Barre None Dance Company

This class is teaches safe techniques in flexibility, tumbling, contortion, and acrobatic arts skills. This differs from traditional gymnastics as the dancers are trained to incorporate proper dance technique, lines, and choreographic skills to execute postures, tricks, and phrases rhythmically with music.

This class is centered around Broadway/theatre style dance and performance techniques. Students will learn Jazz based technique along with the various styles, staging, storytelling, expression, acting, character development, and other theatre centered skill sets that are key to musical theatre. Students also have the opportunity to utilize hand and stage props throughout the curriculum.

Hip Hop is an urban-based style of dance stemming for Hip Hop, Rap & R&B music culture since the 70’s. Its evolution in popular culture with music videos and pop culture icons makes it the dance craze kids can’t get enough of! Various elements of Hip Hop are demonstrated in this fun, high energy class. From old to new school, Hip Hop is a stylistic dance incorporating locking, popping, crumping, tutting, breaking, and freestyling.

This is a conditioning class designed for our competitive dancers but is open to anyone looking to improve their skills. The class focuses on strength training, balance, stretching, flexibility, jumps, leaps, turns, and "tricks". You must be enrolled in at least one other class to take Company Tech.

This is a beautiful fusion of ballet and modern dance was originally popularized by the idea of breaking the lines, poise, and fluidity that Classical Ballet demands while maintaining the same level of grace and strength in movement. Our Contemporary classes combines the balancing, imagery, isolations, fall and recovery of Modern Dance as well as the expressive nature of Lyrical Dance.

Tap is a classic, rhythmic dance style primarily using the feet. We incorporate various sub-genres of tap in our curriculum from Broadway/Musical Theater style, Rhythm/Hoofing, and Soft Shoe. Balance, timing, and coordination are focused on, while allowing the dancer to develop stylistic movement in Tap.

Various styles of this classic American dance genre are taught at our facility including Modern influenced fusions of Jazz, Pop-Jazz, Broadway style/Musical Theater, and Jazz Funk. Strength, stamina, and endurance are developed as the students learn various Jazz dance styles in every level. It is recommended to take Ballet with Jazz.

Pointe training is the beginning of advanced level Classical Ballet requiring dancers to wear special "Pointe" shoes that enables the dancer to dance on the tips of their toes. Pointe training is for serious dancers that display both the physical capability and technique. A doctors approval may be required to clear dancers for Pointe. Dancers under 12 will not be allowed to advanced to Pointe regardless of technical ability; this is due to the underdevelopment of the bones in a dancers foot rendering them unfit to dance en Pointe without risk of serious or permanent injury.

Ballet is the core of all dance styles. Our curriculum is focused on Classical Ballet techniques teaching balance, posture, articulation, poise, flexibility, coordination, timing, musicality, jumps, turns, and leaps. Advanced classes will have opportunities to learn Ballet Variations and Techniques. Training in Ballet is strongly encouraged for serious dancers, and is a requirement for participation in certain classes.

Combination classes are designed to allow dancers to develop technique and skills in the dance genres of their choice. These classes are for beginner through intermediate level dancers. Students will learn coordination skills, musicality, basic terminology, and the proper use of muscle development. Children will gain self-expression and confidence while preparing for the next level of dance.

An introduction to our Acro/Tumbling classes, Tumble Tots is a great class for our youngest dancers to begin stretch, limbering, and tumbling! This class will focus on the basics of acrobatics; teaching the students proper stretches, improving cardio and stamina, training upper body strength, improving balancing, and teaching elementary tumbling moves.

This beginner dance class introduces dancers to the fundamental basics and movement of dance. This class will focus on the development of coordination, fine motor skills, musicality and shows young children the magical world of dance movement through the use of imagery, rhythm, games and ballet technique. Along with creative dance activities students will get an introduction to the basics of ballet.