Elite offers a dance curriculum that provides the perfect balance of dance fundamentals, technique, exploration and fun! Your dancer will gain confidence, teamwork and a love for dance from our expert faculty helping them reach their fullest potential.
Tiny Tot Hip Hop
Our Tiny Tot Hip Hop is for dancers Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten age. This high energy class is a perfect way for your student to develop their coordination, strength, and musicality. Students will learn the basics of hip hop, build their sense of rhythm, and explore the joy of moving and grooving to their favorite music in an age appropriate and safe environment. Imagery and props are used to ensure your dancer is having a blast in this fun class!
Tu Tu Cute
Tutu Cute is designed to be your little dancer's first interactions to independent dancing in a classroom setting. These dancers will learn to gallop, jump, and march, as well as important social skills such as following directions and taking turns. Our Tutu Cute classes incorporate lots of props, action songs, and imagination work to ensure our littlest dancers are having fun while they're dancing and learning.
Tiny Tot Tumbling
Our Tiny Tot Tumbling is for dancers Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten age. This class is designed to help young students develop their flexibility and strength as they learn basic acro and tumbling skills such as forward rolls, backwards rolls, bridges, handstands, and cartwheels. Props, learning stations, obstacle courses, and strengthening games will be used to help your dancer grow and have fun in this class.
Preschool
Our preschool class is for dancers Preschool and Pre- K Age. It is a great way to induce your dancer to both ballet and tap! Students will learn traditional pre-ballet and tap skills in an age-appropriate and fun manner. Your dancer will learn to shuffle, flap, plie, gallop, skip and so much more as we use props, learn new songs, and use our imagination to develop both our bodies and minds.
Kindermovement
Our Kindermovement Class is for dancers Kindergarten age. This class is designed as a faster paced class than our preschool class, dancers in Kindermovement will continue to expand their pre-ballet and tap vocabulary, develop their sense of musicality, and advance their sequencing and patterning skills all in a playful and age-appropriate manner. This class makes use of props, action songs, and creative movement to develop your dancer's love of dance and growing technique.
Primary
Primary Classes are for dancers in 1st and 2nd grade.
Secondary
Secondary Classes are for dancers in 3rd and 4th grade.
Tween
Tween Classes are for dancers in 5th and 6th grade.
Teen
Teen Classes are for dancers in 7th grade and up.
Ballet
A classical approach essentially based upon Vagonova technique. Class will consist on barre work, center, across the floor, comprehending vocabulary, melodic execution, and understanding correct placement and usage of ones own body.
Jazz
A collaboration of jazz technique and stylistic dance. Class consists of warm-up, across the floor, combinations and choreography. Jazz concentrates on flexibility, strength, and musicality.
Lyrical
A style that encompasses the use of balance, flexibility and control utilizing the lyrics and feeling of music.
Hip Hop
A technique that uses primarily street style moves to age appropriate hip hop music.
Acro
Short for Acrobatics. This style consists of controlled moves such as walkovers, limbers, handstands, chestrolls, etc. May contain gymnastic passes, flexibility moves, and/or contortionist moves. Our staff is Acrobatic Arts certified, providing your dancer a safe environment to learn and grow in.
Tap
Dancers will gain a understanding of Tap technique, with intricate footwork and comprehension of rhythmic sounds, precision and distinctness of movement. Class includes warm- up, across the floor, combinations, choreography and understanding the history of tap.
College Prep/Pom
This class preps your dancer for college dance teams. Technique including arm motions, formation changes, pom visuals, jumps and basic turning skills. It is a high energy, high fun class where you blend multiple dance styles together while holding poms for greater visuals through sharp, energized arm motions. Dancers will learn dance/drill movements along with proper arm placement and pathways from one arm movement to the next.** Dancers must have at least 4 years jazz experience to enroll.
Latin Dance
Offering an outlet for rhythmic expression and flowing movements, Latin dance incorporates a number of styles, including rumba, samba, merengue and even bolero.