COURSES OFFERED BY BETHESDA CONSERVATORY OF DANCE

This class uses music and props to engage young dancers in fun developmentally appropriate movement. 

Students ages 7 and up are invited to participate in a one-hour ballet class.  Our disciplined, yet encouragement-based technique class offers the student a clear understanding of ballet terminology, proper body lines, and alignment.

Students ages 7 and up are invited to take a one hour Jazz technique class.  Each class uses popular age-appropriate music, consists of a warm-up, stretching, isolations, strength and conditioning work, floor work, turns, leaps, jumps, through traveling exercises and combinations.

Students ages 7 and up are invited to use their own creative imagery and musicality in Lyrical class. Students are encouraged to express themselves and put feeling into the steps as they develop their technical skills.  

Students ages 7 and up are invited to move beyond the combination class into a 45-minute tap technique class.  This, fun, high energy class will emphasize proper tap progressions, styles, and rhythms.  Tap students will perform one routine in the Spring Recital.

Dancers gain admittance to this class through teacher recommendation and director approval.  This 75-minute non-performing technique class will focus on the strength and alignment necessary for pointe work.

Poms is a group dance genre that is typically performed during sporting events.  Poms choreography is fun, sharp, and rhythmic, incorporating themes from hip hop, jazz, and lyrical. Students will participate in an aerobic warm-up, focusing on strength, isolations, and flexibility.  

Students ages 7 and up are invited to join our fun, high-energy Hip-Hop class.  Age appropriate movement and music are used in this fast-paced class.  With its roots in street jazz, pop and lock, commercial, and pedestrian styles, Hip Hop is a constantly evolving form of dance.

Advanced students over age 10 may be invited to study the newest genre embraced by formally trained dancers.  Core work fall and recovery, expressive musicality, speed changes, effort/shape work, creativity, versatility in embodying different choreographic styles.