2025-2026 Classes (Dance, Voice, Acting)

Beginner Acro

Acro combines acrobatic/gymnastics skills with dance. This 45 minute class focuses on skills such as somersaults, splits, handstands, and backbends. This class will build strength, flexibility, coordination, balance and confidence.

Acro students must be enrolled in a jazz, ballet, or lyrical class. Acro classes do not perform in the Winter recital.

Intermediate Acro

To register for this class, students MUST be able to independently perform the following prerequisite skills:

• Backbend from standing 
• Cartwheel (at least one side without a spot)
• Roundoff 
• Somersault/forward roll
• Kick up into a handstand

Students without these skills on the first day of class will be asked to join Beginner Acro regardless of years of experience – NO EXCEPTIONS.

It is recommended that Acro students also take Jazz and/or Stretch and Technique class. This class does not perform in the Winter recital.

Acting classes will introduce students to the techniques used by actors who play musical and straight play theater scenes. Basic acting techniques will be taught through theater games as well as skits. Students will be given lessons in freeing the body of nervous tension, projection, articulation as well as developing confidence, presence, and emotional expressivity.

Theater classes have been proven to enhance a child’s Confidence, Public Speaking, Teamwork, Poise, Conversation, Social skills, and more!

Ballet is the foundation for many forms of dance. Ballet classes help people of all ages and genders work on posture, strength, flexibility, musicality, fitness and much more. During class, students will work on body alignment, barre and center work, and across the floor combinations. Ballet is a fantastic class to take in conjunction with other dance classes if you are looking to improve your technique.

Our Intermediate Ballet class is open to students with 3+ years of lyrical or ballet experience.

Hip hop is a fun, high energy dance style that encompasses a wide range of street styles such as breaking, locking, and popping, set to upbeat, appropriate, hip hop music.  Through this class, dancers develop musicality, creativity and coordination. Dancers are encouraged to take jazz class in addition to hip hop.

This new class is being offered by invitation and audition only. Students enrolled in this class must have displayed a focused work ethic in the previous dance session, have had good attendance and 3+ years of dance experience.

Having 3 years dance experience does not automatically mean students are ready for this class. Email info@j-dapa.org if your child is interested in this class to see if they qualify and/or set up an audition time.

One of the most popular styles of dance! Jazz is an energetic and fun class set to upbeat music. A typical jazz class begins with a center warm up that strengthens and stretches the body. Students will then work on across the floor and/or center work focusing on turns, leaps, isolations and footwork.

Intermediate Jazz

For students with 3+ years of jazz experience or by invitation from instructor.

Students must have prerequisite knowledge of dance terminology and ability to independently exquisite skills such as jete, pirouettes, chaine turn, plie, pose, 5 positions of jazz, chasse etc. Students without knowledge or ability to perform these steps will be asked to join the beginner level class.

Advanced Jazz

For students with 5+ years jazz experience.

Students in this class must be able to pick up fast paced choreography and be able to demonstrate the five jazz positions and basic jazz movements such as pas de bourre, jete, chaine, battement etc.

Lyrical classes provide dancers with an outlet to tell the story of a song through their movements.  This style of dance combines the technique of ballet, jazz and modern dance. Classes focus on turns, leaps, flexibility, creative expression and musicality.

Intermediate Lyrical

For students with 3+ years of lyrical and/or jazz experience or by invitation from instructor.

Students must have prerequisite knowledge of dance terminology and ability to independently exquisite skills such as jete, pirouettes, chaine turn, plie, pose, 5 positions of ballet, chasse etc. Students without knowledge or ability to perform these steps will be asked to join the beginner level class.

Advanced Lyrical

For students with 5+ years of lyrical experience.

Students must be able to demonstrate 5 ballet positions, perform a pirouette on the right and left side and know/perform basic dance terms such as jete, pas de bourre, balance’, arabesque, pique turns etc.

Musical Theater is a jazz-based class with Broadway-style dancing that focuses on learning performance skills such as connecting with an audience and using facial expression. In a typical class, students will participate in both dance and theater warm up exercises, theater games, acting out scenes, dancing to musical theater songs and much more! 

Dancers in Musical Theater must also be enrolled in a jazz, ballet or lyrical class.

Age requirements listed for each of these classes must be met by January 1st, 2026.

Pre-Peewee Combo

In this class, dancers will be introduced to a variety of dance styles such as jazz, tap, ballet, hip hop and acrobatics. Students will begin to learn basic dance technique while participating in creative movement and using their imagination. This is a great class to help our youngest dancers improve their gross motor skills and self confidence.

Peewee Combo

In this class, dancers will be introduced to a variety of dance styles including jazz, tap, ballet, hip hop and acrobatics. The purpose of this introductory class is to help students develop motor skills through a variety of movements. This combo class focuses on learning basic dance vocabulary, improving flexibility, balance and learning choreography helping to boost dancers’ confidence both on and off the stage.

This class is dedicated to stretching and strengthening the body to be able to correctly execute dance movements.  Strong muscles are vital to protecting a dancer’s body and improving dance skills. Students will work on improving their jazz, lyrical and ballet technique through various center and across the floor exercises. This class offers an opportunity for dancers to focus on improving specific skills so that they are able to improve their turns and leaps. This class is highly recommended for all intermediate dancers and any dancer hoping to advance into intermediate classes.

This class does not perform in our Winter recital.

Tap class gives the student a unique opportunity to transform into a percussive musician through the use of metal plates on the toe and heels of the dancer’s shoes. Tap focuses on creating rhythms and sounds which enhances a dancer’s ability to count music, feel the rhythm and increase their balance and coordination across dance genres.

Intermediate Tap

For students with 3+ years of tap experience or by invitation from instructor.

Students must be able to independently execute basic tap steps such as Buffalos, time steps, Irish, flaps with speed and accuracy as this class will focus on more advanced steps and will not break down prerequisite skills covered in beginner level tap classes. Students without knowledge or ability to perform these steps will be asked to join the beginner level class.

Advanced Tap

For students with 5+ years of tap experience.

Students must be able to independently execute steps such as waltz clog, single, double and triple time steps, maxifords, paradiddles, draw backs, buffalos etc.

Voice class provides students with the basic foundations of singing technique along with an introduction to vocal performance, repertoire, and appreciation. Vocal lessons help you, as a singer, to achieve a finer grasp of a musical style, performance techniques, focus, proper articulation, and delivery. You will learn how to use proper breath support, increase vocal range, sing with ease and clarity and learn to project your voice.