Find your style.
At Simcoe Dance Academy, we are proud to offer exceptional training in a variety of dance styles. Our teachers are committed to providing the best dance experience for your child!
STYLES WE OFFER
JAZZ
Our jazz program offers students a more intense work-out with a faster paced class. Jazz requires the students to use strength, flexibility, technique, control and coordination all done to the latest music chart hits. Jazz is a very popular style of dance that caters to everyone’s likes. Our jazz program is open to any student who is five years of age or older. We offer exams through the Canadian Dance Teachers Association for jazz.
BALLET
Our ballet program is based on the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus in which we offer exams from the age of five up. We accept students into our pre-school ballet program at the age of three. Ballet encourages poise, self discipline, and grace as well as strength, technique, and flexibility. Ballet is the basis of all dance disciplines and we strongly recommend all of our students to take it. Ballet is mandatory for our competition team.
HIP HOP
Hip hop is a unique and exciting style of street dance that is most commonly performed to hip hop music. Hip hop dance is a vibrant form of dance that combines a variety of freestyle movements to create a cultural piece of art. Through its three main styles of popping, locking, and breaking, hip hop dance has evolved into one of the most popular and influential styles of dance. Hip hop promotes community, individual expression, and strength.
MODERN
Modern is a combination of ballet and jazz put together. Modern originally was performed to percussive instruments such as bongo drums, but has evolved to include a variety of different music styles. Modern is done in bare feet and is a very “earthy” or grounded dance discipline that works from the core of the body. The core initiates most of the movements, making it a very cleansing dance form that forces the students to understand what breathing does to the quality of movement. Our modern program is open to students four years and older. We offer exams in modern through the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
LYRICAL/Contemporary
Lyrical is a dance discipline that is based on a combination of ballet, jazz, and modern. Lyrical is the ability to tell the story of a song or theme through movement. Lyrical is only offered as a separate dance form in our competition program. Modern would be the closest genre to lyrical.
TAP
Tap is a great form of dance which encourages the students to use their feet to “make music”. Whether it is with music or without, tap makes the students listen to the sounds they are making, which in turn helps with their musicality, rhythm and understanding and appreciation of music. Our tap program offers students from the age of four an opportunity to dance to broadway style or the latest street style tap. We offer tap exams through the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
ACRO
Acro is a combination of gymnastics and dance. Acro develops the dancers strength, flexibility and balance.