DANCE CLASSES-
September 9, 2024 - June 13, 2025
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EARLY CHILDHOOD DANCE PROGRAM - age 3-5
Classes are designed to enhance gross and fine motor skill development,
collaborative creativity, self-awareness, rhythm, cognitive thinking and independent processing.
Classes are fun and supportive and allow our littlest learners to flourish!
• Creative Movement - age 3-4
Saturdays 9:15-10:00am
Children are exposed to beginning dance concepts in a fun, recreational and supportive way. Children will explore the use of the body though storytelling and music. Creative Movement class aids in the physical development of the body and exercises the imagination! Students explore Elementary Ballet, Tumbling, Balance Beam, Improvisation, and, obstacle courses, props, and imaginative movement.
• Foundations of Dance / Pre-Ballet - age 4-5
Wednesdays 4:00-5:00 or Saturdays 10:00-11:00am
Introductory classes aid in the development of gross motor skills, movement creativity, fitness, and body awareness. Classes blend educational concepts in a developmentally designed curriculum that places special emphasis on building self-confidence and self-esteem. Students will gain foundational awareness of Ballet Technique, Modern Concepts of Movement and Tumbling/Balance Beam Work. Kiddos have a blast in these fun, upbeat, and supportive classes!
YOUTH DANCE PROGRAM - age 6-10
Comprehensive curriculum designed to ensure the proper development of young bodies. Under our professional faculty, students will enhance coordination, creativity, teamwork, task-mastering, confidence, and learning skills.
Explore Rhythms, Movement Concepts and Elementary Technical Concepts.
We honor dance as an art form and not as a competitive sport or pageantry.
Students may take one or multiple classes in all genres/disciplines (dance, theatre, art, music) offered.
• Ballet 1 / 2 - age 6-8 Mondays 4:00-5:00pm
Ballet 1/2 students are introduced to the beginnings of proper technique for ballet in a positive, inspiring, and creative environment. Classes focus on developing strength, flexibility, musicality, self-confidence and awareness, and love for dance.
• Youth Ballet - age 6-10 Thursdays 4:00-5:00pm
For the beginner student or an additional class to Ballet 1/2 or 2/3. Youth Ballet students are introduced to the beginnings of proper technique for ballet in a positive, inspiring, and creative environment. Classes focus on developing strength, flexibility, musicality, self-confidence and awareness, and love for dance.
• Youth Modern- age 6-10 Thursdays 5:00-6:00pm
Modern dance is a highly expressive style of dance that challenges the structured dance technique of classical ballet. The focus of modern dance is expression, rather than following a rigid set of postures or technical positions that ballet dancers are trained in. Modern dance movements are considered freeform and fluid, and are often inspired by other dance styles—for example: African dance, ballet, and folk dance.
• Kids Dance Sampler- age 6-10 Wednesdays 5:00-6:00pm (JANUARY 2024 - JUNE 2025)
Looking for a recreational class to get your feet wet? The Dance Sampler will expose new dance students to various dance styles, genres, and concepts at an introductory level. This is a supportive and fun class to get you moving!
• Jazz 1 / 2 - age 6-8 Mondays 5:00-6:00pm
Students in Jazz Dance 1/2 classes are exposed to a wide range of Jazz Dance styles and techniques. Students explore Classic Jazz, Broadway Jazz, Funk, Modern Jazz, and Contemporary Dance. Proper attention is paid to muscle development, body awareness, musicality, and performance skills. Students will enjoy an upbeat class that explores a variety of styles in a fun atmosphere. We highly suggest taking a Ballet class if enrolling in Jazz 1/2
• Tap 1 / 2 - age 6-8 Tuesdays 4:00-5:00pm
Tap 1/2 class will give children the foundation technical steps, terminology, and historical background while enhancing rhythm, coordination, and creative making. Tap 1/2 is a fun upbeat class that focuses on developing strong technical skills and musicality.
• Hip Hop / Acro 1 / 2 - age 6-8 Tuesdays 5:00-6:00
Hip Hop is a fun and exciting class where students learn coordination, rhythm, and how to GROOVE! This class is designed for students to let loose and DANCE! Hip Hop choreography and freestyle dance promote coordination, rhythm, and confidence. Students will also engage with acro dance, tumbling and floor work.
• Ballet 2 / 3 - age 8-10 Mondays 4:00-5:00
Ballet 2/3 students work to master proper technique for ballet in a positive, inspiring, and creative environment. Each week students perform a classical barre, expand knowledge of technical exercises and concepts, practice petite allegro, center work, progressions and grande allegro. Classes focus on developing strength, flexibility, musicality, self-confidence and awareness, and love for dance.
