern, Lyrical and Jazz. Your instructor will guide you in exercises to develop posture, line, articulation and coordination with a strong focus on imagery and dynamics. Original choreography will assist the dancer in realizing the potential of these techniques in motion. Contemporary will inspire you to find your own style of motion and enable what dance is designed to support your expression.

    *REQUIRED

  • Tap

    Tap classes focus on rhythms and intricate footwork, creating a percussion instrument out of the dancer’s feet. Tap is a syncopated movement dance style that is exhilarating and great fun and skill for all ages.

    *REQUIRED

  • Hip Hop

    Hip Hop has many individualized styles and new moves are continuously being invented by creative and innovative visionaries who mix the Old School Styles with current trends. The blending of music styles and dance moves influenced by many factors which are then personalized by a choreographer, makes it impossible to define Funk and Hip Hop styles unambiguously.

  • Acro

    Acrobatic classes incorporate tumbling, rhythmic movement, stretching and strengthening and are divided by age and level. Acro is not the typical tumbling or gymnastics class. This class is great for students looking to enhance their agility, flexibility and strength.