TASDANCE SCHOOL OF DANCE
TERM 1 2021 DATES - 1 FEB TO 31 MAR
No classes on Mon, 8 Mar due to Public Holiday
MONDAY
STREET DISCOVERY (formerly Hip Hop Discovery)
HANNAH TORRENTS
5:15-6:15
Recommended for 6-10 years
Our Street classes teach a variety of dance styles, including what might be referred to as “Hip Hop”. This includes breaking (breakdancing), locking and popping among others. Students will learn fundamental technical moves, cyphers, choreography, alongside performance skills for battles. Whether it’s learning a few cool moves, gaining fitness, training for solo and crew battles or increasing your movement repertoire, Street has you covered!
Shoes - Bring along a pair of sneakers that you will only wear during class. Wearing sneakers that have been worn outside can damage the floor in the studio. Change into your hip hop sneakers once you’re inside the studio, then taken them off at the end of class before you go outside.
Recommended for 11-15 years
Our Street classes teach a variety of dance styles, including what might be referred to as “Hip Hop”. This includes breaking (breakdancing), locking and popping among others. Students will learn fundamental technical moves, cyphers, choreography, alongside performance skills for battles. Whether it’s learning a few cool moves, gaining fitness, training for solo and crew battles or increasing your movement repertoire, Street has you covered!
Shoes - Bring along a pair of sneakers that you will only wear during class. Wearing sneakers that have been worn outside can damage the floor in the studio. Change into your hip hop sneakers once you’re inside the studio, then taken them off at the end of class before you go outside.
Recommended for 16-18 years
Our Street classes teach a variety of dance styles, including what might be referred to as “Hip Hop”. This includes breaking (breakdancing), locking and popping among others. Students will learn fundamental technical moves, cyphers, choreography, alongside performance skills for battles. Whether it’s learning a few cool moves, gaining fitness, training for solo and crew battles or increasing your movement repertoire, Street has you covered!
Shoes - Bring along a pair of sneakers that you will only wear during class. Wearing sneakers that have been worn outside can damage the floor in the studio. Change into your hip hop sneakers once you’re inside the studio, then taken them off at the end of class before you go outside.
WEDNESDAY
Recommended for 9-14 years
An explorative dance class featuring improvisation, learning through technique, performing contemporary and lyrical dance phrases and getting creative through tasking. Make sure you have a water bottle handy and get ready to find your feet, fascination, freedom and all the feels.
THURSDAY
Recommended for 15-18 years
A dance class which incorporates various contemporary styles and techniques including improvisation, floor work and travelling phrases. This also involves co-choreographed sequences to build collaboration, group cohesiveness and to extend performance qualities and skills. A fun class to make friends and enjoy the love of movement.
This class is for those students wishing to take ballet exams, or extend their technical ability through a second ballet class with mixed age groups. More complex sequences of turns and jumps are incorporated to extend students. This class would also suit teenage students wishing to commence ballet at a later age as they are more able to learn technique at an accelerated pace.
SATURDAY
Recommended for 6-8 years
A combination of foundational dance technique, awesome imagery, creative movement and self expression for a fun and rounded dance experience.
Make sure you have a water bottle handy and get ready to dance, think, play and create.
This class incorporates the basic principles of ballet movement. Learning about turn out, simple stretches, positions of the arms and jumps. As well as encouraging creative ideas for movement to music. Minimum age - 4.
A ballet class which teaches the foundations of ballet movement. This incorporates basic barre and centre work including the development of coordination and flexibility. Students are also encouraged to explore their own expressiveness and musicality.
This class aims to build on basic ballet principles developing alignment, flexibility and coordination at the barre and in centre exercises. This grade incorporates more complex ballet sequences and develops students’ performance qualities through improvisation.
This class aims to build on ballet principles developing strength, flexibility and coordination at the barre and in centre exercises. Technique is more complex and incorporates character work. This grade also teaches basic human anatomy and ballet terminology.
This class aims to build on ballet principles developing strength, flexibility and coordination at the barre and in centre exercises. Technique is more complex and incorporates character work. This grade also teaches basic human anatomy and simple principles of physiology as it relates to ballet technique. Knowledge and understanding is developed alongside skills.
Pointe work is optional in Grade 5 – students will need to have their feet assessed by a physio to ensure their readiness for pointe work.
Fees
All classes except Ballet Pre-Primary and Primary
$139 per term
$99 per term concession
$39 for a 3 week trial
Ballet Pre-Primary and Primary Fees
$109 per term
$79 per term concession
$30 for a 3 week trial
What to Wear
Something comfortable and easy to move in.
For hip hop classes wear long sleeves and long trousers so that your skin is protected during moves on the floor.
For ballet classes check out What to Wear to Ballet.
Don’t forget to bring a named water bottle.