Absolute Beginner salsa

Jahrel & Natasha: Mondays 7:00 - 8:00 pm

Salsa is one of the most popular Latin social dances around the world. With its vibrant music and fun patterns, people fall in love with salsa every day. We are excited to have Bachata Fuego come together to bring their style of Salsa to Sarasota. For new dancers we recommend beginning with the Absolute Beginner Salsa class. Here you will learn the salsa foundations of timing, and the basic vocabulary you will need to begin your salsa journey. This class will consist of solo movement as well as partner work. You will develop an understanding of this dance and the confidence to get on the floor at the dance socials!

All levels Afro-Fusion

Monessa Salley: Mondays 5:30 - 6:45 pm

Afro-Fusion dance is a contemporary class where students explore full body expressions rooted in West African, Caribbean, and American dance traditions. This class/movement is designed to enhance rhythm, coordination, balance, weight shift, and increase stamina. The overall desire is for participants to feel comfortable in their moving bodies, groove together as a community, and have fun!

Beginner Jazz/Tap

Monessa Salley: Wednesdays 5:00 - 6:00 pm

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.

Contemporary Ballet Flow

Juliana Cristina: Tuesdays 10:00am - 11:15am

Contemporary Ballet Flow is not your traditional ballet class. Although this class pulls from traditional ballet techniques, it is taught with no barre. This class fuses together the beauty and strength of Ballet and Contemporary. This class allows you to experience freedom within ballet and precision within contemporary. With this class, enhance your health and well-being while tapping into your inner artistry.

All Levels Contemporary

Tania Vergara Perez: Tuesdays 11:30am-12:24pm

This exhilarating multicultural contemporary dance experience,is taught in Tania’s signature style developed in her country of origin - Cuba! Take your personal journey with this Master Teacher who teaches by example and leads with her big heart.

All Levels Contemporary

Juliana Cristina: Wednesdays 6:15pm - 7:30pm

All levels Contemporary focuses on the building blocks of contemporary movement. This class explores the continuous and sequential directing and counter-directing of the body in space. It includes classical approaches to enhance traditional training methods. This class hopes to heighten your senses and indulge in your inner artistry.

Adult Broadway Jazz

Samantha : Thursdays 12:15pm - 1:30 pm

Broadway Jazz is an upbeat jazz class that uses classic jazz techniques mixed in with theatrical storytelling. This class will focus on isolations, long lines, and use of expression and of course, use music from some classic Broadway shows!

Improvisation - Dancing in the Moment

Marsi Burns: Wednesdays 7:30pm-8:45pm starting October 24 Wednesdays 7:30 - 8:45 pm, starting November 1

This engaging and fun class helps adults express their joy of movement through the art of improvisational dance. There are no steps to learn, just a desire to move free, and thoughtful. This class encourages one to find expressive ways to respond to the music, poetry and visual stimuli which surround you. All in a totally joyous and supportive group setting that is great for mind, body and spirit.

Jammin’ Salsa (open levels)

Jahrel & Natasha: Mondays 8:00 - 9:00 pm

For dancers that have a foundation of salsa, we invite you to take the Jammin' Salsa class. This is an open level class and is designed for dancers that have a clear understanding of timing, basic salsa vocabulary and lead/follow technique. In this class, we will build upon the foundations with footwork, body movement, and clean technique. The partner work section will expand your use of basic vocabulary to create patterns that flow and are ready to add to your repertoire. In this level we emphasize styling and the overall aesthetic of the dance.

Open levels Contemporary

Tania Vergara Perez: Saturday 12:30-1:45pm

This exhilarating multicultural contemporary dance experience,is taught in Tania’s signature style developed in her country of origin - Cuba! Take your personal journey with this Master Teacher who teaches by example and leads with her big heart.

Red Tent

Xuan Dancigers: 1st & 3rd Fridays 2:30 - 3:30 pm

This class invites women of at least 40 years old, with or without dance experience, to join and celebrate the feminine spirit through dance. The class cultivates a safe place to share the joy of dance while moving and creating together.

Contemp-pop/Hip Hop

Sarah Affainie: Wednesdays 4:00pm-5:00pm

A blend of hip hop and contemporary movement, that uses soft and sharp choreography to unite the two styles. A foundational focus on hip-hop qualities, footwork, isolations, grounded and accented movement, and musicality. Waves and body rolls will be implemented, along with the occasional implementation of dance hall and “afro-hip hop” style.

Dance In The Spririt

Sun, Love, Peace: 2nd & 4th Fridays of the month 2:30-3:30pm

A Christian-based guided dance and flow experience that articulates worship, praise, and inspiration. No technique or dance experience is needed. Come ready to flow in the movement of dance ~ in the spirit.

Open company class

Various Company Members:

Take class with SCD’s Professional Company Members as they get warm and ready for rehearsal. The class style rotates depending on the need of the Company, but you can come expecting an inviting atmosphere to have fun and be challenged!

Int/Adv Contemporary

Xiao-Xuan Dancigers: Thursdays 5:00 - 6:00 pm

SCD offers a wide range of contemporary dance classes from beginner (no experience) to advanced. This class introduces the basic fundamentals of contemporary dance technique including floor work, inversions, improvisation, and phrase work. Each class begins with a full body warm-up and then transitions into spacious, athletic, and sometimes inverted phrases. This class encourages awareness to sensation, movement efficiency, and individual performance. A rich sense of community and support is fostered as dancers are guided to fall, roll, and fly across the floor together.

Int/Adv Contemporary Jazz

Melissa Rummel: Tuesdays 5:00 - 6:00 pm

This contemporary jazz class contains a fusion of modern, jazz, and ballet. This unique style explores a wide range of organic, angular movements and syncopated rhythms with a base in classical technique. This type of dancing is fun and energetic and includes leaps, turns, and floor work. This class is a fun way to move and express oneself!