Welcome Creative Dance Works Students
Preschool through early elementary dancers are beautifully nurtured in The Dance Garden with Miss Jasmine. A need to facilitate further growth for older elementary dancers inspired the return of Creative Dance Works studio classes.
Creative Dance Works allows older elementary dancers to continue to build their own movement vocabulary as well as dance technique. Positivity and creativity are essential to building a safe space and are a main focus of each class.
These classes allow dancers to continue to explore how dance and creative work expand their thinking. These classes grant them the freedom to move more comfortably in their body achieving better coordination, balance, and flexibility.
Class
Class will be held on Wednesdays from 4:15-5:15pm at The Dance Garden studio. Classes begin with a "free dance" followed by a more intense warm-up; focusing on building strength, endurance, and flexibility. Center floor work and "across the floor" involve dance technique that builds in pattern length, repetitions, and skill level. Variations in combinations using Time, Space, and Energy offer constant challenges and rewards for dancers. Dancers learn choreography as well as improvisation techniques. The teacher works as facilitator for encouraging and directing the creative movement of each dancer and the class as a whole. Imagery, literature, props, objects and art are all mediums for movement inspiration.
Building a dance community
In the fall dancers will enjoy a supplemental dance experience. This may include either attending Ring Around the Rose, daCi Day of Dance, or other collaborative opportunities. Each spring we will join The Dance Garden for a spring recital. Our recitals will follow a storyline or theme, and dancers will play an integral part in the choreography and development of their class dance.
Mindset
An open-mind is critical for class discussions and improvisation. Sharing ideas and movement can only happen when dancers feel safe. It is important for dancers to understand that the goal is improvement and exploration, not perfection. Creation is a process of discovery! Encouragement for others and positivity for self makes a huge difference in the depth of creation that can be achieved in class.
Thank you for your support in helping dance be a positive, safe, and enriching experience for everyone!
Calendar 2024-2025
Dance class will be held on Wednesdays from 4:15-5:15 at The Dance Garden Studio.
Class begins on August 28th and concludes on April 30th.
AUG. 28th- FIRST DAY OF CLASS
OCT. 16th-FALL BREAK, NO CLASS
NOV. TBA RING AROUND THE ROSE
NOV. 20th- PARENT PARTICIPATION WEEK- Showing for parents the last 10 minutes of class.
NOV. 27th- THANKSGIVING BREAK, NO CLASS
DEC. 11th- LAST DAY OF CLASS
JAN. 8th- CLASS RESUMES
APR. 2rd- SPRING BREAK, NO CLASS
April 30th- LAST DAY OF CLASS
SPRING REHEARSAL AND RECITAL TENTATIVE DATES MAY 1 AND 2