Inspire Dance Santa Barbara

IDSB Performing Groups are a team who train together, learn together, perform together, and have fun together! Being in IDSB Performing Group: Teaches students teamwork and cooperation, Fosters creative thinking and creative problem solving, Develops poise, self confidence, and grace under pressure, Demonstrates the direct connection between study, hard work, and high levels of achievement, Students receive a strong foundation in their performing arts education!

Bring your little one to wiggle, jump and sway to music and nursery rhymes! Ms Sean Lynn Crawford from Inspire Dance Santa Barbara will lead fun movements to help your child develop coordination and experience the joy of music and dancing. Best for ages 18 months to 5+ years old.

Lyrical dance is a style created from the fusion of ballet with jazz and contemporary dance techniques. It is performed to music with lyrics to inspire movements to express strong emotions. Lyrical dance brings out the individuals personality and style and allows for expressiveness in movement rather than the precision of movement. This style is important to all dancers because it allows the body to move, the soul to soar, and the dancer to just have fun!!!

Inspire Dance Arts teachers are trained and certified in either Cecchetti or Royal Academy of Dance ballet techniques (or both) and teach through a guided syllabus that builds the students movement abilities while considering the child’s physical and psychological growth. Both Syllabi progress systematically in order to build strength and artistry. As the steps are introduced the child learns the language, some history and anatomical understanding of the work while practicing and repeating the movements. These syllabi are designed to develop students to individually reach their full potential in dance, whether they have recreational or professional goals.

These classes are designed to prepare the young student for the world of dance with an introduction to achieving inner goals that progress at the child’s own pace of physical and emotional development. They learn beginning dance vocabulary, positions of the feet, and basic balletic exercises that enhance the work done with the early Tap/Combo and Baby and Me classes. They build strength and stamina through the repetition of movement designed to build the body safely and without stress.

Our Tap/Combo classes are designed to begin with what each child knows about rhythm and natural movement and enhance that knowledge in new ways (on different levels, or in different directions). New rhythms and movement are introduced with the new vocabulary (walking time, lunge, glide) to develop a deeper understanding of how the body works, and is done with props and imagery to increase learning. Gradually the child is guided to put short movement phrases and tap steps together with new awareness to rhythms and tempos. Circle dances, variations in shapes, levels, and leaps are performed to develop flow of movement and spatial awareness.

Listening, moving, and mastering a wealth of skills and concepts as they enjoy the rhythms and creative movement they express. Dance nurtures the imaginative process and encourages creative problem solving. Musicality, and Dance introduced with storytelling and creative play.

Young children learn by doing. Baby & Me dance classes promote active involvement in listening, moving, and mastering a wealth of skills and concepts as they enjoy the rhythms and creative movement they express. Dance nurtures the imaginative process and encourages creative problem solving.

In the near future, IDSB will be offering Character, Modern, Jazz, Classical Spanish and Social Dance for those who would like to learn or expand their dance repertoire, simply for the joy of it. We welcome all levels of dance.

IDSB’s Adult Dance Program in Ballet and Tap is emerging to be a wonderful outlet for the community because it is never too late to dance!

Tamara has been teaching and choreographing tap dance in the Santa Barbara community for over 20 years. She is the co-founder of a dance company that performed throughout Southern California from 1993 to 1999 and produced sold out National Tap Dance Day Celebrations at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Tamara’s choreography and class combinations bring together both Rhythm Tap and Broadway styles. She believes that any kind of dance makes your soul happy, and that tap dancing leaves it grinning.

Ballet is the foundation upon which all forms of dance are developed at IDSB. Cecchetti and Royal Academy of Dance certified teachers provide the most informed training, and delight in cultivating dancers capable of reaching their fullest potential as artists.

This is a private session with Ms. Sean Lynn Crawford to further the dancers core strength and muscle memory. Half hour sessions on Saturday mornings. Equipment provided – Yoga Ball, Fusion Ball, Thera-band and Floor mat.

Dance class, Snack, Art work, Choreography, Bring your own snack and drink

Mime, Dance History, Ballet Technique class, Pointe/Pre-Pointe class, Variations and Choreography.