Our Dance Classes
We offer 12 dance styles for ages 3 and up. Whether your dancer is a beginner or experienced, there's a class for everyone.
Tap Dance
Tap dance develops rhythm, musicality, and coordination through percussive footwork. Students learn classic tap technique, including shuffles, flaps, time steps, and more advanced combinations as they progress. Tap is a joyful, energetic style that builds confidence and a strong sense of timing.
Jazz Dance
Jazz dance combines high energy with technical skill, featuring dynamic movements, turns, leaps, and stylized choreography. Students develop flexibility, strength, and performance quality while exploring a range of jazz styles from classic to contemporary.
Ballet
Ballet is the foundation of all dance styles, building proper posture, alignment, grace, and discipline. Students learn classical ballet technique at the barre and center floor, progressing through positions, turns, jumps, and expressive movement.
Hip-Hop
Hip-hop dance brings street style and urban choreography into the studio. Students learn isolations, popping, locking, breaking fundamentals, and current commercial hip-hop styles. Classes emphasize rhythm, freestyle expression, and confidence.
Pointe
Pointe is an advanced extension of ballet where dancers perform on the tips of their toes using specially designed pointe shoes. This class requires a strong ballet foundation and instructor approval. Students develop exceptional strength, balance, and artistry.
Lyrical Dance
Lyrical dance blends ballet and jazz techniques with emotional expression and storytelling. Dancers interpret music through fluid, graceful movement that connects technique with feeling. This style develops artistry, musicality, and performance presence.
Baton Twirling
Baton twirling combines dance, gymnastics, and apparatus manipulation into an exciting performance art. Students learn tosses, rolls, spins, and choreographed routines. Our advanced baton program is led by an NBTA registered judge with 48 years of experience.
Modern Dance
Modern dance explores movement through gravity, breath, and floor work. Students learn techniques from pioneers like Graham, Horton, and Cunningham, developing a deeper understanding of body mechanics and creative expression beyond traditional ballet.
Acro Dance
Acro dance merges classical dance technique with acrobatic elements including flexibility, contortion, balancing, and tumbling. Students build strength, coordination, and confidence through progressively challenging skills in a safe, structured environment.
Musical Theater
Musical theater dance combines acting, singing, and dance into captivating performance. Students learn choreography in the styles of Broadway and stage productions, developing character work, projection, and the ability to tell stories through movement and expression.
Contemporary Dance
Contemporary dance draws from ballet, modern, and jazz to create a versatile, expressive movement style. Students explore improvisation, partnering, floor work, and innovative choreography that pushes creative boundaries while building technical versatility.
Classes for Boys
Specially designed classes that welcome boys into the world of dance in a supportive, encouraging environment. These classes combine elements of hip-hop, jazz, acro, and other high-energy styles tailored to engage and challenge male dancers of all experience levels.
Not Sure Which Class Is Right?
Contact Miss Jilli to discuss the best options for your dancer. We're happy to help you find the perfect fit.
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