DANCE
STYLES
At Step In Motion Dance
we offer a variety of dance styles in order to help dancers become well rounded. This is a way for dancers to grow their skills and prepare themselves or experience if they choose to be a professional dancer.
Ballet
An artistic dance form performed to music using precise and highly formalized set steps and gestures. Classical ballet, which originated in Renaissance Italy and established its present form during the 19th century, is characterized by light, graceful, fluid movements and the use of pointe shoes.
Ballet helps teach grace and posture. It can also help with children whose feet or hips turn in towards each other.
A versatile, expressive dance style emerging in the mid-20th century, blending modern, ballet, jazz, and lyrical techniques while breaking from classical rules to explore current themes, emotions, and abstract ideas through fluid, innovative movements, improvisation, and a strong mind-body connection. This is where dancers connect art of dance as a movement towards praising rather than just movements. This class is only done for contemporary Christian music.
Contemporary
Praise
Musical Theater
A versatile blend of techniques (ballet, jazz,tap, contemporary) used to tell a story, develop characters, and drive narrative in musicals, focusing heavily on performance, acting, and emotional expression through movement, going beyond just steps to interpret music and lyrics. This class will include classic and modern musicals. If you are very selective about the movies or TV shows your dancer can watch, we do not recommend this class.
Praise Hip Hop
A dynamic street dance style, born from 1970s hip-hop culture, that involves energetic, freestyle movements to Christian hip-hop music, blending elements like breaking, popping, locking, and modern influences for self-expression, creativity, and rhythmic storytelling, often featuring improvisation and challenging traditional techniques locking, and modern influences for self-expression, creativity, and rhythmic storytelling, often featuring improvisation and challenging traditional techniques. This class only plays Christian music.
Flexibility
The ability of your joints and muscles to move through their full, unrestricted range of motion (ROM)without pain, allowing for efficient movement and daily activities, achieved through stretching and improving the extensibility of soft tissues like muscles, tendons, and ligaments, with two main types: static (holding a stretch) and dynamic (active movement).
A type of music of African American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with jazz, although guitar and occasionally violin are also used; styles include Dixieland, swing, bebop, and free jazz. Latin movements and music is added to traditional dance jazz moves to create more of a fun fluent movement.
Latin Jazz