The Academy's Contemporary Program is taught by Vancouver's most avant-garde professional artists and pushes our dancers to go beyond their natural limits.
The Academy's Contemporary Program is taught by Vancouver's most avant-garde professional artists and pushes our dancers to go beyond their natural limits.
A constantly developing genre of dance encompassing unconventionality of movement and seeking innovation, the Academy's program asks our dancers to take risks as they become the best prepared possible for the professional dance world.
The Richmond Academy of Dance is internationally recognized for its outstanding training programs encouraging individuality and attention to detail. These principles reflect the Academy’s aim to ensure its students’ proper development as both dancers and as individuals.
Professional and motivated teachers are committed to providing the highest possible quality of dance education for all our students. The Academy's multi-disciplined focus is unique to the Lower Mainland as it produces dancers of the highest standard set to become Canada’s newest young professionals in the performing arts world.
The Richmond Academy is a member of the BC Dance Educator’s Association, Richmond Chamber of Commerce, West Coast Tap Dance Collective, BC Alliance for Arts and Culture, Richmond Arts Council, Canadian Dance Assembly, BC Artist Registry, Candance.org and has teachers who have obtained Registered Teacher Status with various international organizations including the Royal Academy of Dance.
?Contemporary is a combination of modern dance, floor work and contract and release movements.
The Lyrical dance style has its primary basis in ballet, combining the many technical elements of classical ballet with the freedom, fluidity, expressiveness and airier aspects of jazz, contemporary and modern dance.
The class will begin with a global warming of the body to connect to physical sensations and free the mind.Â
Dancers aged 12 and up will receive a 45 min. class once a week. Lyrical dance is a style that combines ballet and jazz dancing techniques. It is performed to music with lyrics so that it inspires expression of strong emotions the choreographer feels from the lyrics of the song.
Combines jazz technique with modern skills to create interpretive movement, expression and emotional quality, as seen on So You Think You Can Dance.
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