This is a great class for dancers with a solid understanding of ballet who are ready to elevate their ballet experience. In this beginner/intermediate class, you will improve technique and expand your basic ballet training. Class progresses through a traditional format including exercises at the barre, center, and across the floor, finishing with a cool down and stretch.
Ballet is the ultimate expression of physical beauty and as we've proven time and time again, it's never too late to become a dancer. Discover Ballet Basics is a beautiful introductory ballet class for adult beginners who've always wanted to move gracefully and elegantly through life. You will learn and practice using the same proven methods that produce trained ballet dancers, lovingly guided with clearly demonstrated moves at a slow and instructional pace.
This gentle class is for ballet newcomers, dancers rediscovering ballet after a hiatus or those of you who simply want a back-to-the-very-basics technique class. Ballet Fundamentals follows the format of a traditional ballet class but with simple repetitive combinations and a focus on in-depth instruction.
We love to describe this signature dance 101 class as a "Burn and Learn" experience: a unique concept that marries instruction with a workout. You can have the best of both worlds: instruction and fitness! Tone your legs, abs, glutes and arms in the first 20 minutes, learn/practice jazz steps during the "drills" segment (10 minutes) then combine the steps in non-stop choreography that will strengthen your heart and burn calories. Great for dance newcomers, but also for seasoned dancers looking for a cardio dance workout. Killer playlist will keep you inspired to work that sweat! This class runs on high energy so be ready to move your body!
This beautiful class uses contemporary movement to tell a story. Great for beginners, this class experience is heavy on expression with only one or two technical elements. Drawing from a basis in Jazz dance, Meghan's choreography inserts you into the song using easy to master steps that are woven together in a series of beautiful sequences that speak to the heart.
Ignite your inner Latin fire in Fuego!, a salsa footwork class that feels more like a party than the instructional class that it actually is. Join one of Dance 101's most loved teachers, D. Norris, as he teaches you some really smooooooth salsa footwork which will not only "work you out" but also add some Latin styling to the way you move.
Smooth, fluid and funky hip hop that's great for beginners.... This fun, high-energy dance workout has imaginative and easy-to-follow choreography set to an irresistible playlist containing ALL your dance favorites: Michael Jackson, Usher, Outkast, Prince, Janet, Black Eyed Peas, Killer Mike, Ciara, DJ Snake, Calvin Harris and more.
Welcome to the world of physical poetry. This is Contemporary dance! Popularized over a decade ago by the TV show So You Think You Can Dance, this style of movement is characterized by its expressiveness. In this Introductory class, you will learn to explore your body's communicative abilities through graceful, large movements (#cardiofitness) that follow the story line in a song (#somuchfun).
Yo, it's hard to find an intro hip-hop class on these streets, right? Word. And we're confident no one delivers the fun and feels like teacher Jonathan Langley: a professional Actor, Comedian and Dancer. West Coast trained, Jonathan fell hard for Hip Hop because of "who I get to be when I'm dancing." See for yourself when he steps into character! You'll warm up to the hottest top 40 hits plus classic Hip Hop artists before #werking Jon's signature L.A. style, broken down into easy-to-learn steps. You'll leave class sweaty, swaggy, and smiling -- eager to come back and do it again! Say "not today" to those Monday blues!
No more sitting in the audience watching others do what you wish for yourself. This is the beginner jazz class that opened Dance 101, 13 years ago. Join Dance 101 founder and Director, Ofelia de La Valette, as she introduces you to the joy of dance in this inspirational and instructional dance class for beginners. Sometimes jazz, sometimes contemporary, Latin, Lyrical or Pop. Whichever genre is the focus, your world will expand as the time flies by.
In this popular class, you'll feel like you stepped into a time machine. Put a nickel into the jukebox and do the twist, the pony and perhaps some disco to your favorite classics from Elvis Presley, the Chiffons, Cole Porter with an occasional Donna Summer sighting. This class is perfect for newcomers to dance 101 who just want to dance! Have a ton of fun sweating to the oldies. There isn't a more fun way to burn calories and strengthen your heart.
Quite certainly the very best intro to ballet class (for adults) anywhere. Raise the “barre” on your dance experience! This beautiful and graceful ballet barre class introduces ballet training principles in a slow, focused and deliberate manner with detailed instruction so that you truly understand what you are asking your body to do. Beautiful music, stunning movement and hugely transformational.
Although it originated in Panama, Reggaeton blends Jamaican musical influences of dancehall, with those of Latin America, such as salsa, Latin rap and electronica. Since it's mainstream appearance in the US in 2004, Reggaeton has become a prolific musical genre. This introductory level Latin fitness class pairs traditional salsa footwork, hip hop and fitness with an eclectic Latin musical mix. Most of the soundtrack is Reggaeton with some salsa thrown in for extra fun.
Light a bonfire, get out your drums, unleash your inner gypsy! Serpentine is a tribal belly dance fusion that focuses on a more intense breakdown of muscle isolations and the musicality of sensual dance. This is a continual movement class that builds with the music and flows from slow isolations to fast paced drills. Build your confidence and learn to mesmerize with your body while improving strength, flexibility, and fluidity as well as burn some major calories!
Don't let the name fool you, this is a beautiful class. Sandwiched between two cardio intensive dance classes, this class is the perfect "bridge". It's a great cool down from Jazz Funk at 5:30pm (increase your flexibility by stretching those already warm muscles) OR a fantastic companion warm up stretch and conditioning for the class that follows it (MaddXpressions, 7:30pm).
Join the ever versatile and knowledgeable Lauren Banks in this spinal alignment-based stretch. All flexibility and great health originates from the spine and stretch classes that build upon a spinal alignment foundation are the most effective in not only preserving healthy organ function (with efficient metabolic processes being one benefit) but also in achieving crazy great flexibility. This hour focuses on alignment in both the conditioning and stretching elements.
Great class for those who enjoy a gentler workout or have tender joints or injury, this class teaches the Elemental Body Alignment System (EBAS): a method of stretch and alignment developed for dancers by Scott Putman, the founder and Artistic Director of Amaranth Contemporary Dance and dance professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. EBAS is a neurologically integrative stretch and strengthening system that improves how you move by helping to increase flexibility and range of motion through activation of the small muscles around our joints.
