Making Moves Dance Company, LLC

Private Lessons are for any student that feels they need help in any certain area/style and would like extra one on one teaching from our experienced staff. Private Lessons can be done in 30 minute or 1 hour sessions.

Adults Classes are for anyone over the age of 18 or who has graduated high school. We offer different varieties of adult classes based on interest. These classes are fun, high energy, and really keep you on your feet.

Intensive Technique is a class that is extremely skill based to help push your dancer to the next level. This class focuses on all areas of but not limited to: leaps, jumps, turns, balance, flexibility, conditioning, overall stage presence, poise, and emotion. This class is required for all students who are on the competition team but is recommended for any student who is dedicated to pushing themselves to the next level.

Baton emphasizes rhythm, timing, and technique while using the baton. Advanced baton classes will include using two batons and fire batons.

Arco combines dance technique with precision acrobatic elements. Its athletic character, unique choreography, and use of acrobatics in a dance context are what distinguish this unique class. This program is designed for dancers who want to increase their flexibility, control, and strength. Dancers will be shown how to execute acrobatic movements properly and safely. They will also learn the fundamentals of gymnastics to include but not limited to: forward/backward rolls, back walkovers, front walkovers, ariels, back handsprings, back tucks, layouts. Students are placed by age and/or ability leve

Theater is a fun and creative class that really allows you to use your own creativity. This class uses a variety of different techniques throughout the year to prepare the students for a great performance. Choreography for these dances included a variety of Broadway musicals, movies, plays etc. Perfect for anyone who loves to perform and act!

Kickline or Kick for short, is a precision-made dance style made most famous by the Radio City Rockettes whose signature move is an eye-high kick performed in perfect unison in a chorus line. Students will learn to work together as a group, precision dance movements, tap combinations, good posture, high kicks, perform in formations, and jazz dance combinations.

A fun and athletic way to enjoy dance; Hip-Hop will challenge your coordination and fine motor skills. Students will move and groove to the musical styles of funk, rap, R+B, and electronic beats. All music will be child friendly and free of explicit content! Each class will start with a warm-up for strength and stretch as well as isolated activities. Each class will finish off with a combination to hone the dancers’ ability to learn new movement quickly.

Jazz training emphasizes flexibility and rhythmic movement as a group activity. This style of dance is fun and energetic using leaps, turns, and jumps combined with upbeat music, unique moves, and creative choreography.

Pom Jazz is a high energy class using the fundamentals of Jazz and Hip Hop together while incorporating Pom Poms into the choreography. This style is often performed by High School dance teams, NFL cheerleaders, and College dance teams. Pom Jazz is very fun and upbeat while still using the techniques of a jazz class while incorporating pom poms.

Modern/Contemporary classes promote the joy of physical expression, and the relationship between sound and music to movement. Classes emphasize the creative and technical aspects of the art form. Classes include warm-up exercises to prepare the body for movement, and choreographic instruction that develops coordination, posture, strength, athleticism, imagination, and artistry. The focus is on the artistic potential of new dancers and their development and passion for the art form.

Lyrical is a style of dance created by merging ballet and jazz. This style is usually danced at a faster pace than ballet but not as fast as jazz. Lyrical is performed to music with lyrics to inspire movements to express strong emotions the choreographer feels from the lyrics in the chosen song. Lyrical focuses on the expression of strong emotion, the style concentrates more on individual approach and expressiveness than the precision of the dancer's movements. Because of this, there is not as much focus on the choreography, and, in fact, the choreography often exists only as a general guide for the dancer, not as a routine that has to be exactly followed.

Pointe is an extension of Ballet and is for those who have reached a certain age and body development. Pointe will consist of intensive barre exercises, center floor work, and combination that will challenge all muscles of the body. Dancers must be enrolled in a Ballet class to be enrolled in Pointe.(Must have teacher recommendation)

In an effort to teach the dancers proper technique for relevé, our instructors start by teaching the difference between quarter, half, three-quarter and full pointe. Several strengthening exercises are performed at the barre including relevés and echappés. The teacher has the opportunity to watch for technical problems that can be corrected before dancers are placed in pointe shoes. Dancers must be enrolled in a Ballet class to be in Pre Pointe.

Ballet focuses on conditioning and strengthening of muscles through intensive barre exercises, center floor work and classical combinations that will challenge all muscles of the body. Core strength will improve and allow the dancer the fundamentals to progress to more advanced turning and leaping ballet skills.

Jazz Funk is a fun high energy jazz class that combines the technique of jazz and the sassy poppy motions of hip hop all in one for a fun and funky dance routine.

Tap those toes! Shuffle your feet! Get rhythm! This fabulous form of dance has students creating their own rhythms and exploring the many sounds of tap shoes and getting a great physical workout. All tap classes will include a strong technical base, an improvisational section, and a combination to conclude each class. The expression and creativity found within a tap dancer is driven by the urge not only to dance, but also to create musical rhythms!

Combination focuses on ballet and tap combined into one class. Combination consists of 30 minutes of ballet and 15 to 30 minutes of tap.

Tumble Tot is an entry level gymnastics/acrobatics class for our beginners!

Kinderdance is perfect for any beginner dancer. Kinderdance teaches the basics of Ballet, Acrobatics, and Creative Movement while blending educational concepts. Children dance to original and familiar child friendly music while learning in a fun yet disciplined environment. This class provides children with the potential to be creative, express themselves through movement, learn the foundations of ballet while building strong muscles, turn taking and social skills, self-confidence and self-esteem.