with Ashley Daigle
Students learn and reinforce foundational skill practice integral to safe pointework. The class focuses on strength and alignment. Please note that pointe students will take their technique classes in flat ballet slippers this year and change into pointe shoes for their pointe classes.
with Ashley Daigle
Ages 10-16
This accelerated ballet class adds new vocabulary to the intermediate ballet foundation and is designed to enhance stamina, strength, and flexibility through the practice of longer, more complex combinations.
with Sara Sines
Ages 8-10
A fun and vigorous class devoted to Broadway-style jazz dance. Class consists of a floor warm-up series incorporating stretching and strengthening exercises in flow with the music. This is followed by standing combinations and traveling dance phrases featuring turns, jumps, and often sass. Students will learn the syncopated rhythms of jazz dance, will move with staccato control, and will perform with energetic theatricality.
with Ashley Daigle
Ages 10-16
This Advanced Contemporary Dance class begins with a flowing floor warm-up engaging spiral patterns and radiant energy to encourage full-body connectivity. Floor work is followed by standing conditioning and balancing exercises, off-center explorations, and expansive traveling dance phrase-work. We invite young dancers to expand their dance horizons with this fun and flowing class!
with Jennifer Burlage
Ages 10-16
A more advanced study of ballet. Class follows the same template as Ballet 1 with increasingly complex movement vocabulary and flowing combinations of classical ballet. Musicality is emphasized as dancers begin to move with greater sophistication and skill. Ballet 2 students will build upon the skills gained from their foundational ballet studies.
with Sarah Weber Gallo
Ages 13 and up
A fun and vigorous class devoted to Broadway-style jazz dance. Class consists of a floor warm-up series incorporating stretching and strengthening exercises in flow with the music. This is followed by standing combinations and traveling dance phrases featuring turns, jumps, and often sass. Students will learn the syncopated rhythms of jazz dance, will move with staccato control, and will perform with energetic theatricality.
with Sarah Weber Gallo
The Performance Group 2 is an invitation-based class designed for more advanced dancers to create and make performance-ready ongoing choreographic content. Students will work with instructors to develop their choreographic and performative skills with a strong focus on increasing dynamic range and complexity of movement vocabulary. This class combines Ballet, Contemporary, and Theatrical sensibilities to guide students toward a deep understanding of the eclecticism and cross-pollination of dance forms. Students in the Performance Group represent MST Dance Academy in local events, anchor our inaugural mid-year production, and form the core of student leaders at MST. Please note this class meets twice a week on Tuesdays (7-8:30pm @ MST)and Thursdays (7:15-8:30pm @ MST) and requires registration of and partipation in at least one other technique class.
with Ashley Daigle
Designed for students ages 4-6, our Pre-Beginning Ballet classes level young dancers up in preparation for proper Ballet classes. We keep the fun and creativity alive as students learn more complex movement vocabulary and longer combinations of steps and positions!
with Sarah Weber Gallo
July 8-12, 1pm-4pm (Ages 12-16)
Join Dance Director Sarah Weber Gallo and your favorite MST Dance Faculty members for a half-day dance experience. Each week will include instruction and coaching in at least three dance techniques and culminate in a unique performance devised by students and directed by Ms. Sarah.
with Derrick Ladson
Ages 8-12
Designed for intermediate level, older kids who love to dance around to pop music, this fun and energetic class devoted to urban dance forms builds upon the foundations established in Hip Hop 1.
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