Artistic Motion Dance

If you don’t pay monthly, regular rate per class is $20 per hour. This is a drop-in rate.

Initiate dancers are confident, dedicated, and strong individuals with incredible work ethic. The Initiate Team will be made up of dancers ages 5-17 split into groups that will train approximately 6-9 hours each week in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Lyrical, and Hip Hop. All initiate teams train three days each week.

Stars Plus is back and gives our Stars dancers more opportunity to progress their technique and compete! Stars Plus dancers receive extra training and will learn an additional routine to perform and compete throughout the year.

School age dancers take 4 hours of class each week training in Jazz, Tap, and Technique, Ballet, Hip Hop or Acro depending on which group they are placed in!

School age dancers take 4 hours of class each week training in Jazz, Tap, and Technique, Ballet, Hip Hop or Acro depending on which group they are placed in!

School age dancers take 4 hours of class each week training in Jazz, Tap, and Technique, Ballet, Hip Hop or Acro depending on which group they are placed in!

School age dancers take 4 hours of class each week training in Jazz, Tap, and Technique, Ballet, Hip Hop or Acro depending on which group they are placed in!

School age dancers take 4 hours of class each week training in Jazz, Tap, and Technique, Ballet, Hip Hop or Acro depending on which group they are placed in!

School age dancers take 4 hours of class each week training in Jazz, Tap, and Technique, Ballet, Hip Hop or Acro depending on which group they are placed in!

This class will focus on fundamental acrobatic technique, teaching such skills as handstands, cartwheels, back bends, walkovers, back handsprings and more. Teacher evaluation is required for intermediate and advanced acro.

What would musical theater be without dance! Students will learn traditional steps and styles straight from Broadway stages. Students will be learning to portray an array of characters through their dancing. Acting games will be used to allow dancers to explore using different characters and emotion.

Hip-Hop class is centered around hip-hop dynamics, yet concentrated on today’s video/pop style. The focus of class comes from the combination of power, energy, style, face and technique.

Lyrical/contemporary is a fluid form of dance done to popular ballads and slower contemporary music. The dancer is taught to interpret his or her movement with feeling, motion and style. They will learn to tell a story or create the picture of the song. This style combines the fluid beauty of ballet with the more sharp moves in jazz.

Our Jazz classes include body isolation’s, flexibility warm-ups, strengthening exercise, a progression of leaps, kicks and turns across the floor and a combination in the center. Jazz classes will focus on proper technique and placement to build a solid foundation for the dancers.

Ballet is the foundation for all dance subjects. Ballet develops coordination, grace, muscle toning, poise, good posture, flexibility, stamina and endurance. Students will learn proper body placement, alignment and technique. Each child will learn terminology in French, correct body alignment, how to improve their natural turn-out and a love for the most graceful living art.

Perfect for young dancers looking to add a little energy to their dance training. This class will focus on basic Jazz technique while letting the kids find a little more personality in their dancing! Our Tiny Tots will work on the coordination and strength necessary to begin learning basic tumbling skills.

Our level III class takes the basics learned in level I and II and begins to introduce a more formal class structure for our dancers. This prepares our dancers to not only enter our foundation program in kindergarten but excel.

Our level II class will build on the basics learned in level I and even add barre work! While beginning with level I is recommended, dancers who are 3 years old by August 31st may begin with level II as long as they can follow direction.

In this class our tiniest dancers will learn the basics of Ballet, Tap, and a bit of Tumbling. We will also work on proper dance class behavior, locomotive skills and correct terminology for our steps.

The AMD Company is an advanced level competition team that offers dancers a more intensive program. The Company is made up of dancers 6 to 18 years old that train 16+ hours each week in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, Musical Theater and Hip Hop. Company dancers participate in conventions and competitions throughout the year and travel each summer.

Initiate is an intermediate level competition team that offers dancers a taste of the dance competition world without the full time commitment. Initiate dancers are confident, dedicated, and strong individuals with incredible work ethic. Modest costumes and NO required Sunday rehearsals or performances! The Initiate Team will be made up of dancers ages 5-17 split into five groups that will train each week in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Lyrical, and Hip Hop. Dancers will compete two group routines with an opportunity for more and solos.

The STARS Performance Team is a Beg/Int dance team made up of dancers 3-15. Stars dancers get the chance to perform without the pressure of competition. Dance training for this group includes Jazz, Tap, Ballet, and Technique and Hip Hop for our older Stars Dancers. STARS get the opportunity to perform throughout the year at local parades, festivals and sporting events!

These classes are designed for dancers just beginning their training or more experienced dancers wanting to improve their technique. AMD offers foundation classes for young dancers starting in kindergarten and work all the way up to our Teen classes. Classes are available in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Tumbling, and Theater. Our faculty is dedicated to making sure each dancer gets the training needed to progress while having a blast each week!

Our Tiny Tots program is designed especially for 2-6 year olds who can’t wait for their chance to dance!! Dancers will start in a Ballet/Tap combination class where they will learn the basics of dance as well as explore their creative and locomotive abilities. All of our Tiny Tots classes participate in our Annual Recital and quite honestly they steal the show!

Emergence is our award winning, advanced-level competition team that offers dancers a more intensive training program focused on preparing our dancers for the world beyond the competition stage. Many of our Emergence Alumni have continued their dance journeys at some of the top college programs in the country and many return to AMD to pass their passion for dance onto the future generations! Emergence dancers are confident, dedicated, and strong individuals with incredible work ethic.