Winter Term starts January 3, 2012. Call 503-472-4886 to enroll today!
Jazz Styles/Ballroom
Jazz Styles & Ballroom
Hip Hop Kids!
Miss Casey’s fun and funky style will get you waving, sliding, popping, tutting, snaking, jerking, ticking, freezing, and more. Hip hop dancing can be learned by all kids interested in dancing! Learn to move to the beat and rhythm of hip hop music with breaking, popping, locking, and free styling in hip hop dances. This dance style is informal and an explosive one. You will love Miss Casey’s family friendly positive style!
Junior Dance Team
Miss Casey’s six years on dance team in high school and now college have given her a broad range of dance styles being used in competitions and on the field and court. This is the perfect class for dancers wishing to support their school and athletic teams while also learning some of the latest and greatest moves! Super fun kick lines, jumps, and combinations will keep your dancer smiling!
Jazz & Hip Hop
This class is perfect for the teen or adult wanting to learn jazz and Hip Hop. Miss Casey will teach fun funky basic steps, variations, across the floor, and dances commonly used in commercial and entertainment industries. This class is perfect for the dancer wanting to learn the roots of jazz dance while still keeping up with the latest trends.
Jazz Kids!
For children ages 6 and up: this class is super fun and geared for the dancer with little or no training! Popular tunes from Broadway shows, family movies, and children's songs are kid friendly and sure to please. Mrs. York has super fun warm ups and across the floor combinations filled with kicks, turns, jumps, and theatrical movement. A must class for your budding dancer who really wants to move!
Lyrical/Contemporary Dance
Lyrical is a poetic style of dancing with a flowing quality. It combines jazz and ballet where the choreography relies on the lyrics and emotion of the music to produce the dance. Miss Rhiannon will give a warm up, center exercises, and choreography in a style for dancers to express themselves through free movement based on classical ballet technique. This class is perfect for students with some dance experience of all ages.
Back to Basics Ballroom
Are you ready for your next social event? A wedding, charity ball, or social dance can become a fabulous night swinging your sweetheart if you just know the steps! This class is geared toward couples or singles wanting to learn the social graces of dance in a fun non threatening environment. (We can even dim the lights!) So bring your partner or a friend and get ready to shine on the dance floor with Adam Cogswell. Classes held every third Sunday 7:30pm. $10 per single, $15 per couple.
What to Wear
Dance Team
Wear black stretch pants and a bright tank top. Wear your hair neatly and pulled away from your face. No excess jewelry.
Hip Hop
Black sweats, a cute t-shirt, clean sneakers (please pack sneakers - no street shoes on floor), hair in a pony tail on the side of the head. Long baggy black shorts or capris are allowed during warm weather.
Broadway Kids
Black stretch pants and solid black t-shirt.
Lyrical/Contemporary Dance
Solid colored tanktop or leotard, knit ballet shorts, pink tights and shoes: foot undies brand lyrical shoes, dance paws, or ballet shoes Hair back in pony, bun, or braid.
Ballroom
Women: a skirt or dress. If you have proper ballroom shoes, all the better If not, wear comfortable heels (not spiked heels!) or low heeled flats. You can also wear a nice pair of slacks or your best pair of jeans with a pretty top. No sneakers- you won't be able to move in them
Men: typically, the men in my classes wear slacks (like Dockers or khakis) and a Hawaiian shirt or short-sleeved golf-style shirt. A good pair of jeans is also ok for men. No sneakers.