Creative Expressions Dance Studio Inc. ️

Workshops / Fitness Classes require Workout Gear of your choice. CEDS GEAR recommended but not required. All students should check to see if they have all the accessories that might be needed before entering class: extra bobby pins, elastic bans for hair, shoes, notebook, and pencil when requested. If you perspire heavily, a towel is a good classroom accessory. No jewelry. For those who wear glasses, a strap to hold the glasses securely in place is recommended.

Adult Jazz/Hip Hop attire includes: CEDS GEAR (T-Shirt & Jazz Pants/Leggings), All Black Leggings, Jogging Pants, Jazz pants, or biker shorts, All Black Top of your choice, Black Jazz Shoes / Black Jazz Tennis Shoes, Black Socks.

Tumbling (All Levels) attire includes: Black leotard, Black Leggings or Tan/Skin Tone Tights (Footless or convertible), Black Shorts (Optional) with footless tights. No Shoes Required.

Majorette (All Levels) attire includes: Black leotard, Black Jazz Pants or Tan/Skin Tone Tights, Black Shorts (Optional), Tan Jazz Boot Shoes.

Hip Hop (All Levels) attire includes: CEDS GEAR (T-Shirt & Sweatpants/Leggings), All Black Pants & T-Shirt, Black Dance Sneaker or Tennis Shoes *(Mandatory for recital), Black Socks.

Tap (All Levels) attire includes: CEDS Black Shirt, Black Tap Shoes, Black Jazz Pants, Sweatpants, or leggings, Black Socks. Males: CEDS Gear or Solid Black Sweatpants/Shirt, Black Tap Shoes, Black Socks.

Level 3 attire includes: Solid Black Leotard, Tan/Skin Tone Tights, Tan/Skin Tone Ballet Shoes (Ballet), Tan Jazz Boot shoes (Jazz), Tan Foot Thongs (Teacher Request), Solid Black Dance Sweater, Black Ballet Skirt, Black Jazz Pants/Leggings, & skin tone undergarments (Optional). Males: Ballet - Solid Black Jazz pants, White Cap Sleeve Shirt, Black ballet shoes, and White socks. Males: Jazz - Solid Black Pants, Solid Black Shirt, Black Socks, Black Jazz Boot Shoes.

Level 2 attire includes: Solid Black Leotard, Tan/Skin Tone Tights, Tan/Skin Tone Ballet Shoes (Ballet), Tan Jazz Boot shoes (Jazz), Solid Black Dance Sweater, Black Ballet Skirt, Black Jazz Pants/Leggings, & skin tone undergarments (Optional). Males: Ballet - Solid Black Jazz pants, White Cap Sleeve Shirt, Black ballet shoes, and White socks. Males: Jazz - Solid Black Pants, Solid Black Shirt, Black Socks, Black Jazz Boot Shoes.

Level 1 attire includes: Solid Black Leotard, Tan/Skin Tone Tights, Tan/Skin Tone Ballet Shoes (Ballet), Tan Jazz Boot shoes (Jazz), Solid Black Dance Sweater, Black Ballet Skirt, Black Jazz Pants/Leggings, & skin tone undergarments (Optional). Males: Ballet - Solid Black Jazz pants, White Cap Sleeve Shirt, Black ballet shoes, and White socks. Males: Jazz - Solid Black Pants, Solid Black Shirt, Black Socks, Black Jazz Boot Shoes.

PRE - BALLET I BALLET I JAZZ Level 1 attire includes: Solid Black Leotard, Tan/Skin Tone Tights, Tan/Skin Tone Ballet Shoes (Ballet), Tan Jazz Boot shoes (Jazz), Solid Black Dance Sweater, Black Ballet Skirt, Black Jazz Pants/Leggings, & skin tone undergarments (Optional). Males: Ballet - Solid Black Jazz pants, White Cap Sleeve Shirt, Black ballet shoes, and White socks. Males: Jazz - Solid Black Pants, Solid Black Shirt, Black Socks, Black Jazz Boot Shoes.

Small Tots / Pre Dance attire includes: Black Leotard, Tan/Skin Tone Tights, Tan (Skin Tone) Ballet Shoes, Black Ribbon Tie Tap Shoes (Girls), Black Jazz Tap Shoes (Boys), Solid black dance sweater (Optional).

Open Registration for LEVELS Step Class Year Round. OUR PRICES ARE UNMATCHE D...Classes are $75 a month and each ad ditional class is $20. A One Time Non-Refundable Registration Fee is required of $50 per student and $10 per additional student for families upon registration.

