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Dance Foundations. An introduction to dance which provides a creative and technically sound foundation. Students gain a sense of confidence while learning musicality, technique, composition and classroom etiquette.

Ballet. American Ballet technique which borrows from the best of Bournville, Cecchetti, and Vaganova styles to create a unique American ballet form emphasizing placement, strength and flexibility.

Pointe. The classic finale technique for female dancers. Available to levels 3, 4, and 5 students with the approval of the instructor. Co-requisite: minimum of two ballet classes per week.

Modern Dance. A blend of modern dance instruction based upon the techniques of Graham, Horton, Ailey and Limon. Students learn the founding principles of modern dance technique, including contraction and release, fall and recovery.

Tap. A technique of foot rhythms and syncopations which uses the body as a percussive instrument.

Hip Hop. A popular dance form of street-style movement set to hip hop music.

Contemporary Dance: A genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide un-choreographed movement. It uses dance techniques and methods found in ballet, modern dance and postmodern dance, and it also draws from other philosophies of movement that are outside the realm of classical dance technique.

Choreography: the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified,.