Designed for the young dancer, creative movement incorporates props, games music and fun to encourage students to think creatively in addition to learning basic ballet technique. Students will go through a series of stretches, barre work, across the floor steps, and center floor activities. Students not yet potty trained will need a caregiver to stay on the premises for the duration of the class.

Hip Hop:

A style of jazz dance made popular by street dancers in California and New York. Dancers will learn rhythm, style, and improvisation, not focusing on technique, but allowing each student to find their individual style in relation to the music.

Jazz:

A stylized form of dance taking root from popular music and dance forms with basic ballet technique. Jazz is a broad from of dance that is individualized by each teacher. Students will learn alignment, flexibility, balance, turns, leaps, and jumps usually performed to upbeat popular music.

JLT (Jumps, Leaps, Turns):

Floor progressions focusing solely on leaps, pirouettes and skills help your child develop his/her skills.

Lyrical:

A slower style of jazz pulling more from ballet technique using turned out and parallel positions. Students learn alignment, flexibility, balance, expression, and focus. Lyrical dance is usually performed to complement the lyrics of a song, telling a story through movement.

Musical Theatre:

A style of jazz that references Broadway choreography. Dancers learn basic jazz principles and help develop acting skills and facial expression through theatre activities.

Pom:

A form of dance team style jazz that focuses on synchronization and strong, sharp movements, especially of the arms. Dancers learn basic and advanced pom drills and combinations to emphasis unity and precision.

Tap:

A style of jazz dance that uses metal taps attached to the shoe to make rhythmic sounds. This form of dance uses ballet vocabulary and focuses of rhythm, musicality, and basic jazz principles.

Dress Code

Studio Classes

Ballet for Babies: pink ballet shoes

Creative Movement/Pre-Dance: pink ballet shoes

Ballet: pink ballet shoes

Dance Combo: black tap shoes, black jazz shoes

Pre-Ballet/Tap & Ballet/Tap: pink ballet shoes, black tap shoes

Pre-Jazz/Hip-Hop, Jazz/Hip-Hop, & Cheer: black jazz shoes

Contemporary, Lyrical: pink ballet shoes

Musical Theater: tan jazz shoes

Proper dance attire includes a leotard, tights, a plain t-shirt, and dance shorts. Additionally dancers with long hair must keep it pulled back. Mostly, we want students to be excited and comfortable in what they are wearing. We ask that clothes are not excessively baggy and students wear true ballet shoes and not the slippers that are often sold in department stores. This is for the safety of our dancers. Dancer’s Edge has a large bin of used shoes available for all students to borrow when they are here for class.

Competition Classes

Ballet: leotards (of specified color for each level, listed below), pink tights, ballet shoes, no jewelry, no hair accessories.

JLT/Rehearsals: leotards (of specified color for each level, listed below), pink or tan tights, black spandex shorts (optional), jazz shoes, no jewelry, hair accessories allowed.

Leotard Color Requirements:

If you're a student that identifies as male, please contact the studio for dress code requirements.