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First Steps
As your child matures, he/she will be ready to spread their wings and learn the basics of dance in our unique program designed with your 2 year old in mind.
Creative Movement
This class, specially designed for 3 year olds, develops body awareness using basic dance movements, familiar music, props and imagery.
Preschool Combo Class
This class is ideal for young students and includes tap, ballet and tumbling.
Tap
This class is designed to develop a sense of rhythm, timing and phrasing while developing movement skills and technique in the art of tap dancing.
Ballet
Techniques of classical ballet are taught with emphasis placed on correct execution of basic positions, exercises, and steps, as well as proper body alignment.
Jazz
Musical Theater
Learn to sing, act and dance in this exciting class. Students will put on performances through out the year.
Pointe
For the female dancer who has achieved the necessary classical technique and strength. Pointe class concentrates on the transference of ballet steps from demi-pointe to pointe.
Voice
This individual lesson focuses on vocal technique and training with an emphasis on proper breathing techniques, voice projection, control and tone.
Gymnastics
Strength, conditioning and tumbling skills are introduced in a safe, fun-filled enviroment.
Hip Hop
This funky fast-paced form of jazz offers the latest moves in street and video style dance.
Instrumental Lessons
Lessons are available at our Centre through Lisa Rae Music Studios, LLC. Please contact them for more information. 412-638-7598
A technique that encourages students to express themselves physically through the use of popular music combined with many different styles including Broadway, Funk, Lyrical and Latin. Ballet is a pre-requisite.
Lyrical combines ballet and jazz techniques in order to use movement to express emotion. Movements in Lyrical dance not only demonstrate control and flexibility, but also interpret the meaning of music and lyrics.
Lyrical
Guitar Lessons
Students will be taught how to read music, learn an extensive amount of chords, major and pentatonic scales, and theory as well as play many songs from various genres
Contemporary
Contemporary is a compilation of different styles of dance including lyrical, classical ballet and modern . It is a very fluid style of dance based on newer philosophies of movement.
Modern dance has origins in jazz and ballet and encourages dancers to use emotions. It is a free-flowing interpretive style of dance.
Modern