10-12 Year Old Dancers
Ballet 4/5
Monday 5:00-6:00pm
This class transitions students from a junior level toward true intermediate work, focusing on essential terminology, body positions, epaulement, and Vaganova arabesque and port de bras foundations. Dancers refine adage elements, while expanding their turning skills and jump vocabulary.
Beg/Int Pointe
Monday 6:00-6:45pm
Beginning/Intermediate Pointe introduces dancers to the fundamentals of pointe work with a strong emphasis on safety, alignment, and strength. Students learn basic barre and center exercises that build the ankle stability, core control, and technique required for more advanced pointe training.
Contemporary
Tuesday 7:00-8:00pm
Contemporary helps dancers develop expressive, full‑body movement and strong spatial awareness. Students explore floorwork, traveling phrases, leaps, and turns while learning to use weight, momentum, and emotion to shape their movement. Improvisation is an essential part of this class, encouraging dancers to build creativity, confidence, and personal artistry.
Advanced Pointe
Saturday 11:00-12:00pm
Advanced Pointe challenges dancers with more demanding center work, extended balances, complex turns, and traveling combinations. This class focuses on strength, artistry, and endurance, preparing dancers for advanced choreography, variations, and performance‑level pointe technique.
Power&Control
Wednesday 6:00-7:00pm
Build strength, stability, and full‑body awareness through focused conditioning and controlled movement. Dancers develop the muscles and technique needed for powerful jumps, secure balances, and clean transitions while improving flexibility and alignment. This class helps students gain the strength and precision that supports every style of dance, giving them clarity and purpose.
Intro to Jazz
Wednesday 5:00-6:00pm
Intro to Jazz introduces dancers to the foundations of jazz technique through basic warm‑ups, isolations, jazz walks, jumps, and beginning turns. Jazz helps dancers build rhythm, coordination, style, and confidence in movement all with that jazzy attitude we know and love.
Turns & Leaps
Thursday 6:15-7:00pm
Turns & Leaps is a class designed to strengthen the skills dancers need across all styles. Students work on proper alignment, power, control, and flexibility while practicing a wide range of turns, jumps, and traveling skills. This class supports dancers in building consistency, confidence, and clean execution, while allowing them to try new moves in a safe environment.
Advanced Tap
Tuesday 6:00-7:00pm
Advanced Tap challenges tappers with fast, intricate rhythms, layered musicality, and demanding footwork that requires precision, clarity, and control. Dancers at this level refine complex phrasing, dynamic shading, and advanced turning and traveling sequences while developing versatility. This class pushes students to elevate through combinations, improvisation, and performance‑quality work.
All That Jazz
Thursday 7:00-8:00pm
All That Jazz expands on foundational jazz technique with more advanced warm‑ups, isolations, traveling steps, jumps, and turns. Dancers deepen their musicality, precision, and performance quality while exploring the energetic, expressive style that defines American jazz dance.
