Jazz

With its roots in African dance and utilizing ballet technique, jazz can take many forms, including lyrical, classical, street and musical theater. Our classes emphasize clean technique while fostering style and raising the dancer's performance level. Warm-up is designed to strengthen the body and increase flexibility, and across-the-floor work helps to connect movement and build technical progressions. Routines challenge the dancer to dance from the inside out and push their artistic boundaries.

Hip Hop

A fusion of dance styles incorporating breaking, funk and jazz, hip hop utilizes a broad spectrum of movements, from sustained fluidity to hard hitting isolations. Our hip hop classes emphasize versatility, promote individual expression, and enhance the dancer's ability to hear and use music more effectively.

Ballet

As the foundation for so many dance forms, ballet is integral to the development of every dancer's alignment, balance, control, strength and musicality. With an underlying emphasis on improving overall technique, classes will include barre work, extensive center practice in adagio, turns, and jumps, and progressions across the floor.

Contemporary

Contemporary dance is not a specific technique, but a combination of methods developed from modern dance and its pioneers, including Martha Graham, Isadora Duncan, Merce Cunningham, and Jose Limon. Contemporary can take on many forms, but tends to be a less structured form that focuses on emotional expression and includes a lot of floorwork, contraction and release, and improvisation.

Creative Movement

For our youngest stars, creative movement provides the perfect introduction to dance, and the discovery of body and spatial awareness.

Pilates

A non-aerobic physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century, Pilates focuses on the core postural muscles, which help keep the body balanced and are essential to providing spine support. Exercises teach awareness of breath and alignment of the spine, and are designed to strengthen the core, increase flexibility, and improve posture.

The Jump Off!

At DFC we know that we all have to start somewhere, and also that it takes tons of expertise to nurture every dancers' journey to Be Inspired. The Jump Off is the new launching pad for our youngest stars...a program designed to introduce kids to the world of dance and its many exciting styles. From ballet to hip hop and jazz to tap, The Jump Off will give young dancers the opportunity to explore different types of movement and music, in classes taught by professional faculty members. All Jump Off classes are 45 minutes long, and will start with a warm- up appropriate to the discipline. Students will work on stretching, coordination, improvisation, across the floor progressions, and learning choreography. Additionally, by introducing them to tempo and rhythm, students will start to understand and develop musicality, a key component for every successful dancer.

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