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Parent Tot

Ages 18 months to 3 years
30 min
1 student $30/mo.

This fun class is for children ages 1 or 2 along with their mom or dad.  This is a great introduction to dancing for children just developing their coordination.  The teacher guides the parent/tot team in a way that makes discovering movement, balance, and listening skills easy and fun!  This class is an excellent first group activity!

 

Creative Movement

Ages 3 & 4
30 min
1 student $30/mo.

This creative movement program covers rhythmic coordination, simple exercises, tested dance movements, development of large motor skills, counting, singing and make-believe. This level of training provides the child with a social outlet, exposing the child to others outside their usual circle of personal contact. It also introduces the child to the experience of taking instruction from a person other than their own parent. This discipline of dance training also aids in the development of the child’s attention span.

Tumbling Tots

Ages 3 & 4
30 min
1 student $30/mo.

This class provides a foundation in the basics of physical movement using gross motor skills such as rolling, jumping and climbing as well as balance, flexibility and coordination. This class not only concentrates on the physical aspects but also on the mental and social aspects (i.e. following directions, forming a line, working within a group, sharing equipment and space). Children begin to accomplish thier own goals within the structure of the class while developing a sense of athletic achievement, self-esteem, and social skills that will last a lifetime.

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Kinderdance

Ages 5 & 6
50 min
1 student $45/mo.

Kinderdance classes are a combination of ballet, jazz and tap classes for students who are in kindergarten or first grade. The class introduces them to dance and movement while developing awareness of their bodies as an instrument of art. this program is designed to keep the body supple while introducing movement, song, music, rhythms and very elementary pre-ballet, jazz and tap. Students will be taught to dance independently of the teacher and will memorize simple exercises and sequences.

Kinder Hip Hop

Ages 5 & 6
50 min
1 student $45/mo.

Kinder Hip Hop is a class designed to focus on introductory hip hop skills for students who are in kindergarten or first grade.  Students will learn basic isolations and breaking movements and they will begin to work on basic popping and locking.  Students will gain strength while in the class while developing a sense of athletic achievement, self-esteem, and social skills that will last a lifetime.

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Jazz

Ages 7 & Up
50 min
1 student $45/mo.

Jazz dance has many different styles, ranging from a cool lyrical base to a very stylized form of jazz. It is a mixture of ballet, modern, and ethnic techniques all fused together to complimentary music. This class focuses more on proper technique and flexibility while working on more advanced steps and progressions.

Tap

Ages 7 & Up
50 min
1 student $45/mo.

Tap dancing emphasizes rhythm, tempo, timing, counting, and basic coordination. This class offers the fundamentals in basic and proper technique and can advance to trick steps such as wings, over the tops, pullbacks as well as rhythm turns and progressions across the floor and and in center. Students will learn more variations of steps and work on strength, speed, skills, stamina, style, and virtuosity.

 

Ballet

Ages 7 & Up
50 min
1 student $45/mo.

Ballet consists of many basic principles and movements. This class breaks down feet and arm positions, barre and center combinations, and across the floor combinations. Students will gain flexibility, improve their body carriage and attain the look, grace and confidence of a professional dancer. This class can lead to basic pointe work. This ballet program will familiarize your child with proper technique while having fun!

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Lyrical

Ages 7 & Up
50 min
1 student $45/mo.

Lyrical dance fuses together the techniques of jazz and ballet while adding emotion. It is a flowing and emotional style of dance that has depth to it. Students will learn about understanding the lyrics of the song and how to relate their movement to them.

Hip Hop

Ages 7 & Up
50 min
1 student $45/mo.

Hip hop dance is a funk style dance that has an urban background. It covers popping, locking, and breaking movements. This class breaks down the basics of break dancing and fuses together today’s latest hip hop and funk styles with old school movements and stunts. This style of dance trains dancers to develop a strong use of body isolation.

 

Clogging

Ages 7 & Up
50 min
1 student $45/mo.

Clogging is a dance that is done in time with the downbeat of the music, with the heel keeping the rhythm. The toe and heel movements occur on the upbeat of the music followed by the heel, which occurs on the downbeat of the music. Students are taught to use the feet as an instrument to make rhythmic and percussive sounds while accompanying the music .

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Acro/Tumbling

Ages 7 & Up
50 min
1 student $45/mo.

This class teaches the fundamentals of tumbling by focusing on flexibility, conditioning, body control, strength development, and terminology. Students will learn basic body positions and tumbling skills at their level. Tumbling skills include backbends, handstands, cartwheels, rolls (forward, backward, straddle), walkovers, and handsprings.

Cheer

Ages 7 & Up
50 min
1 student $45/mo.

Cheer classes are an excellent opportunity to "win friends and influence people." This is an enthusiastic group in which almost anyone can learn the routines. This level of training offers simple foot, leg, and arm motions as well as coordination, rhythm, poise, and physical fitness. Basic cheer skills will be emphasized - jumps, yells, dance movements, and basic stunts. Students will enjoy the experience of performing as an individual on an integrated team.

 

Leaps, Turns, Jumps

Ages 7 & Up
50 min
1 student $45/mo.

This is a pure technique class designed to help dancer's perfect jazz-based movements.  Students will learn where to place arms, head, feet and legs as well as strength and conditioning exercises.  Class will focus on leap, turns and jumps in multiple dance disciplines such as but not limited to Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, and Modern.

Musical Theater

Ages 7 & Up
50 min
1 student $45/mo.

Deriving from Theater, this class will combine dialogue through music, speaking and dance movements.  This class is a great option for students of all levels who want to explore role-playing and character development in dance.  Students are taught to communicate various characters and stories through improvisation, dance and body expression.  This is a great class where students can also work on enhancing their confidence and self-esteem.

 

 

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Class Tuition is as follows:

First class is $45/mo.
Second class is an additional $35/mo.
Third through eighth are an additional $29/mo.
Ninth and above is FREE.
(Discounts do not apply to classes that are less than 50 minutes in duration.)

Private Lessons

All Ages
50 min
1 student $35 per class plus choreography fee (if applicable)

Private lessons are by special arrangement with the studio and the teacher. Because time must be set aside in advance, it must be scheduled through the office by reservation. If you schedule a private lesson and for any reason and cannot be present at your reserved time, you will be charged for the lesson because the instructor and facilities will have been kept idle on your behalf.

 

2011-2012 Belgrade Schedule (updated 1/12/12)

***If you are registering for more than 5 classes, register for the first 5 classes, and when you are finished, the session will close. You will need to log back on and fill out the form again and register for the remaining classes. If you do it this way, it will read in the system as one student, so your account will not be charged twice.***

If a session has met the maximum capacity, it is closed and will no longer show up on the web-site. If you'd like to get on a waiting list for a specific class, please call the studio during office hours and a staff member will add you to the waiting list.

2011-2012 Bozeman Schedule  (updated 1/12/12)

Studio Location - 714 Stoneridge Dr., Suite 1, Bozeman (North of the Holiday station at 19th and Durston, next to Allstate Insurance)

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