North Shore Dance Studio

Summer is a great time to explore new classes and improve your dance skills. North Shore Dance Studio offers a variety of dance classes every summer, that are open to students and their friends!

Have twins that want to dance? Boys Dance Free! boys dance free for their first semester does not include costumes

Boys dance free for their first semester. This offer is a fantastic opportunity for young male dancers to explore their interest in dance without initial cost.

Have twins that want to dance? Click here for more information about our special program designed for twins. Special offers may apply for twin participants.

2025 Fall Company registration form. Click here to download. This program is for dancers who are looking for a more intensive and performance-oriented dance experience with the company.

2025 Fall Recreation Dance registration form. Click here to download. This program is designed for recreational dancers looking to participate in fun and engaging dance activities throughout the fall season.

Ages 2½-3½ Years Dance With Me features Creative Movement and basic Ballet moves taught with a grown-up present. Students enjoy princess dances, freeze dances, and beginning Ballet moves, all while listening to music, using fun props, and learning about rhythm and coordination.

Ages 1-3 Years Tot Time is a music and movement class where the student attends with a grown-up. Classes include singing, dancing, finger plays, fun props and musical instruments. Each class includes parachute, treasure box time, and story time.

Contemporary dance is an interpretive, expressive style of dance with roots based in Ballet and Jazz. This class focuses on centering, strengthening the body, increasing flexibility, improving balance, proper placement, body alignment, fluidity and emotion.

Hip-Hop is an upbeat urban style of dance that is forever evolving. This high energy class focuses on musicality and rhythm. Open to students in 3rd grade and up, dancers will explore a variety of Hip-Hop techniques.

Tap is an American theatrical dance style made popular on Broadway. Students perform percussive footwork that marks out precise rhythmic patterns, while wearing dance shoes with metal taps on the bottom. North Shore's tap program begins with basic techniques and rhythmic development. Dancers will learn the principles of rhythm, balance and timing through routines and across-the-floor work. As the student progresses, more intricate dance patterns and combinations are introduced.

Jazz classes stress a variety of movement styles from high energy, funky styles to lyrical and expressive styles. It emphasize body line, precision, flexible torso work, isolations of the body, and turns. Classes include a proper warm-up, stretches, isolations, across-the-floor progressions, and various Jazz dance combinations.

An introduction to Jazz and Hip-Hop for 1st and 2nd graders. Jazz classes emphasize body line, precision, flexible torso work, isolations of the body, and turns. Hip-Hop is a more high-energy style of dance that's performed to street or funk music. Classes include a proper warm-up, stretches, isolations, across-the-floor progressions, and various Jazz and Hip-Hop dance combinations.

For dancers with extensive Ballet training. Pointe is the part of Classical Ballet in which a Ballet dancer supports all body weight on the tips of fully extended feet. Students will learn and practice pointe barre work with an emphasis on correct foot and body alignment. Pointe class is only open to students who are recommended by the Ballet faculty. To participate, all dancers must be enrolled in Level V or above, 2-3 times per week.

Ballet is a highly technical form of dance training that has its own vocabulary based on French terminology. It requires hard work, dedication and discipline. Students are taught various styles of Ballet techniques. Ballet classes meet 1-4 times per week.

Guest Teacher Workshop (GTW) is MANDATORY for Company Members We have a great lineup of instructors and I know it will be a great week of class and meeting new and old friends!