Come visit us at our Grand Fall Open House!
Saturday August 28, 2010
10am-2pm
4 Academy St
Oneonta NY
Bouncy House!
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2010-2011
Classes Offered:
The Oneonta Dance Center offers a wide variety of dance classes, including tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical, hip hop, ballroom, and song and dance for all ages. Class levels start at ‘Beginner’ and continue to ‘Advanced’. All classes offered, along with the day and time, are included on the enclosed schedule.
Descriptions of Classes
Acting for Musical Theater: A real and honest approach to acting for the actor, singer, and dancer! The class will work on all aspects of musical theatre performance including technical and improvisational exercises, scene work and monologues, as well as working on musical numbers with the focus coming from an acting point of view as opposed to just singing a song or dancing the given choreography.
Ballet: This discipline starts each class at the barre and continues to floor work. Emphasis on proper body placement, proper alignment, developing balance and coordination, works on transitioning movements, and awareness of space and movement. A basis for all dance forms.
Combo Class: Class combines half hour each of ballet and tap.
Fosse: Focuses on the style and choreography of Bob Fosse; emphasis on isolation, theatrical performance, and unique avante garde movement.
Hip Hop: A faster pace kind of dance, usually done to R&B/Hip Hop music. Uses intricate moves and is a more modern day style.
Jazz: This discipline ranges in style from American Classical Jazz to funk to musical theatre, incorporating stretches, isolation, placement and technique, and combinations across the floor and at center focusing on strength, discipline, placement, and flexibility.
Lyrical: Combines the disciplines of jazz and ballet and focuses on strength, flexibility, and the emotional execution of music.
Lyrical Production: By Audition Only- Performance, choreography, and repertoire class of large group lyrical pieces, must be taking lyrical technique of at least intermediate level.
Modern: In it origins over 100 years ago, modern dance evolved out of a desire to break away from the constraints and ideology of classical ballet, and focuses on creative self self expression over technical virtuosity. It is stylistically characterized by more free flowing, organic, grounded movement.
Musical Theater: Focuses on the three disciplines of Musical Theater- dance, singing, and acting, with warm up exercises and performance practice in each discipline.
Tap: A discipline focusing on rhythms and patterns with tap shoes. Works on balance, technique, placement of the feet and the body, musicality, rhythms and listening skills.
Stretch/Technique: An intense class working all different aspects of the body, strengthening and toning muscles.
Song and Dance: A class geared toward preschool children, focusing on basic movement, basic rhythms and music.