Class Information, Dance Style Info & Proper Dance Attire 2011/2012 Season
CLASS INFORMATION
Every year we try new things in hopes to develop and grow the studio, this was the first year we offered two different programs “technique classes” and “recital classes.” The program was a huge success and we will be offering it once again next year. The idea between the classes is described below.
TECHNIQUE CLASSES:Focus will be on proper technique, flexibility, strength, stamina and musicality will be emphasized in these classes. Short combinations will be learned to assist students in the ability top pick up choregraphy and combine the technique they have learned with stylized moves. Technique classes do not have a performance piece and will not perform in our year end recital.
RECITAL CLASSES: The focus is on performance. Students will be learning basic technique but the majority of the class will focus on routine, stage presence etc. Recital classes may have a wide variety of age groups and ability. This is because these classes are performance based, and teachers can work with different ages and levels to create a dynamic performance piece. Recital classes perform at our year end recital.
*For students taking both technique and recital class - we will have a reduced rate for the 2nd class. Please see the office regarding multiple classes for a reduced price in 2011/2012.
COMPETITIVE/RESTRICTED: -These classes are for students to compete and perform throughout the year. They must be available from September to June to participate in a variety of dance shows and competitions. These students must be committed and dedicated. They will also have the wonderful opportunity to also do solos, duos, and trios if desired. In order to participate in a Competitive class, students must take at least two technique classes.
LEVELS:
Beginner 0 - 2 years training
Intermediate 3 - 5 years training
Advanced 6 + years training
*Years of training is a general outline to assist you in finding the right class for your dance needs. Sometimes teachers will request students’ stay at the same level, or be moved to another level.*
EXAMINATIONS
We are proud to have mentored some of our students through the Al Gilbert Tap & Jazz Examinations with much success! We will be bringing these exams back next year, as well as introducing the RAD ballet exams.
THE AL GILBERTexamination is offered in both jazz and tap. These exams are designed as an incentive for the students to strive for their best ability, while being trained in a renowneddance syllabus. We find the students are duly rewarded for their efforts. Report cards and certificates are awarded for students who achieve a Grade of 80 or higher.
ROYAL ACADAMEY OF DANCE is an examination system for ballet. The RAD stresses that each student will excel if they have an achievable goal. This is measured either by an annual RAD Examination or a Presentation Class.
*Students who would like to participate in next year’s exams are able to do so at the instructors’ discretionl Please let us know if this is something of interest to you and your child.
A NOTE ABOUT COMPETITIONS AND FESTIVALS
We cannot guarantee instructors will be present at competitions for the dance numbers they have choreographed. The reason is that instructors typically teach most days of the week, and are unable to leave their work to come to a competition. Though their instructor may not be there, we will try our best to send another instructor or a representative from the studio to the competition to play their music and support them.
We do ask that all competitive students bring a copy of their music to all competitions and performances as a back up, in case their is an emergency where an instructor is unable to make it or a problem arises with the original copy of music.
If a competition or performance runs during the time of a student’s class,we will not make up the class. Unfortunatley, it is not our decision as to how the dance numbers are scheduled in competitions, but we try and work out the best possible solutionswith the schedule we receive.
STYLES OF DANCE OFFERED
A variety of classes/workshops are offered throughout the year. Please call to inquire. Descriptions are available on our website: www.dancinstars.com
FUN PROGRAMS FOR 2011/2012 SEASON
Al Gilbert Dance Syllabus and Dance Examinations
The Al Gilbertexamination system has been the most widely used technique and testing program in North America for the last thirty-five years. The technique has become an accepted standard of systemized dance training throughout the world.
The Al Gilbertprogram provides a foundation in tap and jazz dance upon which any style in either genrem be built. All too often people (this of course includes parents and teachers!) would like to see a child perform contemporary and complex routines well before the student is ready to do so. We all know of the adage, which advises that one must “”. Some dance systems exist which involve much “running” from those who can barely “crawl”. It is neither fair nor responsible to delude students and parents with such lofty ideas, especially when the ideals cannot be realized until the child is two or three years older. The Al Gilbert system wholeheartedly ebraces the notion that immeasurable s from a complex satisfaction is gained from a simple thing done well, and that only frustration results from a complex thing done poorly.
Each examination level is specifically geared towards both the psychological and physicological two most crucial criteria used to govern the demand of the syllabus and to ensure that each student would acquire a sound an proper education in dance.
