Our Older Dancer curriculum offers a wide range of dance disciplines and styles. From the basics of Tap and Ballet to fun classes in Jazz, Modern and Dance Team, our older students enjoy a curriculum full of innovative choreography and solid technique. Many of our older students are working towards higher dance goals such as school dance teams or college dance programs, while others enjoy our classes for their recreational aspect. Either way, BADA offers a level for any older student.
Jazz (2nd grade and up)
Jazz is fun, exciting and a must for any older student. Our classes begin with a good warm-up, move into center work and then combinations and choreography.
Our jazz program emphasizes proper technique and progression into leaps, turns and flexibility - minimizing injury and encouraging correct placement and technique. Our jazz program helps our dancers broaden their technique base, making them more well-rounded dancers.
Our young dancer curriculum develops into our jazz program, providing the dancer with a proper background in dance technique and terminology before advancing to the next level. BADA dancers are trained appropriately and safely, setting them up for success in future dance endeavors.
We also offer a non-performing, pre-jazz program for First grade students.
Modern (2nd grade and up)
Our modern program is outstanding; certainly one of the strongest in the triad area. We continue to emphasize proper body placement and technique, but also encourage self expression so that our students take their dancing to the next level and truly dance from their hearts.
We encourage all of our students to continue taking either ballet, ballet technique or modern. These provide the basis for proper body placement and technique for all dance disciplines and help our students be more well-rounded and properly trained dancers.
This class is encouraged for dancers who cannot make the time commitment to our ballet program or those wishing to take their ballet training to a more expressive level.
Tap (1st grade and up)
This class introduces students to the wide range of tap styles - from Broadway or Production styles to rhythm tap like Stomp or Savion Glover. Our instructors focus on many styles of tap, while emphasizing rhythm, technique, and performance. Tap is a must for students wishing to pursue musical theatre or for those looking for something new!
