The Dance Place

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, personality, face animation, and expression to the movements.

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.

Whether you are trying out for the dance team or cheer squad, The Dance Place offers private one-on-one instruction that you need to be prepared to have a successful tryout. Private lessons are all about YOU. We will focus on the fundamentals and specific skills required for your tryout as well as tips for improving technique, audition process knowledge, choreography, and more!

This style of dance incorporates lyrical, modern, ballet and jazz. Contemporary dance is all about connecting the mind and the body through dance movements. It is typically done barefoot and there is a heavy emphasis on strong controlled legwork. Students will learn how to release into the floor, while pushing against it for stability.

The enjoyment of tap comes from being able to “talk with your feet” – creating a huge variety of percussive sounds on the floor in various rhythmic combinations. This class teaches rhythm, coordination, terminology, and basic tap choreography. Students will put the fundamentals to work by learning new steps, rhythms, patterns, and combinations.

This class is not a gymnastics or a power-tumbling class. However, this class does incorporate gymnastics technique with a touch of basic tumble skills. It is a fusion of Acrobatics and Dance. Acro dance techniques include limbering, basic tumbling, partnering, flexibility, contortion, strength, and balancing.

Students will learn the basics of Graham and Hawkins release-based modern technique, beginning on the floor and working up to standing and moving across the floor in leaps and combinations. Classes will emphasize core integration and initiation, spinal awareness and flexibility, and practical application of modern dance fundamentals.

Ballet is the foundation of all dance forms. It is a classical dance form characterized by grace and precision of movement. This class consists of barre and center work concentrating on proper technique and body alignment. Ballet terminology is taught. Lyrical dance is the fusion of ballet and jazz technique with little more freedom of expression and style while still emphasizing proper technique.