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Pre-Dance - ballet & tap/tumble

Pre-Dance - ballet & tap/tumble

Pre-Dance - ballet & tap/tumble

These classes are recommended for children ages 3-4.  Theme based classes are perfect for these little dancers.  Join us for a class that allows young dancers to build a strong technical ballet and tap foundations as well as basic tumbling skills  to begin and foster their love for dance. 

Pre-K/K - ballet/tap

Pre-Dance - ballet & tap/tumble

Pre-Dance - ballet & tap/tumble

These classes are recommended for children ages 4-5.  They will continue to learn how to wait their turn patiently, respectfully and quietly and to take turns graciously. Join us for a class that allows young dancers to continue to build a strong technical ballet and tap foundations to begin and foster their love for dance. 

K/1 Ballet, Tap, Jazz

Pre-Dance - ballet & tap/tumble

K/1 Ballet, Tap, Jazz

This class is recommended for ages 5-6.  It is an introduction to concepts designed to train young dancers with an emphasis on coordination, rhythm, timing, and self-expression.  They will learn how to appreciate and respect each other's efforts and begin to learn leadership skills. 


Jazz

Lyrical/Contemporary

K/1 Ballet, Tap, Jazz

This energetic class combines stretching and basic jazz technique.  Dancers will have fun mastering specific jazz elements and then working on them throughout the season.  These fundamentals will include jazz progressions, turns, leaps and center work. 

Lyrical/Contemporary

Lyrical/Contemporary

Lyrical/Contemporary

Lyrical and Contemporary classes combine the movement quality of jazz with the technical component of Ballet.  Lyrical and Contemporary are typically danced to slower music, either ballads with words or instrumental.  These genres allow dancers to combine steps together in more of an artistic format typically danced in the center of the floor. 

Ballet/Pointe

Lyrical/Contemporary

Lyrical/Contemporary

Ballet is one of the oldest styles of dance and is taught throughout the world.  Ballet is a style of dance based on vocabulary and technique.  Classes combine stretching, barre exercises, and center technique work.  Ballet is the most disciplined style of dance and provides the perfect foundation for any dancer. A strong technical base t

Ballet is one of the oldest styles of dance and is taught throughout the world.  Ballet is a style of dance based on vocabulary and technique.  Classes combine stretching, barre exercises, and center technique work.  Ballet is the most disciplined style of dance and provides the perfect foundation for any dancer. A strong technical base taught through out several years will allow dancers to safely begin pointe work.  Placement en pointe will require a pre-pointe evaluation at the teachers discretion.

Hip Hop

Turns /technique

Acrobatics

Hip Hop, originally a form of street dance, has now made its way into the hearts of many of our students.  Our hip Hip classes combine a warm up, grooves, across the floor combinations and a center combination.  This hard hitting and powerful form of dance allows students of all ages to enjoy letting loose while learning body isolation an

Hip Hop, originally a form of street dance, has now made its way into the hearts of many of our students.  Our hip Hip classes combine a warm up, grooves, across the floor combinations and a center combination.  This hard hitting and powerful form of dance allows students of all ages to enjoy letting loose while learning body isolation and coordination skills while listening to fast paced music they love!

Acrobatics

Turns /technique

Acrobatics

Acrobatics gives the dancers a chance to perfect flexibility based tricks that can be incorporated into dance routines. These tricks take years of practice and this class allows our dancers to work on everything from cartwheels, balances, partner tricks and flips of all kinds.

Turns /technique

Turns /technique

Turns /technique

 Turns and technique allows the dancers to perfect the technical elements they work on in their other classes.  Turn combinations take many years of practice and this class allows our dancers to work on everything from pirouettes, leg spins, leaping, strength and flexibility. All of this is practiced while incorporating strong technical accountability and improvement 

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Turns /technique

 If you have an amazing dancer who LOVES to dance and is excited about taking the next step in furthering his or her dance technique, then this is the program for you!   These dancers train multiple hours a week in several genres. Company members perform in stage shows and approximately 4 local competitions each year, including one conven

 If you have an amazing dancer who LOVES to dance and is excited about taking the next step in furthering his or her dance technique, then this is the program for you!   These dancers train multiple hours a week in several genres. Company members perform in stage shows and approximately 4 local competitions each year, including one convention.  Placement into a company class is by audition/invitation only.  

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Fall Class Schedule

Below is our schedule for the 2022-2023 season.  If you would like to register your child for a class, just click on the register link beside the class.  This link will take you to our registration page where you can enroll your child in your selected class with the option to add additional classes.  You can also click on the register link below to go right to our registration page.  

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 My daughter has danced at Performance Dance Centre since she was 3 years old. She loves the classes, to perform, her fellow dancers, and her teachers. 

~ Jennifer- Dance Mom

 Performance Dance Centre
2316 230th St. STE 104 (located on West Lincoln Way) 

Ames, Iowa

(515) 292-4942

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