• Jazz/Contemporary Dance Styles 2 / 3 - age 8-10 Mondays 5:00-6:00
Contemporary Styles explores the post modern genres of dance - Jazz (Broadway, Funk, Street), Modern Dance, Contemporary, Improvisation/Choreography. Students develop a strong sense of musicality, coordination, and personal style. Proper attention is paid to muscle development, body awareness, musicality, and performance skills. Students will enjoy an upbeat class that explores a variety of styles in a fun atmosphere. Strongly suggested to be taken with Ballet 2/3.
• Hip Hop / Acro 2 / 3 - age 8-10
Hip Hop is a fun and exciting class where students learn coordination, rhythm, and how to GROOVE! This class is designed for students to let loose and DANCE! Hip Hop choreography and freestyle dance promote coordination, rhythm, and confidence. Students will also engage with acro dance, tumbling, and floor work.
• Tap 2 / 3 - age 8-10
Tap 2/3 focuses on musicality, clarity of sound, ensemble precision, and historical context. Children will deepen their foundation of basic technical steps, terminology, and historical background while enhancing rhythm, coordination, and creative making. Prior tap experience required
JUNIOR DANCE PROGRAM - age 10-13
Careful attention is paid to young, developing bodies at this level. Authentic movement techniques are richly explored allowing students the space to build mastery of technique. Dancers will be exposed to a comprehensive curriculum that affords them the most beneficial tools for advancement. Classes will also focus on movement development, performance skills, coordination, and choreography. Students in this age group may choose a more recreational track with Level III classes or our intensive program of study with Level IV classes.
• Ballet 3 / 4 - age 10 -13 Tuesdays 4:00-5:00pm
Students will build upon and enhance their basic technical foundation into a rich classical practice. Students will experience intricate barre work, pre-pointe preparation, center practice, progressions, and classical variations. Students will make the theoretical connections from training to performances and develop a strong balletic aesthetic and facility. Students enrolled in Level 4 Dance should also enroll in Ballet 4/5/6
• Jazz/Contemporary Dance Styles 3 /4- age 10-13 Tuesdays 5:00-6:00pm
(must be taken with Ballet 3/4)
Contemporary Styles explores the post-modern genres of dance - Jazz (Broadway, Funk, Street), Modern Dance, Contemporary, Improvisation/Choreography. Students develop a strong sense of musicality, coordination, and personal style.
• Hip Hop / Acro 3/4 - age 10-13 Tuesdays 6:00-7:00
Hip Hop is a fun and exciting class where students learn coordination, rhythm, and how to GROOVE! This class is designed for students to let loose and DANCE! Hip Hop choreography and freestyle dance promote coordination, rhythm, and confidence. Students will also engage with acro dance, tumbling and floor work.
• Tap 3 / 4 - age 10-13 Thursdays 4:00-5:00pm
Students in Tap 4 will gain a strong awareness intermediate/advanced technical steps, terminology, and historical background while enhancing rhythm, coordination, and creative making. Attention, at this level, is paid to proper technical execution, clarity of sound, rhythm analysis, musicality, speed and syncopation. Students will engage with improvisation and choreographic development to enhance their communication as a tap dancer.
• Musical Theatre 3 / 4 - age 10-13 Thursdays 5:00-6:00
SING! DANCE! ACT! SHINE! Students will immerse into the world of BROADWAY where they will study various Broadway shows and learn music and choreography from select titles. Musical Theatre students will have a blast as they spend their time learning new music and dance, stage presence, performance skills and foundational performance theories. Musical Theatre class is an exploration of American Musical Theatre. Students will study the work of the actor/singer/dancer and use their gained knowledge to develop as performers. Students will prepare and present as soloists as well as members of small groups and larger ensembles. Students will also gain tools for audition preparation.
• Modern 4 / 5- age 10-14 Wednesdays 5:00-6:00pm
(must be taken with Ballet 4 or 5 and Jazz/Contemporary 4)
Modern dance is a highly expressive style of dance that challenges the structured dance technique of classical ballet. The focus of modern dance is expression, rather than following a rigid set of postures or technical positions that ballet dancers are trained in. Modern dance movements are considered freeform and fluid, and are often inspired by other dance styles—for example: African dance, ballet, and folk dance.
