DANCE PROGRAMS
BALLET
In our Ballet classes we teach the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) method.
The Royal Academy of Dance is the largest examining and teacher-education organization for classical ballet in the world. With over 17,000 members, its influence has spread to over 84 countries and it has a network of international offices and representatives. Her Majesty the Queen is Patron of the Academy and Dame Antoinette Sibley, C.B.E. is the President.
The standards of education are extremely high and regular monitoring and training of teachers is neccessary to ensure that quality of education is maintained.
Character dance is incorporated in Ballet classes.
The carefully designed syllabus benefits the recreational as well as professionally-oriented student. Experienced students are entered for yearly examinations at the grade and major levels.
Starts from Age 5
Find more about RAD at www.rad.org.uk and www.radcanada.org
SCOOTERS (Pre-School)
This ballet based kinderdance program is designed to explore natural musical responses, enjoy a variety of dance fundamentals and develop confidence in movement and mime. The teachers and assistant teachers are a highly skilled and experienced team who ensure that classes are presented in a warm and caring atmosphere where each child’s experience can be a healthy and happy one. Student will learn foundation skill such as skipping, galloping, jumping, turning, balancing, pointing, stretching, and more!
Starts from Age 3
Jazz & Tap
IJazz and Tap classes are based on Brian Foley's ADAPT syllabus, which produces very well-trained dancers who excel in technique, performance and show excellent results in competitions.
ADAPT stands for: "Associated Dance Arts for Professional Teachers". It is a certified dance syllabus which offers yearly examinations in the dance disciplines of Tap, Jazz, and Ballet. This system is taught by more than one hundred highly qualified dance teachers throughout Canada.
Find more about ADAPT at www.adaptsyllabus.com
Starts from Age 4
HIP HOP
A high-energy class that uses the latest sounds in rap, R&B and pop music together with movements influenced by some of today’s hottest video choreographers. Hip hop encompasses movement that has elements of poppin', locking, insulations and breaking as well as freestyle movement to give students the opportunity to develop their own sense of style. Hip hop is urban, it’s street, it's diverse and forever changing.
Starts from Age 8
ACRO
A combination of dance and acrobatic/gymnastics. This is a great class for developing strength and flexibility. Students always love this style because of the tricks and skills they learn. Class time is mostly focused on the acrobat skills and it is recommended that students take jazz or ballet in combination with acro.
Starts from Age 4
TUMBLING
This class teaches students gymnastics skills involving strength and power. Students will learn flipping, handsprings, aerials, and other power moves. Students can only take tumbling if they are also taking acro or have acro experience.
Starts from Age 7
B-Boys/B-Girls BREAK DANCING
B-boying/B-Girling is a form of hip hop dancing which is popularly known as breaking. It consists of top or up rock, footwork, spinning moves, power moves, and freezes. B-boying came from Bronx, NY. The term "B-boy" or "B-boying" was created by Kool Herc who was a DJ spinning at block parties in Bronx. B-Boy means break boy and they were called so because they dance to the break part of music.
Starts from Age 10
PRE-BREAK DANCING
This class is for young students who want to grow into b-boys or b-girls. It’s an introduction class that focuses on the foundation moves. It builds strength and helps teach students what kind of focus they’ll need to be b-boys or b-girls.
Starts from Age 6
POWER BREAK
This style of breaking is what most members of the general public associate with the term "break-dancing”. Power moves comprise full-body spins and rotations that give the illusion of defying gravity. Examples of power moves include headspins, backspins, windmills, flares, airtracks/airflares, 1990s, 2000s, jackhammers, crickets, turtles, hand glide, halos, and elbow spins. Those b-boys/b-girls who use "power moves" almost exclusively in their sets are referred to as "power heads".
Starts from Age 10
MUSICAL THEATRE
Musical Theatre is a unique form of dance developed by the late Jack Cole and made popular by the great Broadway Choreographers Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Michael Bennett, Gower Champion and others. It is a uniquely blended and stylized technique developed for the Broadway stage. The acting, singing and dancing must contribute equally to advancing the storyline.
Starts from Age 7
LYRICAL
This is a form of dance which combines modern dance, jazz and ballet. It’s now commonly referred to as contemporary and has become a very popular way for dancers to express the quality of music.
Starts from Age 7
STRETCH/STRENGTH
We take students through several different slow and helpful stretches focusing on flexibility and control as a goal. We'll also be working on strength as well as some specific technical goals that the students have. This is a great class to focus on yourself and your goals.
Starts from Age 7