Upstate Carolina Dance Center

Acro Dance focuses on mastering balancing, limbering, tumbling, and partnering skills, with a strong emphasis on flexibility, contortion, and strength. Students will learn and perfect a range of techniques, including bridges, walkovers, and more. Our studio proudly follows me nationally accredited Acrobatic Arts curriculum, ensuring high-quality instruction and progression in all aspects of acrobatic dance.

Designed for the special needs dancer. These classes work on motor movement skills, rhythm, flexibility, and overall discipline. This class is FREE .

Tap utilizes special metal-tipped shoes to produce various rhythms. Our program instructs students in both Classical Tap and Rhythm Tap. Classical Tap emphasizes more upper body movement along with making sounds. Rhythm Tap employs close footwork including many heel drops and toe drops to bring in a syncopated rhythmic beat.

Mom-n-tots for 2.5-year olds and pre-school classes for 3-5 year-olds. This program introduces your child to the wonderful world of dance. Through exciting and stimulating instruction, we challenge your child’s imagination while he or she is learning the fundamentals of ballet and tap. Kinderdance teaches muscle coordination and control, musicality, rhythm, and flexibility. Also, he or she develops muscular pattering, the vital ingredients of any physical skill – dance, sports. The earlier this begins, the more deeply rooted it becomes and the benefits will remain throughout life.

Let your child express themselves every week with our contemporary classes. This genre of dance combines elements from various dance styles to express emotions and ideas through movement without boundaries.

UCDC’s style of contemporary clogging is combined with Jazz, Hip-Hop and Tap. The styles taught are traditional, buck and percussive step dancing. This is one of the most popular and fastest growing forms of dance ever.

Is your child ready to unleash their energy and boost their confidence? Then come take a Hip Hop class! Designed for kids of all ages, our classes teach the latest moves and grooves. Enroll your child today and watch them transform with every beat.

Ballet helps dancers achieve gorgeous lines – a lifted torso, well-articulated feet and beautiful epaulement (the position of the head and shoulders). Ballet develops a dancers strength-coupled with agility and stamina–and it develops discipline on more than one level. Ballet is the foundation for all other dance forms and is very beneficial to developing technique.

Unlock your child’s potential with the vibrant world of jazz dance! Jazz classes offer a perfect blend of fun, technique, and self-expression, encouraging kids to develop their confidence and creativity through lively music and dynamic moves. Our experienced instructors create a supportive environment where every child shines. Sign up today and watch your child grow in skill, self-esteem, and a passion for dance!