LUIGI JAZZ TECHNIQUE
After twenty years of acrobatics, singing and dancing experience as a child entertainer, Luigi woke up one day in a hospital bed, unable to move. “You’re paralyzed: you’ll never walk again,” his doctor said. Luigi’s desire to dance again left him no alternative but to create his own ideas of learning to move the body correctly - all the time. He discovered, the hard way, that movement must come totally from the inside out.
Two years after Luigi’s accident, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio talent scout spotted him in a Falcon Studios recital. He was brought to Gene Kelly who hired him for the musical, “On the Town.” Amazingly, Luigi was working the paralyzed side of his body so well that he began an eight-year career as a chorus dancer in such films as “Annie Get Your Gun”, “An American in Paris”, “Singing in the Rain”, “The Band Wagon”, and “White Christmas” to name a few.
The Luigi technique is a profoundly rich system that Luigi developed over nearly a half-century with the following goals:
1 part To train the dancer to stand, balance, and move out into space
1 part To heal and protect the dancer’s body from injury
1 part To help the dancer dance to and with jazz music
Luigi’s technique is timeless. His floor patterns are as intricate and precise as those of a Renaissance dance. Though you can learn the technique and work the exercises at your own pace, it is not an easy technique. It will take time for you to develop the stamina necessary to perform all the exercises with the focused attention that is the goal. The physical, psychological, and spiritual rewards of mastering these exercises are worth the effort.
“Technique is like tuning an instrument: Learn to tune your body just right so that when you go to play, it’s beautiful.” - Luigi
PRODUCTION
A production is a large dance number composed of a variety of different dance styles and scenes to tell one main story. The class is a choregraphy class, which is open to all ages and levels that are interested in a class culminating in a performance. (See class descriptions). There are many different roles from leads to chorus so if you aren’t comfortable with being a lead there is always space for you!
Parents, this is also a great opportunity to dance along side your child!
DANCE STYLES OFFERED/PREQUIRED CLOTHING
We advise students to always bring a water bottle into class. Students are not permitted to wear jewelry into class, and pleae have hair tied up and off your face for all classes.
ACRO
Acrobatics is a dance form which combines traditional artistic gynmastics with rhythmic gymnastics and stunt work. It requires balance, strength, power and flexibility. Students learn the fundamentals of contortion and tumbling, and combine these skills with partnering and group stunts. The use of apparatus such as boxes, balls, hoops, platforms, exotic props and sets may accompany arabatic displays.
Required:
Hair should be in two french braids. You can do forward roll stunts most easily with this hair style, braided pony tail or low braide pigs tails are acceptable
Bodysuit and footless tights
Barefee
Nothing baggy
Older students: bodysuits, tight Capri pants/shorts
BALLET
In this class students will focus on posture, body alignment, co-ordination, and flexibility. Children will learn self discipline, self motivation, and grace, through the movement of ballet. Each class will consist of a barre center, practice, and stretch.
Required:
- Hair should be tied in a bun
- Pre School, Pre Primary and Primary + Pink leotards, pink ballet tights, pink skirt and pink leather ballet shoes
- Grade 1 & 2 = Pink bodysuit, ballet pink tights, pink leather ballet shoes
- Grade 3-5 = Navy blue bodysuit, ballet pink tights, pink leather ballet shoes
- Grade 6 = Black bodysuit, ballet pink tights, pink leather ballet shoes
CREATIVE DANCE
In this class children are introduced to the classroom setting by using fun games and activities. Your child will be learning the basics of ballet through movement and song. Throughout the year your child will be introduced to jazz, acro and ballet, so that at the end of the year your child can get a better understanding of the many discipline that dance has to offer.
Required:
- Hair should be tied back in to a pony tail and out of their faces
- Nothing baggy
- Body suit and tights
- Jazz or Ballet shoes (barefoot is permitted at teachers discretion)
BREAK DANCING
Focus is all on breaking. Breaking is a unique dance style that started in the Bronx, New York in the 70’s. Learn the basic foundation steps in footwork, uprock & toprock, freezes and power moves. Skill needed to free style will be taught as well.
Required:
- Clean light flexible shoes (no street shoes)
- No jeans. Sweat pants are best. Stay away from shorts to avoid floor burns on your legs!
- Wrists bands are optional.
- No jewelery
HIP HOP
All aspects of hiphop will be coverd. Oldskool styles such as locking and popping, as well as commercial hiphop such as street jazz and video dance will be taught in class.
Required:
- Wear anything comfortable and nothing too tight
- Proper shoes, NOT street shoes. Clean runners, are good
- No jeans please!
