Spisak Dance Academy

Spisak Dance Academy offers dance lessons for all ages, teaching basic skills of self-awareness, self-esteem, confidence, and the ability to express themselves. Dance lessons are life lessons!

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We offer Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Hip Hop, and Modern styles of dance. We teach all ages and our students help them learn the basic skills of self-awareness, self-esteem, confidence, and the ability to express themselves. Dance lessons are life lessons!

The K-1 Dance Program is focused on Kindergarten and 1st graders, ages 5 to 6. We have designed this program to be engaging and fun to keep the attention of the younger children and therefore instill a love of dancing in them from a young age that will endure a lifetime! The program is a full hour of one subject in ballet, tap, jazz, acrobatics, or hip hop. Because ballet is such a fundamental style we suggest starting with ballet while learning any of the other subjects. Our experienced K-1 dance instructors work with children as young as three all the way up up to high school age, training all students equally while watch them grow and as a result of their training, bloom.

Spisak Dance Academy is proud to be Arizona's oldest and most established dance school while staying up to date with the latest trends. We train each student equally and help them develop their own passion. We teach all ages and our students help them learn the basic skills of self-awareness, self-esteem, confidence, and the ability to express themselves. Dance lessons are life lessons!

Pre-school Classes for Ages 3 to 5, not yet in Kindergarten. Combination classes are for those ages 3 to 5 and not yet in kindergarten. We offer the 3–5-year-olds not yet in school a one-hour “combo” class that includes pre-ballet, tap, and basic acrobatic skills. They work on hand/eye coordination, small and large muscle motor skills, and learn about the class protocol. They sing, dance, and move!!!

A range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music; the style has evolved as part of the hip hop culture. It is influenced by a wide range of styles that were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews seen in videos, movies, and television programs.

This style of dance is often considered to have emerged as a diversion from classical ballet as it allowed dancers to move more freely. It is taught using several original and adapted styles of the original innovative choreographers—Graham, Taylor, Cunningham, Dunham, and Horton to name a few.

A genre of dance performance that has developed during recent years. It has grown to become one of the dominant genres. Mostly developed for trained dancers, there is a requirement that those enrolled in this class have previous ballet, tap, and jazz training.

Lyrical dance is described as using ballet movement and technique in more free form. It is choreographed to music interpreting the lyrics of a song or to instrumental music that is “lyric” in quality. Lyrical classes resemble ballet or jazz in warm-up, center, across-the-floor, and choreography study. Ballet study is a prerequisite to take lyrical classes.

Acro focuses more on body contortion and tricks that defy the center of gravity. Bodies are worked long and lean, and control is a key component to build strength and flexibility. Acrobatics is more fluid and balletic in its performance style. Gymnastic tricks are meant to be executed by training the muscles to be shortened to build more power for the 4 events—Floor, Beam, Uneven Bars and Vault.

While strongly based on classical ballet techniques and choreography, classical jazz dance incorporates movement with clean and strong lines originating from the chest and hips. Classical jazz is jazz dance at its core. There are many styles of jazz dance that have developed over the decades from early social dancing to portrayal of jazz music to theater dance. Class study includes different styles of turns, jumps, leaps, and body movement using music from every genre’.

Tap dance is known as a cultural and rhythmic form of dance. Students are learning about music, how to make music, and how to listen to music. We know that students who take tap classes are better rhythmically with far better musicality. They also tend to have a much better sense for accent, dimension, and shading in their other styles of dance. It’s a benefit for college program acceptance and professional work.

Ballet is the most important dance subject. The structure of a ballet class will almost always be the same wherever you go, whether you are a beginner or a seasoned professional dancer. This is where all dancers will learn terminology, body placement and alignment, and how to warm up the body properly and safely. Ballet class is progressive. In the beginning, dancers will start off at the barre learning basic movement and technique. The class will progress to center and across-the-floor work and will get bigger and faster as the dancers become stronger. Every ballet class finishes with Reverence.

Requires ballet enrollment.