CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

Footworks Dance Studio offers a wide variety of dance styles to give every student the opportunity to enjoy a well-rounded performing arts education. Descriptions of our classes for ages 5 to adult can be found below. To view our preschool programs for ages 2½ - 4, please click here.

Shining Star Combo

(ages 4 – 7)
This combination class is broken down into 2 classes, offering the young dancer 30 minutes of tap, plus 30 minutes of jazz or ballet. The Shining Star Combo class will help prepare young dancers for the discipline required to participate in dance.

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Ballet

(ages 5 – 18)
Ballet is the most demanding type of dance. All other forms of dance benefit from its precise execution of movement and artistic interpretation. These classes will include barre exercises for warm-ups and technique development, floor work for basic steps, turns, leaps and combinations. Students will also establish a foundation of proper form that will help prevent injury and establish the confidence necessary to move forward to other forms of dance. Ballet teaches students to develop their muscular strength, stretch and strengthen their bodies, and coordination. Dancers also develop good posture, poise, grace and self-confidence.

Dress Code includes pink ballet shoes, pink tights, and black or pink leotard. Ballet skirt and ballet sweaters are optional.
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Tap

(ages 5 – adult)
Tap is the discipline that teaches dancers to use their feet as a rhythm instrument. Students in this class will learn fancy footwork that helps to develop agility, musicality, and stylized movement. Also included are the basic exercises, time steps, and tap combinations that make tapping so much fun.

Dress Code includes black tap shoes, pink or tan tights, and a leotard in any color. Black dance pants are optional.
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Hip Hop

(ages 5 – 18)
Hip Hop is a high-energy, freestyle class that emphasizes rhythm, coordination, athleticism, and personal expression. Hip hop dance requires students to have the strength and stamina to successfully perform moves. Therefore, this class includes upper and lower body conditioning as well as a rigorous warm-up to help prepare students for more intense movements. Hip Hop dance focuses on staging, style, presentation, and self-expression. We are aware of the negative connotations that can be associated with Hip Hop, and have taken many steps to set your mind at ease, such as safe music selection and editing, clean upbeat movement combinations and tasteful costuming.

Dress Code includes t-shirts and shorts. Dancers must wear clean tennis shoes that are worn only in class. Street shoes are not allowed.
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Acro

(ages 5 – 18)
Acrobatics is floor tumbling. Students develop flexibility, agility, balance, strength, and contortionist skills. Tumbling skills start with basic rolls, cartwheels, and handstands. Then as students progress, more advanced movements (such as handsprings, aerials, back tucks, etc.) will be taught.

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Musical Theatre

(ages 5 – 18)
This class combines high-energy dance with acting and expression to create a performer with good stage presence. Students will learn basic staging direction and character building, as well as an overview of popular songs from American musical theater. Ballet, Tap, and Jazz classes are all important in being successful in Musical Theatre.

Dress Code includes pink or tan tights, a leotard in any color, and jazz shoes or ballet slippers. Black dance pants are optional.
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Jazz

(ages 5 – 18)
Jazz combines technique with ethnic and multi-cultural influences, set to a variety of music styles to produce an energetic yet controlled soulful expression of the self through movement known as dance. This class will teach technique and terminology and develop flexibility, strength and coordination.

Dress Code includes pink or tan tights, a leotard in any color, and tan jazz shoes. Black dance pants are optional.
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Lyrical/Contemporary

(ages 10 – 18)
This interpretive dance style combines the grace and fluidity of ballet with the strength and emotional elements found in jazz. It emphasizes interpretation of music lyrics while telling a story with movement that can be fluid or abstract. As students progress through each level curriculum will become increasingly more complex and intricate. Dancers must have previous ballet experience and be currently enrolled in ballet.

Dress Code includes pink or tan tights (convertible or footless), a leotard in any color, and lyrical shoes.
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Pointe

(ages 12 – 18)
Pointe classes are by invitation only and students must be enrolled in ballet class. Pointe is an advanced form of ballet and therefore only trained, matured ballet students will be considered. Pointe is run similarly to other ballet classes in terms of focus and discipline. The difference, however, is that students wear pointe shoes, so that the ballerina may go fully onto pointe.

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Aerial Silks/Lyra

(ages 10 – 18)
Aerial silks is a fun, creative and challenging class that builds upper body and core strength, kinesthetic awareness, and coordination. Students will learn strengthening fundamental postures and develop postures of aerial silks; including climbs, locks, holds, drops, and transitions, to safely build a strong foundation in aerial arts. Each class will include strength and flexibility exercises specific to aerial training and time to build aerial vocabulary exploring poses and variations, transitions, and aerial silks choreography/sequencing. This class includes Silks, the Hammock, and the Lyra so our students get a wide variety of aerial training.

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Stretch, Leaps & Turns

(ages 10 – 18)
Students will concentrate on leaping and turning techniques in this conditioning class. This is a non-recital class.

Dress Code includes tan jazz shoes or lyrical shoes, tan tights, and black leotard.
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