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Acting – Students get to experience this acting series with a working professional actor. With Tommy Malouf, they will learn theater games focusing on movement, improvisation, concentration and team building to be successful in acting class, on stage or on set. They will also work on a scenes from various well-known Broadway productions and musicals. Our acting classes introduce students to the fundamental skills and tools required for developing the acting process. Build self-awareness, develop imagination and concentration, tap into using emotions and learn the actor’s vocabulary.
Musical Theatre – This class is a perfect selection for our “triple threats”. Explore various theatre dance styles used in Broadway shows and musicals. Class curriculum is based on basic jazz movement and some underlying ballet technique accompanied with song and performance acting. Dancers will warmup and stretch for the dance component and learn select works from popular musicals. The emphasis for this class will be learning performance skills such as connecting with the audience, basic vocal training for singing and telling a story through dance and expressions. Our musical theatre instructor, Jodi-Ann Kasky has extensive experience choreographing and directing youth, college and professional stage performances from both the dance/movement and coaching/directing aspects.
Discover with Me – Walking-Age 3 with Adult Explore the joy of movement with your little one and discover the many benefits of early childhood dance classes. We will dance, sing, and play in both one-on-one activities and group activities. Through circle songs, open exploration, and gross motor development exercises, children will blossom with each passing class as they grow with their caregiver during this precious time together.
DiscoverTOTS – Age 2/3* Watch your child’s independence and confidence soar, as our DiscoverTOTS explore and discover the benefits of a more structured dance class. Following directions, waiting for our turn, and collectively problem solving will encourage emotional and social development. Live singing, musical play, and sensory props will have these little ones moving and grooving with their friends and eager to return to class each week!
DiscoverDance 1 – Age 3/4* Discover the magic of imaginative play with live singing, structured explorations, and skill development. Our DiscoverDance 1 classes offer an outlet for creative expression, physical growth, and social interaction. Children will explore the essence of movement that will lead to the discovery of multiple styles of dance.
DiscoverDance 2 – Age 4/5* As a continuation of our DiscoverDance 1 classes, our DiscoverDance 2 dancers continue the exploration of concepts with more emphasis on physical growth, flexibility, and coordination. Short choreographic combinations assist in memory development as structured explorations continue to assist the development of problem solving and social interaction.
*Please see Level Requirements page or contact LOVV Dance for age cut off dates.
Ballet – The foundation of dance. Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Company Level Ballet will include barre and center work, progressions and choreography that enrich the movements of classical and contemporary ballet.
Pre Pointe/ Pointe – Dancing on Pointe is admired by young girls long before they are ready to dance of pointe themselves. Pre Pointe is offered at our studio to progress towards readiness and the strength required of the core, legs, feet and ankles. This class will stress correct alignment and classical ballet technique. Dancers will wear ballet shoes or pointe shoes as determined by our trained ballet faculty. Adv + Pointe is reserved for those dancing on pointe both at the barre and at the center.
Bosu Ballet – A class where the dancer can focus on increasing flexibility and learn proper conditioning and strength exercises specific to their bodies. It is imperative with the rigorous demands on a dancer that they couple correctly executed strength exercises with stretching of the major muscle groups. This class utilizes both large exercise and Bosu Balls to facilitate core strength and balance.
Tumbling/Acro – Acrobatic arts and gymnastic style training for dancers. Includes back flexibility, core strength and hand-balance. This class focuses on safe practice of skills, tricks and tumbling integrated with dance. Our master teacher has a dance AND power tumbling background so the curriculum developed begins with beginner primary level dancers doing rollie-pollies, crab walks with a partner and bridges to advanced dancers effortlessly executing front/back arabians, front overs, diving somersaults, standing back tucks, contortion influenced skills and a variety of power tumbling passes.
Jazz – Our jazz classes enrich and extend the dancers technical skills through center and progression work, with a focus on learning proper dance technique such as isolations of the body, improving performance quality and developing complex rhythm and patterns. The fundamental concepts are based on ballet technique layered with traditional and contemporary styles of jazz movement. Skills such as extensions, leaps, and turns are incorporated into choreography, which challenge the dancers memory and execution skills.
“I Used To Dance” Class – Join the hottest workout in Wheaton! Moms will enjoy this one hour class of aerobics and strength training mixed with a traditional jazz dance class. Tap and Lyrical also offered. There will also be a focus on stretching and a relaxing/meditative finish.
Lyrical – Lyrical dance is the art of communicating the story of a song or “lyrics” through movement. This type of story telling can be literal or abstract, so the dancers are stretched to utilize their technical skills in conjunction with presentation and performance. Lyrical often employs down- tempo or slower music where the dancer uses controlled and sustained movement styles.
Lyrical/Jazz – This combined class couples both jazz and lyrical together in an effort to naturally utilize the similarity in technique of each discipline through varying choreography and movement. It is designed to expose our students to both styles of dance in one session.
Tap – All tap classes build on rhythm and musicality. Each level of tap classes offered will combine the Old/New York Broadway style of tap presentation with current trends of rhythm, hoofin’, and acappella tap. These classes also prepare our company level dancers with tap techniques, progressions, and choreography to better prepare them for pre-professional and professional auditions.
Dance Team Technique – A class designed for the dancer who preforms with their High School Dance or Pom Team. The skill set required during a dance team audition will be broken down and explained. Focus will be on doing multiple drills incorporating necessary technique and proper execution of each skill. Including but not limited to: improving flexibility, splits, split leaps, leaps in second, turning leaps in second, c-jumps, turning c-jumps, jazz pirouettes, second position turns, leg holds, leg hold turns and capezio/ calypsos. The master instructor of this course has an impeccable reputation for coaching students in both group and private lesson settings on these specific skills before spring auditions with much success to the dancers.
Hip Hop – This dynamic class provides students with the latest, cutting edge hip-hop and street choreography. Dancers should expect to receive fast paced progressions and choreography from both the East and West coast, upbeat current Pop, Hip-Hop and age-appropriate Rap Music.
Modern/Contemporary – Modern dance emerged as a style which aimed to be radically different from classical ballet. It’s grounded and earthy and focuses on where movement originates from (“impetus”) with floor work and large range mobility. It is a concert style dance with fundamentals and techniques from influencers and dance artists such as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Isadora Duncan, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham and Lester Horton and many many others. Modern dance has evolved into various style of contemporary dance which became known in the 1950’s. Recently contemporary has gained popularity with it’s presence on TV shows such as “So You Think You Can Dance”, “World of Dance” and “America’s Got Talent”.
