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Baby Ballet and Tumbling

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 1
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.

                         Combination classes
Combination classes are a great way for students to experience different types of dance in a short amount of instructional time. The main focus of combination classes is on students having fun and enjoying dance as an everyday activity. This combination class focuses on getting students ready to transition from combination type classes to full hour classes in a specific style of dance.
Ballet/Tap/Jazz Level 1
Ages: 6
Duration: 1 Hr 
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.
Ballet/Lyrical
Ages: 7-9
Jazz/Tap
Ages 7-9


​Hip Hop
Ages: 7 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!​

Acro
Ages: 6 and older
Our Acro class focuses on strength, flexibility, acro technique, and tumbling skills which is perfect for dancers, gymnasts, and cheerleaders, or anyone who wants to learn the art of acro. We offer safe, technically sound, and fun instruction. *Note there is no performance for this class.
Ballet
Ages: 10 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: 10 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: 10 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: 10 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.

Pre-Pointe
Ages: 10-16
Pre-Pointe is a pointe preparation class for students interested in dancing en pointe. Pre-Pointe is a 30-minute class that meets weekly, usually before or after the student's ballet class. The class is taken in ballet shoes.  A portion of the class is spent doing foot/ankle exercises and stretches on the floor. Must take this class before moving up to en pointe.
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: 6 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
dana@dwadance.com
Mailing Address:  
P.O. Box 634 Upton, Ma 01568
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