The Dance Center

Acrobatics and Strength/Conditioning classes develop techniques for all styles of dance and stage performance. Classes include flexibility development, lifts, tumbling, strength development and stage theatrics. One year of dance experience is recommended, not required.

Musical Theater combines elements of theater dance with singing and acting. Class includes script reading, stage direction and combining theatrical elements to present musical numbers from Broadway shows or movies. One year of dance experience is recommended, not required.

Hip hop is a funky and dynamic dance form with roots in street dance, African, Jazz, and numerous flavors of movement. It emphasizes rhythm, isolations, footwork, strength, and style presented in a high-energy positive environment.

Contemporary uses movement as a tool for self-expression. Drawing from all styles of dance, the dynamic quality can express a theme, an emotion or inspiration from a musical transition.

Ballet instills balance, strength, and coordination. Progress is determined by the technical level achieved in class, each year building on the previous knowledge. Ballet is an important part of every dancer’s training.

Jazz is a ballet-based style that explores a dynamic range with choreography influenced by music from lyrical to pop and blues. Emphasis is on technique and alignment in jazz combinations.

Tap covers a range of styles from the Broadway style of specific tap steps in a straight tempo to the more syncopated style of rhythm tap based on jazz-influenced patterns.