• Ballet 4 / 5 / 6 - ages 10+ Wednesdays 4:00-5:00
Ballet 4/5/6 acts as an additional class for students enrolled in Level 4 to gain further knowledge and awareness of Ballet technique and aesthetics. Ballet 4/5/6 is a multi-leveled Classical Technique Class required of Level 4, 5, 6 Dance Students.
TEEN DANCE PROGRAM - age 13+
Beginner and intermediate level options. Students at this level engage with comprehensive curriculums designed to enhance their technical skill, historical context, performance execution, creative making and critical thought. Teen Level Classes are for students looking for a more recreational dance experience, movement for actors, or newer dance students. Intermediate Teen Classes require previous training and our
• Teen Musical Theatre - age 12-19 Tuesdays 4:00-5:00pm
Musical Theatre class is an open level exploration of American Musical Theatre. Students will study the work of the actor/singer/dancer and use their gained knowledge to develop as musical theatre performers. Students will prepare and present as soloists as well as members of small groups and larger ensembles. Students will also gain tools for audition preparation.
• Teen Beginner Dance - age 12-19 Saturdays 11:00-12:00
Dance Foundations is a class for the newer or more recreational dancer. Various styles, genres, and concepts of Dance will be explored, such as, Ballet Technique, Jazz, Contemporary, Modern, Hip Hop, Choreography, and Improvisation.
• Teen/Adult Beginner Tap - age 13+ Thursday 7:00-8:00
Teen/Adult Beginner Tap class will give teens and adults the foundation technical steps, terminology, and historical background while enhancing rhythm, coordination, and creative making. Tap is a fun upbeat class that focuses on developing strong technical skills and musicality.
• Teen Intermediate Modern- age 12-19 Tuesdays 6:00-7:00
Modern dance is a highly expressive style of dance that challenges the structured dance technique of classical ballet. The focus of modern dance is expression, rather than following a rigid set of postures or technical positions that ballet dancers are trained in. Modern dance movements are considered freeform and fluid, and are often inspired by other dance styles—like African dance, ballet, and folk dance.
• Teen Intermediate Ballet - age 12-19
Tuesdays 7:00-8:00 and/or Mondays 5:00-6:30pm
Students will build upon and enhance their technical foundation into a rich classical practice. Classes include foundational and intermediate ballet vocabulary as well as barre work, center work, and progressions, which develop strength, coordination, and flexibility. Students at this level will focus on proper placement, alignment, and proper technical execution both at the barre and in the center. Students will experience intricate barre work, pre-pointe preparation, center practice, progressions, and classical variations. Students will make the theoretical connections from training to performances and develop a strong balletic aesthetic and facility. This class may be taken on its own or as an additional class for The Complex Dance Company and The Ballet Company
• Tap 5 / IntermediateTeen Tap - age 12-19 Thursdays 5:00-6:00pm
Students in Teen Tap/Tap 5 will gain a strong foundation in intermediate technical steps, terminology, and historical background while enhancing rhythm, coordination, and creative making. Attention, at this level, is paid to proper technical execution, clarity of sound, rhythm analysis, musicality, speed and syncopation. Students will engage with improvisation and choreographic development to enhance their communication as a tap dancer.
• Teen Intermediate Jazz- age 12-19 Thursdays 6:00-7:00
Intermediate Jazz is an intensive study of Jazz Dance Techniques. Students will expand their classical jazz vocabulary though an advanced study of leading Jazz Dance styles including: Classic, Broadway, Commercial, Street, Latin, and Afro Jazz.
Students will engage with physical warm-up of the body, advanced center floor technical skills, complex progressions
and traveling phrases, challenging and rigorous choreography. Students will also engage with Contemporary Dance
• Conservatory Composition - age 12-19
(must be enrolled in Intermediate Teen / The Complex Dance Company)
In this class, students learn the methods and concepts of choreography and divised theatre. Students develop their own unique approach to movement and theatre making and explore various choreographers, playwrights, theatre companies, and performance artists. The class will explore the elements of conceptual development and critique through various mediums and approaches of making.
THE DANCE COMPANY - age 12+
Students in The Complex Dance Company are enrolled in either Level 5 or 6 Conservatory Programs and engage with comprehensive curriculums designed to enhance advanced concepts of technical skill, historical context, performance execution, creative making and critical thought. Level 5 and 6 classes require multiple days and genres of training and assume an intermediate/advanced knowledge of classical and contemporary dance techniques. Our Level 5 classes are for advanced intermediate students with strong passion for dance.
