EMpowered Dance Center

Improvisation is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using a framework created by the instructor. Improvisation in the performing arts is spontaneous, but the skill developed in this class is the ability to think quickly in an audition or at a performance that doesn't go as planned.

Contemporary Jazz Fusion the class is structured to allow dancers to seamlessly integrate modern, lyrical, and jazz styles. You’ll develop a versatile technique that balances the strength and precision of jazz with the fluidity and emotional depth of lyrical and modern dance.

Pom Precision Dance is a high-energy, performance-based style that blends sharp, synchronized movements, cheer-inspired choreography, and technical dance elements. Dancers use poms (pom-poms) to enhance visual impact, focusing on clean arm motions, formations, and team unity.

Developed by Marie Walton-Mahon in the 1990s to increase students' awareness of posture, alignment, and weight placement that translates from the barre to center, and ultimately locomotive activities in dance class. PBT decreases the risk of injury and enhances self-assessment promoting healthy longevity that is appreciated by athletes and Physical Therapists.

Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance that has grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world. Although originally informed by and borrowed from classical, modern, and jazz styles, it has come to incorporate elements from many dance styles.

Lyrical Dance is a culmination of ballet, jazz, and modern techniques and allows students to connect with the music. Emotional development, as well as musicality, are stressed to heighten a dancer's connection with the audience. Linking with audience members makes the dancer not only vulnerable but supports their rise to a new performance level that is sure to captivate.

Tap Dance is a percussive style that originated in the United States in the 1700’s. Students develop coordination, precision, rhythmic skills, and musicality using shoes with metal plates to create sound. Our classes draw from both the Broadway and the contemporary Rhythm-Tap styles and begin with a foot-isolating warm-up, followed by rhythm and step-based skill building in both the center of the room and moving across the floor.

Modern dance is a concert dance form that arose out of ballet in the early 20th century. Students begin with a warm-up that combines floorwork and standing center exercises, focusing on skill building with proper technique, musicality, and, spinal articulation; followed by sequencing steps in the center and across the floor, as well as the development of improvisation and composition skills.

Born out of African dance, American tap dance, ballet, and theatre, Jazz dance is inherently related to popular music and has evolved alongside it. Our classes draw from a variety of jazz styles both historical and contemporary ranging from Broadway, commercial, funk, and classical techniques.

Ballet is a classical dance form that originated in the 1500’s. Students begin at the barre, progress to the center, and culminate with traveling exercises across the floor. Terminology, alignment, balance, artistry, sequencing, and pushing through space are emphasized at each level.

School-aged children are ready to dive more deeply into the weekly recreational study of specific technical and conceptual understandings regarding particular styles in dance. EMpowered currently offers: Hip-Hop, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Modern, and Musical Theatre. Students may select to study one style or many.

30mins of each style

30mins ballet/30min tap

30mins ballet/30mins jazz

30mins ballet/30min jazz

30mins ballet/30mins jazz

Early childhood is a time for dancers to be introduced to dance and music concepts primarily through the medium of play-based activities. Classes are 30 minutes and are held weekly. Creative Movement (Ages 3-6) classes are taught in a more progressive style.

Children and their parents/caregivers introduce movement by incorporating singing, musical instruments, and games. Held in 6-week sessions. Full participation of the adult with the child supports bonding, modeling, language, and movement development through fun and play.