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Dance Classes Offered
Explore our diverse range of dance styles and yoga classes for all ages and abilities.
Ageless Dance Classes
Join our Ageless Dance classes designed for adults 18+ looking to stay active and have fun. Drop-in options available.
Family-Friendly Dance Classes
Experience the benefits of dance in our family-friendly classes suitable for all ages and levels.
Yoga
Enjoy the calm and stress-relieving practice of yoga, connecting the mind, body through intentional mindfulness.
Class Descriptions
Parent-Tot
Age: 2-3 years old + one adult
Day/Time: Saturdays 10:00-10:30 am
Monthly Tuition: $50/month
Parent-Tot introduces dance through imaginative play, self-initiated movement, and imitation while developing the ability to follow instructions and concentrate. This teacher-guided class guides the Parent-Tot duo through a magical journey of movement and music while engaging in a variety of activities that introduce basic dance techniques and movement concepts, fostering a sense of togetherness and bonding with little ones. The adult must stay with the child at all times. This is a performing class.
Creative Dance
Age: 3-5 year old
Day/Time: Saturdays 9:15-9:45 am
Monthly Tuition: $50/month
Creative Dance introduces very young children to the joy of dance using early ballet, jazz, and creative movement activities. Dancers will grow in balance, coordination, strength, and flexibility. Using props and exciting music to emphasize the creative art of dance, we also develop other life-long skills, such as communication, memory development, and social skills. Parents should bring their child already dressed and help their child to use the bathroom when toileting needs arise. Parents of students in this class should wait in the lobby to be close at hand if needed, but not watch from the hallway. This is a performing class.
Pre-Ballet
Age: 3-5 year old
Day/Time: Tuesdays 3:15-3:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $50/month
Pre-Ballet is an introduction to ballet basics using methods designed for young imaginative minds and bodies. As dancers embark on their ballet journey, they will learn fundamental ballet exercises, stretches, posture, and locomotor skills. Dancers will develop grace and self-expression through creative movement and improved self-confidence. Parents should bring their child already dressed and help their child to use the bathroom when toileting needs arise. Parents of students in this class should wait in the lobby to be close at hand if needed, but not watch from the hallway. This is a performing class.
Ballet 1
Age: 6-8 year old
Day/Time: Tuesdays 4:00-4:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Ballet 1 focuses on the fundamentals of ballet technique, including proper placement, developing strength and endurance, and increasing flexibility through barre and center work. Dancers will build their vocabulary, etiquette, and ballet-based improvisation. This is a performing class.
Ballet 2
Age: 9-11 year old
Day/Time: Tuesdays 5:00-5:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Ballet 2 contains a traditional ballet class structure. Students learn fundamental ballet technique through barre work, center exercises, and across the floor combinations designed to improve coordination, flexibility, endurance, and musicality. This is a performing class.
Ballet 3
Age: 10-18 year old
Day/Time: Tuesdays 6:00-6:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Ballet 3 focuses on intermediate barre work, center exercises, and across the floor combinations. Students learn technique and placement, while emphasizing musicality. Throughout the year, we’ll explore personal grace and poise while continuing to build vocabulary, etiquette, and ballet-based improvisation. This is a performing class.
Ballet 4*
Age: 13-18 year old
Day/Time: Tuesdays 7:00-7:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Ballet 4 requires teacher approval/recommendation prior to enrollment. This class focuses on progressive barre work, center exercises, across the floor combinations, and ballet variations. Conditioning to strengthen the legs, feet, and ankles are introduced to prepare students for future ballet training (such as pointe). Dancers will advance in technique, while developing their musicality, discipline, and professionalism. This is a performing class.
Hip-Hop 1
Age: 6-8 year old
Day/Time: Wednesdays 4:00-4:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Hip-Hop 1 gives the basic tools of rhythm, isolation, coordination, and musicality to allow students to build confidence and have fun! This high-energy class will encourage students to step outside the box by bringing their own individual style and personality to the movements. Dancers learn technique and skills through fun dance games as they build stamina and strength. This is a performing class.
Hip-Hop/Jazz
Age: 9-11 year old
Day/Time: Wednesdays 5:00-5:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Hip-Hop/Jazz combines the vigor and attitude of hip-hop with the high energy and prowess of jazz. Warm-ups, footwork, and across-the-floor combinations are based on the unique fusion of both historically rich dance styles, empowering dancers with techniques and skills that enable them to dance to their fullest. This is a performing class.
Hip-Hop/K-Pop
Age: 10-18 year old
Day/Time: Wednesdays 6:00-6:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Hip-Hop/K-pop combines the technique found within hip-hop with the thrilling performance-based world of K-Pop. This class includes warm-ups, footwork, isolations, stretching, across-the-floor combinations, and unique choreography where dancers have fun dancing to music from their favorite K-Pop artists. This is a performing class.
Irish 1
Age: 6-8 year old
Day/Time: Thursdays 4:00-4:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Irish 1 introduces foundational techniques and positions through fun and engaging ways, building the core strength needed to execute the movements properly and safely. Dancers learn coordination, balance, cooperation skills, and musicality, all while growing their Irish terminology and skills. This is a performing class.
Irish 2
Age: 9-11 year old
Day/Time: Thursdays 5:00-5:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Irish 2 dancers will continue to build on fundamental techniques through advancing Irish steps. In this class, we add more complex traditional dances, powerful jumps, intricate footwork, and exciting rhythms. We focus on learning reels and jigs, and build teamwork and communication skills as we learn the fundamentals of céilí (group/team) dancing. This is a performing class.
