Our well experienced, friendly and dedicated teachers provide high quality instruction in all of the popular disciplines:

Ballet:
Ballet is an academic dance form and technique that is taught according to specific methods. It’s origins stem from as far back as the late 1400’s

Ballet is best known for its unique features and techniques, such as pointe work, turn-out of the legs; its graceful, flowing, precise movements; and its ethereal qualities.

Jazz:
Jazz dance began in the late 1800’s.To excel in jazz dance, the dancer must master ballet technique because it consists of slower movements that strengthens body and improves balance. This is also beneficial for jumps and turns where correct posture is necessary to properly complete the jump and/or turn. Jazz dancers' strong and sharp movements are aided by ballet technique.
Some basic jazz moves include: ball change, twist, pivot step, touch step, Piqué passé, stag leap, jete`, pencil spin, barrel turn, fan kick, jazz walk, jazz run, hip walk, chasses, cat walk and the catch step.

Tap:
This lively, rhythmic tapping began in 1925. Tap makes the performer not just a dancer, but also a percussive musician. It uses precise rhythmical patterns of foot movement.
Common tap steps include the shuffle, shuffle ball change, flap, flap heel, cramp roll, buffalo, Maxie Ford, time steps, pullbacks, wings, cincinnati, the shim sham shimmy, Irish, Waltz Clog, shuffle hop step, running flaps, running shuffles, sugar, and the paddle and roll.

Modern:
In the early 1900s a few dancers in Europe started to rebel against the rigid constraints of Classical Ballet. Shedding classical ballet technique, costume and shoes these early modern dance pioneers practiced free dance.
With a strong classical ballet influence, in its purest technical sense, the movement of modern dance is very fluid and balletic, although it does include the dynamic highlights and tricks of jazz dance, with isolations, kicks and leaps. Many movements are very weighted and to the earth.

Contemporary:
This is a collection of systems and methods developed since the 1960’s from Modern and Postmodern dance. Unlike classical ballet, contemporary dance often utilizes ground work and the dancers often perform in bare feet.
Rather than emphasizing technique (which is seen more as a tool for the dancer and a means by which to strengthen the body, increase flexibility), contemporary dance is versatile and evolving. Rather than being a specific tehcnique, contemporary dance is more concerned with examining the choreographic and performing process. Contemporary dance draws on modern dance techniques and an array of still developing philosophies of movement, based on study of the human body and body/mind inter-relationships.

Breakdance:
This familiar, street dance style originated in the 1970’s. It is generally unstructured and highly improvisational, allowing the incorporation of many different elements:

• ‘Toprock’ refers to steps performed from a standing position.
• ‘Downrock’ includes all footwork performed on the floor, normally with hands and feet on the floor.
• ‘Power Moves’ are those that require momentum and physical power to execute, using one’s hands to do moves. Many impressive and acrobatic power moves are borrowed from gymnastics and martial arts.
• ‘Freezes’ halt all motion in a stylish pose, to end a routine.
• ‘Suicides’ are alternate moves to end a routine. Breakers will make it appear that they have lost control and fall onto their backs, stomachs, etc. Ideally, these are very flashy and painful-looking moves. Impressive ones elicit exclamations of "ouch" from onlookers and can even be comical to a certain degree. Despite appearances, different training and techniques are used to minimize the pain!

Hip Hop:
The first and original dance associated with hip hop is breakdance. In the 1990s, as hip hop music took new forms, new dance styles began appearing, most of them focusing on upright dancing as opposed to breakdance which is better known for its floor-oriented movements.
Some more specific styles of new school hip hop are refered to as: krumping, harlem shake, snap dance, clown walk, crip walk, grinding, Wu-Tang[1], hyphy and gangsta walking. Many are a common sight in today's music videos.