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Class Descriptions
African Fusion
Dance in Africa is integrated into the entire life experience. African dance is characterized by its close relationship to drumming, its primary source of inspiration and life rituals.
Asian Fusion
Asian fusion encompasses the
ritualized and traditional movements of storytelling as well as gestures
and rhythms.
Ballet
Classical ballet teaches grace,
posture, and flexibility. The standardized vocabulary and movements
of ballet form the foundation for excellence in dance training. This
highly codified art form developed out of the court dances of the late
16th century and has since grown into a dance technique of strength
and power.
Bollywood
Bollywood like Hollywood is the word used for the booming popular film industry in India. Bollywood is a dance form based on classical Indian dance and is fused with various Western forms, including hip hop, jazz, and Latin.
Boys Ballet
An intermediate ballet class for boys that serves to strengthen grand allegro and turning skills.
Camp I: The Bossy Gallito & Friends - CUBA
Based on the traditional Cuban Folktale rewritten by Lucia Gonzales and illustrated by Lulu Delacre, “The Bossy Gallito” and summer camp of the same name celebrates the Latino cultural experience. The story tells of a bossy rooster on the way to his uncle’s wedding who refuses to say please to get the help he needs. He finally says the word and has everyone and everything from sticks, goats, water, grass, fire, and even the sun helping him! Campers visit Havana and the Caribbean, learn about the symbol of the rooster and the importance of family and cooperation through community caring. Children will dance to Cuban rhythms including Salsa at the wedding celebration, sing songs about friendship, learn some Spanish movement poems and discover their own movement expression along the way.
Camp II: The Feathers of the Peacock - INDIA
Peacocks are the national bird of India, and a key icon in Sri Lankan folklore. Among nature's most dramatically beautiful creatures, the peacock's crescent sheens of bright blue feathers with the pattern of an eye at the tip are a symbol of good luck throughout Asia. The Sri Lankan god Kataragama flies on the peacock's wings and brings well-being to the people. The hundred eyes of the peacock is the source of the summer camp story about beauty and wisdom and what is visible to the eye and the soul. Campers discover traditional Sri Lankan dance movement while celebrating the magic and mystery of the colorful peacock feathers.
Camp III: Adventures in the Amazon - BRAZIL
Campers will adventure into the Amazon through The Dreaming Tree, an original story created from various legends about the great Kapok tree and it's magical seeds. When the seed pods open the Brazilian rainforest appears and campers learn about life there and in the Amazon River--morpho butterflies, jaguars, golden monkeys, tree frogs, orchids, beetles, pink dolphins, and Arapaima fish. Under the Kapok Tree the transformative legends of the Amazon come to life-- pink dolphins become human and humans become flowers. The camp will introduce the rainforest environment, the Portuguese language through song, the famous samba dance and feature a variety of Brazilian music selections as inspiration for dance expression.
Camp IV: Tik Tok & the Wonderful Tales of Oz - US
Get to know the Wonderful Tales of Oz by going beyond the best known Hollywood film with Dorothy, Toto, Lion, Scarecrow, Tin Man, the Wicked Witch and Oz at the Emerald City. Discover new and exciting characters such as Ojo, the Patchwork Doll, Tik Tok, Madame Morrible, The Purple Prince, King Umb, Queen Ra and places such as Rinkitink, the Islands of Pingaree, and the Nonestic Ocean, from the 14 wonderful Oz books created by Frank L. Baum. Children will create their very own Oz story based on the new Oz characters and places they can only imagine.
Camp: Dancing Through Pop Culture
Teenagers participate in a high-energy exploration of hip hop, jazz, and modern dance and their links to pop culture from Andy Warhol to the present. The program consists of 2 ½ hour technique and pop culture classes and collaborative repertory work linked to the main themes.
Creative Movers
The exploration of creative movement facilitates body and spatial awareness, balance, coordination, focus, the development of locomotor and axial skills, motor planning and coordination. The class helps build strength, flexibility, and self-confidence and allows children to actualize kinesthetic expression in a positive and encouraging environment. Children use their imaginations to celebrate movement and have lots of fun.
DREAM
This is the DREAM program
Hip Hop
Hip hop has roots in African,
tap, jazz, step, and martial arts. This stylized urban movement is about personal style, expression, and reinvention and contains such movements as popping, locking,
and breaking. It is one of today’s most commercial dance genres, seen
in music videos and pop culture.
