Our Dance Studio

This is a class designed for dancers under age 3. It focuses on safe stretching, ballet basics, and introductory acrobatic skills, through rhythm and creative play with an adult. 

Age 7-9

Lyrical class curriculum is based on ballet technique layered with continuous movement, learning to express breath through movement and communicate emotion through dance moves. Dancers learned to interpret song lyrics and apply them to real life experiences. Skill development (jumps, leaps, turns, kicks) is a crucial part of the curriculum, to include seamless progressions between skills and through varying levels of space. Dancers also learned to create improvisational movement through cue cards, as well as special awareness in moving formations.  

By Skill Level (Age 10+)

Lyrical class curriculum is based on ballet technique layered with continuous movement, learning to express breath through movement and communicate emotion through dance moves. Dancers were taught to then express the depth of meaning in songs through movement, with the intention to evoke emotion from viewers. Skill enhancement (jumps, leaps, turns, kicks) is a crucial part of the curriculum, to include seamless transitions through varying levels and directions of space. Dancers also learned about improvisational techniques through the Teddy Forance curriculum of CLI Studios.

  Age 3-6

This class focused on increased flexibility, balance, strength, muscle control, taking turns, and self-awareness; lessons were completed at each student's individual level of experience. Dancers learned the foundations of Acrobatic Dance art through the Acrobatic Arts Primary & Levels 1-3 Syllabus. Class included imaginative-based learning to promote future choreography skills and keep dancers engaged, as well as action-based dances to promote rhythm and musicality. 

Age 7-9

This class focused on increased flexibility, balance, strength, muscle control, taking turns, and self-awareness; lessons were completed at each student's individual level of experience. Dancers learned the foundations of Acrobatic Dance art through the Acrobatic Arts Levels 2-5 Syllabus. Class included imaginative-based learning to promote future choreography skills and keep dancers engaged, as well as action-based dances to promote rhythm and musicality. 

By Skill Level (Age 10+)

Acro is not a gymnastics class; it is a dance class. Class included upper and lower body conditioning as well as a rigorous warm-up to help prepare dancers for intense skills. This curriculum focuses on increased flexibility, balance, strength, muscle control, musicality, rhythm, smooth transitions, discipline, and concentration. This level followed Acrobatic Arts Levels 3-8 and Pre-Professional Syllabus, with additional supportive materials from the Acro Dance Teacher’s Association and CLI Studios; lessons are completed at each student's individual level of experience. These courses meet twice per week and focus on seamless transitions through varying levels and directions of space.

Age 5-6 & 7-9

Jazz dancers focused on learning proper dance technique, improving performance quality, and developing complex choreography to various rhythms. Dancers were exposed to various styles of jazz to help develop a well-rounded dancer. Class curriculum is based on ballet technique layered with traditional jazz movement and includes a proper warm-up, stretches, across-the-floor progressions, and combinations. This class worked on skills such as turns, leaps, jumps, kicks, footwork, and smoothly transitioning them to the music rhythm. 

By Skill Level (Age 10+)

Jazz dancers focused on learning proper dance technique, improving performance quality and developing complex choreography to various rhythms. Dancers were exposed to various styles of jazz to help develop a well-rounded dancer. Class curriculum is based on ballet technique layered with traditional jazz movement and includes a proper warm-up, stretches, across-the-floor progressions, and combinations. This class focused level changing floorwork, double to quadruple turns, specialty leaps, jumps, kicks, and complex footwork. 

Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) is an innovative body-conditioning and strengthening program that has been designed to enhance students' technique by focussing 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.  The program helps with injury prevention and rehabilitation and enhances the ability of athletes to perform at their best. It can be difficult for students to feel which muscles initiate the correct alignment in training. However, with the use of an exercise ball, the students gain a great sense of posture and weight-placement whilst feeling each correct muscle group working throughout each exercise, which then stays with them when whilst performing in dance or their chosen field of sport  PBT focuses on core strength, weight placement and alignment of the body with a gradual approach of carefully designed exercises and repetitions of these exercises that trigger their muscle memory.