Bethesda Conservatory of Dance

Students are invited to move beyond the combination class into a 45-minute tap technique class. This, fun, high energy class will emphasize proper tap progressions, styles, and rhythms.

Dancers gain admittance to this class through teacher recommendation and director approval. This 75-minute non-performing technique class will focus on the strength and alignment necessary for pointe work.

Poms is a group dance genre that is typically performed during sporting events. Poms choreography is fun, sharp, and rhythmic, incorporating themes from hip hop, jazz, and lyrical.

These non-competitive dance groups focus on seasonal choreography performed in and around the Bethesda area. Venues have included, assisted living facilities and Bethesda Big Train, Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade, the National Cherry Blossom Parade, Washington Wizards Pre-Game Show, Holiday Performances at Pike & Rose, and more.

Modern dance is technical tradition that evolved a rejection of the rigidity of ballet. While drawing on the class structure and vocabulary of ballet, modern allows for a greater understanding of how the body moves.

Students are invited to use their own creative imagery and musicality in Lyrical class. Students are encouraged to express themselves and put feeling into the steps as they develop their technical skills.

Dancers ages are invited to take our Tap/Jazz combination class. It is designed as a fast-paced technique-oriented class for the dancer who is ready for a one-hour class but not quite ready for (or interested in) Ballet.

Students are invited to take a one hour Jazz technique class. Each class uses popular age-appropriate music, consists of a warm-up, stretching, isolations, strength and conditioning work, floor work, turns, leaps, jumps, through traveling exercises and combinations.

Student ages 5-6 are invited to join us for this hour long ballet technique class. While not forced, turn-out, stretching, body lines are introduced through creative imagery. This is an encouragement based technique class that introduces terminology, alignment, and musicality.

Students are invited to join our fun, high-energy Hip-Hop class. Age appropriate movement and music are used in this fast-paced class. With its roots in street jazz, pop and lock, commercial, and pedestrian styles, Hip Hop is a constantly evolving form of dance.

Our 3-4 (I) and 5-6 (II) year old Dancers are invited to join our squeaky-clean Hip Hop based class. Using age-appropriate popular music, students will develop motor skills and coordination.

Advanced students over age 12 may be invited to study the newest genre embraced by formally trained dancers. Core work fall and recovery, expressive musicality, speed changes, effort/shape work, creativity, versatility in embodying different choreographic styles and the performers’ stage style are emphasized in this technique class.

This class is for the 7-9 (I), 10-12 (II), 13+ (III) year old dancer who is ready to move beyond a two genre combination class. This 75 minute class is a time efficient way to expand movement repertoire and meet new friends.

This one-hour class is offered as an introduction to dance to the recreational dancer ages 8 and up. Students will be introduced to the technique, traditions, and language of dance in a lighthearted atmosphere.

This class is for the 5 and 6 year old dancer who is ready to move into a one hour class. It is more disciplined than our pre-school classes while still incorporating the creative imagery that inspire young dancers.

Our disciplined, yet encouragement-based Ballet technique class offers the student a clear understanding of ballet terminology, proper body lines, and alignment. Through repetition and gentle corrections, our goal is for our students to achieve grace, poise, and confidence along with strong technique.

This class uses music and props to engage our students in developmentally appropriate movement. Basic ballet and tap shapes and steps are introduced along with developmental concepts such as crossing the mid-line, balancing, identifying rhythm, as well as gross and fine motor skills in a traditional class structure.

This class uses music and props to engage young dancers in fun developmentally appropriate movement. While, basic dance shapes and class structure are introduced, our main focus is to inspire a lifelong love of dance while encouraging the development of preschool readiness skills.