Company members are required to take Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Tumbling, and rehearse for 2 hours minimum a week depending of age level. The dance companies will showcase the students who are the best of the best. These students will be performing at annual competitions as well as showcase choreography and routines created by various instructors and guest artists at special events and throughout the community.

LEVELS step class is a high energy, fun filled step fitness workout designed to focus on being fit; mind, body, and soul. The class for is taught at a beginner, intermediate, & advanced level to ensure each student's success. You will learn basic moves and transitions step by step while building your rhythm, coordination, and cardio endurance. All key elements that enhance a dancer's foundation. This class is taught by CERTIFIED Step Instructors and guaranteed to produce a workout designed to make you sweat and have fun.

Our musical theatre class is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, acting, and dance. The emotional connection with the music is portrayed through each dancer producing extraordinary content. Students are able to tap in the exciting world of Broadway dance while incorporating various techniques. The dancing within this genre is rooted within the diverse history of Broadway musicals. An exciting class to introduce any student to the art of performing.

While Adult Jazz/Hip Hop, focuses on execution of isolations, technique, and full body movement.

Adult Tap focuses on proper instruction of how to articulate your feet and ankles as well as explore musicality, rhythm, and syncopation.

A form of dance that infuses hip hop, jazz, lyrical, and ballet all together. This style requires high energy and is fast paced. Majorette has choreographed movements that are usually done alongside a marching band but done also in stand battles against another opponent. This style of dance is a show stopping energetic style taking the dance world by storm.

Contemporary Lyrical are two forms of dance that showcase fluidity, expression, and passion. Theses forms of dance are done to popular ballads and slower contemporary music. The dancer is taught to interpret his or her movement with feeling, motion and style. They will learn to tell a story or create the picture of the song. This style combines the fluid beauty of ballet with the more sharp moves in jazz. A Ballet or Jazz class is recommended along with contemporary/lyrical to build in technique.

Cross training class for all athletes and dancers with a focus on balance, flexibility, core strength, and coordination. Tumbling is a fun class that focuses on rolling, flipping, and twisting in a safe manner comprised with a tailored curriculum for each student to practice in person & at home. Proper form and technique is stressed regardless of age and is required to move up in any level. This class encompasses basic and advanced skills such as rolling, cartwheels, handstands, walk overs, back handsprings, aerials, round offs, back tucks and much more. Tumblers acquire a comprehensive knowledge of skills and develop an immense amount of courage and self motivation. This class will focus on ensuring each student develops & maintains the core strength, flexibility, & coordination needed to tumble.

A high-energy class that uses the latest sounds in rap, R&B and pop music together with movements influenced by some of today’s hottest video choreographers. To encompass a well rounded history of hip hop, this class is fused with earlier hip hop music and moves as well. Hip hop encompasses movement that has elements of popping , locking, and breaking as well as freestyle movement to give students the opportunity to develop their own sense of style. Hip hop is an urban, street, and funky style of dance that is diverse and forever changing.

An exciting and ever evolving dance form full of rhythm, syncopation, passion and life. Steeped in the rhythm of jazz music, a true American art form, jazz dance brings energy, life, and soul to all who embrace it. Classes explore isolations of each part of the body and encourage individual expression and development of personal style. Emphasis is on the importance of energy, rhythmical accuracy, and style. Jazz can be powerful and percussive! Ever evolving, jazz dance is taught with the music of today together with the classical jazz of yesterday. Classes teach basic jazz technique, terminology and movement quality with an emphasis on proper execution of jazz isolations, rhythms and style performed to a wide variety of music.

These classes emphasize the development and strengthening of basic tap technique and terminology highlighting the importance of rhythm and sound. Tap focuses on intricate rhythms and swift footwork, creating a percussion instrument out of the dancer’s feet. Tap dancing allows each dancer to have a “voice” by the sounds produced with their feet and develop each dancer into an innovative musician. This is a broad category that encompasses the hoofing styles of various legends of the past and present of which each student will learn the historical importance. Tap dance emphasizes the flow of movement while reaching for unimaginable rhythms and beats emerging from the soul.

Beauty, flow and elegance are inherent in the elements of ballet. Ballet is the classical dance form that can be mastered by it or used as a technical base or supplement to other dance forms. Classes focus on overall body alignment and awareness with emphasis on proper usage of feet and legs and execution of turnout. Proper terminology, carriage and usage of upper torso and arms are also stressed. Musicality is continually emphasized along with balance and coordination through the strengthening of the body core. Traditional barre work, center floor work, and combinations are included in all classes.

A fun and exciting class that allows the student to develop basic coordination and learn dance vocabulary. Music, movement, balance, and basic dance steps are presented in a fun, friendly, and positive manner. These students are introduced to the forms of Ballet, Tap, and Jazz dance.