ANN'S STUDIO OF DANCE 

Our students learn proper technique, class room and stage etiquette. In the process they build skills and habits that encourage pride and confidence. Our dancers carry this knowledge with them as they progress through life.

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Class size limited to 10!

* PRE-BALLET   age 3 - 4                   This is a 45 minute structured class using real Ballet steps. The students learn 1st & 2nd position, plie, tendu, how to stretch their feet, Ballet runs, Ports de Bra, skips, and a dozen simple Jazz steps. It is all geared to their age level and creates smiling faces each week. Songs and use of props is incorporated into the class.

* PRE-DANCE 2    BALLET & JAZZ  age 4 - 5      This too is 45 minute class. In addition to the already learned steps students learn additional use of the arms, posture, Ballet walks, Fondu, parallel Pas de Chat, combination steps, plus more Jazz/Hip Hop steps and the beginning of turns. Again, songs and use of props is incorporated into the class.                                 

TAP Grades 1-9       Starting at age 6     TAP age 6+

Tap dance is the use of feet instead of drums to create percussive music. Tap dance has African, Irish and English heritage. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson brought it up on the toes. John "Bubbles" Sublet added heel rhythms. Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire added a Balletic quality. And Savion Glover has incorporated a Hip Hop style known as "Power Tapping". We use a combination of Glenn Wood Tap and Stepping Tones syllabi. You will practice steps, turns and combinations that have been handed down from generations of Tap dancers creating an exhilarating and fun learning experience.

We are the first in the USA to teach the Glenn Wood Tap Dance Syllabus from Australia!!! 

BALLET grades 1-5   age 6-12                                                                        

BALLET Elementary & Intermediate   age 11 and over

Students study a graded classical syllabus based on the Royal Academy of Dance technique, incorporating Barre, center adagio and allegro, combinations and dances.

JAZZ  DANCE and HIP HOP   

Fathered by Jack Cole in the 50s, JAZZ DANCE is a blended form incorporating African roots, the quick footwork and intricate rhythms of Tap dance, the partnering and liveliness of Jitterbug and Swing, East Indian isolations, Cuban hip movements and Ballet jumps and turns. Our Jazz classes are based on exercises that build strength and  posture, and improve technique. We start with a center warm-up and technique, then proceed to across the floor steps, turns, jumps, kicks, and jazz, funk and lyric combinations. Hip Hop is included as a part of this class. We work on popping, locking, and other popular Hip Hop moves.   

IRISH STEP Grades 1-7                                                                                     

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Ann's Studio of Dance     122 Roxbury Street       Keene, NH 03431

  email: director@anns-dance.com     603-357-0929