Hershey School of Dance & Arts

Beginner to Advanced welcome. Ballet, Tap, Contemporary/Lyrical, Hip Hop, Adult Combo, Jazz, Theatre Dance.

Creative movement class designed for our youngest movers and shakers. Students use props, music, and imaginative play to help build rhythm, balance, body awareness, and coordination.

This year-round, weekly class is for students dedicated to strengthening technique in all dance forms by training muscle memory. This class focuses on core stability, weight placement, and alignment to enhance technique in other classes. Stability balls of various sizes will be used in class.

This year-round, weekly technique class is designed to improve the overall ability of the student in all forms of dance. Students will work on increasing extension, flexibility, turns, precision and various leaps and technical elements. The class will be structured with a broad range of dance conditioning and will utilize centre and across the floor combinations to increase spatial awareness. This class allows the developing dancer to focus on technical development outside of their regular weekly classes. Be ready to challenge yourself with fun, new ways to expand your dancing skills.

Street Jazz combines elements of hip hop and commercial jazz into a dynamic style that emphasizes choreography, improvisation, and performance to create a powerful and confident dancer. Dancers will unleash their creativity through improvisation, and learn to quickly pick up choreography in various combinations throughout the year. Students will gain stage presence and boost their confidence through in-class performances while being uplifted by their peers. They will explore movement dynamics, understand musicality, and embrace their unique aesthetic as a dancer.

Blending the traditions of ballet and jazz with emotional performance, Contemporary/Lyrical Fusion ultimately connects expressive movement to music. Contemporary/Lyrical Fusion classes will explore the various movement and expressive elements of each style, while placing focus on proper technique, body placement, alignment and control.

In this class students explore various aspects of performance. Emphasis is placed on acting exercises, theatre games, improvisation, self-exploration, and team and community building. There is also a focus on jazz technique and introduction to various Broadway shows and styles.

Jazz dance combines techniques of ballet, modern, and contemporary dance, and has its own movement vocabulary. Jazz dance can take on many different characteristics and styles, and classes can be patterned in any of these styles or a combination of them. Emphasis is on the importance of energy, musicality, body placement and style.

Hip Hop is more than music. It is a state of mind. It is a fun and high energy class influenced by a variety of other dance styles such as jazz, ballet and tap to name a few. It has deep historical and social roots in African American culture that include popping, locking and break dancing. Our classes focus on bringing out your individuality and unique personality through freestyle and movement while dancing to the music that you love and listen to every day.

Tap dance is a rhythmic style in which dancers are as much a part of the movement as they are a part of the music. Dancers will be exposed to many varied styles of tap dance, and their techniques and terminology. Throughout instruction, there is a strong focus on building articulation and rhythmic awareness, which are the foundation of all styles of tap, as well as the joy and expression of being a part of the music.

Focusing on traditional technique, ballet classes instill self-awareness at the barre, center, across the floor, and performance. Classes begin at the barre, with focus on body placement and technique. Those skills are incorporated in center work and across the floor movement. Ballet's focus on traditional technique helps build a foundation for all styles of dance.

This is a fun, high-energy introduction to Hip Hop.

This class offers a variety of different styles changing each month. Jazz, Theatre, Contemporary, & more. Explore each style while working on technique, and a combination for each style.

Meg O will be holding an Adult Contemporary Pop Up Saturday December 6, 12:15-1:30pm. It's been too long, let's meet up and learn a combo to Ben Platt's version of "River" All level class. Open to dancers 18+.

This class will start with 6 weeks of tap followed by 6 weeks of ballet. Students will be introduced to the basics of each style in a fun atmosphere.

This 12-week non-performing workshop is designed for adults. Let's meet on the dance floor for a fun inclusive class.

Let’s meet at the BARRE! And we will meet you where you are, all abilities welcome! This 12-week non-performing workshop is designed for adults who want the best of ballet class~barre and a stretch! What a great way to find some joy and move.