Irish 3*
Age: 10-18 year old
Day/Time: Thursdays 6:45-7:30 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Irish 3 requires teacher recommendation prior to enrollment. This soft-shoe class is fun, energetic, and fast paced. Dancers expand their repertoire as they perfect their reels, learn to differentiate and execute Light Jig and Slip Jig, and continue their journey toward hard shoe technique class (to be offered in the near future). This class includes conditioning, as well as a rigorous warm-up, to help prepare students for more intense across-the-floor combinations. This is a performing class.
Irish Hard Shoe*
Age: 10-18 year old
Day/Time: Thursdays 6:00-6:30 pm
Monthly Tuition: $50/month
Irish Hard Shoe requires teacher approval/recommendation prior to enrollment. Irish hard shoe is a powerful, percussive style of Irish dance made up of intricate rhythm and explosive, athletic movements. Each class begins with a warm up, followed by footwork drills, building speed, power, precision, and control, with center work and across the floor routines. Dancers will master more difficult moves with greater intensity, depending on their level of progress. This is a performing class.
Beginning Jazz
Age: 6-8 year old
Day/Time: Fridays 4:00-4:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Beginning Jazz focuses on learning proper dance technique, such as isolations of the body, improving performance quality and developing rhythm, while building strength, flexibility, technique, and character expression. Dancers will be exposed to various styles of jazz to help develop a well-rounded dancer. This class includes choreographed combinations. This is a performing class.
Modern/Jazz
Age: 9-11 year old
Day/Time: Fridays 5:00-5:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Modern/Jazz dance builds on the foundation of jazz technique with an emphasis on quality of movement. Jazz introduces students to syncopated rhythms, body isolations and a repertoire of standard technical and expressive movements. Modern focuses on exploring momentum and weight transferring. Dancers will build their skill through fun warm-ups, stretches, isolations, across-the-floor, and combinations. This is a performing class.
Lyrical/Modern/Jazz
Age: 10-18 year old
Day/Time: Fridays 6:00-6:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Modern/Jazz/Lyrical creates the most well-rounded, diverse dancer possible. Building on technique from all three dance styles, this class allows for a greater understanding of how the body can move in different ways. Dancers will grow in alignment, balance, strength, flexibility, floor work, and are encouraged to explore their natural expression and personal interpretation. This is a performing class.
Dance Conditioning**
Age: 10-18 year old
Day/Time: Fridays 7:00-7:30 pm
Monthly Tuition: $50/month
Dance Conditioning is intended for dancers who are already enrolled in one or more dance classes. This class is designed to increase range of motion, balance and coordination, muscle flexibility, and a dancer’s overall fitness level. It involves a combination of cardio, bodyweight exercises, stretching and injury prevention skills. This is NOT a performing class.
Yoga**
Age: 18+ years old
Day/Time: Wednesdays 7:50-8:20 pm
Monthly Tuition: $50/month
Yoga classes are perfect for greeting the day, whether you’re trying yoga for the first time or are a seasoned yogi. We’ll explore traditional poses along with fundamental breathing techniques, known as pranayama. Everyone is encouraged to work at their own level in a safe and supportive environment. Modifications will be offered as you practice each pose, build strength in the core, and balance in the body, increasing flexibility and range of motion. This is NOT a performing class.
Yoga**
Age: 18+ years old
Day/Time: Thursdays 10:45-11:15 am
Monthly Tuition: $50/month
Yoga classes are perfect for greeting the day, whether you’re trying yoga for the first time or are a seasoned yogi. We’ll explore traditional poses along with fundamental breathing techniques, known as pranayama. Everyone is encouraged to work at their own level in a safe and supportive environment. Modifications will be offered as you practice each pose, build strength in the core, and balance in the body, increasing flexibility and range of motion. This is NOT a performing class.
Yoga**
Age: 18+ years old
Day/Time: Saturdays 10:45-11:15 am
Monthly Tuition: $50/month
Yoga classes are perfect for greeting the day, whether you’re trying yoga for the first time or are a seasoned yogi. We’ll explore traditional poses along with fundamental breathing techniques, known as pranayama. Everyone is encouraged to work at their own level in a safe and supportive environment. Modifications will be offered as you practice each pose, build strength in the core, and balance in the body, increasing flexibility and range of motion. This is NOT a performing class.
Ageless Dance
Age: 18+ years old
Day/Time: Wednesdays 7:00-7:45 pm
Monthly Tuition: $60/month
Ageless Dance is a drop-in/punch card style class that focuses on creating a safe environment where each dancer, no matter their age or skill level, feels supported and has fun learning from a variety of dance styles without the pressure of performing. We’ll explore ballet, Irish, jazz, hip-hop, K-Pop, Tai Chi, Latin, Contemporary, Bollywood, and more! Modifications and variations will be provided, as needed. Benefits of dancing include increased strength, balance, circulation, memory/attention, self-esteem, resilience, fitness, and decreased risk of falls. This is NOT a performing class. This class has a performing option.
*Requires teacher approval/recommendation prior to enrollment.
**Non-performing classes.
How to Register
Click on the link: https://clients.dancestudiomanager.com/danceworx-academy--yoga-studio/client/
which leads to our new client portal, On the portal, you can preview classes by genre, level, and days offered. You will be prompted to set up your family account, add related family members, contact information, and preferred method of payment for monthly billing convenience.
If you prefer to register by mail or email, please use the drop-down menu to find the Registration Form PDF and Waiver which you can either download print and send to our mailing address with your check.
You'll love the variety of dance styles offered at Danceworx Academy & Yoga Studio. It's a great place to learn and have fun!
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Dance School
Family-friendly dance school featuring ballet, irish, k-pop, modern, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, and creative dance styles
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