Class & Program Descriptions
What We Offer
Dance/10 offers are variety of styles of dance to help enrich your experience studying dance and the performing arts.
Academy of Little Stars
Acrobatics
Acrobatics is floor tumbling that blends dance with gymnastic elements, focusing on strength, flexibility, balance, and coordination.
Ballet
Ballet is the foundation of dance. It teaches proper placement, alignment, balance, technique and control. Students will focus on improving strength, control, and body positioning in barre, center work and progressions across the floor, as well as learning all of the vocabulary and terminology.
Broadway Jazz/Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre/Broadway Jazz combines jazz dance with theatrical performance, focusing on character-driven movement, storytelling, and performance quality, often set to Broadway show music.
Ballroom
Ballroom dance includes a variety of partner dances performed socially and competitively, characterized by formal style, fluid movements, and partner connection. Popular styles include waltz, tango, foxtrot, waltz, swing, and disco, each with unique techniques and rhythms. Ballroom emphasizes grace, elegance, and precise footwork.
Contemporary
Contemporary dance incorporates elements of modern, jazz, and ballet, focusing on fluidity, versatility, and gravity. It explores abstract concepts and emotions through movement.
Hip Hop
Hip Hop is the style most frequently seen on television and music videos. It is a cultural urban-based dance form based off of street styled dance, utilizing high and low impact footwork and isolations. In this high energy class you’ll find high and low impact footwork and body isolations with emphasis in musicality, rhythm, and body awareness.
Jazz
Jazz is a stylized and fast-paced form of dance. This class emphasizes musicality and rhythm while also working on flexibility, body alignment, stretch and strengthening as well as fun and innovative choreography.
Lyrical
Lyrical dance merges ballet and jazz techniques, emphasizing expressive movements that convey emotions and tell a story, often performed to music with lyrics.
Pointe
Pointe is an advanced form of ballet in which dancers perform on the tips of their toes using specially designed pointe shoes. This style requires exceptional strength, balance, and technique and focuses on intricate footwork and graceful movements. Pointe work is introduced after several years of foundational ballet training to ensure proper development of ankle and foot strength, as well as overall body alignment and control.
Tap
Tap dance emphasizes rhythmic combinations and sound. Dancers wear shoes fitted with metal taps to create percussive beats. It features intricate footwork and musicality, with a focus on time, coordination, proper technique and terminology.