Recreational Class Descriptions
Dance with Energy offers classes in a variety of styles for new and experienced dancers of all ages.
At Dance with Energy, we teach dance classes in variety of ways to reach all learning types. All classes consist of a proper warm-up, across-the-floor progressions, center technique, strengthening exercises and a cumulative dance routine.
Class flow is often based on the group’s energy and focus for the day. All dancers have the opportunity to practice individually with the teacher, as well as with the group.
Early Years
Discovery Dance (ages 2.5–3)
Meets for 1 hour/week
These classes introduce first-time dancers to creative movement. Children expand their imaginations through movement and explore musicality, imagery and dance. There is no spring recital for this class. However, there will be a few times through out the season we may have informal showing s for parent to enjoy. You are not committed to any length of time with Dance Discovery. Although the class will run for the entire 9 month dance season.
Ballet & Tap Ages 3-4
Ballet & Tap Ages 4-5
Meets for 1 hour/week
These classes combine pre-tap and pre-ballet. In Ballet & Tap 3-4, dancers are introduced to the basics of each dance style through the use of imagery and creative song and dance. Ballet and Tap ages 4-5 reviews these basic movements and exercises and introduces more difficult steps needed to learn more difficult dance moves and other styes as they progress.
Kids and Teens
Ballet and Tap (ages 5–7)
Meets for 1 hour/week
This class continues the fun study of ballet and tap but with more focus. For ballet, dancers learn proper ballet placement and positions, explore class etiquette and start to concentrate on poise. For tap, dancers learn more challenging tap steps, work on making their sounds clearer and more articulated, and use repetition to make proper sounds.
Ballet (ages 6–13)
Meets for 1 hour/week
The foundation for all other dance forms, ballet challenges the entire body. It is characterized by light, graceful movements and precise steps and gestures set in intricate flowing patterns. Ballet’s discipline and intricacies stimulate the mind as well as the muscles. The practice of ballet improves body posture and carriage, balance, muscle tone, endurance, strength, coordination and discipline.
Jazz (ages 6–18)
Meets for 1 hour a week
Jazz dance is energy in motion! Vibrant, energetic and fun, it allows the dancer’s personality to shine. Jazz dance involves unique moves, fancy footwork, big leaps and quick turns. An American dance form, jazz was developed in the early 1900s as African and European people began mixing their dance traditions.
Tap (ages 6–18)
Meets for 1 hour /week
Tap dancing is the arrangement of steps that create their own musical sound and song. Dancers use special shoes with metal taps on the soles to produce clear, clean sounds with various levels of tone. Tap dancing is a vigorous form of dance and helps build aerobic fitness, coordination, rhythm and muscle control.
Modern/Lyrical/Contemporary (ages 10–18)
Meets for 1 hour/week
Modern dance emerged as a rebellion to the structured strictness of ballet. Performing in barefoot, modern dancers use the body to express emotions in a free-flowing, interpretive style. From this style, grew Lyrical & what we now call Contemporary (like what you would see on So You Think You Can Dance). All these styles, while using technique, focus on individual interpretation of the music (by the dancer or teacher). Modern/Lyrical/ Contemporary dance often reflects an artful contrast between moments of stillness and activity, and multiple dancers usually perform different movements at the same time.
Acro (ages 5–13)
Meets for 1 hour/ week
Acrobatics teaches flexibility, balance, strength, muscle control, discipline and concentration. This class focuses on fundamental acrobatic technique and emphasizes agility, flexibility and strength. Students learn handstands, chin stands, elbow stands, cartwheels, back bends, walkovers, balance and contortion tricks.