Dance Styles

Lyrical Dance

Here's an example of lyrical dance on youtube -

Lyrical dance is when we move to the words of music. We move to the lyrics of the song, inspired by the meaning and what the song is saying.

It is often a flowy, freeform style of movement. Technically, Lyrical is a mix of Ballet and Jazz. We will learn how to tell a story through our movements. Students will learn fluid technique, expressive choreography, flexibility, balance, control, and musical interpretation.

Jazz Dance

Here's an example of jazz dance on YouTube

Miss Kayla's goal for her Jazz students is to learn confidence, musicality, and coordination. Students will learn Jazz techniques including kicks, turns, isolation, proper warm up and stretching.

Hip Hop

Examples of videos:
Grooves
Helicopter
Hip hop fun
Groove game
Cypher Middle School Age
Cypher
Tutting

Hip hop is all about fun and grooving and moving! We will learn the foundations of hip hop dance, including bouncing, rocking, and grooves. We will learn about the history of hip hop. We always listen to only age-appropriate music like the Chicken Nugget Song,

Hip hop is FUN. Hip hop involves bouncing, rocking, grooving, kicking, and jumping.

​We take it very seriously to make sure all songs are wholesome and appropriate for the age. Here are our most popular kids hip hop songs:

Chicken Nuggets
Raining Tacos
I Like To Move It
Let It Go Remix

Hip hop is all about the feeling of joy while dancing. Hip hop originated in the Bronx of New York and is a culture consisting of many elements. Part of the essence of hip hop is turning difficulties into beautiful creative art and expressing our emotions through dance in community.

It is best for kids to wear tennis shoes for hip hop class.

Ballet

An example of what ballet can look like -

Students learn the foundations of ballet, a beautiful form of dance that is focused on alignment of the body. Ballet is one of the most prevalent forms of dance, and encompasses hundreds of years of study of the human body. For anyone wanting to dance, ballet can be beneficial.

In our children's ballet classes, we also mix in creative movement. This is where we get to use our imaginations and dance in fun, silly ways! We will pretend to be animals such as dinosaurs or elephants and practice a wide range of motion, from crawling and wiggling and twirling and freezing.

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All of our classes incorporate movements that have been shown to be essential to human neurodevelopment. In this day and age of technology, it's so important for kids to move in a wide variety of ways!

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At the Creative Arts Dance Center, we specialize in teaching beginner ballet. We believe everyone can benefit from learning dance.