RECREATIONAL
PROGRAM

Provides inspiring dance education as an outlet for students interested in recreational classes. The Open Development program provides studies in ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap, hip-hop, and acrobatics. It provides boys and girls the opportunity to take weekly class(es) culminating in two performances: Holiday Show and Annual Spring Recital.

Students choose one particular genre or take any combination of classes providing experience in fundamentals of each discipline. Dancers are placed according to experience and are continually evaluated by our faculty to insure proper assignment.

We provide a professional environment that motivates, builds self-esteem, grooms confidence, and encourages peer support—skills necessary to a child’s success in the classroom and beyond.

Classes Include: Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Tap, Hip Hop & Acro

Ages 6-18

The Recreational track is the continuation of our current programming, designed for dancers who either want to try dance for the first time, try new styles of dance or take dance as a fun after school activity. This track offers the opportunity for advancement in each style, but no pressure to fit multiple classes into a busy schedule. There are no minimum hour requirements. These dancers do not participate in competitions, but they do perform at our annual recital held at the end of the year.  It is a wonderful way for your dancer to showcase their hard work.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.