Dance - Classes

Children's Classes:

Combo Classes serve to increase your dancer's knowledge of both ballet and tap. Dancers will work on learning good dance posture, learning and recognizing vocabulary, and developing the skills of ballet and tap that are the foundation for all styles of dance. Coordination, rhythm, speed, and memory will be challenged as your dancer progresses through the levels.

Elementary through Advanced Levels:

Ballet is the basis for many other forms of dance. Ballet classes at the Family Museum are taught with a focus on proper technique and the use of correct terminology. In addition to increasing technical proficiency and strength, dancers will work on musicality, grace, and self-expression. Ballet classes are recommended for all dancers looking to be successful at any style of dance.

Tap Classes: Building off the skills learned in our Combo classes, tap dancers are challenged to work toward complex combinations of steps, more complicated and syncopated rhythms, as well as increased speed and clarity of their tap sounds.

Jazz Classes: Jazz dancers work on style and technique while strengthening turns, leaps, and other tricks. These classes include warm-ups with stretching and strengthening exercises, across the floor combinations, and time to learn and practice choreography.

Pre-Pointe and Pointe classes serve to strengthen a ballet dancer's feet, ankles, and legs for work en pointe. Dancers advance to pre-pointe and pointe work only when strong enough and at the invitation of the Dance Coordinator.

Hip-Hop Classes: Fun and funky classes get your body moving! Classes begin with warm-up and stretching and move on to combinations with the newest choreography. Energy, enthusiasm, and freedom of expression are the keys to learning this style of dance.