Adult Dance Classes
True Beginner 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-1:30pm with Laura Rime - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations.
Advanced Beginner Ballet
This class is geared towards dancers with little experience, those in need of a one hour “express class,” 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 7:00-8:00pm with Sally Kane - Check our schedule for updates and cancellations.
Intermediate Ballet
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.
Sunday 12:15pm-1:45pm with Norma Smith- Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations
Intermediate / Advanced Ballet
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
Pointe
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
Luigi Jazz
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 6:30pm-8:00pm with Ralph - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations
Modern / Contemporary
This class focuses on the fundamentals of modern dance technique. The class draws its structure from various post-modern and modern dance styles and incorporates contemporary influences. The structure includes a warm up, floor work, traveling center exercises, and choreography and is danced barefoot.
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Baroque Dance
Learn dances that were popular throughout the 18th century such as a 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
Adult True Beginner Tap
This class requires no experience. The class focuses on the fundamentals of tap technique and developing rhythm and coordination of this style. Students can begin any time!
Thursdays 12:00-1:00pm (currently Open Level Tap) - Check our class schedule for updates and cancellations
Intermediate Adult Tap
Adult Intermediate Tap: 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.
Adult Hip Hop
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 7:00-8:00pm
Cardio Hip Hop
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!
CURRENTLY PAUSED FOR SUMMER
Open Class! Join our LaBlast Fitness Class and learn all the dances you see on “Dancing with the Stars”. You will learn things you have never learned before, even if you are a seasoned fitness or dance professional! The class frees, builds, and unleashes the dancer within. LaBlast is structured and easy to learn but flexible enough for creativity.
LaBlast Dance-Fitness is exercise based on Ballroom dancing partner-free! All the dances together are a true full body workout: Cardio, Endurance, Weight training, Plyometrics, & Interval training.
Don’t miss your chance to “Dance like a Star, and workout in disguise!”
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