CLASSES FOR EVERYONE!
Whether you aspire to become a professional dancer, love to dance for fun, or are looking for a great workout, MDA offers classes in a variety of styles for all ages that will help to build discipline, confidence and a love for the Performing Arts.
ACROBATICSThis class combines elements of gymnastics, yoga, and dance with level progression training introducing flexibility, strength, balancing, limbering and tumbling. Our instructors are highly trained with safety as our number one priority. MDA has state of the art equipment and mats to help ensure a safe learning environment. We can accommodate all skill levels, from beginners to advance. This class will focus on fundamental acrobatic technique, teaching such skills as handstands, chin stands, elbow stands, cartwheels, back bends, walkovers, balance and contortion tricks, all each student's individual level of experience. And it's fun, too!
TAP Tap dance is one of the oldest dance forms. It is characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes rhythmically striking the floor as a form of percussion. Students learn technique, rhythm, timing, coordination and showmanship in an age-appropriate environment.
COMBO CLASSES Combination classes are a great way for students to experience different types of dance in a one-hour instructional time. Classes are available for students 4 years old to 9 years old. The main focus of combination classes is on students having fun and enjoying dance as an everyday activity. Class placement is based on age as well as a student's ability to learn.
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HIP HOP Hip Hop classes are designed to allow the students to let go and are suitable for boys, girls, men and women of all ages and levels. Hip hop is urban, it’s street, it’s diverse, and forever changing! Hip hop uses the latest sounds in rap, R&B, and pop music together with movements influenced by some of today’s hottest video choreographers. It encompasses movement that has elements of popping and locking, and breaking, as well as freestyle movement to give students the opportunity to develop their own sense of style.
JAZZ Jazz class will focus on learning proper dance technique such as isolations of the body, improving performance quality and developing complex rhythms and patterns. Students will be exposed to various styles of jazz such as Broadway, Street and Contemporary to help develop a well rounded dancer. Class curriculum is based on ballet technique layered with traditional jazz movement and includes a proper warm-up, stretches, isolations, across-the-floor progressions, and combinations. As students progress through each level curriculum will become increasingly more complex and intricate.
MUSICAL THEATER Musical theater dance is the study of Broadway dance and dance styles. Young students as well as teens and adults learn choreography from selected musicals, such as “High School Musical”, “Hair Spray”, “Annie”, “Fosse”, and many more. Our focus is on Broadway musicals old and new! Our instructors introduce acting and choreography into dance techniques and styles. The class will begin with a warm up, technique across the floor with some character development activities, and then various choreographies to enhance their character development. Classes include dance, acting and improvisation activities, as well as proper dance technique and performance. These classes are for dancers who like the spotlight, drama, and telling a story through dance. Exercises focus on increasing flexibility, strength, confidence, and performance. As students’ progress through each level curriculum will become increasingly more complex and intricate.
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BALLET/POINTEMDA offers classes in classical ballet, pointe and contemporary ballet. Ballet is the foundational technique for most dance genres. Ballet has an extensive history and vocabulary which provides strong line, alignment and refined detail which requires years of training. MDA is implementing a new curriculum and expansion in the pre-professional ballet training program this year for both Alachua and Tioga Locations. We suggest that all dancers train in ballet, so they increase their vocabulary and potential in all other classes with a minimum of one-two days a week as beginners. The training will increase in hours in the more advanced pre-professional ballet training program. A typical ballet class will start with warm-up exercises on floor and then at the barre-work, center exercises and across the floor. Dancers with strong training will be invited to begin pointe classes which will be added to ballet curriculum. Ballet Variations and repertory provide the dancers with opportunity to improve by refining technique in rehearsal process and on stage. Contemporary ballet classes prepare the dancers for emerging forms of ballet found in every major school and dance company. This gives dancers the cutting -edge training in dance education and in the field.
CONTEMPORARY Contemporary classes are designed for intermediate to advanced students with previous training in ballet. Students will explore basic techniques and skills from ballet, jazz and modern. It emphasizes interpretation of music lyrics while telling a story with movement that can be fluid or abstract. As students progress through each level curriculum will become increasingly more complex and intricate.
CREATIVE MOVEMENT & PRINCESS BALLET This class is a fun introductory class for both boys and girls and focuses on the basics of movement (skipping), balance (standing on one leg), strength (forward rolls), and coordination (rhythm and basic dance technique).
CHEER / POM /This will be a class designed to incorporate cheer jumps and Poms while training in Hip Hop. Hip hop is urban, it’s street, it’s diverse, and forever changing! Hip hop uses the latest sounds in rap, R&B, and pop music together with movements influenced by some of today’s hottest video choreographers.
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