El Dorado Dance Academy

From Pre-Tap to our advanced level tap classes, combinations are put to a variety of music styles, showcasing traditional Broadway Tap and the latest Tap Jam and Stomp techniques.

One of EDDA's favorites, Musical Theatre Dance is a dance-based class that consists of vocal and dramatic exercises within the dance classroom. Introduction of Broadway and West End Musicals will augment the minor singing and acting techniques along with the dance steps, drawing from established repertoire in the musical theatre genre, as well as original choreographic works.

Lyrical is one of the most popular styles of dance. It is more emotive than jazz, less codified than ballet and pulls movement vocabulary from modern dance.

Drawing from LA, New York and London-based jazz styles, EDDA's Teen and Adult Jazz classes emphasize body line, precision, flexible torso work, isolation, turns and the hottest dance techniques! This Jazz technique is interspersed with high kicks, leaps and jumps in a well-balanced classical jazz lesson that dips into other genres.

This class offering is a fun introduction to Hip-Hop for youngsters! This unique program is a 45-minute class that teaches children different movement skills and coordination techniques while having a great time! Whether they fly like airplanes, learn rhythms from around the world, or become jungle animals, you can be sure they will use their imagination!

A combination of our Hip-Hop and Jazz disciplines.

Hip-Hop will have you jumpin', turnin', spinnin', movin' forwards and backwards! The best of urban dance, Hip-Hop is the latest cultural trend on the dance scene, and EDDA's Hip-Hop offers exposure to street, funk and break as part of this class. Prior dance training is helpful, but not required, therefore a supplemental jazz class is strongly recommended to prevent injury and introduce the traditional connective steps necessary to put routines together.

Ballet can be fun and whimsical in this engaging, circle-based ballet class, which offers a delightful first experience for the independent little ballerina! Utilizing magic wands, scarves and ballet basics, even the youngest rising star can feel the excitement of ballet learning steps such as a plié, tendu, soutenu and sauté!

Our most popular class for beginning dancers! Creative Movement is rooted in the conventions of a ballet class structure while allowing for individual creativity, set to children's music. This 45-minute lesson provides the basis for young beginning dancers for further development in the study of dance by introducing bodily coordination, stretch exercises, rhythm and basic terminology.

Contemporary is an exquisitely unique (and fun!) exploration of body movement and personal expressivity made popular by the hit show So You Think You Can Dance? This style of dance borrows from a collection of dance movements developed in modern and postmodern dance, as well as an array of still developing philosophies about body/mind interconnectedness.

Combo is a popular class that uses both classical and funky kid’s music with energetic movement introducing the fun of ballet and American theatrical dance forms of Tap and Jazz! Get all three for a great price, this class emphasizes enjoyment, showmanship and foundational techniques so that your child can plié, shuffle flap, or kick ball change their way to stardom!

This class is designed to instruct and guide the creative process in creating dance choreography. Utilizing everything from images to concepts of color and emotion to awaken the artistic in a dancer's mind and influence the movement of the body. This class will push the boundaries of the imagination!

Baton Twirling (ages 5+) The culmination of historic entertainment from island staff spinning and marching band leader theatrics, twirling has evolved into a world-class showcase that some consider art and others sport. This class focuses on hand-eye coordination and basic techniques that easily transfer to support prop manipulation in other dance disciplines.

Ballet has centuries of tradition as one of the world's most elegant dance arts where placement of the body, poise and proper alignment are emphasized. All levels, beginning with our youngest Pre-Ballet dancers (age 5) through levels I, II, III, IV and V utilize the appropriate classical terminology and include barre work, adagio, petite allegro, grand allegro and turns.

Acro is best defined as the fusion of the artistic motion of dance combined with the athleticism of acrobatics. This class focuses on the five areas of Acro that build strong safe dancers: strength, flexibility, balancing, limbering and tumbling.