TOT DANCE
We provide a solid foundation for dancers to develop creative autonomy and confidence in a fun and nurturing environment. Classes enhance coordination and balance, improve rhythm and musicality, and engage critical listening and social skills.
Classes culminate in the annual end-of-year recital, which serves as a performance opportunity for dancers to showcase skill development, build confidence, and share accomplishments over the year with family and friends. Participation in the recital is optional but highly encouraged.
All Tot dancers move up with their peer group at the end of our session, based on a September 1st birthdate. Once dancers complete the final Kinder level, they graduate from our Tot Program and move into our Instructional Program, a skill-based program.
LITTLE TOT
AGES 2 AND 3 YEARS
Dancers and their adults will move together with songs, movement exploration, and beginner dance skills. Class emphasizes rhythmic awareness and gross motor skills, while also building social skills. Dancers will practice listening and taking turns as they become acclimated to dance class structure. This is a non-recital class.
TINY TOT
AGES 3 AND 4 YEARS
Classes incorporate imagery and creative movement as an exploration of the expressive body in relationship to space, time, and energy. While developing concepts of communication, storytelling, and character building, students will work towards locomotor and axial skills based on developmental milestones. Basic dance steps and simple movement patterns are introduced.
TURNING TOT
AGES 4 YEARS THROUGH PRE-KINDERGARTEN
Dance steps and simple movement patterns are taught to enhance rhythm and musicality, quality of movements, and a deeper sense of emotion. Dancers will improve locomotor and axial skills through imagery and creative movement.
KINDER BALLET
KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS AGES 5 AND 6
Students will be introduced to age-appropriate ballet vocabulary, flexibility exercises, and proper positions of the body, alignment and posture. Students will work toward performing on their own as they learn simple movement patterns and develop a greater understanding of musicality and sense of expression.
KINDER HIP HOP
KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS AGES 5 AND 6
Classes introduce age-appropriate hip hop movements and postures, with an emphasis on grooving to stylized music and movement patterns. Classes include simple movement patterns in which students work toward performing on their own with greater understanding of musicality, quality of movements, and sense of expression while dancing.
KINDER CONTEMPORARY
KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS AGES 5 AND 6
Contemporary dance offers an extension of creative movement concepts. It allows dancers to explore new elements of performative storytelling, alignment, and dynamics. This energetic class will encourage rhythm, musicality, and expression.
Dress Code
- Any color leotard or athletic top and bottoms
- Bare feet or ballet shoes – socks alone are not allowed
- Hair must be secured back out of the face
- Adult footwear options include bare feet or dance shoes – socks and outside shoes are not allowed
- Cell phones should be kept outside of the classroom
- All dancers are encouraged to bring a closed-top water bottle inside the dance studio
- Any color leotard or athletic top and bottoms
- Bare feet or ballet shoes – socks alone are not allowed
- Hair must be secured back out of the face
- All dancers are encouraged to bring a closed-top water bottle inside the dance studio
- A leotard (recommended) or any solid color form-fitting athletic top (no baggy tops)
- Tights, fitted shorts, pants, or leggings (no baggy pants)
- Ballet shoes
- Hair should be secured out of the face, neatly in a bun
- All dancers are encouraged to bring a closed-top water bottle inside the dance studio
- Athletic wear, leggings, mid-thigh shorts or pants (no skirts, jeans, dresses, or bare midriffs)
- Knee pads may be worn for floorwork
- Clean dance-only sneakers
- Hair must be pulled back away from the face
- All dancers are encouraged to bring a closed-top water bottle inside the dance studio
- A leotard (recommended) or any solid color form-fitting athletic top (no baggy tops)
- Tights, fitted shorts, pants, or leggings (no baggy pants)
- Bare feet – socks alone are not allowed
- Hair should be secured out of the face
- All dancers are encouraged to bring a closed-top water bottle inside the dance studio