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Early Childhood Program
For the 2-Year Old Child
Mom (or Dad) & Me
The two-year old child is likely to be more successful in the classroom environment with the help and support of a more capable individual.
Our Mom (or Dad) & Me class is intended to:
- Gently introduce the young child into the classroom environment with the support of a familiar individual
- Offer a time for parent and child to experience the joy of learning together
- Introduce creative movement and beginning dance concepts
- Introduce locomotor skills (skipping, hopping, tip-toeing, etc.)
- Introduce nonlocomotor skills (balancing, stretching, twisting, etc.)
- Introduce musical awareness and appreciation
- Introduce beginning acro-gymnastics skills (stretching, bridges, v-sits, front & back rolls, balance beam work, etc.)
This class is 45 minutes long and meets once per week for eight weeks. All About Dance will offer Mom (or Dad) & Me beginning in September
For the 3-Year Old Child
Kindercise
- Gentle introduction to the classroom environment
- Locomotor Skills (skipping, galloping, hopping, etc.)
- Nonlocomotor Skills (balancing, stretching, twisting, etc.)
- Beginning dance concepts and positions
- Creative movement
- Musical awareness and rhythmic coordination
- Beginning acro-gymnastics skills (headstands, rolls, bridges, cartwheels, balance beam & mini trampoline work, etc.)
- 1- hour long; meets once per week
Six-Week Fun and Creative Dance
(Fairy Princess, High School Musical, iCarly Party, Glamour Girls)
- A Magical Experience that combines dance with creative art!
- Beginning dance concepts and skills
- Expands creative expression with the use of props
- Design own keepsake book, along with imaginative costuming
- 6 week session; 1- hour long; meets once per week
Mom (or Dad) & Me
- Gently introduce the young child into the classroom environment with the support of a familiar individual
- Offer a time for parent and child to experience the joy of learning together
- Introduce creative movement and beginning dance concepts
- Introduce locomotor skills (skipping, hopping, tip-toeing, etc.)
- Introduce nonlocomotor skills (balancing, stretching, twisting, etc.)
- Introduce musical awareness and appreciation
- Introduce beginning acro-gymnastics skills (stretching, bridges, v-sits, front & back rolls, balance beam work, etc.)
This class is 45 minutes long and meets once per week for eight weeks. All About Dance will offer Mom (or Dad) & Me beginning in September
For the 4-Year Old Child
Kindercise
- Solidifying the concepts introduced in the first year of Kindercise
- Mastering certain loco motor and non-loco motor skills
- Expanding on more complicated acro-gymnastics skills and more complex rhythmic coordination.
- I-hour long; meets once per week
Kindance
- Gentle introduction to the classroom environment and etiquette
- Loco motor Skills (skipping, galloping, hopping, etc.)
- Non-loco motor Skills (balancing, stretching, twisting, etc.)
- Beginning dance concepts and creative movement
- Musical awareness and rhythmic coordination
- Beginning tap skills (shuffles, shuffle step, heel digs, toe digs, flaps, etc.)
- 1-hour long; meets once per week
Small Feet
A fast-paced class to introduce basic tap and ballet concepts.
Six-Week Fun and Creative Dance
(Fairy Princess, High School Musical, iCarly Party, Glamour Girls)
- A Magical Experience that combines dance with creative art!
- Beginning dance concepts and skills
- Expands creative expression with the use of props
- Design own keepsake book, along with imaginative costuming
- 6 week session; 1- hour long; meets once per week
For the 5-Year Old Child
Tap, Acro-Gymnastics, Pre-Cecchetti Ballet, Tot Bop Jazz, Hippity Hop, Six-Week Fun and Creative Dance
Five-year old students continue to work on the same concepts as the younger child, but in greater degrees of complexity. Thus, classes are separated into single areas of concentration. Classes are 45 minutes long each and meet once a week. (Exception: All 6-Week Classes are 1 hour long).
In ballet, tap, and jazz five-year olds develop an ability to count music, learn the basic steps and positions associated with a specific genre of dance, focus on coordinating and sequencing
movements, and become more familiar with the concept of opposition (i.e. galloping, or chasse, and skipping).
In acro-gymnastics, five-year olds are introduced to more challenging tumbling and flexibility skills on all pieces of equipment and to splits. Upper body muscles are developing at this time and aid the student in performing sequences of skills.
For the 6-Year Old Child
Tap, Acro-Gymnastics, Pre-Cecchetti Ballet, Tot Bop Jazz, Hippity Hop, Six-Week Fun and Creative Dance
At age six, children begin the transition from the Early Childhood Program to the primary levels of all areas of dance. Classes begin to take on a more disciplined format as the classroom environment becomes more familiar. Class length remains at 45 minutes, each class meeting once per week. By the time students have reached age seven, they will have a strong foundation, physically, mentally and socially, to begin studying more advanced material in Cecchetti Ballet, Modern, Traditional Jazz, Hip Hop Jazz, Contemporary, Tap, Lyrical, and Acro-Gymnastics.