Dance Step - Dance studio in Berlin, Connecticut
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1107 Farmington Avenue

Berlin, Connecticut 06037

52 programs

About Dance Step

Dance Step, located in Berlin, Connecticut, is a premier dance studio dedicated to fostering a lifelong appreciation for the art of dance in students of all ages and levels, from toddlers to adults. Led by Artistic Director and Owner Maria Pagliaruli, the studio offers a progressive program of study designed to train dancers technically while engaging their minds. Our accomplished faculty includes instructors such as David Michael Bovat, Kristina DeConti, Isabella Galdamez, Jamie Hastings, Catherine Joseph-Pratt, Mytisha Webster, Karen Rossignol, and Emily Wiseman, many of whom bring extensive performance and teaching experience. Dance Step's comprehensive curriculum covers a diverse range of styles including Ballet, Tap, Jazz (including Broadway and Street jazz), Lyrical, Modern, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Musical Theater, and Acrobatics. We are proud to feature certified Cecchetti ballet instructors providing a progressive ballet training system, with specialized classes like Pre-Pointe/Pointe and Adult Ballet available. Our Acrobatic Arts certified program uniquely blends classical dance technique with precision acrobatic elements, focusing on limbering, tumbling, partnering, flexibility, strength, and balancing. For younger dancers, "Mini Movers" and "Tiny Tots" classes introduce fundamental movement and rhythm. The studio emphasizes a caring and nurturing environment where students build self-esteem, respect, and enthusiasm for dance. We also highlight our dedicated "DSPC Petite Team" and "DSPC Junior Team" competitive programs for dedicated students. Dance Step aims to instill dedication and encourage growth through the transformative power of dance education, with resources like a Parent Portal, online store, and clear tuition information available to support our families.

Programs from Dance Step

52 programs available

Classes

Ballet - Pointe - Tap - Jazz - Lyrical - Hip Hop - Tiny Tots Acrobatics - Adult Classes - Contemporary Combination Classes

Mini Movers I & II

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.

Acrobatics

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

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

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

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

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.

Tap

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.

Pointe

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.

Ballet Exam Classes

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

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.

Ballet

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.

Mini Movers II: Ballet & Jazz

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.

Mini Movers II: Tap & Ballet

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.

Mini Movers I: Tap, Ballet & Tumbling

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.

Tiny Tots

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.

Cecchetti Ballet Method

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

Cecchetti Grade 3 class held on Fridays.

Friday 3:30 - 4:30
Cecchetti Grade 1/Standard 2

Cecchetti Grade 1/Standard 2 class held on Fridays.

Friday 4:30 - 5:30
Cecchetti Standard 5/Standard 6

Cecchetti Standard 5/Standard 6 class held on Fridays.

Friday 5:30 - 6:30
Mini Movers 1

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

Monday 4:15 - 5:15
Mini Petite/Petite Ballet

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

Monday 5:15 - 6:15
Intermediate/Advanced Jazz

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

Monday 5:15 - 6:15
Pre-Pointe/Pointe

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

Monday 6:15 - 7:00
Mini Petite/Petite Tap

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

Monday 6:15 - 7:15
Adult Ballet

Adult Ballet class held on Mondays.

Monday 7:00 - 8:00
Junior Tap

Junior Tap class held on Mondays.

Monday 7:15 - 8:15
Intermediate/Advanced Tap

Intermediate/Advanced Tap class held on Mondays.

Monday 8:15 - 9:15
DSPC Junior & Teen Teams

DSPC Junior & Teen Teams class held on Saturdays.

Saturday 10:00 - 11:00
Mini Movers 2: Ballet & Tap

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

Saturday 10:30 - 11:30
DSPC Teen Team

DSPC Teen Team class held on Saturdays.

Saturday 11:00 - 12:00
DSPC Junior Team Lyrical

DSPC Junior Team Lyrical class held on Saturdays.

Saturday 11:30 - 12:30
DSPC Junior Team Jazz

DSPC Junior Team Jazz class held on Saturdays.

Saturday 9:00 - 10:00
Mini Movers 1

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

Saturday 9:15 - 10:15
DSPC Petite Team

DSPC Petite Team class held on Thursdays after Thanksgiving.

Thursday 4:30 - 5:45
Tree Lighting

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

Thursday 4:30 - 5:45
Petite/Junior Lyrical

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

Thursday 5:45 - 6:45
Junior Jazz

Junior Jazz class held on Thursdays.

Thursday 6:45 - 7:45
Mini Movers 2: Ballet & Jazz

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

Tuesday 4:30 - 5:30
Mini Petite Ballet

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

Tuesday 4:30 - 5:30
Mini Movers 2: Ballet & Tap

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

Tuesday 5:30 - 6:30
Mini Petite Jazz

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

Tuesday 5:30 - 6:30
Advanced Ballet

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

Tuesday 6:30 - 7:45
Junior Intermediate Ballet

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

Tuesday 6:30 - 7:45
Advanced Pointe

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

Tuesday 7:45 - 8:30
Tiny Tots

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

Tuesday 9:30 - 10:00
Petite/Junior Hip Hop

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

Wednesday 4:30 - 5:30
Petite/Junior Acro

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

Wednesday 5:30 - 6:30
Mini Hip Hop

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

Wednesday 5:30 - 6:30
Intermediate/Advanced Hip Hop

Intermediate/Advanced Hip Hop class held on Wednesdays.

Wednesday 6:30 - 7:30
Petite Jazz

Petite Jazz class for ages 7+ held on Wednesdays.

Wednesday 6:30 - 7:30
Contemporary

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

Wednesday 7:30 - 8:30

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I contact Dance Step?

Call Dance Step at (860) 829-0703 or visit http://www.dancestepllc.com/.

What is the best way to contact Dance Step?

The quickest way is to call (860) 829-0703 or visit http://www.dancestepllc.com/.

What is Dance Step's phone number?

Dial (860) 829-0703 to speak with Dance Step.

What city is Dance Step in?

Dance Step is in Berlin, Connecticut.

Does Dance Step have a website?

Yes, you can find Dance Step online at http://www.dancestepllc.com/.