Beginner Jazz/Tap (Monessa)

Jazz dance is a fun, expressive dance style that encourages personal style and body awareness and incorporates a variety of techniques such as modern, ballet, African, Latin, and Caribbean dance styles. An emphasis is placed on strength, flexibility, and balance, as well as increasing memory and stamina. Jazz class will include a warm-up, stretches, progressions across the floor, and choreography.

Tap class will focus on developing student coordination, balance and weight shift, and sense of time and rhythm, simultaneously introducing basic tap dance vocabulary. Classes are taught to a wide rage of musical selections including Jazz, Broadway Jazz, Pop, R&B, Soul, Funk, Worldwide Grooves, etc.