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Class Descriptions

ACROBATICS

Acrobatics builds strength, flexibility, balance, and coordination through the use of dance, conditioning, and floor tumbling. Bridges, back bends, cartwheels, headstands, handstands, walkovers, and partnering tricks are among the skills learned in this class. Admission to acrobatics requires enrollment in a technique class of your choice.

Beginning Acro-Ages 5 & Up

COMBINATION CLASS

A dance class that incorporates elementary levels of progressions for ballet and tap combinations along with the use of arm and body movements. Students will learn rhythm, coordination, and concentration using their tap shoes, as well as the elegance and grace that comes with ballet. As the combo age gets higher, so does the difficulty of the class.

 

Taps & Tutus Combo-Ages 3-4

Combo 1-Ages 5-8 

 Combo 2B-Teacher Permission

Int.-Tween Combo-Includes Jazz Teacher Permission



BALLET/POINTE

BALLET/POINTE

A classical style of dance promoting discipline, technique, and tradition.   Ballet is the basis for all other forms of dance. Ballet is highly recommended for students wishing to pursue other forms of dance as well as gymnastics and ice skating.  Ballet class is necessary for dancers who eventually want to get on Pointe Shoes.


JAZZ/LYRICAL

BALLET/POINTE

Jazz is a more free-form style of dance. Jazz incorporates technique with energetic turns, leaps, and jumps. Dancers enrolled in jazz will develop flexibility and strength through warm-ups consisting of body isolations. Lyrical jazz combines ballet & jazz and allows the dancers to connect with the lyrics of the music,  Must take ballet to enroll in jazz.

WORSHIP DANCE

 Ecclesiastes 3:4 – "There is a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance," showing that dance is part of life’s seasons and celebrations

Psalm 149:3 – "Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with timbrel and harp," emphasizing dance as an act of worship 

2 Samuel 6:14 – "Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might," demonstrating wholehearted, exuberant worship 


No Previous Dance Training needed for this class!



TAP/CLOGGING

Tap is music with your feet. Students learn to articulate and create intricate rhythm and sounds using the balls of the feet. Tap class will help develop musicality and timing for the dancer. Tap dancing also incorporates arm movement for coordination.  Must take ballet to enroll in tap.


Clogging shares elements with tap, step dancing, and flat footing. It creates a distinctive percussive sound with each step, kick or shuffle.


No Previous Dance Training  needed for this class!

MODERN

Broadway/Theatre Stage Dance

Legs, Feet & Turnout

A classical style of dance that was developed as a reaction to the restrictions of ballet. Unlike ballet, modern dance does not focus on turnout and extension. Dancers enrolled in modern will enhance their movement quality, range of dynamics, style, and spacial awareness through improvisation and exposure to different styles of elements.  


No Previous Dance Training needed for this Class!

Legs, Feet & Turnout

Broadway/Theatre Stage Dance

Legs, Feet & Turnout

This class is for intermediate and advanced dancers wishing to strengthen the muscles that rotate the legs.

By using a flexistretcher and a TheraBand, you will help your turnout and your hip external rotator muscles.

Safely, this method gains strength and flexibility when practicing leg extensions, pirouettes and leaps.


Admission to this class is by teacher approval only.

Broadway/Theatre Stage Dance

Broadway/Theatre Stage Dance

Broadway/Theatre Stage Dance

Are you a Theatre Kid??


Would you like to explore the world of acting and perform in musicals?

This class is for you!

It is a well-rounded class offering Tap, Ballet, & Jazz, with a little stage presence mixed in.

It will prepare you to audition for local productions as well as college and professional opportunities.


 Ages 10 & Up


No previous dance training needed for this class!


 

LeeAnne Ashley Studio of Dance

1101 Bateman Bridge Rd, Forest, Virginia 24551, United States

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