Genera that Dance To Inspire Dance Studio Offers
We offer a mass amount of different gerneras of dance. Below are descriptions of each gernera of dance that Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offers. Our classes includes lots of movement (especially for our little students) while teaching proper technique.
Please see our our class schedules for class schedule information for the current dance year.
Acrobatics/Tumbling
Acrobatics is the performance of feats requiring balance, agility, and coordination, involving skills like tumbling, jumping, and balancing, often seen in circuses, gymnastics, dance, and martial arts. It combines technical skills like flips, handstands, and flexibility with strength and control, originating from ancient practices and developing into specialized artistic and sporting disciplines.
Tumbling is a dynamic gymnastics discipline focused on acrobatic movements like flips, twists, and somersaults performed on a mat or spring floor, emphasizing strength, flexibility, and agility without apparatus, often in sequential "passes" judged on difficulty and execution, and is a core skill in cheerleading, dance, and martial arts. It involves transferring the body through space using rolls, handsprings, and tucks, building resilience by learning to recover from falls.
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offers Acrobatics/Tumbling to ages 3 - Adult.
Adult Low Impact Fitness Classes (Coming Soon/TBA)
Adult Low Impact Fitness Classes are sessions for adults that would like to get more physically fit and exercise more often by following Miss Heather in dance sequences that everyone can do. Adult Low Impact Fitness Classes includes dance styles such as Jazz and Zumba.
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offer Adult Low Impact Fitness Classes to all adults.
Ballet
Ballet is a highly a highly technical, disciplined performance dance that originated in Italian Renaissance courts and evolved in France and Russia. Ballet is known for its graceful, precise movements, codified vocabulary, and storytelling ability, performed on stage with music, costumes, and scenery, encompassing styles from classical to contemporary, requiring immense physical control, musicality, and dedication. Key elements include turnout, precise body alignment (shoulders and hips aligned), and fundamental steps like plié, relevé, and arabesque, forming a rigorous training system for dancers. Ballet is very fundamental to dance as ballet is the main connection with all gerneras of dance, especially for basic skills.
We use our barres for all classes to help with technique that is appropriate for their age level/dance level. We also work on strengthening each dancer's ankles, especially if the dancer's goal is to one day do Pointe.
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offers Ballet for ages 3 - Adult.
Character
Character is a versatile, story-driven style that blends techniques like jazz, ballet, tap, and hip-hop to to portray specific characters, often featuring stomping, clapping, and expressive upper-body movements in elaborate costumes and character shoes. It bridges classical technique with theatrical storytelling, focusing on musicality, rhythm, mime, and cultural expression.
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offers Character to ages 7 - Adult.
Contemporary
Contemporary is a versatile, expressive genre that blends modern, ballet, jazz, and lyrical styles, emphasizing freedom, emotion, and innovation over strict rules, often featuring floor work, improvisation, and a strong mind-body connection to convey personal stories or abstract ideas through fluid, grounded, and dynamic movements. Contemporary dance is also know from telling a story through dance especially with emotion.
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offers Contemporary to 6th Grade - Adults.
Hip Hop
Hip Hop is a dynamic street dance style born from 1970s New York hip-hop culture, characterized by rhythmic bouncing, body isolations, and freestyle improvisation, blending elements from breaking, popping, locking, and funk styles to express individuality and emotion to hip-hop music. It's a versatile art form emphasizing personal interpretation, collaboration, and connection to the music, often featuring sharp, percussive movements and complex footwork alongside fluid transitions.
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offers Hip Hop to Kindergarten - Adult.
Hard Irish
Hard Irish is a powerful, percussive style known for its lightning-fast, intricate footwork and explosive sounds created with fiberglass-tipped shoes, contrasted with a famously stiff, upright upper body and still arms, focusing on rhythmic precision in dances like jigs, reels, and hornpipes. It demands immense control, leg extension, and power, with dancers performing complex steps to create crisp, sharp sounds on the floor, building on core techniques learned in Soft Irish.
