| We love Gray's School of Dance. It's like a big family. |
providing professional dance
instruction for over 30 years.
instruction for over 30 years.
Class Descriptions
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Preschool
Our preschool program is a 1 hour combination of pre-ballet and tumbling
incorporating fun sing-along songs and props with dance while focusing on gross
motor development and group activities. Children learn concentration, focus, eye
contact, and respect for others. It is our belief that a child's first experience with
dance should be a fun, positive and rewarding one fostering the basis for a lifetime
love of dance.
Ballet
Ballet is both a discipline and an art form. Ballet stands in a class all it's own. Ballet
requires strength and patience because of its difficult technical elements. Taking
years to develop, the body is set in various positions and poses which require
flexibility in the back, legs, rib cage, and feet. Dedication to the study over an
extended period of time will increase fluidity, grace, and technique. Ballet is a good
foundation fro all dance types. Students will learn proper technique, vocabulary,
stage directions, barre work, center floor, progression across the floor, and correct
terminology. Correct body alignment is stressed in these classes.
Pointe
Each student is carefully evaluated before starting pointe. Sufficient understanding
of correct placement and alignment must be demonstrated before pointe
instruction begins, decreasing the possibility of injury. Advanced pointe students
will also learn and analyze classic pointe variations from famous ballet repertoires.
Tap
Tap lets you use your body as a rhythm instrument. With emphasis on fancy
footwork and sound, tap develops agility, musicality, and stylized movement. These
classes cover all the basic exercises, time steps, and riffs that make tap so much
fun. Dancers study basic to advanced tap technique, rhythm, coordination, and style.
Jazz
Students are taught the techniques of jazz, including isolation exercises, movement
patterns, stretches, strengthening exercises, progressions and combinations.
Students are exposed to many styles of jazz, like theatrical, Broadway, hip hop,
funk, and lyrical.
Tumbling
Our tumbling classes focus on developing all basics of tumbling, yet keep a keen
direction in helping students learn a round-off back handspring, front handsprings,
and aerial work. Skills are developed with progressions, drills, and spotting along
with an emphasis on increasing each student's strength to make them more
physically prepared for learning. In tumbling, children work at their own rate of
speed. We take our incredible expertise and apply it systematically to each
individual's level and needs. It is a very fun class where personal accomplishment
knows no limit.
Our preschool program is a 1 hour combination of pre-ballet and tumbling
incorporating fun sing-along songs and props with dance while focusing on gross
motor development and group activities. Children learn concentration, focus, eye
contact, and respect for others. It is our belief that a child's first experience with
dance should be a fun, positive and rewarding one fostering the basis for a lifetime
love of dance.
Ballet
Ballet is both a discipline and an art form. Ballet stands in a class all it's own. Ballet
requires strength and patience because of its difficult technical elements. Taking
years to develop, the body is set in various positions and poses which require
flexibility in the back, legs, rib cage, and feet. Dedication to the study over an
extended period of time will increase fluidity, grace, and technique. Ballet is a good
foundation fro all dance types. Students will learn proper technique, vocabulary,
stage directions, barre work, center floor, progression across the floor, and correct
terminology. Correct body alignment is stressed in these classes.
Pointe
Each student is carefully evaluated before starting pointe. Sufficient understanding
of correct placement and alignment must be demonstrated before pointe
instruction begins, decreasing the possibility of injury. Advanced pointe students
will also learn and analyze classic pointe variations from famous ballet repertoires.
Tap
Tap lets you use your body as a rhythm instrument. With emphasis on fancy
footwork and sound, tap develops agility, musicality, and stylized movement. These
classes cover all the basic exercises, time steps, and riffs that make tap so much
fun. Dancers study basic to advanced tap technique, rhythm, coordination, and style.
Jazz
Students are taught the techniques of jazz, including isolation exercises, movement
patterns, stretches, strengthening exercises, progressions and combinations.
Students are exposed to many styles of jazz, like theatrical, Broadway, hip hop,
funk, and lyrical.
Tumbling
Our tumbling classes focus on developing all basics of tumbling, yet keep a keen
direction in helping students learn a round-off back handspring, front handsprings,
and aerial work. Skills are developed with progressions, drills, and spotting along
with an emphasis on increasing each student's strength to make them more
physically prepared for learning. In tumbling, children work at their own rate of
speed. We take our incredible expertise and apply it systematically to each
individual's level and needs. It is a very fun class where personal accomplishment
knows no limit.
109 1/2 West Madison St. Ottawa, IL 61350 815-434-5787
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