In-Season Classes at Dance Esteem

Dance Together: Ages 18 – 35 Months

This joyful, music-filled class is the perfect first introduction to dance for our youngest dancers! In this 8-week session, little ones explore movement, rhythm, and coordination through songs, props, and playful activities—all alongside a parent or caregiver.

Designed to build comfort, confidence, and connection, this class focuses on basic motor skills, listening, and following directions in a fun and supportive environment. It’s a special time to bond, move, and watch your dancer light up each week. It’s the sweetest way to begin a love for dance!

PRESCHOOL DANCE & TUMBLE 

This is the ultimate class for your tiny dancer! This fun filled combo blends ballet, tap, and tumbling into one exciting, high-energy experience designed just for little movers. Dancers will jump, twirl, roll, and explore while building strong foundational skills through creative movement and engaging activities. Each class is thoughtfully structured to keep them learning, growing, and smiling every step of the way. Along with developing coordination and motor skills, dancers will build confidence, independence, and a love for movement in a positive and encouraging environment. This is the class they won’t want to miss each week!

KINDERCOMBO DANCE & TUMBLE

This class is where your dancer’s training truly begins to take off! This dynamic, high-energy class blends Tap, Ballet, Musical Theater, and tumbling all in one exciting experience. Dancers will build strong foundational technique while learning fun, engaging combinations that keep them moving, focused, and inspired.

At this level, we introduce a more structured approach to dance training while still keeping the joy and creativity front and center. Dancers will grow in coordination, musicality, spatial awareness, and confidence, all while developing a deeper understanding of movement and performance.

With the perfect balance of discipline and fun, this is a class that builds skills, sparks passion, and keeps dancers excited to come back week after week! This class is perfect for the dancer who has already completed 1 year of PreSchool Dance and the beginning Kindergartner.

Ballet

Ballet is the foundation of all dance—and where strong, confident dancers are built! In this class, dancers will develop proper technique, body placement, posture, and grace while learning the language of dance. Through structured exercises and across-the-floor work, dancers will grow in strength, flexibility, and control—all while building the discipline that helps them excel in every other style.

Tap

Get ready to make some noise! Tap turns your dancer’s feet into an instrument as they learn rhythm, timing, and coordination in a fun and energetic setting. Dancers will explore footwork, syncopation, and musicality through warm-ups, across-the-floor progressions, and exciting combinations that keep them moving and engaged every class.

Jazz

This genre explores traditional, classic, Broadway, and contemporary styles in a fun and energetic atmosphere. A jazz warm up is given focusing on isolations, coordination, flexibility, strength and musicality. This is followed by jazz progressions across the floor. The class concludes with a jazz combination in which students learn jazz choreography to further prepare them for a full length jazz routine.

Lyrical

Lyrical dance is a style that incorporates classic jazz and ballet technique. This genre focuses on the expression of strong emotion and is designed to extend the dancer’s creativity. The style concentrates more on individual approach and expressiveness than the precision of the dancer’s movement. Ballet training is highly recommended and required for any dancer taking lyrical.

Contemporary 

Contemporary dance is a fusion of jazz, lyrical, and ballet techniques which can be set to almost any style of music. Contemporary is characterized by its versatility and ability to unite other dance forms to create new styles of movement. Students will also be taught to express themselves as dancers with some improvisational exercises. It is a great preparation for students who are considering dance as a possible study in higher education. Ballet training is highly recommended.

Musical Theater

Lights, camera, action! This high-energy class brings the stage to life by combining dance, acting, and performance. Dancers will train in Broadway-style jazz while learning how to project character, tell a story, and fully commit to the moment.

Classes focus on facial expressions, stage presence, musicality, and performance quality, alongside technique, timing, and precision. Dancers will explore a variety of styles inspired by Broadway and commercial theater, building versatility and confidence through engaging choreography and acting exercises.

This is the class for dancers who love to perform big, take risks, and own the stage—developing not just strong technique, but the confidence and charisma that make a true performer stand out.

Hip Hop

Hip hop offers popular street style and dance video moves put into combinations that are fun, exciting, upbeat and entertaining. Placement, style, and musicality are stressed in this class. Dancers will learn new tricks and some break dancing. 

Kickline

Kickline will work on flexibility, precision style dancing, and high kicks. Kickline is also known as High Kick and very popular with high school dance teams. Kickline is a great class for any dancer wanting more flexibility.  

Boys Breakdancing

Get ready to move, groove, and break! This high-energy class introduces foundational breakdancing skills including footwork, freezes, and beginner power moves. Dancers will build strength, coordination, and musicality while learning cool tricks and combinations that keep them challenged and engaged. With a focus on both skill-building and style, this class is perfect for boys who want to bring the energy every week.

Pointe

Dancing en pointe is every dancer's dream. Pointe refers to the act of standing on the tips of the toes while executing selected ballet steps, all while wearing pointe shoes. Dancing en pointe requires strength and advanced skill. Prior permission from the instructor is required before students begin to take pointe classes. All dancers wishing to participate in pointe class are required to take ballet.

ACRO SKILLS & STRENGTH

Big energy, big skills, and nonstop movement! This class is perfect for young dancers ready to build strength, flexibility, and confidence while learning exciting acro fundamentals. Dancers will work on skills like cartwheels, bridges, backbends, kickovers, rolls, and beginner limber progressions—all while improving coordination and control.

With a strong focus on proper technique and safe progressions, this class keeps kids challenged, motivated, and moving the entire time. Expect high energy, lots of encouragement, and that “I DID IT!” moment every single week.

Leaps & Turns: Ages 5+

The focus of Leaps & Turns is personal development and growth of flexibility, body placement, cardio endurance and a strong emphasis of proper technique for various jumps, leaps and turns. Ballet training is highly recommended for this class.

Strength & Conditioning For Dancers: Ages 5+

Dancers will learn various types of stretches to prevent injury, increase flexibility, and rehabilitate pulled/sore muscles. Abdominal work, cardio exercise, upper body training, squats and foot strengthening work will be included. In addition, students will explore how to create movement without any set choreography, and master the art of spatial and level patterns.