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2062 Mitchell Drive
Oswego, IL 60643
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Toddler & Pre-School Classes (18mths-4)…

Parent Tot Class: Ages 18 months to 3 yrs. Explore creative movement and music with your young child. Basics of creative movement and ballet, as well as rhythm and coordination is sure to be a wonderful first dance experience!

Bitty Ballet: (Ages 3-4) Allows our smallest students the chance to explore the world of dance. Plie, Chasse, Arabesque, and More!

Princess Ballet: (Ages 3-4) A magical class for young dancers! Learn the basics of ballet, enjoy princess dress up, creative movement, and more, all to your favorite character music!

Tappin Tots: (Ages 3-4) Our Tiny Tappers are sure to have a blast and improve balance and coordination while they learn to flap, shuffle, cramp roll, and more!

Tiny Tots Jazz & Tumble: A fantastic class for little ones who would like to explore the world of dance as well as basic tumbling!

Kindergarten Classes (Ages 4-6)

Beginner Ballet & Jazz/Tap: Watch as your child begins to master the fundamentals of ballet, while exploring an exciting new style. Classes are half ballet, half jazz or tap.

Dance Combo: Not sure what style of dance your little one will enjoy most? Try our popular sampler class. Fundamentals of ballet, jazz, and tap are covered in this class. Ballet and Tap shoes required.

Little Lyrical: Lyrical classes improve on the basics of ballet infused with jazz, while exploring emotion and movement styles that tell a story.

Tiny Divas/Lil’ Boys Hip Hop: Hip Hop Class for our younger dancers! Explore this popular and fun style of dance that will have your little guys moving and grooving to fun, upbeat music they’re sure to love!

Petite Poms: A fantastic class filled with pom pons, jazz, and basic tumbling. Active and energizing!

Itty Bitty Acrobatics: Dancers work on strength, flexibility, and tumbling skills. Forward and Backward Rolls, Cartwheels, Handstands, Bridges, and more, all incorporated into a fun jazz style dance routine!

Fairy Tale Ballet: Enjoy ballet and a story each week! Dancers will learn about how some of their favorite fairytales were turned into famous ballets, and enjoy using the music from these to create their own fairytale ballet! Costumes/dress up will be used to complete the show! Dancers will perform their “storybook ballets” on the last week of class for parents!

New Classes for Ages 6 and Under…

Lil Boyz Hip Hop: Does your little guy love music, movement, crazy tricks? This class is just for him. Energetic and Fun, No Girls Allowed!!

Watch Me Sing and Dance, and Baby, I'm A Star Musical Theatre: A wonderful intro to musical theater, the little ones chance to enjoy what they love most! Sing and Dance to your favorite new and old broadway songs, dress up, and create a show!

New Classes for Ages 6 And Up…

Floor Barre/Lengthen & Strengthen: Find your inner strength! Improve your body alignment & technique. Improve muscular awareness, & prevent injury. This class is great for the dancer looking to greatly increase flexibility, and to elongate and strengthen muscles, especially of the legs, feet,hips, and back. Strengthening exercises will also be incorporated to help the dancer achieve power in movements. Not a technique class.

Company Workout: A Cardio Workout held at Elite Sports Professionals (ESP) for our dance company members, strengthen and INCREASE stamina to get you through those challenging routines without ever looking tired! Not in company, but interested? Let us know, and we will find you a class! Sign up at ESP, next to Storm.

Break Dancing taught by America's Best Dance Crew's Sergio Lopez: Teaches strength, balance, and coordination needed to master the amazing hip hop tricks seen on TV and in Music Videos. A must have for any hip hop dancer!

Instructional Classes

Jazz versus Hip Hop: Traditional Jazz style of dance is what is seen in many Broadway type shows such as “Cats”. It is a more structured, stage style of dance, which incorporates ballet technique. Hip Hop is a fast, high energy type of dance seen in music videos and commercials. Dance moves seen in performances by artists such as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and J Lo would be typical examples of Hip Hop. Currently, a fusion of jazz and hip hop is occurring creating an exciting new style of dance. Jazz still incorporates traditional technique, including leaps, turns, and jumps.

Ballet: Our schools offer the Royal Academy of Dance Ballet. The R.A.D. is based in London, England and is the largest examining and teacher education organization for ballet in the world and is offered in over 84 countries. The Instructional Level classes offered begin with pre-primary ballet for children aged 5 and older, primary for children aged 7 and older, grade 1 ballet ages 8-10 and so on. The grades of ballet do not follow the same ages as public school grades. Our office staff can assist in selecting the proper class for a beginning ballet student.

Tap: Our schools offer basic tap fundamentals for children younger than 6 years of age. The grade system does not start children in tap until the age of 6, and encompasses a full syllabus. Tap requires a great deal of coordination and can be a challenging style of dance. Please see the office staff or tap instructor for recommendation on which level of tap is appropriate for your child. Children under the age of 6 study in our pre-school and kinder tap rhythms classes to master basic steps, sounds, and movement.

Adult Classes: All our adult classes are Ladies Only, with the exception of hip hop. They are geared for beginning recreational students. Adult classes are offered in ballet, tap, and hip hop.

Musical Theatre: Our musical theatre program teaches broad way style stage dance and includes a basic vocal component. Our music school provides a top quality voice instructor for those wishing to further their vocal training. The musical theatre classes are open to students aged 6 through teen. Dancers will learn through skits, theater games, and of course Singing and DANCING to the latest and greatest Broadway tunes! A studio favorite!

Specialty Classes

Lyrical: A graceful form of dance that uses ballet and jazz technique, and improves the dancer’s emotional execution and musicality. Contemporary Style fuses modern dance with traditional lyrical execution.

Acrobatics: A fantastic form of dance that improves strength, flexibility, jumps, and tumbling. Great for dancers and cheerleaders. Please see the front desk for a list of skill requirements for more advanced acrobatic levels.

Hip Hop: Bump, Freestyle, and Shake it to the latest music. A fast paced class everyone is sure to love! Improve your style musicality, and confidence, all while having fun and getting a great cardio workout.

Beginning & Advanced Boys Hip Hop: Do your guys love music, movement, crazy tricks? This class is just for them. We have added an advanced class for boys needing a challenge. Beg/Inter. & Adv Taught by our male instructors Sergio Lopez and Dru Tamez Hull

Pre-Pointe: Prepares the dancer for Pointe shoes. Improves ankle/foot strength, and overall body placement. Dancers are periodically evaluated for Pointe readiness by the instructor.

Poms: Perfect for a dancer getting ready for try-outs, or to improve technique. Fun and fast paced, dancers will work on leaps, turns, etc, while learning dances with poms.

Modern Dance: A contemporary dance form that has its’ roots in ballet. Classes include center and floorwork that incorporate the sense of gravity and weightlessness in the body. The movement vocabulary and range of motion used is endless, and draws on each dancer’s personal expression and creativity. Improvisation and creative exercises may be used.

Turns, Leaps, & Tricks (TLT): This is a wonderful addition to your class schedule for dancers looking to get the edge on the latest (and the traditional) tricks in dance. Pirouettes, fouettes, needle turns, and more! Check with the front desk for a skill requirement for each level.

Stretch and Technique: Looking to improve the technical portion of your dancing? We have classes for every ability level. This class focuses on strength, flexibility, and of course, technique! Leaps, turns, jumps, etc. No choreography is taught in this class. The results are amazing!

As times and trends change in the dance world, we work hard to bring you fresh new classes to keep you on the cutting edge!!