The following class options are available for our Fall Semester, beginning August 9, 2021 - November 13, 2021.
Please scroll below to view drop-in class options, dance packages, and our current dance companies.
Please scroll below to view drop-in class options, dance packages, and our current dance companies.
Weekly Drop-in Classes
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HBCU Dance: Stands & Field
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This course will focus on the fundamentals and movements similarly performed by dance lines associated with marching bands of historically black colleges, including stand choreography, [Jazz] field choreography, the concept of bucking, hip-hop combination, parades, marches and stunts. Participants will also be introduced to Historically Black Colleges & Universities and participate in myth busting workshops associated with attending HBCUs.
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Pro Dance
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This course will focus on the fundamentals and movements similarly performed by NBA & NFL dance teams, including Jazz dance technique, pom-pom hand coordination, and dance routines to various genres of dance. Participants will also learn the necessary skills to successfully audition for the preferred professional dance team.
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Intro to Dance Technique
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Class Description: The introductory Ballet and Creative Movement fused course will equip young dancers with the necessary fundamentals in basic Ballet and Jazz techniques, while helping them increase their overall body awareness and awareness of rhythm. Course goals include the ability to demonstrate same side and cross-body movements, body patterning movements, and body shapes, and the ability to move safely in general space and start and stop on cue during activities, group formations, and creative explorations while maintaining personal space.
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Intro to Majorette
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Class Description: This course introduces young dancers to the majorette style of dance, including the concept of bucking, hip-hop combination, parades, marches and stunts.
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Beginner Dance Technique
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Class Description: This course offers an exploration into technical dance genres including Jazz, Ballet (including barre), Modern, and Contemporary. Course goals include the ability to recall and execute a series of dance phrases using fundamental dance skills and the ability to . demonstrate safe body-use practices during technical exercises and movement combinations.
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Majorette Hip-Hop
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Class Description: This high-energy, synchronized, rhythmic dance class will draw from Ballet, Jazz, Modern dance, Hip-Hop and gymnastics. Within this course, participants will learn movements similarly performed by dance lines associated with marching bands of historically black colleges, including the concept of bucking, hip-hop combination, parades, marches and stunts.
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Dance Technique Level I
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Class Description: This course offers a deep exploration into technical dance genres including Jazz, Ballet (including barre), Modern, and Contemporary appropriate for teens and adults. Class goals include the ability to embody technical dance skills (for example, functional alignment, coordination, balance, core support, clarity of movement, weight shifts, flexibility/range of motion) to retain and execute dance combinations.
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Dance Technique Level II
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Class Description: This course offers a more advanced exploration into technical dance genres including Jazz, Ballet (including barre), Modern, and Contemporary appropriate for teens and adults. Course goals include the ability to apply body-mind principles to technical dance skills in complex choreography and combinations when performing solo, partnering, or dancing in ensemble works in a variety of dance genres and styles. Dancers will also be able to apply technical dance skills for achieving fluency of movement.
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Fun Fridays: Counts Class
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Class Description: Beginner/intermediate 8-count and 16-count choreography inspired by HBCU dance lines that will be performed to Hip-Hop, Rap, R&B, and band music selections.
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Dance Packages
Dance Companies
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The Diamond Co. (14 - 35)
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Company Description: The Diamond Co. (DCO) is a dance company dedicated to providing a low-barrier safe space, for African American girls and women, to bond socially, release emotionally, and express creatively through various styles of dance. Our vision is to cultivate confident, ambitious young women, resulting in increased community morale and fearless performers. Our style: an embodiment of HBCU dance, hip-hop, jazz, and contemporary. Click here to learn more.
Classes Included: Weekly Show Rehearsals on Mondays 6p-9p, Dance Technique (new / level I dancers meet Thursdays 6p-7:30p; veterans / level II dancers meet Thursdays 7:30p - 9p), and the choice of HBCU Dance Class, Pro Dance or all Fun Friday Classes.
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Our Precious Diamonds (ages 9-13)
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Company Description: Our Precious Diamonds (OPD) operates under the same mission and vision as The Diamond Co. (see The Diamond company description). The difference, OPD is simply tailored to young women ages 9-13. Click here to learn more.
Classes Included: Weekly Show Rehearsals on Tuesdays from 6p - 9p and optional Beginner Dance Technique & Majorette Hip-Hop on Saturdays from 2p-4p.
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