JAZZ
In this class students will focus on rhythm, co-ordination, balance and flexibility. A wide variety of music and rhythms are used from swing to top 40. Each class will focus on developing technique, learning a variety of combinations and a routine.
Required:
- Jazz shoes: Black or Tan
- Hair pulled back and off face
- Fitted Clothing: Bodysuit and tights, jazz pants or fitted shorts
LYRICAL JAZZ
In this class students will focus on rhythm, co-ordination, balance and flexibility. Students will learn how to use emotion to express themselves throught the art of dance. Each class will focus on developing technique, learning a variety of combinations and a routine.l
Required:
- Hair pulled back and off face
- Clothing - fitted: (i.e. bodysuit and shorts or tights)
- Jazz shoes or foot undies
SONG & DANCE
Engaging and fun games, excerises, and skills are learned in the disciplines of Singing, Acting, and Dancing. Challenging and rewarding…students then learn how to incorporate all three talents together via exciting musical routines.
- Jazz shoes: Black
- Hair - pulled back and off face
- Clothing: bodysuit and tights, jazz pants or fitted shorts
- Duo tang or binder, and pencil
TAP
In this class, students focus on developing tap technique, rhythm, musicality, and co-ordination by using their feet as percussion. A wide variety of musi8c and rhythms are used fromswing to top 40. Tap dancing uses hard soled shoes that have metal taps on the toes and heels, which are necessary to create the intricate sounds. This class also helps develop each students ability to express themselves through movement and builds endurance as they perform routines and work on stage presence.
Classes are offered for both competitive and non-competitive students.
Required:
- BLOCH Tap Shoes
- Primary-Grade 3: Style 302 (Tan with Taps)
- Grade 4 and Up: Style 301 (Black lace up with Taps)
- Pre School classes may wear black patten leather shoes
- *Please note shoe colour may change to match costumes for stage performances
- Hair should b
- Grade 1 & 2 = Pink bodysuit, be in either a bun or ponytail, bangs must be off face
- Black bodysuits and tights for Pre-School and Primary Classes
- Fitted tank top or bodysuit with jazz pants or fitted shorts, no jeans or sweat pant
OLDSKOOL
Locking, popping, house, and old skool hiphop styles will be taught. Video dance and street jazz will not be taught in this class, this is strictly an early 90s style hiphop class.
Required: - see Hip Hop
SALSA
In Salsa students learn all the basic footwork and techniquel. Posture, body isolation’s, and flexibility are also strongly focused on in class. Students will learn the aspects of partner dancing and Latin choreography this is both traditional and new age.
Required: -
Tight fitted clothing
Latin shoes (with heel) Latin dance shoes, when purchased from a dance store, offer complete support for the foot. It will train the individual to dance on the ball of the foot and in heels which also encourages correct upright back posture. Proper shoes assist in building leg, feet and ankle muscle which are cruicial to have as a dancer. Please obtain a pair in silver colour.
Hair up in ponytail
Check out Dancin’Stars store “STAR STYLE” for it’s a convenient and affordable place right here in the studio to purchase required clothing and shoes.
If we don’t have it, we will get it for you!
POLYNESIAN/HULA
Introduced to a various types of dance which include ancient Hawaiian hula to modern hula. Focus will be on technique and coordination. We will also be exploring different instruments used in the Hawaiian culture. Hula is much more than just dance. It is an expression of history, religion and the human spirit.
Required:
- Hair should be out of face
- Sarong (can be bought at Hangers in Royal City Mall)
- Shorts (to be worn under sarong)
INDIAN DANCE FUSION & BOLLYWOOD FUSION
Indian Dance Fusion is a new program designed to explore the artistic culture of India in Dance. Students will deeply explore dance movements in the ancient classical form of Bharata Natyam.
Each class begins with a warm up, combining yoga postures and classical pilates techniques. Students will learn about different muscle groups and the importance of core strength in balance.
The next part of the class is classical conditioning. Students will learn full body positioning, from the head, arms, legs and feet. They will learn different types of spins, with legs in full sitting, standing and floor spins. Kneepads may be needed after about 8 weeks. In addition, students will also train in 9 different facial expressions that focus on head and eye movements and hand gestures that incorporate creative story telling.
The final component of the class is Indian Dance Fusion choreography, where the traditional elements of Indian dance are combined and set on different rhythmic patterns. Some of the pieces are set on original scores.
The class will be creative, imaginative and interactive! No dance experience needed.
PCD - STREET JAZZ (PussyCat Dolls)
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