Steps On Stage Academy Of Performing Arts

Tap technique with a focus on rhythmic expression and musicality. Dancers learn the history of this uniquely American art form and are also exposed to Broadway and Show Tap variations. This class focuses on rhythm, clarity, precision, musicality, and style.

Traditional Ballet Technique performed in special pointe shoes designed to allow dancers to perform on the tips of their toes. Extensive ballet training, teacher recommendation, and completion of our Pre-Pointe program is required before dancers begin pointe training.

This dance technique class is specifically designed to prepare the intermediate-advanced dancer for dancing "en pointe." Exercises will develop strength in the toes, feet, ankles, calves, knees, core, and entire body to ensure dancers are ready for pointe work. In addition, special attention will be paid to dancer alignment, connection to core, and body control to prepare dancers for success on pointe.

Lyrical combines elements of ballet and jazz to create a softer style that emphasizes storytelling. Grace, fluidity, musicality, and expressiveness are used to capture emotion through the dancer’s movement. Dancers will utilize their flexibility, strength, and expressiveness to develop their own personal style.

This class focuses on developing the flexibility, strength, power, and technique that is necessary to master multiple combinations of jumps, leaps, and turns. Dancers will utilize proper body alignment, spotting, turnout, and overall strength throughout the duration of this class.

Jazz dance is an exploration of style and presentation. Classes emphasize musicality and body alignment, conditioning, stretch and strengthening, rhythm and stylization as well as fun and innovative choreography.

Improv allows dancers to have artistic freedom in the way they move and dance without any rules. Dancers will learn different scenarios and ways to think about how their body can move without planning movement beforehand. Improv can be utilized in all styles of dance and allows dancers to have more of an open mind going into movement.

Hip Hop incorporates a variety of old and new urban dance styles. The dancing represents body movements that go with the beat and rhythm of hip hop music. Hip hop dancing is very dynamic and helps the dancers improve flexibility and develop body balance, and coordination. Dancers will learn hip hop history, terminology, and skills.

A blend of dance styles rooted in American Modern Dance technique that utilizes self-expression, improvisation, and dynamic movements of the entire spine. Dancers enjoy the expressive nature of this class that also teaches choreographic elements and empowers dancers to find their individual dance "voice."

Conditioning works on developing proper posture, stamina, and multiple areas of strength that are utilized throughout all different styles of dance. This class allows dancers to meet the needs that dance physically demands as they continue to grow.

All of our ballet classes follow a traditional ballet class format with full barre, center and traveling progressions that are age appropriate and designed to reinforce proper dance technique. Focus is on developing increasing strength, flexibility, and graceful expression in a supportive and caring environment that expects discipline and requires precision and focus.

Strength meets flexibility and grace in this exciting class which emphasizes learning skills in a safe and orderly progression and learning how to transition gracefully between each skill. Tumbling, balancing, and flexibility skills and progressions are mastered through documented and leveled assessments before moving to new and more advanced skills.

The most traditional beginning dance class for preschool aged students. Beginning ballet technique with a focus on balance, coordination, flexibility, and graceful expression balanced with musicality, rhythm, and body control and isolations in tap. All blended with creative movement, self-expression, and playful exploration for our youngest and newest movers!

Beginning ballet technique, graceful expression, gross motor strength and conditioning, flexibility, and coordination balanced with musicality, rhythm, and body control and isolations in tap… all in one class! This playful and developmentally appropriate class builds confidence, supports creative expression, and is the perfect introduction to dance for our youngest and newest movers.