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offer Hard Irish to 6th Grade - Adults with requirements.
***Miss Heather reserves all rights to have the final decision on if the dancer is ready to safely be on hard Irish shoe because ankle strength is needed for Hard Irish and this gernera of dance includes standing on their toes! for the dancer’s best interest! With that being said, even though the dancer is taking Soft Irish, the dancer may not be ready to start on Hard Irish yet. It is a requirement that Soft Irish shoe is taken at the same time as Hard Irish shoe at Dance To Inspire Dance Studio and/or that the dancer has experience in Irish.***
Soft Irish
Soft Irish is an elegant, graceful style characterized by quick, precise footwork, high leaps, and pointed toes, performed in soft, ballet-like shoes (ghillies) with arms held still, creating flowing, melodic movements in dances like the Reel, Slip Jig, and Light Jig, contrasting with the percussive sounds of Hard Irish.
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offers Soft Irish to Kindergarten - Adults.
Jazz
Jazz is a dynamic, energetic performance style evolving from African American traditions, blending African rhythms with European steps, characterized by isolations, sharp yet fluid movements, improvisation, and strong musicality, appearing in vernacular, Broadway, and modern forms such as Jazz Funk and Lyrical Jazz. It features a grounded feel with bent knees, intricate footwork, and expressive gestures, connecting deeply with jazz music and popular culture.
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offer Jazz to Kindergarten -Adults.
Lyrical
Musical theatre dance is a versatile, story-driven style that blends techniques like jazz, ballet, tap, and hip-hop to convey emotion, develop characters, and advance the plot in musicals, requiring performers to be "triple threats" who can sing, dance, and act. It's less about a single form and more about using various dance languages to serve the narrative, moving from the structured ensembles of early Broadway to the character-focused, diverse choreography seen today in shows
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offers Musical Theatre 6th Grade - Adults.
Musical Theatre
Musical theatre dance is a versatile, story-driven style that blends techniques like jazz, ballet, tap, and hip-hop to convey emotion, develop characters, and advance the plot in musicals, requiring performers to be "triple threats" who can sing, dance, and act. It's less about a single form and more about using various dance languages to serve the narrative, moving from the structured ensembles of early Broadway to the character-focused, diverse choreography seen today in shows
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offers Musical Theatre 6th Grade - Adults.
Pointe
Pointe dance is a specialized ballet technique where dancers perform on the tips of their toes (en pointe) using hard-toed pointe shoes, creating an illusion of weightlessness and ethereal grace, requiring immense strength, balance, and control for intricate footwork, traditionally for women but now accessible to men, focusing on core strength, ankle support, and advanced training in barre and center work.
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offers
***Pointe classes start the year with ballet regardless, then pointe classes will be offered/started during the 2nd half of ballet time starting in January or when Miss Heather determines that the dancer is ready to be on pointe.***
***Miss Heather reserves all rights to have the final decision on if the dancer is ready to safely be on pointe for the dancer’s best interest! With that being said, even though the dancer is taking ballet, the dancer may not be ready to start on pointe yet. It is a requirement that Ballet is taken at the same time as Pointe at Dance To Inspire Dance Studio and/or that the dancer has experience in Ballet.***
Prop Usage/How to Properly Use a Prop
Prop usage is where the student will learn how properly use a prop while dancing/doing acrobatics/tumbling.
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offers Prop Usage/How to Properly Use a Prop for ages 7 - Adult.
Tap
Tap is a percussive, rhythmic style where dancers wear metal-tapped shoes to strike the floor, creating intricate sounds that form music, evolving from African, Irish, and English traditions into American jazz and theatrical forms like Rhythm Tap (musicality focus) and Broadway Tap (performance/storytelling). Dancers use precise footwork, combining shuffles, clicks, and flaps with turns and jumps to be both dancer and percussionist.
Dance To Inspire Dance Studio offers Ballet for ages 3 - Adult.
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