Adult Class Descriptions

Ballet

This class is geared towards complete beginners to introduce the basic foundations of ballet. It teaches balance, posture, and strength, as well as inspires grace and confidence. Explore musicality and dynamics while dancing your way through each exercise during barre and center work.

Fridays 12:15pm-1:45pm with Laura Rime - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations.

This class is geared towards dancers with little experience or for anyone who feels like “it’s been awhile.” The class is mostly barre with a gentle and light center. The class starts at a slow enough pace where beginners can take in the movement vocabulary, and more experienced dancers can really work their feet and technique. Join us for the best way to wind down the work week!

Fridays 7:15-8:15pm with Manna Tsao - Check our schedule for updates and cancellations.

This is a classical ballet class for teens and adults. Class starts with a full barre followed by center and traveling work. Some previous training in classical ballet is needed for this class. Faculty will provide corrections and adjustments in a nurturing environment.

Wednesday 10:00am-11:15am with Olivia Galgano- Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations

Saturday 10:45am-12:15pm with Olivia Galgano - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations

Sunday 12:30pm-2:00pm with Norma Smith- Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations

This is a classical ballet class with a full barre and center. This class is best suited for those who are experienced in ballet such as professionals, retired professionals, advanced teens, and others with multiple years of prior ballet experience.

Fridays 10:00am-11:30am with Olivia Galgano - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations

This class aims to further pointe technique and continue to build strength, balance, and coordination. It is recommended to take this class directly after and in conjunction with ballet technique. This class starts and focuses on barre work. The 30 minutes culminate with center combinations en pointe to continue and compliment the work that was started at the barre.

Friday 11:30am-12:00pm - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations

Other Dance Styles

Ralph DiRienzo teaches the authentic Luigi Jazz Technique. The exercise routine Luigi created for his own rehabilitation after a devastating accident became the world’s first complete technique for learning jazz dance. Dance historians have defined the style as classic jazz, sophisticated, elegant and even liquid fire. The class uses stretching exercises in a routine to discover what has to be done to control the body. This technique is designed to prevent injuries, while “always putting the body in the right position” and “feeling from the inside out”. The importance of using the body properly is stressed; telling students to take their time and feel what they’re doing. “If you keep doing things right long enough, they’ll get better right.”

Practically speaking, the warm-up takes approximately 30 to 40 minutes and the remainder of the class is dedicated to a jazz routine: sometimes the music is from eras gone by; Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy David Jr. Tony Bennett, etc. Other combinations are choreographed to more contemporary artists such as Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Lady Gaga, Cold Play, Renee Olstead, etc.

Mondays 11:30am-1:00pm with Ralph - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations

Wednesdays 7:30-9:00pm with Ralph - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations

Learn dances that were popular throughout the 18th century such as the minuet. No partner or dance experience is required. Learn the history and notation, as well as choreography, of the style of dance that inspired ballet.

Fridays 6:00-7:30pm with Sue Nabors Braisted - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations

This class requires some Tap experience. We begin with a stationary warm up for the feet, followed by traveling across the floor to explore various tap skills and steps. The end of the class focuses on a variety of intermediate choreography to advance the skills worked on in the beginning of class.

Thursdays 12:00-1:00pm - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations

This open level teen/adult class is choreography-based to build dancers’ movement vocabulary and personal style. After starting with a warm up, students will be guided through basic moves before learning a short combo to a new song each week. The goal of this class is for dancers to gain confidence, control movements, and make it their own. Whether you are a trained hip hop dancer or interested in getting into it, this class is for you! It is a space for beginners to grasp choreography and advanced dancers to add style to their movements.

Thursdays 8:00-9:00pm with Spex - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations

Fitness & Yoga

A balance between low impact movements, choreography, and a pumping heart. Get in your cardio with light conditioning, followed by a new combination every week, guaranteed to make you sweat and smile!

Tuesdays 10:15-11:00am with Julie - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations

This weekly Monday night class is designed for anyone seeking to relieve stress, work on posture, breathe and expansion of range of motion. It features a gentle flow, combination of breathe work, mindful movement and mediation to promote resilience, healing and peaceful well being. We provide mats, bricks, blankets and bolsters as well as straps and yoga props and offer a relaxing, welcoming candlelit environment for healing the body and mind through Yoga and Meditation.

Mondays 7:30-8:30pm with Morgan - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations

Families of all ages are welcome to join this class. The practice is creative, engaging, and a perfect experience for fortifying family relationships, to meet others, and to have fun in a relaxed atmosphere.

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Our Pilates Ball and Prop class focuses on building core strength, balance, agility and facilitates stretch and elongation of muscle groups. Designed for dancers, athletes and workout devotees. We incorporate hand held props such as weights and Therabands to add to the circuit workout.

Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:00am-10:00am with Lynn - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations.

Our pilates classes aim to strengthen muscles through traditional pilates mat exercises, while improving postural alignment and flexibility.

Sundays 10:30-11:30am with Lynn - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations.