Adult Ballet, Tap, and Jazz run in 6, 8, or 12 week sessions.  Click for more information and our current and upcoming schedule.

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Social Dance Classes are offered in the summer and occasionally throughout the year.

A 1-hour or 75 minute combination class including ballet, tap, and acrobatics.

Focus:

• Developing attention span and classroom behavior

• Building body awareness and alignment

• Encouraging musicality and rhythmic skills

• This is a fun, well-rounded introduction to dance for our youngest students.

Important Note: All dancers must be fully potty trained and able to independently manage their own clothing, including leotards and tights. Dancers should be confident using the restroom without assistance during class time.

Pre-dance Ballet:
Starting at 3.5 years of age the student enhances motor skills, develops musicality, and the love for ballet in an environment with the proper dance etiquette.

Pre-dance Tap:
Starting at 3.5 years of age the student learns single and double sounds while developing simple rhythm patterns along with basic music skills.
 

L'Academie De Danse believes ballet is the ground floor for the performing arts in dance. Ballet enhances and refines all other forms of dance and should be studied to attain a true understanding of the foundation from which other forms of dance are built.

Beginner
Taking one hour class a week. Student performs Barre and center work.

Advanced Beginner
Taking one or two classes a week. A flat class and possibly a pointe class depending on strength and age. Barre and center work.

Intermediate
Taking two or three classes a week. Class length 1 1/2 hours. A flat and pointe class are taken. Barre, center and variations.

Advanced
Taking more than two or three classes a week. Possibly performing all on pointe. Barre, center and variations.

Tap dancing is a percussion instrument. It develops the student's musicality. Tap dancing helps train the ear to listen to more than the melody of a piece of music. The students receive music theory when studying tap.

Pre-Jazz/Beginner
Class is one hour. Basic- single & double sounds are learned and performed to whole and quarter note rhythms. Moderate tempos are used.

Advanced Beginner
Class is one hour. Students are performing single, double, triple and quad sounds. The rhythms used vary from whole to eighth notes. Moderate to fast tempos are used. Turns are incorporated.

Intermediate
Class is one hour. Different styles of tap are emphasized. Rhythm tapping is introduced. More complicated rhythms are used.

Advanced  
Class is one hour. Continued study of tap styles. Advance tap turns are performed.

Beginner Jazz Class
One hour class. Introduced to body isolations. Warm-up exercises (plies, tendues, degages, developes, and grande battements.) Sit stretches for developing flexibility in the body.  Across the floor combinations and jazz variations are set to age appropriate music. Beginner turns are 
incorporated.

Advance Beginner
One hour class. The advanced beginner level becomes more advanced making the student concentrated on more coordinated movements with the arms, head, and legs. Students perform double turns.

Intermediate
1 hour class. Students are usually studying ballet at this level. Class may become longer as well as continuing to advance.

Advanced
1 1/2 hour class. Student has experienced many styles of jazz at this level. The dancer is performing complicated jumps and turns, which are only performed correctly by studying ballet.

Musical Theatre is for ages 7 and up and combines singing and dancing simultaneously to prepare students for performance opportunities. 

For students interested in acrobatics within a dance framework.

• Individualized instruction with proper safety progressions

• Dance classes are encouraged for students wishing to perform acrobatic routines

• L'Académie De Danse is an Acrobatic Arts Certified Studio (www.acrobaticarts.com)

The class is designed with warm-up exercises that stretch and strengthen the student to prepare them for the learning of tumbling skills. The student starts learning the basic tricks (rolls, backbends, balancing skills etc.) and can progress to the advanced level (flips, springs aerial, etc.) depending on their ability.

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Performance Notes: Recital participation for Acrobatic Arts is by invitation only All Acro students perform in our Acro Showcase in May ​

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L'Academie De Danse is an Acrobatic Arts Certified Studio.

A specialized conditioning class using PBT methods to improve strength, flexibility, and core stability, supporting classical ballet training.

PBT is offered once a week in a ballet class (alternating Ballet 2, Intermediate, Advanced, Adult). You can take additional PBT classes at the drop-in rate.