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Classes at Cindy's Dance Factory
Ballet - Ballet consists
of slow, beautiful movements with arms and the entire body. Dancers learn
the five positions. Depending on the dancers' level (beginner, intermediate,
or advanced) they will learn various turns and leaps. Class starts with
barre work. (Exercises for strengthening muscles done at the ballet barre.)
Next, different moves across the floor are performed. This is our technique
portion of class. We usually practice the same basic techniques each week
and sometimes add something new. Following our technique practice, we
work on learning dance combinations and/or our performance dance. Ballet
is the basis for all other kinds of dance. Ballets gives muscles strength
and gives us grace and balance. Ballet teaches students great posture
and confidence. Cindy's Dance Factory offers ballet as a combination class.
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Tap - Tap consists of
fast foot movements to fast music in shoes with taps on the toes and heels.
In tap we learn shuffles, hops, jumps, flaps, brushes, toes, stomps, stamps,
heels, scuffs, and, depending on your level (beginner, intermediate, or
advanced), a lot more. Tap teaches how to keep time with a fast song,
keep your balance, and remember lots of dance moves in order. Tap class
starts with exercises to warm up our feet (usually the same each week).
Then we practice our technique doing tap moves across the floor. Through
regular practice, students get better and better at these moves and become
more confident dancers. New tap steps are added gradually as the students
master each exercise. Last, we put these great tap steps together for
tap combinations or our performance dance. Tap is a fun and challenging
way to move your feet and body to fast music. Cindy's Dance Factory offers
tap as a combination class with ballet.
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Jazz - Jazz is fun. Jazz
dance is done to faster music than ballet music. Jazz dance is faster
flowing moves to fun faster music. Jazz is non-stop movement using your
whole body. It usually includes pointed toes and pretty arms. Class starts
with a warm up to help us avoid injuries and pulled muscles. We then do
our technique and practice this across the floor. Depending on your level
(beginner, intermediate, or advanced), technique will include leaps, kicks,
jumps, and turns. Next we practice some fun dance combinations or our
dance performance number. Cindy's Dance Factory offers jazz dance to dancers
who are 6 or older. Some ballet experience is recommended before beginning
jazz dance. Cindy's Dance Factory sometimes offers this with a ballet/tap
combination class.
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Lyrical - This type
of dance is very flowing. It is a combination of ballet and jazz movements.
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Hip Hop - Hip Hop is one
of the newest kinds of dance. Hip Hop is sharp, hard edge movements to
music with a strong beat. Hip Hop uses flexed feet and strong straight
arms. No flowing, pretty jazz moves are included in this style. Most dancers
in today's music videos are doing Hip Hop dance. Cindy's Dance Factory
teaches Hip Hop dance, but without inappropriate and suggestive moves.
Cindy's Dance Factory also pays attention to the music and tries to find
good Hip Hop music with positive messages. Class starts with a warm up
to prepare the dancers' muscles. We then do different Hip Hop moves, turns
and kicks across the floor. We then work on different Hip Hop combinations
or our performance dance. Cindy's Dance Factory offers Hip Hop to dancers
who are 7 or older. Hip Hop is a lot of fun and is fun to watch when a
group synchronizes their dance moves. Cindy's Dance Factory offers this
as a combination class with Poms.
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Poms - This type of dance
is mostly strong arm movements while dancing using pom pons. This is not
cheerleading. Poms is more like dance squad, pom squad, or drill team
- much like dancers that perform at half time shows dancing with pom pons.
Poms includes dancing and moving in different formations. Poms includes
kicks. leaps and turns. Different balance is required to perform these
moves with poms in your hands. There is no warm up for this because it
is the second half of the Hip Hop class. We do practice technique across
the floor. Cindy provides practice poms that stay at the studio for each
dancer to use. We learn fun pom combinations or practice our performance
dance. Cindy's Dance Factory offers poms to dancers who are 7 to 14 years
old. Poms is offered as a combination class with Hip Hop. These classes
are a lot of fun.
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Musical Theater -
In musical theater we will cover basic jazz and tap technique, basic ballet
(for balance, strength and coordination), and several styles of theatrical
dance including "Broadway" jazz, chorus line, use of props,
Fosse jazz, etc. We will also cover basic theater terminology, dialog
ettiquette, monolog, pantomime, basic stage tech, and other elements of
theater.
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World Dance - Introductions
to five ethnic dance forms:
Spain - Flamenco
- Wear shoes with a hard sole that stay on well to stomp your feet. A
full skirt that's knee length or longer is helpful but not necessary.
India - Bharat
Nahyam - Wear clothes that are comfortable to move in,
bare feet.
Hawaii - Hula
- Wear clothes that are comfortable to move in, bare feet.
Ireland - Irish
Step - Wear comfortable clothes, shoes with a hard sole
that stay on well (tap shoes work great if you have them).
China - Traditional
Silk Dance - Wear clothes that are comfortable to move
in.
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Flamenco - A Spanish
ethnic dance. Wear shoes with a hard sole that stay on well to stomp your
feet. A full skirt that's knee length or longer is helpful but not necessary.
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Clogging - Atype of folk
dance with roots in traditional European dancing, early African-American
dance,[1] and traditional Cherokee dance in which the dancer's footwear
is used musically by striking the heel, the toe, or both in unison against
a floor or each other to create audible percussive rhythms.
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Zumba - A dance fitness
program created by dancer and choreographer Alberto "Beto" Perez
in Colombia during the 1990s. The program combines Latin and international
music with dance in an effort to make exercise fun.
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Performing Group Dancers
need to:
- Be asked by Cindy to join the performance team this year or try out.
- Be in another class with Cindy that provides some technique.
- Be able to successfully perform splits (at least one direction), double
turn, high kicks, and leaps.
- Be in ballet class with Miss Ashley.
- Sign a contract of commitment for good attendance (not to miss more
than one week per month).
- Work on performance dances all year.
- Want to perform at various places and if good enough, participate
in competition (usually in Denver).
- Realize that competitions are somewhat expensive to enter. We would
go to have fun and do our best, win or not.
- Always have a positive attitude and a smile!
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