Abundant Hope Christian Performing Arts

This class is for adults interested in a beginner level contemporary dance class. The class will consist of a warm up and contemporary exercises in the centre and across the floor as well as contemporary combinations and choreography. This class’ contemporary style will be heavily based in ballet, interpretive, and focused on worshipping God.

This class is for adults interested in a beginner level classical ballet class. The structure of class will include warm up; centre exercises to increase balance, strength, and flexibility; exercises, turns, and jumps across the floor; and reverence.

This is a beginner level class where students will learn the basic tap moves and learn how to dance together with rhythm. They will learn the proper technique and terminology as well.

This is a beginning level class where students will learn technique. The focus of this class will be on proper body alignment, strength building, timing, awareness and the development of breath, and abstract move. They will also be learning correct dance terminology.

This class will include a full beginner/intermediate level ballet class with warm up exercises, barre work, and centre work. The last 30 minutes will consist of contemporary exercises in the centre and across the floor as well as contemporary combinations and choreography. This class’ contemporary style will be heavily based in ballet, interpretive, and focused on worshipping God.

The purpose of this class is to prepare dancers for pointe work. Exercises will be focused on strengthening feet, calf muscles, turn out, and core strength to support dancers for potential future pointe work.

Core strength, flexibility, tumbling and basic floor tricks are developed to expand a dancer’s skill set while developing power that will help in all dance disciplines. Acro skills are the basis for all of the moves that add wow factor to a routine through a combination of balance, contortions and flight.

As a style many consider Lyrical/Contemporary to be the most emotional forms of dance. While it utilizes technical skills from many other forms there are no boundaries in this style. This freedom allows dancers to express their feelings and emotions directly through their performances.

This is a beginning/intermediate level class where students will learn the basics of hip-hop in a Christian environment with Christian music.

It is recommended that students have had at least two years of prior ballet training. The intent of this class is for students to grow into well rounded ballet dancers, being familiar with the structure of ballet class, terminology, technique, and artistry. Students will consistently be encouraged toward the highest excellence to the glory of God.

This is a beginning level class in jazz technique. The focus of this class will be on proper body alignment, strength building, timing, awareness and the development of breath, and jazz dance terminology and technique.

This class is designed to teach students a variety of skills, including dance technique, choreography, and various dance styles. It will also help students improve their physical fitness by increasing their flexibility, strength, fitness and stamina.

This class is about worshipping God through movement. There will be a variety of activities including prayer, guided improvisation, improvisation, group activities, times of sharing, and more. Everything discussed and expressed in this class will be focused on God and Biblically based.

This class is designed with the intent of teaching children the basic structure of a ballet class: barre, centre, across the floor, and reverence. There will be much less time spent on creative movement and more on ballet technique.

The purpose of this class is to introduce young children to the ballet class through simple class structure involving basic ballet steps, balancing, ballet walks, turning, jumping, and creative improvisation.

This is a beginning level class that includes classical jazz and contemporary technique set to music from Broadway musicals. Focus will be on dancing rather than singing. The intent of this class is for students to enjoy expressing themselves through dance while learning basic jazz technique and the history of musical theater dance.

This is a beginning/ intermediate level class that includes classical jazz technique with Broadway musicals. There will be a focus on dancing, acting and some singing. The intent of this class is for students to enjoy expressing themselves through dance and acting.