LSJ Dance

This is a class to prepare dancers for what to expect on junior high and high school drill teams. Dancers will focus on proper drill team technique for leaps, jumps, and turns as well as proper kick technique. The class will incorporate stretching techniques, across the floor progressions, showmanship while dancing and choreography. Dancers will also learn auditioning tips. This class is great for current drill team dancers, as well as dancers interested on auditioning for their school drill team in the future.

Our technique classes are based on dancer age and ability level. Dancers will work towards perfecting a variety of jump, leap, and turn combinations. Dancers will focus on proper alignment, flexibility, and strength while learning proper technique for execution.

This popular combination class is designed for students to express their individuality through the art of dance. Dancers will work on proper stretching techniques and increase flexibility and coordination. Students will learn movement activities through choreography, games, and imagination activities. As dancers progress, they will be exposed to the fundamentals of jazz technique.

This is an introductory level dance class for pre-school children that focuses on the basic technique skills of ballet and tap. Dancers will play games to enhance motor and social development and learn short dance combinations in ballet and tap.

Hip hop is a high energy class that will introduce dancers to the current trends in hip hop and break dancing. Stretching, strength building, isolations, rhythms, foot work, and fun will all be incorporated to each class.

Acro is not your typical tumbling or gymnastics class. Acro focuses on balance, stength, muscle control, and flexibility. Dancers will learn skills such as headstands, handstands, back bends, cartwheels, walkovers, chin stands, and contortion movement. This is a class designed to help dancers and cheerleaders incorporate tumbling into their dance knowledge. Students will spend time gaining stretch and muscle control through conditioning exercises. Across the floor tumbling progressions are practiced based on students strength and ability levels.

In this class dancers will gain an understanding of tap terminology and sounds. The art of tap teaches dancers to find rhythm and beats with in music. Dancers will work on tap fundamentals and combinations while growing in coordination and musicality.

This class is designed to teach proper jazz technique with an emphasis on energy, style and rhythm. Different jazz styles such as Street Jazz, Broadway and Contemporary are incorporated into each class. Dancers will learn proper stretching techniques to enhance flexibility and strength. Students will also work on jazz progression to teach basic jazz positions, turns, jumps, and leaps and learn jazz combinations.

In ballet/conditioning, students will be introduced to basic ballet fundamentals, including body alignment and basic positions of the feet & arms. Students will work at the barre and center of the floor. Dancers will acquire basic turns, jumps, and leaps. In addition, dancers will condition. Conditioning for dancers improves your technique and performance in all dance forms by strengthening the body's core, while improving coordination, balance, and alignment and optimizing flexibility. Each level of ballet and conditioning is structured to be age appropriate and to provide more advanced training as the student is ready.

LSJ DANCE offers classes from traditional ballet, jazz, & tap to specialized disciplines in leaps & turns, acro & tumbling, plus drill team prep and enrichment & hip hop. Classes are age & ability-specific and are sized to provide individual attention to each dancer.

LSJ DANCE offers classes from traditional ballet, jazz, & tap to specialized disciplines in leaps & turns, acro & tumbling, plus drill team prep and enrichment & hip hop. Classes are age & ability-specific and are sized to provide individual attention to each dancer.

LSJ DANCE offers classes from traditional ballet, jazz, & tap to specialized disciplines in leaps & turns, acro & tumbling, plus drill team prep and enrichment & hip hop. Classes are age & ability-specific and are sized to provide individual attention to each dancer.

LSJ DANCE offers classes from traditional ballet, jazz, & tap to specialized disciplines in leaps & turns, acro & tumbling, plus drill team prep and enrichment & hip hop. Classes are age & ability-specific and are sized to provide individual attention to each dancer.

LSJ DANCE offers classes from traditional ballet, jazz, & tap to specialized disciplines in leaps & turns, acro & tumbling, plus drill team prep and enrichment & hip hop. Classes are age & ability-specific and are sized to provide individual attention to each dancer.