TEACHERS
Our team of dance teachers is here to guide, inspire, and elevate your dancing skills.
CLASS OVERVIEW
Flexibility
Every dance routine also includes proper stretching. The hour consists of a warm-up followed by targeted stretching, mobility and strength training specifically for dancers, in order to keep our bodies flexible.
Foundations
Whether you're a complete beginner or looking to refine your dance skills, our Foundations dance class is all about mastering the essentials. Here, get to practice simple basics, which you can never practice too much. We engage in various exercises with a main focus on flexibility, balance, and coordination. These are designed to prepare you for dancing more complex choreographies.
Floor Barre
Exercises from the ballet barre are performed on the floor; you train in a way that is gentle on your joints, focusing mainly on strengthening your core and legs. These exercises target the muscle groups that are also used in ballet, which in turn boost your entire body and improves your posture.
Contemporary Dance
We regularly practice our dance routine to stay in shape for dancing: after the warm-up, we either do improvisation exercises to discover freedom in movement, or we learn short choreographies and sequences of movements to improve our pick-ups.
Modern Dance
In our Modern Class, we explore and learn the blend of modern techniques such as Martha Graham, Lester Horton, or Matt Mattox technique. Here, you can expect fluid and expressive movements that combine physical expressiveness with technical precision. Additionally, we continually learn and dance choreographies that help us put the learned techniques into practice.
Graham Technique
The Martha Graham technique, a powerful and dynamic method, is acknowledged as the first codified technique of Modern Dance. In our classes, we learn this technique collectively through basic lessons and crucial floor work. The method revolves around the concepts of "contraction, release, and spirals." These rhythmic movements originate from the dancer's core, profoundly influencing the movements of the entire body.
Jazz Dance
Jazz dance is elegant, but also fun and full of energy. In a class, you pick up basic moves like high kicks, leaps, and spins. You also learn dance routines that show off how you can move one part of your body while the rest stays still. These classes often help you get better at coordinating your movements, maintaining good posture, and musicality.
Floor work
refers to a dance technique or a series of movements in which dancers move their bodies on the floor, using it as a prop or a partner. It involves controlled and often fluid movements such as rolls, slides, and falls, and requires a good sense of body awareness, strength, and flexibility. Floor work is a common element in contemporary and modern dance styles, but it is also utilized in other dance forms for expressive and artistic purposes.
Floor Work - Flow Like Water
During the classes we will focus on the relation between the body, space, and floor. We will improvise solo with the partner with certain tasks in order to find characteristic movement qualities, the connection between limbs and the spine and organic articulation. When learning movements we will focus on finding a balance between effort and release in order to do them in a smooth and effortless way. For that we will engaging the centre of the body and using natural momentum.
Creative Movement
In this class, participants learn to spontaneously create movements and express themselves through dance without pre-set choreography. This class helps dancers develop their creativity, musicality, and ability to respond to the moment. Improvisation often encourages dancers to explore and discover new movement possibilities, improving their personal style and expressiveness.