PRESCHOOL DANCE
SPRING MARCH - MAY, 2024 SESSION for 2 1/2 to 4 1/2 year olds
This program is a wonderful way for your Preschooler to explore their movement in an environment of music and fun. They will be able to use their imagination and creativity to express their love of dance. The structured class explores fine and gross motor skills, developing coordination and agility. The class size is up to 8 dancers. There is no uniform we just ask that the dancers wear stretchy clothing and bare feet and of course dance outfits are allowed.
Mondays 5:00 - 5:30pm 10 classes March 4,18,25 April 1,8,15,22,29 May 6,13 NO Class March 11 for MARCH BREAK $129.34 plus HST
Thursdays 10:00 - 10:30AM 9 classes March 21, 28, April 4,11,18,25, May 2, 9,16 $125 plus HST
Saturdays 9:00 - 9:30am 10 classes Mar 9,23,30, Apr 6,13,20,27, May 4,11,18 NO Class March 16 for MARCH BREAK $129.34 plus HST
Register online by clicking the ‘Register Now’ button below.
For more information email our studio at dance_steps@hotmail.com.
SPRING MARCH - MAY, 2024 SESSION
Dance lessons for 5 - 6 year olds
Mondays ballet/jazz 5:30 - 6:0pm March 4,18,25 April 1,8,15,22,29 May 6,13
Saturdays ballet 11:00 -11:30pm March 9,23,30, Apr 6,13,20,27, May 4,11,18
NO Class March 11 for MARCH BREAK $129.34 plus HST
BALLET AT DANCE STEPS
R.A.D. BALLET at DANCE STEPS - Students are trained in classical ballet through the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) syllabus, which progresses through the Graded levels and Vocational Graded levels. Starting at the Grade 2 level, students must enroll in two ballet classes per week. All classes will be in the year-end show - May 12 with dress rehearsal May 8. FEES - are due in 3 term 1) Upon registration 2) December 1 and 3) February 1, 2024. There is a classroom uniform for the class, and long hair must be put up in a ballet bun.
For more classes please email us at dance_steps@hotmail.com
FULL YEAR PROGRAM September 2023 -May 2024- REGISTRATION CLOSED
Ballet / Jazz Combo Classes
Would your child like to take both ballet and jazz lessons? We have a class for you, a combo class. The class is taught introducing dance concepts and technique with half of the class in ballet and the other half in jazz. The music and movements qualities are different for the different dance styles however dancers are congruently learning the two dance forms. This class will be in the year-end show performing two separate short numbers in ballet and jazz. FEES - are due in 3 term 1) Upon registration 2) December 1 and 3) February 1, 2024. There is a classroom uniform for the class and long hair must be put in a ballet bun for class.
NEW TEEN JAZZ/CONTEMPORARY CLASS on
Tuesdays starting MARCH 5th from 4:30 - 5:15pm for teens
with little or no experience.
The session is 10 weeks Mar 5, 19, 26, Apr 2, 9, 16, 23,30, May 7, 14. No Class March 12 for MARCH BREAK.
Please sign up with your interest on our waiting list, we need 5 dancers to offer this class. Look for March - May Session $196.06 plus HST
Jazz - Full Year Program September 2023 - May 19 2024 season
The latest dance styles are expressed in jazz dancing. This fast paced, high energy class uses popular music to express dance techniques. Flexibility, co-ordination and strength are an integral part of the techniques and are displayed through spectacular turns and jumps at the advanced level. Young dancers are trained to become disciplined and versatile dancers who have a professional attitude towards dance. The children’s jazz work is on age-appropriate material based on natural movements: walking, running, jumping and skipping, as well as isolations and rhythm, progressing to pirouettes and split jumps. It is designed to encourage an imaginative and rapid response to music and to promote an appreciation and enjoyment of jazz. Classes include traditional and up-to-date jazz movements, which improve coordination, balance, strength, flexibility, and rhythmic awareness. At the Grade 4 level dancers must attend 2 classes per week.
FULL YEAR PROGRAM SEPTEMBER 2023 - May 2024 - REGISTRATION CLOSED
HIP HOP - FULL YEAR Program September 2023 - May 190 2024 season
If you want to dance like those in music videos or dance crews hip hop dancing is for you. Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music. You do not have to live in N.Y.C. to dance this fun, funky, and rhythmical style of dance. This high energy class will also improve your co-ordination, musicality and physical fitness level. It includes a wide range of styles primarily street dance, and some breaking, locking, and popping.
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Tap - Full year Program September 2023 - May 19 2024 season
Ages 6 and up
Rhythm, co-ordination and style is developed in these fun classes. Regulated and controlled rhythmical sounds are executed with precision. Students learn traditional tap skills, including steps, combinations and rhythms, as well as the history and theory behind them. In more advanced classes a stomp and hip hop style of tap is explored.
REGISTRATION CLOSED
ACRO - full year Program September 2023 - May 20 2024 season
Ages 6 and up
Acrobatic moves are taught incorporating music and dance. A great dance form for gymnasts that would like to incorporate their gymnastics into dance. Dancers flexibility and agility is increased through this wonderful dance form.
For details, email the studio at dance_steps@hotmail.com
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Lyrical-Full Year Program September 2023 - May 20 2024 season
The modern/lyrical program at Dance Steps is for students 11 years and older with a minimum of 3 years dance training (or at the Intermediate Foundations level of ballet). Lyrical dance is some what a merging of ballet and jazz styles, using music with lyrics that inspire the choreographer/dancer to interpret the emotions of the song. At Dance Steps this organic class is a merging of lyrical dance with a contemporary and a modern dance mix. The class encourages self expression and interpretation using a dancers inherent dance background but also using unrestricted movements. In the advanced classes a separate modern teacher also exposes the dancers to concepts of contraction and release, floor work, fall and recovery, and improvisation.
LYRICAL
CONTEMPORARY/JAZZ 14 - 17 years old with a little or no experience We have a few interested dancers and would like to create a class. Please email us if you are interested dance_steps@hotmail.com
REGISTRATION CLOSED
FEES for children’s FULL YEAR classes 2023 - 2024:
30 minutes class - Fees are $129.35 plus HST a term for each of 3 terms - due upon registration & Dec 1 & Feb 1
45 minute class - Fees are $165.71 plus HST a term for each of 3 terms - due upon registration & Dec 1 & Feb 1
60 minute class - Fees are $196.06 plus HST a term for each of 3 terms - due upon registration & Dec 1 & Feb 1
For longer class times or multiple classes there are additional discounted amounts.
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Why are qualifications so important?
Dance Steps follows the RAD method of ballet as ballet is just as much a sport as it is an art, and without proper knowledge an untrained or poorly trained teacher can do harm to their students! In December 2015 the BBC covered this issue and reported on its findings.
“Unqualified ballet teachers can ‘damage’ children”
By Judith Burns, Education reporter
Unqualified teachers lack important training in anatomy and physiology,” said RAD chief executive, Luke Rittner. Encouraging children too early into moves, like going up “en pointe”, when the whole body is balanced on the toes, can ruin careers, said Mr Rittner.
Read the full story on the BBC website here.