Dance | Hermitage Performing Arts Academy

Dance Class Descriptions

Hermitage Performing Arts creates a professional, encouraging environment that promotes a student’s self-confidence, self-esteem and appreciation, and personal discipline. These traits enhance the dancer’s ability to work creatively and expressively, giving the student the freedom to fully develop their technical and artistic abilities.

Our goal is to give each student the necessary foundation needed by providing students the opportunity to participate in classes recreational. We strive on providing the gift of a healthy, well-trained body along with a nurtured love and respect for dance.

Dance Enrollment at Hermitage Performing Arts is a full year program, with the exceptions of our winter, spring, and summer camps, workshops, and sessions. Registration is open all year.

8 yrs & Up Dancers

BALLET

The foundation for all dance styles. Classical ballet combines proper body alignment and placement. It trains the dancer’s muscles through seamless transitions of arm, leg, and feet positions, providing the dancer with proper technique to continue the growth of strength and coordination as the dance achieves each level.

LYRICAL

This dance style incorporates the technique of ballet through elements of smooth lengthened looks of defined jazz and modern dance. Combinations are taught through feeling and emotional ballad-types music. A ballet class is a requirement for all students interested in lyrical.

MODERN

A contemporary form of dance required in all college and professional dance auditions. This type of dance teaches lyrical techniques and artistic movements usually against the normal technique of classical ballet and jazz training. It is imperative that students learn this form of dance if planning to continue your education in the performing arts.

JAZZ

The focus of this class is on strong technique taught through incorporating ballet and modern dance in a series of isolations and floor progressions using such steps as kicks, turns, leaps, and jumps. Combinations are taught using many styles and material from professional choreographers.

CONTEMPORARY

A style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including Modern, Jazz, Lyrical and Classical Ballet. Contemporary strive to connect the mind and the body through fluid dance movements.

HIP-HOP

Music video styles of dance that incorporates elements of popping, locking, and break dancing, as well as free-style movement that allows the student to develop his/her own type of street dance.

TAP

This class focuses on musical phrasing and complexity of rhythms, with much emphasis on making melodies with the feet.

TUMBLING /ACROBAT

This class teaches the fundamentals of flexibility, balance, strength, and body control while learning rolls, cartwheels, walkovers, back handsprings, headstands, and more.

BATON

This class teaches students hand-to-eye coordination while learning how to twirl a baton. Students taking this class will be prepared for high school and college majorette lines.

MUSICAL THEATER

This is a class that uses jazz movement and steps to learn fun combinations that are geared toward known musicals and broadway productions. We also incorporate dance techniques from ballet, tap, and hip hop to learn fun and engaging steps, movements, and combinations.

Pom Drill Team Dance

Pom dance is an energetic and dynamic style of dance that places emphasis on precise and synchronized arm movements , formations, jumps, and skills. Pom dance usues pompoms throughout the routine chorographyand is typically face paced, visually appealing and filled with high energy. Pom dance incorporates elements from various dance styles, including jazz and hip hop.