Heart of the Valley Dance Academy

Competition Program, Team Program Details, 2025- 26 Audition Results, Competition Documents, Team Tuition Schedule. Information about the competition dance teams.

Summer Class Descriptions, Summer Schedule & Reg. Information regarding the schedule and registration for the summer dance programs.

Summer Class Descriptions, Summer Schedule & Reg. Descriptions for summer classes offered. Information about the schedule and registration for summer programs.

Fall Developmental Registration is open. Enroll now to dance with Heart! Developmental Program Details, 2025-2026 Class Schedule, Class Fees and Documents, Class Descriptions, Registration.

Progressing Ballet Technique an innovative body-conditioning and strengthening program that has been designed to enhance students' technique by focusing on training the muscle memory required in each exercise in all forms of dance. It is a unique training system using ballet-technique specific exercises to train skill acquisition in a graded and progressive manner from junior through to advanced levels. PBT helps teachers around the world prepare their students to receive the strength they need to achieve their personal best.

Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking, locking, and popping which were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the United States.

Lyrical dance is a blend of Ballet and jazz focusing on strong emotional connection to the music, soft fluid movements, long expansive motions, and technique.

Technique is an innovative program for students to understand the depth of training muscle memory in achieving their personal best in classical ballet and other styles of dance. This class will help in increasing muscle memory, improve flexibility and turnout, strengthen technique, and help prevent injuries.

a classical dance form demanding grace and precision and employing formalized steps and gestures set in intricate, flowing patterns to create expression through movement.

Jazz is one of the most fun and classic styles of dance! Jazz is performed on stage with attack, technique and usually a lot of attitude! Using its upbeat movement, jazz dance emphasizes rhythm, style, lines, and a strong low center of gravity.

Tap dance is a percussive art form of dance characterized by using the sounds made as tap shoes strike the floor. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm (jazz) tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses more on dance, as it is widely performed in musical theater. This style has produced household celebrities such as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. Rhythm tap focuses on musicality, and practitioners consider themselves to be a part of the jazz tradition. This style is widely considered to be the heart of the art form and has been passed down by masters such as Bill Bojangles Robinson and Sammy Davis Jr.

Heart of the Valley Dance Academy holds it summer session for six weeks during July and August, starting July 7th and running through August 14th. All classes are 45 minutes.