Backstage Dance Studio

Tap is a distinctly American dance form where dancers create exciting and dynamic rhythms by striking the floor with their feet. This style combines intricate footwork with musical timing, turning each dancer into both a performer and a percussionist. Instruction in these classes emphasize developing musicality, ensuring clarity of each tap sound, and mastering proper technique. Students also work on increasing their speed and agility, while exploring a wide variety of step styles and patterns. Through these elements build coordination, rhythm, and expression, offering a fun and engaging way to connect movement with music.

This class introduces young dancers to the foundational elements of hip hop in a fun, energetic, and supportive setting. Throughout the course, students practice basic movements such as marching, galloping, skipping, sliding, and jumping, all while learning to stay on beat with the music and express themselves through rhythm. The class encourages creativity and builds essential dance skills like coordination, balance, and timing. In addition, it helps boost self-confidence and musical awareness, laying the groundwork for more advanced training and continued growth as a dancer.

This class introduces young dancers to the foundational elements of ballet in a fun, supportive setting. Dancers actively explore basic movement skills like marching, galloping, skipping, and jumping, building coordination, balance, and confidence with every step. Throughout the course, they learn elementary body positions and simple ballet terminology, laying a strong foundation for future dance training. Many classes also include an introduction to tap, where dancers create rhythms and sounds with their feet, adding a lively, musical twist to their experience.

Jazz is a fast-paced, energetic, and technical style of dance that combines strength, precision, and rhythm. In this class, dancers will work on developing flexibility, mastering clean turns and powerful leaps, and improving overall coordination. Each session includes center-floor exercises to build technique, across-the-floor progressions to enhance movement flow, and choreographed combinations to apply skills in dynamic routines. It encourages both discipline and personal expression, making it an exciting and rewarding style for dancers of all levels. With its upbeat music and high-energy choreography, jazz keeps dancers motivated and moving from start to finish.

Hip hop is an upbeat and high-energy form of dance that has gained popularity through music videos, concert stages, and social media. Known for its dynamic movements and expressive style, it continues to evolve with new trends and influences. It blends elements of jazz and street dance, encouraging dancers to explore their own creativity and develop a unique personal style. This genre offers a fun and engaging way to build confidence, rhythm, and musicality while staying active and inspired.

Our Creative Movement class helps young dancers discover the joy of self-expression through music and movement. Through imaginative activities and playful exploration, students will develop a sense of rhythm, improve coordination, and strengthen gross motor skills. The class also emphasizes important developmental skills such as listening, focusing, and following directions. At the same time, it nurtures creativity and a love for dance from an early age. Thus, it’s the perfect first step for little ones beginning their dance journey!

Contemporary is a dynamic and expressive dance form that blends the structured technique of ballet with the creative freedom of jazz. It encourages dancers to connect deeply with music, using personal emotion and storytelling to shape their movements and performance. In this class, dancers will explore a wide range of movement qualities, musicality, and emotional expression.

Pointe is part of ballet involving a technique that concerns pointe work, in which a dancer supports all body weight on the tips of fully extended feet when wearing pointe shoes.

Our ballet classes focus on proper body alignment, strength, and technique, making it an essential for any dancer. It emphasizes grace, fluid movement, and discipline, helping students develop the foundational skills needed for all other styles of dance, including jazz, contemporary, and more.

Acro classes will focus on combining dance with acrobatic movement. Students will develop tumbling skills, while building strength, flexibility, and control through targeted conditioning exercises. A ll teachers at Backstage who instruct these classes are certified through Acrobatic Arts , a comprehensive training program for dance educators to safely teach.

Acro classes will focus on combining dance with acrobatic movement. Students will develop tumbling skills, while building strength, flexibility, and control through targeted conditioning exercises. A ll teachers at Backstage who instruct these classes are certified through Acrobatic Arts , a comprehensive training program for dance educators to safely teach.

Acro classes will focus on combining dance with acrobatic movement. Students will develop tumbling skills, while building strength, flexibility, and control through targeted conditioning exercises. A ll teachers at Backstage who instruct these classes are certified through Acrobatic Arts , a comprehensive training program for dance educators to safely teach.

Tap is an American dance form in which the dancer creates exciting, dynamic rhythms with their feet. Instruction includes emphasis on musicality, clarity of tap sounds, proper technique, speed, and a variety of styles of steps.

Pre-Hip Hop introduces dancers to the very basic elements of hip hop. Skills such as marching, galloping, skipping, sliding, and jumping to the beat of the music are incorporated throughout the course.

Pre-Ballet introduces dancers to the very basic elements of ballet. Skills such as marching, galloping, skipping, sliding, leaping, jumping, and elementary ballet body positions are incorporated throughout the course. Some classes also include tap, which is a dance form in which the dancer creates rhythms with their feet.

Jazz is a quick moving, technical dance form. Class will focus on flexibility, turns and leaps, and coordination, through center-floor work, across the floor progressions, and combinations.

Hip Hop is an upbeat and high energy form of dance, popularized by music videos and concert stages. Constantly evolving, hip hop blends jazz and street dance, to develop the dancer’s sense of personal style and creativity.

Creative Movement is for young dancers to experience the joy of self-expression through music and movement. Students will explore rhythm, coordination, and gross motor skill movements. These activities encourage the dancer to listen, focus, and follow directions.

Contemporary is a dance form that integrates the discipline of ballet with the freedom of jazz. This class focuses on the use of personal emotion and storytelling through musicality and movement. A solid, ballet-based technique is an essential component of this style of dance; therefore, a portion of every class is dedicated to ballet training.

Combo classes are a great way for dancers to discover and learn different dance forms in a concentrated period of time. A portion of every class is spent working on the designated dance styles, and dancers that elect to be in our Spring Show will perform multiple pieces.

Ballet emphasizes proper body positioning and development of correct muscle alignment. Grace, fluidity of movement, and discipline are core aspects of this dance form. Ballet is a necessity for the serious student of dance, as it is the foundation for all other dance forms. Our classical ballet program includes Cecchetti , Vaganova , and Balanchine methods.

Acro classes will focus on combining dance with acrobatic movement. Students will develop tumbling skills, while building strength, flexibility, and control through targeted conditioning exercises.