Welcome To San Diego Danceworks

Acro

Acrobatics (acro) is a dance style that combines choreography with precision acrobatic elements. It focuses on the conditioning, flexibility, and strength needed for acrobatic athleticism. Dancers in acro classes must take a ballet class to develop the necessary dance technique to blend dance and acrobatics seamlessly. Instructors evaluate the dancers before placing them in a class.

Ballet

​Ballet provides the fundamentals of technique for all dance forms. The ballet technique strengthens core muscles to maintain alignment and proper form. Students receive hands-on training, which assists them in developing a greater awareness of their bodies and their movement potential. Dancers experience the musicality and grace of classical ballet through choreographed floor work.

Ballet Creative

Ballet Creative introduces dancers to ballet technique, including the five positions of the feet, ballet posture, turns, leaps, and ballet vocabulary. Creative dance allows the child to explore their unique expressions of movement through structured improvisation. It also teaches the dancer the elements of dance: time, space, body, and energy, which are the essential building blocks of dance.

Contemporary Ballet

Contemporary ballet is a dance genre that combines classical ballet and modern dance techniques. It often uses classical ballet techniques but allows for a broader range of body movements. Dancers are encouraged to develop creatively through improvisational techniques.

Contemporary

Contemporary dance is an expressive style that utilizes elements of different dance genres, including modern, jazz, lyrical, and classical ballet. It has no fixed or established movement patterns but continuously seeks new forms and dynamics.

Dance Tumbling

Dance Tumbling is the preparation class for Acro. Dancers develop the conditioning, strength, and flexibility needed to execute tumbling skills. The skills learned are backbends, forward and backward rolls, handstands, tuck jumps, cartwheels, and kickovers. The dancers learn the five ballet positions and traveling steps such as chassés, gallops, skips, and leaps. Choreography combining dance and tumbling is presented for performances.

Hip Hop

Hip Hop dancing is an urban dance style in which the dancer's movements express the beats and rhythms of hip hop music. Hip Hop creates body expression and freedom in dance that comes from the individual. It is a form of exercise for anyone who loves to move to music.

Jazz

Jazz reflects the energy in jazz and popular music, where movements can be sharp or smooth, quick or slow, subtle or strongly angular. Jazz Dance trains the body to move one part while the rest stays still. Isolation visualizes the syncopations of jazz music. Jazz dance training today also incorporates modern and ballet techniques.

Jazz Funk

Jazz Funk mixes the styles of jazz and hip hop dance. Like hip hop, jazz funk has hard-hitting, often fast-paced gestures and quick, grounded leg movements. Jazz funk utilizes the rhythmic body movements and isolations of hip hop and adds the technical elements of jazz, such as turns, kicks, and leaps. Teachers mix their personal movement styles into the jazz funk class, creating fun, expressive, high-energy choreography.

Lyrical

Lyrical is a style that incorporates technical elements of Jazz and Ballet. It is performed to music with lyrics to inspire the expression of strong emotions the choreographer feels from the song's lyrics. This style concentrates on an individual approach and emotional expression.

Modern

Modern is a dance form whose source is the teacher's unique movement style. Classes introduce students to the modern concepts of contract/release, fall/recovery, and isolation. All classes encourage students to develop their unique style of movement through improvisation.

Move with Me

The class is taken with a caregiver. Props stimulate the dancer's imagination and develop balance and coordination. A parachute, cones, balance beam, and mats provide a fun vehicle for exploring movement and making new friends.

Pre-Pointe & Pointe

Pre-Pointe classes prepare a dancer for the strength needed for Pointe work. Pointe is the part of classical ballet in which a dancer supports all body weight on the tips of fully extended feet within pointe shoes. The Director of the Pointe program evaluates students' readiness for pointe before enrolling in a pre-pointe and pointe class. Pointe classes require registration for two hours of ballet a week. Classes teach the techniques for moving from flat to pointe. Across the floor, work and choreography in the center develop the vocabulary of classical steps unique to dancing on pointe.

Tap

Tap is an art form where the dancer's feet become the musical instrument. Tap is a uniquely American art form with a rich history of improvisation among masterful tappers creating new steps. Studying tap develops musicality, balance, and coordination.

Tap/Ballet

Tap develops musicality in children. The excitement of tap is that your feet are your musical instrument. Ballet provides the fundamentals for all dance forms. Children are taught the positions of the feet and encouraged to move expressively and creatively. It is a great introduction to dance for the youngest dancers.

Turns & Leaps

The turns and leaps class will introduce students to the variety of turns and leaps used by choreographers in the styles of contemporary, modern, jazz and ballet. The class will develop the technical strength and flexibility necessary to safely and successfully execute turns and leaps.