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Princess Pre-Ballet
Ages: 2-2.5
Duration: 30 Min
6 Week Sessions
This class is for toddlers age 2 – 2.5 years old who are ready to dance on their own. Our main goal is to teach your child to love dance! Fine and gross motor skills are developed through the use of music, dance, movement with props, and basic tumbling.

Fairy Tale Creative Movement
Ages: 2.5-3 (By September 1st)
Duration: 45 Min
This beginner combo class features tap and ballet, and teaches basic dance steps to young preschoolers, with an emphasis on enchanting, fun creative movement.

Fairy Tale Creative Movement 2
Age: 4 (By September 1st)
Duration: 45 Min

This tap/ballet combo class lets 4-5 year olds expand their knowledge of creative movement and basic dance steps.

Kindermoves
Age: 5 (By September 1st)
Duration: 1 Hr

This tap/ballet combo class improves on basic dance steps and skills such as rhythm, spatial awareness, and balance for kindergarteners.

Ballet/Tap/Jazz Level 1
Ages: 6-9
Duration: 1 Hr 15 Min
These 
classes improve on basic tap and ballet, with an introduction to ballet barre exercises and jazz. These classes introduce fundamental techniques including rhythm and coordination. One genre will be performed in the annual holiday show, while the remaining 2 genres will be performed in the year end recital.

​Irish Step
Ages: 9 and older
This class introduces dancers to the soft shoe jig and reel. Class also focuses on perfecting technique and introduces
 fun Irish traditions in dance.

​Hip Hop
Ages: 4 and older
Hip Hop is a style that began in the 1980's and has evolved from street dancing and choreographed party dances. Students will learn a variety of styles and the importance of musicality is strongly emphasized. This is a high energy class!​
Ballet
Ages: 9 and older
Ballet is a classical dance form characterized by grace and precision of movement and by elaborate formal gestures, steps, and poses. Ballet is the foundation of all other dance genres and strongly emphasizes proper technique, body alignment and placement. Class will consist of stretching, barre, center work, and across the floor work. Students will study classical Vagonava and Cechetti styles.
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Tap
Ages: 9 and older
Tap is a dance form where rhythmical sounds are created by feet. Class consists of warm up, across the floor progressions, and center combinations. This will strengthen their musicality, coordination, and agility.

Jazz
Ages: 9 and older
Jazz is a combination of classic theatrical and street dance where isolations and syncopations are utilized. Class consists of a warm up, body isolations, across the floor progressions, and center combinations. Students will study a variety of styles, musicality, and rhythm.

Lyrical
Ages: 9 and older
Lyrical is a style of dance that blends jazz and ballet, while telling a story. We will work on stretching and strengthening technique, along with stage presence. Class consists of warm up, across the floor progressions, and center combinations.

Contemporary
Ages: 9 and older
Contemporary is a style of dance that rejects the limitations of classical ballet and favors movement deriving from the expression of inner feeling. Students will be studying Horton, Graham, and Release techniques.

Pointe
Ages: 12 and older
Pointe is a ballet performed in pointe shoes where the dancer stands on their toes. Strong ballet technique and understand proper body alignment are required for Pointe dancers. The owner and lead teacher must approve the student to be en pointe.

Musical Theater
Ages: 9 and older

Musical Theater Class combines Ballet,  Jazz, Acting and Singing. In this exciting fast paced class, students will concentrate on a New Musical Theater Style Story every 6 weeks, including Annie, Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid and many more! Each week children will train in all disciplines of musical theater and will work on acting, dance and movement, ensemble work, improvisation, characterization, background and props.​
DWA UPTON
26 School Street
Upton, MA 01568
DWA UXBRIDGE
6 Mendon Street
Uxbridge, MA 01569
CONTACT US
508.529.3234
dana@dwadance.com
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P.O. Box 634 Upton, Ma 01568
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