Our Classes:

Ballet, Tap and Modern Dance

Our main classes work on the core elements of dance.
Classical ballet is the base for most dance styles and has a major impact on all types of dance. It needs discipline, technique, athleticism, grace, balance, and precision. It requires a hidden strength, making difficult moves look easy. Ballet class improves posture, coordination, mental strength, focus, and flexibility.

Tap dance allows us to create our own music using our feet as instruments. We can explore different types of music, speeds, and rhythms. Tap dance promotes a love for music and keeps our minds engaged as we learn and combine different steps. It also provides a great cardio workout. There's something truly mesmerizing about listening to a tap dancer create music with their feet.

Modern Jazz dance is a lively and expressive style often performed in musicals. It combines rhythmic movements with theatrical elements. This style involves traveling steps, high kicks, jumps, and spins, all requiring strength, flexibility, and control. It is a highly energetic dance form that requires dancers to have solid technical skills.

Acrobatic

Acrobatic dance is a style that combines the techniques of classical dance with acrobatic movements. This form of dance is very athletic and has unique choreography to incorporate gymnastic-like elements into dance.

Stage Classes

Working on all areas of performance involving dance, story telling, singing, and general performance work. These classes are an extension of Saturday classes and are a commitment to the Dixon Woods competition team.

Lyrical

Lyrical dance is a dance style that embodies various aspects of ballet, jazz, acrobatics, and modern dance. The style combines ballet technique with the freedom and musicality of jazz and contemporary

Pointe

Pointe technique is part of classical ballet involving a technique that concerns pointe work, in which a ballet dancer supports all body weight on the tips of fully extended feet when wearing pointe shoes.

Commercial

Commercial dance is a vibrant and dynamic form of dance that incorporates a wide range of styles, including street, hip-hop, breakdancing, and popping. Commercial dance classes provide an opportunity to learn these styles and develop your own unique moves and routines.