Laura Hayden Dance

Our Performance Teams provide students with additional opportunities to utilize their training by performing for various events and organizations in the community!

Hip Hop is a high energy class designed to exercise your body, build self-confidence and have fun! Class will consist of warm up exercises to increase flexibility, rhythm, and conditioning. Students will then focus on dance combinations, learning the latest and most popular movements set to age-appropriate music.

Contemporary dance is characterized by versatility, providing opportunities to blend various dance styles and techniques. Emphasis is placed on emotion through self-expression and storytelling. Because of the reliance on technique, it is highly suggested that students take at least one ballet or jazz class.

Tap is a highly stylized dance form that includes variations known as Broadway, Buck, Hoofing, Rhythm and Soft Shoe. Most people recognize tap dance from it’s percussive footwork, movements, and sounds that work together to create rhythmic patterns.

Jazz dancers use ballet as a foundation to develop the rhythm, strength, and control every jazz dance student needs to complete dynamic dance routines. Each class begins with a warm-up to improve strength, flexibility, and technique. Jazz class will include progression – teaching students how to travel across the floor, and center combinations filled with strong, energetic choreography.

Truly the “backbone” of dance training, ballet develops strength, poise, coordination, flexibility, and expression. With a balance of fluidity, grace, and strength, ballet provides dancers with a foundation to use toward every style of dance. Pointe classes are offered for ages 13 and up and by instructor permission only.

Our Tap and Jazz Combo classes begin with approximately 20 minutes tap followed by jazz. Classes are uniquely designed to introduce students to the rhythms and elements of each type of dance. This class will perform one dance at recital.

Our Creative Movement classes are designed as an introduction to dance for our youngest dancers. This class helps foster confidence, independence, social skills, and motor skills. Each class builds on your child’s skill level, teaching them new dance techniques through instruction designed to grow their love of dance and movement.