At All About Dance! our Early Childhood Program is specially designed to provide children between two and six years of age with a strong foundation in dance and movement. Our program’s design is a reflection of the most recent research findings in early childhood development. Children in the early childhood years are making developmental strides in the physical, social, emotional, and aesthetic arenas.  Accordingly, our Early Childhood Program functions to mirror these findings. Our program aids physical development by introducing movement concepts, musical rhythm, opposites, and the elementary positions of dance.  Social development is aided by participation in our early childhood classes when students are introduced to the basics of classroom behavior and   manners, such as learning how to take turns, how to follow a leader, how to wait patiently, how to work together with others, and how to maintain a positive attitude.  Integrated with these physical and social concepts are such ideas as self-awareness, self-efficacy, and self-esteem. These important components of a child’s emotional development are emphasized in our positive, upbeat learning environments. Finally, our program serves to develop a child’s creative, or aesthetic development. We do so by introducing such concepts as musical awareness and appreciation, dance appreciation, spatial awareness, and by providing many opportunities for sensory experiences with educational props.    

 For one hour a week, pre-schoolers 3-5 years of age will enjoy our Kindercise and KinderDance  programs. Kindercise children will learn to enhance their locomotive, balancing and coordinaction skills through educational games, gymnastic equipment, songs, and choregraphed dances. They will also be introduced to the beginning elements of classical ballet as well as new concepts such as classroom etiquette. KinderDance students will also be introduced to such concepts as musical awareness, classroom etiquette and expression of creativity through choregraphed dances in classical ballet and pre-jazz as well as developing creative rhymic expression through the introduction of tap dancing. Above all, children in our Kindercise and KinderDance program will develop creative expression in a fun and exciting atmospere.

 Children 5 to 6 years of age in our Early Childhool Program are able to choose from the primary levels of Ballet, Tap, Acro-Gym and Tot Bop (our Junior Jazz Program). For 45 minutes a week, children will learn to further control their movement and build on their skills from Kindercise and KinderDance in specific ares of dance. Concepts such as rhythm awareness, body placement and creative expression are expanded upon.

 Students beginning at age 7 and up to adults are offered professional instruction in Classical Ballet, Point (offered only to students physically prepared and properly trained), Tap, Jazz, Acro-Gymnastics, Lyrical Ballet and Hip Hop Jazz. Students at this level are encouraged to develop their imagination as well as their minds and bodies through their own original style of dance…concepts which will carry throughout their lives. All students are placed in classes, appropriate to their age as well as their skill level.

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