Elevé Elite Dance Academy

Character jazz is a dynamic dance style that combines elements of jazz dance with theatrical storytelling and characterization. Dancers often portray specific characters, emotions, or narratives through their movements and expressions. Character jazz routines incorporate a mix of traditional jazz techniques such as isolations, turns, and leaps, along with acting skills to convey a story or theme effectively. Costumes and props may also be used to enhance the characterizations and add visual inte

Poms incorporates precise movements, formations, and choreography while dancers hold pom-poms in their hands, which are often used to accentuate movements and add visual flair. Poms routines often feature synchronized movements, jumps, kicks, and turns, and they are characterized by energetic music. This style of dance is commonly seen at sporting events, and it requires a combination of athleticism, coordination, and showmanship.

Tap dance is performed with shoes fitted with metal tap plates under the balls and heels of the feet. Tap is a highly rhythmic style of dance, matching and added to music through counts and audible sounds of the metal plates.

Hip-Hop is a fun, fast-paced, high-energy class that focuses on finding your plie and the groove. This class is a great way to express individual style and personality.

Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet. Contemporary dancers strive to connect the mind and the body through fluid dance movements and push the boundaries of what can be considered a traditional dance style.

Lyrical combines the elements of ballet, modern, and jazz technique classes. Dances use lyrics of a song or instrumental music to inspire them to do certain movements. It uses gestures, facial expressions and controlled movements to execute emotions fully.

Jazz incorporates bold dramatic body movements, body isolations and contractions. Jazz is a fast-paced style of dance with a lot of technique, which stems from ballet. Students will work on leaps, turns and jumps as well as focus on flexibility & strength. This style of dance pairs the grace and technique of ballet with the intensity & energy of faster, more upbeat music.

Pointe is the part of classical ballet technique that concerns pointe work, in which a ballet dancer supports all body weight on the tips of fully extended feet. A dancer should never work in pointe shoes until their instructor has told them they are ready to do so. Once the dancer has demonstrated the knowledge of proper technique, alignment, balance, control, strength and flexibility a dance teacher will recommend that the student advance to pointe work.

Pre-Pointe is taken by ballet dancers aspiring to dance en pointe. Pre-Pointe helps dancers expand on ballet knowledge while focusing on technique, strengthening, and flexibility. This class is taken with soft ballet shoes in order to strengthen the ankles and feet for pointe shoes.

Ballet is the root of all styles of dance. Proper technique, positioning & framing begins in ballet. Students will learn positioning of the feet, arms, and body through barre and across-the-floor combinations. Basic leaps, jumps and turns begin in intro level classes and become more advanced as the dancer progresses. Students will also work on musicality, posture, and flexibility.

Our recreational class is designed for dancers to build on their performance skills while learning technique in multiple styles. This class will perform in our showcase and recital but will not compete in any competitions.

Our advanced program is by invite or audition only. This competitive program is made for dancers with several years of dance experience. The advanced team will be required to attend a variety of competitions and performances throughout the year. If you chose to sign up your dancer for this class, please make note that they will be required to attend a dance assessment the week before classes begin.

The intermediate program is by recommendation and placement only. Dancers in this competitive program have a strong sense of the basics and are ready to add more challenging choreography and technique into their repertoire.

The Novice program is made for dancers with some dance experience. In this class dancers will focus on strengthening their core knowledge of dance as well as adding new skills into their repertoire.

Our Tween and Teen program offers students ages 9 and up the ability to build on the knowledge of dance in a variety of styles. These hour-long classes are made to challenge dancers with more intricate choreography, and progressively challenging technique. All of the classes in our teen and tween program will participate in both the holiday showcase and spring recital.

classes are perfect for preschool-aged dancers. Dancers in Made to Move will learn about body awareness while moving to the beat of music. This class will also learn the beginning of ballet technique. Made to Move dancers will perform one dance in both our holiday showcase and year end recital.

Our preschool program focuses on the magical moments of learning and movement with students who are just beginning their dance journey. The Busy Bees Program consists of Made to Move classes that meet once a week for 30 minutes.

Semester 1 only

session beginning October 7th

Our introductory classes are offered in a variety of styles to help build on the foundations of dance. These 30-minute classes are offered in the styles of hip hop, jazz, tap, ballet, and poms. All students in the Creative Kids program will perform one dance both our holiday showcase and year end recital.