Dance Moves Maine

High vibes in this laid back, fun hip hop class! Emily makes every class fun and welcoming so no experience necessary - just a willingness to move and groove and have fun!

Ready to dust off your tap shoes? Join our Adult Tap Class with miss Emily - an advanced beginner/ intermediate class perfect for those with some past experience ready to jump back in. Emily makes every class fun and welcoming, so you'll feel right at home. And no tap shoes? No worries - barefoot or sneakers are welcome!

Students enrolling in Advanced Tumble should have mastered fundamental tumbling skills and be ready to take their abilities to the next level. In this class, students will work on advanced skills such as handsprings, side and front aerials, connected series, tucks, and more. Our focus is on perfecting technique, building strength, and achieving fluidity in complex tumbling sequences.

Tumble Progressions is for students who have mastered the basics and are ready to progress to the next level.  They'll enjoy conditioning, stretching, and core strengthening, while refining those basic skills like handstands, cartwheels, roundoffs, and kickovers. Students will work on connecting individual moves, adding dance elements, and creating fluid sequences as well as be introduced to more advanced moves including handspring and aerial drills and more!

Build Your Skills with Confidence! Tumble Foundations is perfect for students eager to expand their tumbling abilities. In this exciting class, students will master fundamental movements like handstands, cartwheels, walkovers, and other essential skills. We emphasize building a strong foundation with proper technique, enhancing strength and balance, and boosting confidence in every movement. Activities include stretching, forward and backward rolls, bridge and bridge kickovers, both front and back walkovers along with other fundamental skills. Join us to elevate your tumbling skills in a fun and supportive environment!

Ignite Your Tumbler's Potential! Tumble Jumpstart offers an exciting introduction to basic tumbling skills. In a fun and safe environment, children will develop coordination and confidence through engaging activities like stretching, shape formation, and forward rolls. They'll balance on low beams, walk like animals with bear crawls and crab walks, jump with joy, and be introduced to the excitement of handstands, bridges, and cartwheels. Plus, they'll navigate thrilling obstacle courses that make learning a blast!

Where Fun and Fundamentals Begin! Tiny Tumble is perfect for our youngest tumblers, offering an exciting introduction to basic tumbling skills. In a fun and safe environment, children will develop coordination and confidence through engaging activities like stretching, shape formation, and forward rolls. They'll balance on low beams, walk like animals with bear crawls and crab walks, jump with joy, and get an assisted introduction to handstands, bridges, and cartwheels. Plus, they'll navigate thrilling obstacle courses that make learning a blast!

Acro dance combines dance technique with fluid acrobatic movements. Unlike the faster and stronger routines of gymnastics, acro dance is meant to enhance the art form of dance and provide the dancers with  greater means of self-expression through smooth, graceful transitions.

Students will learn technique, clarity of sounds, tempo, combinations and the basic moves of tap such as standard time steps, shuffles, flaps, etc. This class offers students the opportunity to focus on their coordination and musical awareness. A mix of music styles such as Broadway show tunes or pop may be used. Classes include warm-up, progressions, and combinations.

This class if for those high energy little ones that are always ready to show off their dance moves to their favorite pop tunes. It combines the basics of hip hop to age appropriate music combined with fun jazz moves!

Fun and energetic! This class focuses on age appropriate hip hop dancing and music that students will love. They will not only learn high energy hip hop choreography but also rhythm, coordination, isolations and breakdancing! Students will be introduced to many different styles of hip hop enforcing well-rounded hip hop dancers.

Our Musical Theater classes incorporate dance (jazz & tap), acting and the use of props to help make a well rounded performer. This class is a wonderful learning and confidence building experience and is a great class for students who are looking to acquire the elements needed to perform roles in their schools and community theatre productions.

Guided by an instructor, dancers will be given prompts and cues to inspire their improvisational skills. They are encouraged to let go of any preconceived notions of dance and to simply move freely in the space. Students are taught to listen to their bodies, embrace mistakes, and find new and unique ways to express themselves through movement. In addition to improvisation, students also learn the principles of composition. They are guided through different techniques for creating structured dance pieces, including exploring concepts such as rhythm, dynamics, space, and form. Students are encouraged to experiment with different ways of organizing movements and to collaborate with their classmates in creating group compositions.

This class explores body and spacial awareness, movement, rhythm, and improvisation. Lyrical dance combines the grace of ballet with the stylization of jazz to create a form of dance that allows students to express emotion through movement. With the foundation of this style being ballet and jazz, it is encouraged that dancers are also enrolled in those classes.

Jazz dance incorporates ballet principles with modern, stylized movement. This class focuses on stretching, across the floor progressions, center work, leaps and turns, and more. In all exercises, students develop muscle strength, flexibility, and further their jazz technique. Jazz & Technique are complementary classes intended to be taken together. Students will perform a jazz dance in the annual show.

The time a ballet student advances to Pointe is determined by the Instructor and is based on a student's individual strength and ability. Students must take a minimum of three years of ballet training to be considered for Pointe and an assessment will be made by the instructor.

As the foundation of all dances, ballet is fundamental to the education of any dancer. While learning technique, students build proper posture and carriage, develop grace and control and gain self-confidence and personal discipline. Ballet classes improve a student's ability and performance in all other forms of dance. The class concentrates on terminology & technique. The intermediate and advanced levels are encouraged to take more than one class per week.

In this combo dance class students are introduced to the fundamentals of ballet, tap, and jazz. The class is structured to incorporate elements of each dance style in a fun and engaging way.

The introductory dance class is a fun and engaging way for young kids to explore the world of movement and music. Held in a bright and colorful dance studio, this lively and interactive class introduces them to the joy of dance and helps them develop important physical and cognitive skills in a supportive and nurturing environment.

Our Tumbling sessions focus on fundamental tumbling skills and technique. Dependent on level, students will learn such things as handstands, elbow stands, cartwheels, back bends, walkovers, handsprings, aerials, etc. This class is great for students looking to enhance their agility, flexibility & strength.

This class will focus on fundamental tumbling skills and technique. Dependent on level, students will learn such things as handstands, elbow stands, cartwheels, back bends, walkovers, handsprings, aerials, etc. This class is great for students looking to enhance their agility, flexibility & strength. *This class does not perform in the end of year recital. *Our tumble classes are offered as 6 week sessions.

This class will focus on fundamental tumbling skills and technique. Dependent on level, students will learn such things as handstands, elbow stands, cartwheels, back bends, walkovers, handsprings, aerials, etc. This class is great for students looking to enhance their agility, flexibility & strength. *This class does not perform in the end of year recital. *Our tumble classes are offered as 6 week sessions.

Want to tippy-toe into their first dance class? Have other activities that conflict with certain seasons? Want to try a new style? Then our 6 week sessions are a perfect option! Check out the current offerings below!