Students must be accepted into the Conservatory Program to enroll in Level 5 Classes.
Level 6 dancers are preparing for the next chapter of their arts and academic training and professional life. These students are engaged artists, leaders, and proficient in advanced dance concepts. Students in Level 6 must take all classes listed below. Acceptance into the Level 6 program is by invitation or audition only.
• Ballet 5 - age 12-14
Classes include intermediate/advanced ballet vocabulary as well as barre work, center work, and progressions, which develop strength, coordination and flexibility. Students at this level will be introduced to classical variations and historical context. Pre-Pointe work to be explored at this level IF dancer shows physically readiness.
• Jazz 5- age 12-14
Jazz Dance 5 is an intensive study of Jazz Dance Techniques. Students will expand their classical jazz vocabulary though an advanced study of leading Jazz Dance styles including: Classic, Broadway, Commercial, Street, Latin, and Afro Jazz. Students will engage with physical warm-up of the body, advanced center floor technical skills, complex progressions and traveling phrases, challenging and rigorous choreography. Students will also study hip hop dance
• Modern 5 - age 12-14
Modern dance is a highly expressive style of dance that challenges the structured dance technique of classical ballet. The focus of modern dance is expression, rather than following a rigid set of postures or technical positions that ballet dancers are trained in. Modern dance movements are considered freeform and fluid, and are often inspired by other dance styles—like African dance, ballet, and folk dance.
• Contemporary Dance 5 - age 12-14
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. Students will refine their artistry and performance presence, as well as, enhance their physical strength in combination with fluidity of movement.
• Tap 5 / IntermediateTeen Tap - age 12-19 Thursdays 5:00-6:00pm
Students in Teen Tap/Tap 5 will gain a strong foundation in intermediate technical steps, terminology, and historical background while enhancing rhythm, coordination, and creative making. Attention, at this level, is paid to proper technical execution, clarity of sound, rhythm analysis, musicality, speed and syncopation. Students will engage with improvisation and choreographic development to enhance their communication as a tap dancer.
• Conservatory Composition - age 12-19 (must be enrolled in Intermediate Teen / The Complex Dance Company)
In this class, students learn the methods and concepts of choreography and divised theatre. Students develop their own unique approach to movement and theatre making and explore various choreographers, playwrights, theatre companies, and performance artists. The class will explore the elements of conceptual development and critique through various mediums and approaches of making.
• Ballet 6 - age 14+
Ballet 6 meets three times per week and assumes prior Ballet experience at the secondary level. Students will enhance their basic technical foundation into a rich classical practice. Students will experience intricate barre work, pre-pointe/pointe work, center practice, progressions, and classical variations. Students will make the theoretical connections from training to performances and develop a strong balletic aesthetic and facility.
• Tap 6- age 14+
Students in Tap V will possess a strong knowledge of intermediate/advanced technical steps, terminology, and historical background while enhancing rhythm, coordination, and creative making. Attention, at this level, is paid to proper technical execution, clarity of sound, rhythm analysis, musicality, speed and syncopation. Students will engage with improvisation and choreographic development to enhance their communication as a tap dancer.
• Jazz Dance 6- age 14+
Jazz Dance V is an intensive study of Jazz Dance Techniques. Students will expand their classical jazz vocabulary though an advanced study of leading Jazz Dance styles including: Classic, Broadway, Commercial, Street, Latin, and Afro Jazz. Students will engage with physical warm-up of the body, advanced center floor technical skills, complex progressions and traveling phrases, challenging and rigorous choreography.
• Modern Dance 6- age 14+
Modern 6 explores multiple methods of modern dance, such as, Graham, Horton, Limon, and Duncan. Students are versed in contextual and historical awareness of modern dance, exemplify a strong foundation of technical movement concepts, and richly build/refine creative voice through improvisation and collaborative movement making activities.
• Contemporary Dance 6 - age 14+
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. Students will refine their artistry and performance presence, as well as, enhance their physical strength in combination with fluidity of movement.
• Dance Company - age 12+ (Level 5 and 6 Conservatory Members)
An innovative Dance Company for Social Change. The Complex Performing and Creative Arts Centre’s Dance Company is a place for creative exploration and growth. Students develop their own work through a rich process of research, observation, consideration, ideation, and collaboration. Students learn to advocate for their visions, ideas, and creations. The Company produces full-length dance performances that speak to issues, injustices, and situations that are on the minds of our young people. The Company brings their work to this and various communities to evoke social change. Under the direction of Nichola Johnson, MFA