Call Us About our new and exciting Season – 559-6786  

 Our awesome FALL schedule of dance classes and new dancer conditioning - REGISTER TODAY to reserve your placement in our program!!

 

 

We take the time and interest to place each student personally!  Call us to ensure that you or your student is placed in our quality program with limited class sizes.  To view our NEW FALL Schedule click on handouts and then 2010 – 2011 schedule.

We have numerous classes for each level and age group on our schedule and we welcome the opportunity to help you personally – Just call 559-6786!

 

 

 

 

Ballet

The disciplined dance art of ballet works proper alignment of the body, balance, strength, control, extension, and expression of movement!  Pointe is for the more advanced ballet student / dancer.  Ballet students at School of Dance Arts must be assessed before acquiring pointe shoes.  We have several pointe students and many more working toward that goal!

Dance attire:  Black leotard, ballet pink tights, pink ballet slippers.  Hair must be secured up off the neck.

Jazz / Hip-Hop

The American dance art of jazz works body alignment, strength, flexibility, especially stressing sharp qualities of movement and more!  Hip hop is one of the newest popular styles of jazz.

Dance attire:  Any color tights or jazz pants, leotard or tight fitting shirts only, Black jazz shoes are required; hair must be secured away from face.

Tap

A rhythmic dance art!  Tap techniques and steps work the body / feet as an instrument of sound and movement.

Dance attire:  Any color leotard, tights or jazz pants, (t-shirts are permitted) Black tap shoes are required.

Creative Movement – 3 – 5 years

Goals of our program:

1. Our top priority is to allow each student to experience the joy of Dance!

2. To teach the beginnings of basic dance technique: alignment, centering, elongation, and strengthening of the torso using an age specific development curriculum.

3. Students will develop movement skills and a movement vocabulary.

4. Students will learn rhythms and experience their musicality.

5. To teach body conditions and stretching appropriate for this age group.

6. To learn basic dance locomotor skills.

7. To explore direction, pattern, and movement shapes.

8. To teach creativity, creative thinking, analytical skills, and self-confidence in movement.

9. To allow for unstructured free dance to explore their movement individuality.

10. For students to learn to control and use different energies in dance: high energies, as well as soothing relaxed energies; emphasis on breathing and relaxed growth.

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GENTLE T’AI CHI
Learn to relax and restore

ARE YOU LOOKING TO:

-have more balance and confidence in the way you move?

-learn something new and interesting?

-be around other great people like yourself?

-be in a class where everyone is important and you receive individualized help when you need it?

Forget the Eastern Religion stereotypes – they won’t be in this class

Then you have found the right place!

The art of T’ai Chi – Seniors can find no better exercise in the world than T’ai Chi. Prevention Magazine reported that “Tai Chi may be the best exercise for people over the age of 60 … providing cardio fitness, muscle strength, and flexibility all in one simple workout that is easy on the joints.”

For people with chronic conditions, T’ai Chi can help reduce symptoms i.e. MS, arthritis, etc.

Instructor – Cindy Wallo, 2nd Degree black belt in TKD, 1st Degree Black Belt in Hapkido, and a T’ai Chi practitioner for over five years.  Cindy also has MS and credits T’ai Chi with greatly improving her ability to move.

“I have found no better exercise than T’ai Chi for building up my balance and strength in such an interesting and easy way.  Cindy, our instructor, takes her time and we all feel very comfortable in the class.”