Class Descriptions

Please note: Teachers will move dancers to different levels as they decide is appropriate. We want to ensure you are in the correct level so you can get the most out of your instruction and to ensure your safety. The guidelines listed below are meant as a starting point for parents/dancers to see where their experience may place them, however, keep in mind that teachers have the final say.

Note: All classes will be held online until you are notified otherwise. Please contact our office if you have any questions. 808-735-8641 | tmc@movementcenter.org

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BALLET instills balance, strength, and coordination in addition to being foundational to all other dance genres. Ballet provides the technical foundation necessary to excel in any dance genre and should not be considered “optional” in dancers’ training. Progress is determined by the technical level achieved in class, each year building on previous knowledge. Ballet is an important part of every dancer’s training.

  • Pre-Ballet: Dancers age 5-6 with no ballet experience

  • Ballet 1: Dancers age 7+ with 0-1 year ballet experience

  • Ballet 2: Dancers age 9+ with 1-2 years ballet experience

  • Ballet 3: Dancers age 11+ with 2-3 years ballet experience

  • Ballet 4: Dancers age 12+ with 3-4+years ballet experience

  • Ballet 5: Dancers age 12+ with 5+ years ballet experience

  • Pointe: as recommended by the instructor

COMBINATION CLASSES provide the perfect foundation for the youngest dancers. We cover multiple genres in a fun, upbeat, and fast-paced class sure to keep the little ones on their toes and learning the basics of rhythm, counting, coordination, and movement.

  • Mini Movers: Dancers age 3-4 - covers ballet, tap, and tumbling basics

  • Mighty Movers: Dancers age 5-6 - covers tap, jazz, and tumbling basics

CONDITIONING classes are geared toward building strength, balance, and flexibility - good for both dancers and non-dancers!

  • Family Conditioning: Open to all ages and abilities

  • Stretch & Strengthen: Open to ages 7+

CONTEMPORARY is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet. Contemporary dancers strive to connect the mind and the body through fluid dance movements. Contemporary dance stresses versatility and improvisation, unlike the strict, structured nature of ballet. Dancers focus on floor work, using gravity to pull them to the floor. Contemporary dance can be performed to many different styles of music.

  • Contemporary 1: Dancers age 9+ with at least 1 year jazz/ballet experience

  • Contemporary 2: Dancers age 10+ with at least 2-3 years jazz/ballet/contemporary experience

  • Contemporary 3: Dancers age 12+ with at least 3-4+ years jazz/ballet/contemporary experience

  • Adult Contemporary: Adult dancers with 2+ years jazz/ballet/contemporary experience

HIP HOP is a funky and dynamic dance form with roots in street dance, African, Jazz, and numerous flavors of movement. It emphasizes rhythm, isolations, footwork, strength, and style presented in a high-energy positive environment.Hip-hop dance includes a wide range of styles notably breaking, locking, and popping, as well as newer dance industry trends. Each high energy and fun class consists of the basic steps, vocabulary, and variations of the dance form with unique moves, fancy footwork, and floorwork.

  • Hip Hop 1: Dancers age 7+ with no experience

  • Hip Hop 2: Dancers age 9+ with 1-2 years experience

  • Hip Hop 3: Dancers age 11+ with 2-3+ years experience

  • Adult Hip Hop: Open to all adults

JAZZ classes combine traditional jazz styles with the ever-changing styles and trends of contemporary popular culture. Each class consists of the basic steps, vocabulary, and variations of the dance form with unique moves, rhythmic patterns and variations, body isolations, fancy footwork, big leaps, and quick turns. Through warm-ups and exercises, students gain strength, flexibility, endurance, coordination, musicality, and performance presence.

  • Jazz 1: Dancers age 7+ with no jazz experience

  • Jazz 2: Dancers age 9+ with 1-2 years jazz experience

  • Jazz 3: Dancers age 11+ with 2-3 years of jazz experience

  • Jazz 4: Dancers age 12+ with 3-4 years of jazz experience

  • Jazz 5: Dancers age 12+ with 5+ years jazz experience

  • Jazz Tech & Turns: Dancers age 8+ looking to improve their technique - this class is FREE to all dancers who are concurrently enrolled in a level 2 or higher Jazz class. May be required by the instructor.

  • Theatre Jazz: Dancers age 10+ looking to work on stylized choreography from stage and film, as well as original choreography by the instructor. Open to dancers with 2-3 years jazz experience and adults.

  • Jazz Dance Company: by audition only

PERFORMING ARTS combine elements of theater dance with singing and acting. Students will learn songs and dances from current and/or classic musicals from various Broadway shows. Through singing exercises, dance movement for musical theater, and an introduction to acting; with an emphasis on dance and vocal skills, students will learn basics of pronunciation, projection and breath control as well as footwork, jumps, turns, floor patterns, and character presentation used in theatrical choreography.

  • Song & Dance 1: Dancers age 4-6 with no experience

  • Song & Dance 2: Dancers age 4-6 with 1 year dance class experience

  • Musical Theatre 1: Dancers age 7+ with no experience

  • Musical Theatre 2: Dancers age 8+ with 1-2 years jazz/MT experience

  • Musical Theatre 3: Dancers age 9+ with 2-3 years jazz/MT experience

RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS is a sport that combines elements of ballet, gymnastics, dance, and apparatus manipulation. Students learn to incorporate props like ribbons, hoops, ropes, and balls with various tumbling skills and dance movements. Ballet and tumbling experience encouraged.

  • Rhythmic Gymnastics 1: Dancers age 7+ with no rhythmic experience

  • Rhythmic Gymnastics 2/3: Dancers age 8+ with 1-3 years tumbling/rhythmic experience

TAP classes fuse the classical American tap styles evoking images of top hats and canes with the ever changing influences of contemporary popular culture. Through a series of warm-up, exercises, rhythm sequences, across the floor patterns, various tap combinations and dance routines, dancers focus on the development of a sharpened sense of rhythm, rhythmic variations, coordination, performance skills and clarity of sounds incorporated into every class.

  • Tap 1: Dancers age 7+ with no tap experience

  • Tap 2: Dancers age 9+ with 1-2 years tap experience

  • Tap 3: Dancers age 11+ with 2-3 years tap experience

  • Tap 4: Dancers age 12+ with 3+ years tap experience

  • Tap Dance Company: by audition only

TUMBLING/ACROBATICS classes will help increase strength and flexibility as well as improve coordination and confidence. Students will learn basic tumbling and acrobatic tricks appropriate for each level.

  • Acro/Tumbling 1: Dancers age 6+ with no experience - focus on bridge/handstand

  • Acro/Tumbling 2: Dancers age 9+ with 1-3 years tumbling/acro experience

  • Acro/Tumbling 3: Dancers age 10+ with 4+ years tumbling/acro experience