TAP CLASSES

Adult Jazz and Tap Classes:

The format of this class is 45 minutes of Jazz and 30 minutes of Tap. Some students opt to do jazz only, but most participate in both segments. The class strives to encompass abilities on levels from beginner to experienced by concentrating on aerobic exercises from warm-ups through combinations and routines in jazz and tap vocabularies in many different styles. It is an enjoyable and demanding workout. It is an appropriate class for beginners as well as the adult who has had previous instruction at a younger age and wants to pick up dance again. We offer the morning and the evening class to accommodate your busy schedules.

Tap: Levels II through Advance

Tap technique, on all levels, is taught through a series of graded exercises designed to steadily increase the student's proficiency. The classes are each 30 minutes in length, offered immediately after the corresponding jazz class, and are not intended to be taken separately, but as an extension of our jazz dancer's experience. The dancers muscles are warmed and stretched during the jazz class, obviating the necessity to repeat those exercises and enabling the dancers to move directly into technique.

These classes are linked to the same age and ability requirements as the jazz classes.

Tap Level II: Age range 11-12-13 year olds. 30-minute class.

(There is no designated Tap Level III)

Tap Level IV: Age range 13-14 year olds. 30-minute class.

Tap Level Advanced: Age range: 15 and up. 30-minute class.

Extended Ballet, Tap, and Jazz Combination:

This class is a one-and-one-half hour combination of one-half hour each of ballet, tap, and jazz. The student is required to take at least two sections of the class for at least one hour of instruction. These classes are made-up of experienced dancers who are in the 4th and 5th grades in school. They are designed to be the next progressive step after our one-hour combination class, giving the dancers more time and more intensive work with each discipline. The ballet technique is Cechetti, the tap technique is through graded exercises, and the jazz technique covers a broad range of musical styles.