Level: Ages: 2 months to Walking
Spend an hour of fun playtime dancing with your baby and making meaningful social and emotional connections with other babies and caregivers! Explore dance with multi-sensory props and instruments, sing nursery rhymes, and move to a variety of music. These activities support healthy development and introduce fun ways to move your baby's growing body.
Level: Ages: Walking to 5 yrs
Experience a magical hour of joyful dance and connection with your toddler. Learn BrainDance, explore dance concepts, play with multi-sensory props and instruments, and celebrate as your toddler develops confidence in their body. Our brain-compatible approach nurtures cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development while encouraging imagination and creativity!
Level: Pre: Ages 3-5
Creative dance and ballet classes are all about having fun, exploring movement, and developing dance and motor skills. We get those little bodies and brains strong while interacting and playing with others. The class is super fun with tons of dance games and learning activities that help little ones learn to listen, think, and move. Skills get a little more challenging as the year goes on, and they change as you grow. We explore ballet skills and vocabulary through creative dance, which makes learning ballet and modern dance easier and way more fun!
Ages 5-6 | Children & Teens | Grades K-1
Boost dance technique and skills while having a blast improvising and creating. We'll dive into BrainDance, explore movement concepts, and even create choreography. Our teachers will guide students in understanding their bodies – think pointing toes, lengthening spines, and finding center. They'll keep these details in focus as students move and groove through fun games and activities. Students will gain more control as they master locomotor steps, navigate the space, and continue to explore their own movement style. And of course, we'll always emphasize respect for selves, classmates, and teachers.
Ages: 5-6 | Grades K-1
This ballet class mixes it up with barre and center work, using dance to help students learn and express themselves. The class will play with ballet moves in new ways to help students grow as dancers. Explore music, improvise, build skills, work with others, and learn about choreography – all while finding a unique style. Ballet shoes are totally optional!
Ages: 7-8 | Children & Teens | Grades 2 & 3
This course guides dancers through improvisations, movement sequences, and floor work to explore their body's relationship with space, time, and force. It utilizes modern dance techniques to enhance spatial awareness, breath control, organization, strength, flexibility, articulation, alignment, coordination, and musicality. Students will also share choreography and feedback to develop observation and communication skills.
Ages: 7-8 | Grades: 2-3
This year, we're introducing formal ballet classes that will guide students from the relaxed format of previous classes into a structured and disciplined study of classical ballet. We'll still begin with a BrainDance warm-up to prepare for barre and center work. The exercises will remain engaging while adding more formality through a gradual transition. The curriculum will focus on correct alignment, the lines of the body, and the classical shape, with innovative brain-compatible ballet to support expression, agency, and artistry.
Age: 9-11 | Children & Teens | Grades 4-5
This course emphasizes creative exploration and proper class etiquette. Students will enhance their personal expressivity, technique, coordination, strength, and flexibility by exploring complex movements and the Elements of Dance (Space, Time, Force, and Body). Through peer feedback and collaborative choreography, students will refine their observation and communication skills, while also developing body awareness, alignment, phrasing, and rhythm.
Ages: 9-11 | Grades: 4-5
Students will warm up with BrainDance and explore dance concepts that deepen their understanding of technique and develop artistry and self-expression. The ballet technique will become more intricate at the barre and in the center as the strength of the legs and feet are stressed in coordination with the upper body.
Age: 12-13 | Children & Teens | Grades 6-7
The dance program develops a strong technical foundation, proper alignment, strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness. Through improvisation and composition, dancers explore self-expression and deepen their understanding of movement and technique. The curriculum emphasizes exploration of body, space, time, and effort through improvisation, technique, floor work, and movement sequences. Choreographic prompts encourage collaboration and creativity, while choreography analysis and feedback sharing develop dance literacy and communication skills.
Ages 11-18 | Grades: 6-12
This class is designed for teenagers who are interested in starting classical ballet training. In a supportive and creative environment, students will learn ballet techniques that emphasize strength, alignment, and musicality. The class will focus on refining existing skills and learning more complex techniques at the barre and in the center.
Class meets twice weekly for 1.5 hours.
Ballet slippers are required.
Ages: 14-18 | Children & Teens | Grades 8-12
This class meets two times per week and introduces a strong work ethic. Dancers will continue developing body awareness and apply corrections. The training involves modern/contemporary techniques and explores the body’s relationship to body, space, time, and effort. Focus is placed on flexibility, strength, endurance, phrasing, body alignment, professionalism, and fun. Dancers will develop a greater sense of performance quality and have opportunities to explore and create their own movements through improvisation and short compositional activities. A higher level of maturity is expected.
Ages: 14-18 | Registration by invitation
This course is designed for students looking to enhance their movement and performance skills in modern/contemporary dance and other movement styles. The class meets twice a week and focuses on commitment, responsibility, resilience, and a strong work ethic. Students will develop fundamental body and performance techniques, apply corrections independently, and improve locomotor skills and movement progressions. Additionally, dancers will explore the body’s relationship to Body, Space, Time, and Effort. Training includes modern/contemporary techniques, as well as flexibility, strength, endurance, phrasing, body alignment, professionalism, and fun!
The class meets two times weekly for 1.5 hours.
These classes are designed for movers of all dance backgrounds who want to experience the joy of movement. Through ballet or modern/contemporary techniques, dancers will enhance their strength, coordination, flexibility, and awareness.
What to Wear: Please wear dance attire such as leotards, tights, leggings, dance skirts or shorts (worn over leotards and tights), sweatpants, or shorts. Hair must be pulled back from the face. For ballet class, ballet shoes or socks are required.
(9-18 years old)
This course explores street dance styles from Hip Hop culture through the lens of dance concepts. Develop your voice through freestyle, house, popping, locking, breaking and more. Feel the rhythm, improve coordination, and express yourself! Clean-soled sneakers are required.
(9-18 years old)
This course, inspired by classic and contemporary choreographers, explores various Broadway and Jazz techniques. Each class includes a warm-up, center barre work, and a series focused on strength and alignment. Additionally, students will work on turns, jumps, and break down elements of jazz technique. The class concludes each week with a theater dance combination.
The Essential Matwork class is a mat-based workout that introduces beginners to the Five Basic Principles of the STOTT PILATES method. It helps build core strength and stability, develop leaner, longer-looking muscles, and enhance mind-body awareness. The class incorporates foundational exercises, and may also include props to add variety. Participants can remain in the Essential classes until they feel ready to advance to the Essential/Intermediate class.