Hip Hop Flip Flop
Little dancers are introduced to hip hop and it’s popping and locking movements that have their roots in African, jazz, step, tap and martial arts. They also Flip Flop through some basic cartwheels, rolls, and stretches to prepare for the more rigorous break dance oriented floor moves that are a central part of hip hop dance. Coordination and speed, personal style and expression are emphasized and encouraged.
Hip Hop/Bollywood
Hip hop has roots in African, tap, jazz, step, and martial arts. This stylized urban movement is about personal style, expression, and reinvention and contains such movements as popping, locking, and breaking. It is one of today’s most commercial dance genres, seen in music videos and pop culture.
Bollywood like Hollywood is the word used for the booming popular film industry in India. Bollywood is a dance form based on classical Indian dance and is fused with various Western forms, including hip hop, jazz and Latin.
Jazz
Jazz dance is characterized by technique, improvisation and the syncopated rhythms of jazz music. Jazz dance developed in the early 1900s as it shifted from the club scene to the theater scene and became a mainstream dance form in the 1920s. This codified technique grew out of traditional ballet, tap, and African vocabularies. Today, broad jazz training includes classical jazz, lyrical, modern, and LA styles.
Jazz/Jazz: Dancing Through Pop Culture
Teenagers participate in a high-energy exploration of jazz dance and it's links to pop culture from Andy Warhol to the present. The program consists of 2 ½ hour technique and pop culture classes and collaborative repertory work linked to the main themes.
Modern
American modern dance technique and expression developed from the work of many first and second generation
pioneers—Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Humphrey/Weidman, Lester Horton, Merce Cunningham, and others. Modern dance experimentalists such
as Meredith Monk, Pina Bausch, Ronald K. Brown, and Deborah Colker have
taken technical and artistic expression to new areas of contemporary
dance including post-modern, Afro-modern fusion, and other crossover
forms.
Pre-Ballet & Beginning Ballet
Students work on an elementary level. Placement, posture, grace, and flexibility are developed along with an understanding of standardized movement vocabulary of ballet.
Sri Lankan Traditional & Folk Dance
Sri Lankan Traditional Dance: Classical Kandyan dance, which is the most prominent and high-profile traditional dance form is a fundamental part of Sri Lankan culture, identity and heritage. In this class, students will learn various movements of Kandyan dance and songs, including energetic and rhythmic hand and foot movements, postures as well as vannam (Vannams are beautiful recitations of poetry and dance which mainly describes the behaviors of animals, including the peacock, monkey, elephant etc).
Sri Lankan Folk Dance: Villagers have used Sri Lankan folk dance for thousands of years to praise gods, bring out prosperous harvests, and get through daily chores. Folk dances are accompanied by songs, rhythmic hand gestures, foot movements, dramatic expressions, and ancient stories. Students will learn and explore movement and songs of folk life.
Summer Camps
CityDance Summer Camps
Summer Intensives
CityDance Select Summer Intensives provide the intermediate to advanced pre-professional student with technical training, artistic refinement, and sensibility in various techniques, repertory, composition/improvisation, YogaLates and stretch. Repertory work is focused on the primary intensive genres and offers students the opportunity for exploration and growth through original choreography and new ideas in contemporary dance. Each CityDance Intensive includes classes in ballet, jazz, modern and other genres.
Tai Chi
Tai chi is a series of 37 gentle
flowing movements that have been practiced as a health exercise since ancient times.
Performed in a calm peaceful manner, tai chi teaches relaxation, increases energy, and erases tension.
Tap
The rhythm and movement of tap, created by the metal taps on the heels and toes of a dancer’s shoes, transforms the dancer into a percussive musician. Tap is a lively and popular genre around the world. Created in the U.S. during the 19th century, tap evolved from a variety of forms including African dance and drumming, flamenco dance, step dance, and clogging.
Technique Only
Technique only program gives students the opportunity to study technique in classical ballet, modern and jazz on a weekly basis.
Video
Creating Dance for Video
Yoga
Yoga is the disciplined practice
of physical poses and breath exercises designed to create a union between
the mind, body and spirit.
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Youth Schedule