Dance Step

Mini Movers I & II will have two costumes. Each student is required to purchase one costume per class, except for Mini Movers I & II, which will have two costumes.

Acro dance is a style of dance that combines classical dance technique with precision acrobatic elements. It is defined by its athletic character and its unique choreography, which seamlessly blends dance and acrobatics. Acro dance technique includes limbering, tumbling, partnering, flexibility (contortion), strength, and balancing.

Hip hop is a high-energy class that infuses the latest styles of street dancing, breaking, popping, and locking. Classes will encourage students to step outside of the box by bringing their own individual style and personality to the movements. Hip hop dance requires students to have the strength and stamina to successfully perform moves. Therefore, classes includes upper and lower body conditioning as well as a rigorous warm-up.

Contemporary dance borrows from ballet, jazz, social dances, and many modern dance techniques of the 20th century. Contemporary dance encourages dancers to be versatile in their expressions, being able to portray a wide array of movement styles and emotion. It focuses on spatial and body awareness, use of body weight, floor work, leaps, turns, efficiency of muscle usage, and safe body alignment.

Lyrical combines techniques and skills from ballet, jazz, and modern. Students will also explore how lyrical dance emphasizes interpretation of music lyrics to tell a story with movement that can be fluid or abstract. Classes include warm-up with center floor or barre technique, across the floor progressions, and choreography. Lyrical classes will perform one dance in the annual recital.

Jazz class will focus on learning proper dance technique such as isolations of the body, improving performance quality and developing complex rhythms and patterns. Students will be exposed to various styles of jazz such as Broadway, Street, and Contemporary to help develop a well rounded dancer. Class curriculum is based on ballet technique layered with traditional jazz movement and includes a proper warm-up, stretches, isolations, across-the-floor progressions, and combinations.

This one hour a week class focuses on the fundamentals of tap. Classes will cover style, rhythm, and proper technique during the warmup, center floor work, across the floor patterns, and choreography. Students will learn about musical phrasing and timing and how to create percussive sounds with their feet and bodies. Tap classes will perform one dance in the annual recital.

To prepare for Pointe class, dancers must be at least 12 years old, with a minimum of 2 years of technical ballet training. For the safety of the student, the ballet instructor will determine if a student is ready to go up on pointe shoes. Pointe Class is taken in addition to a weekly Ballet Class and Technique class. Pointe classes will perform one dance in the annual recital.

Dance Step students have the opportunity to take special exam prep classes, separate from their regular ballet classes, to be tested on the ballet skills they have learned. Exams are designed to give students specific goals to work toward and to maintain standards of development consistent with international standards. Ballet classes will perform one dance in the annual recital.

Ballet Technique classes will not perform in the recital - they are strictly a technique class. Ballet classes will perform one dance in the annual recital. The syllabus used has been carefully orchestrated, containing exercises that build in complexity, ensuring that each new movement is introduced from a fundamental approach.

Classes include focus on barre work, center floor work, and progressions, with a strong emphasis on proper dance technique. More advanced dancers will be required to take a Ballet Technique class in addition to their weekly Ballet class. Dance Step teaches the Cecchetti Method of ballet.

This one-hour weekly class focuses on the basic skills in Jazz and Ballet. In the jazz segment, students are introduced to movements such as stretching and isolations, as well as, across the floor patterns, and center floor choreography. See ballet description in Tap & Ballet above. Students will perform a ballet dance and a jazz dance in the annual recital.

This one-hour weekly class focuses on the basic skills of Tap and Ballet. In the tap segment, students are introduced to the fundamentals of tap, as well as, across the floor patterns, and center floor choreography. In the ballet segment, students will learn about the positions of the feet, body alignment, and be introduced to the fundamentals of ballet.

This one-hour weekly class focuses on the basic skills in Tap and Ballet, while using Tumbling to help increase strength in gross motor skills. Students will learn about various tempos, spatial awareness, and grace of movement. Watch as they develop emotional and social skills, improved alignment and flexibility, and “classroom skills” necessary for school, such as taking turns, following directions, listening, sharing, and communicating.

In this 30 minute class we share movement, music, rhythm, and fun supporting the development of your child’s fine and gross motor skills. Watch as your child increases their self-confidence, body and spatial awareness, musicality, and more. This class does not perform in the annual recital. A parent or guardian participates in class with the child.

The Cecchetti Method of ballet training is a progressive system of training dancers from a beginning level to a professional level. The Method embodies qualities that are essential to the dancer; balance, poise, strength, elevation, elasticity, musicality and artistry. Cecchetti USA has established a syllabus of carefully orchestrated exercises that build in complexity ensuring that each new movement is introduced from a fundamental approach.

Cecchetti Grade 3 class held on Fridays.

Cecchetti Grade 1/Standard 2 class held on Fridays.

Cecchetti Standard 5/Standard 6 class held on Fridays.

Mini Movers 1 class for ages 3-4, held on Mondays and Saturdays.

Mini Petite/Petite Ballet class for ages 7+ held on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Intermediate/Advanced Jazz class held on Mondays. Must be taken in conjunction with ballet class.

Pre-Pointe/Pointe class held on Mondays. Must be taken in conjunction with ballet class.

Mini Petite/Petite Tap class for ages 7+ held on Mondays.

Adult Ballet class held on Mondays.

Junior Tap class held on Mondays.

Intermediate/Advanced Tap class held on Mondays.

DSPC Junior & Teen Teams class held on Saturdays.

Mini Movers 2 class in Ballet & Tap for ages 5-6, held on Saturdays.

DSPC Teen Team class held on Saturdays.

DSPC Junior Team Lyrical class held on Saturdays.

DSPC Junior Team Jazz class held on Saturdays.

Mini Movers 1 class for ages 3-4, held on Saturdays.

DSPC Petite Team class held on Thursdays after Thanksgiving.

Tree Lighting class for ages 5+ held on Thursdays until Thanksgiving.

Petite/Junior Lyrical class for ages 8+ held on Thursdays. Must be taken in conjunction with Tree Lighting.

Junior Jazz class held on Thursdays.

Mini Movers 2 class in Ballet & Jazz for ages 5-6, held on Tuesdays.

Mini Petite Ballet class for ages 7+ held on Tuesdays.

Mini Movers 2 class in Ballet & Tap for ages 5-6, held on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

Mini Petite Jazz class for ages 7+ held on Tuesdays.

Advanced Ballet class held on Tuesdays. Must be taken in conjunction with ballet class.

Junior Intermediate Ballet class for ages 8+ held on Tuesdays.

Advanced Pointe class held on Tuesdays. Must be taken in conjunction with ballet class.

Tiny Tots class for 18-36 months held on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

Petite/Junior Hip Hop class for ages 8+ held on Wednesdays.

Petite/Junior Acro class for ages 5+, held on Wednesdays.

Mini Hip Hop class for ages 5-7, held on Wednesdays.

Intermediate/Advanced Hip Hop class held on Wednesdays.

Petite Jazz class for ages 7+ held on Wednesdays.

Contemporary class held on Wednesdays. Must be taken in conjunction with ballet class.