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Our Dance Classes
We offer a variety of dance classes for all ages and abilities, from tiny tots and beginners to adults and professional-level students. You’ll find our classes welcoming and encouraging as we aim to teach through positivity and support, not intimidation or bullying. Enroll for a FREE trial class to find out if the style you have chosen is suitable for you or your child. Click here to get started with a free class or view the various dance styles below.
Acrobatics
What is Acrobatics?
This style class teaches floor gymnastics. Acro is a class that progresses from forward rolls and cartwheels to advanced tumbling, including aerial work. Teachers work with each student on their individual level.
Benefits:
Flexibility, Strength, Agility, Body and Spacial Awareness, Endurance and Teamwork.
Ballet
What is Ballet?
A classical form of dance focusing on proper body alignment and fluid movement. Barre, center floor, and across the floor progressions are all used to develop proper Ballet technique. Ballet is the foundation upon which most dance forms are based.
Benefits:
Grace, Poise, Discipline, Strength, Flexibility
Contemporary
What is Contemporary?
Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical & ballet.
Benefits:
Expressive and Emotional Outlet, Self Confidence, Body and Spacial Awareness, Strength, Endurance
Hip Hop
What is Hip Hop?
This popular, energetic form of dance, allows dancers to perform with freedom of movement, adding in their own personalities. This class is inspired by today’s latest music and hippest trends in dance. Age appropriate Hip Hop music and movement is used for each class.
Benefits:
Self Confidence, Coordination, Social Interaction, Musicality, Endurance
Jazz
What is Jazz?
Set to upbeat, popular music, this fun class combines stylized movement with technique. Jazz Dance is based on ballet principles. Each Jazz class consists of warm-up, using isolated movements, across the floor progressions, and current choreography.
Benefits:
Self Confidence, Coordination, Strength, Flexibility, Endurance
Lyrical
What is Lyrical?
An expressive form of dance that incorporates a fusion of many dance styles. Many times this style tells a story through choreography and dance phrases. Dancers are also encouraged to explore their emotions and movement through improvisation. A strong ballet and jazz foundation enhances the quality of movement.
Benefits:
Expressive and Emotional Outlet, Self Confidence, Body and Spacial Awareness, Strength, Endurance
Musical Theatre
What is Musical Theatre?
This class will touch on everything from proper audition techniques and basic voice principles to acting and improvisation. Students will focus on the ability to act, sing, and dance simultaneously. If you are interested in becoming a “Triple Threat”, this is a great class for you!
Benefits:
Showmanship, Self Confidence, Teamwork, Audition Preparedness, Stronger Public Speaking Skills
Tap
What is Tap?
A style of dance using special shoes to create different rhythms and sounds. Tap is great for developing musicality and coordination skills.
Benefits:
Rhythm, Coordination, Pattern Recognition, Memorization Skills, Problem/Puzzle Solving.
Charter Student
We are proud to accept the use of Charter Funds for our dance classes! If you are using, or are interested in using charter funds to pay for lessons, please read carefully.
Charter Students
We are proud to accept the use of Charter Funds for our dance classes! If you are using, or are interested in using charter funds to pay for lessons, please read carefully.
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Please email PAECharter@gmail.com to receive specific information regarding Charter student prices and policies
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Parents are ultimately responsible for tuition.
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At the time of registration, the card that you enter on your registration form will be charged for the Registration Fee, and the first month of tuition. Once we receive your first PO, we will credit the tuition amount to go toward other fee’s not covered by charter funds (recital fee, costume, etc.).
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We begin our season in the month of August. Some charter schools will pay for classes in the month of August, others do not. You are responsible for August tuition if your charter does not cover that month.
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Before you register and attend classes you must be sure your purchase order is approved by your charter school and processed on your account. Before submitting to your school, confirm tuition structure for billing with our office.
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If you withdraw from the charter school your credit card on file will be billed to replace charter funds
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Every student must be enrolled through our online registration process at www.performingartsempire.com , have a credit card on file, sign our studio release, policies and procedures as well as the charter school policy.
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Charter funds may NOT be used for any class that has faith based content.
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You are responsible to get class tuition approved by your advisor and assist in making sure paperwork is filled out correctly. Please be sure that all PO’s are up to date throughout the year.
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Our management system is set up for payment at the beginning of each month. Charter funds are paid out differently by each school, some are net+30 or net+45, so payments are delayed. We are willing to work in this system – please know your account will always look past due and we need you to help us make sure payments get applied to your account.
