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• Ballet/Tap
• This 45-minute class focuses on basic movement and dance skills to develop coordination, balance, musicality, timing, and flexibility. Beginning ballet and tap technique is also introduced in this class and students are taught proper technique and basic vocabulary. Combination classes are a great way for students to experience different types of activity with the main focus on having fun and enjoying dance!
• Ballet
• Ballet is the foundation for all other dance forms and is a necssity for every serious student of dance. In this class, the emphasis is proper body positioning and the development of correct muscle alignment. Students strive for grace, fluidity of movement, and discipline.
• Creative Expressions
• Creative Expressions is a dance class offered at IGNITE for teenagers to young adults who have special needs. Creative Expression will incorporate a combination of dance styles. All are welcome to this upbeat, high-energy class!
• Creative Movement
• Creative Movement is a joyful way for children to explore movement through music and dance. Your child will work on developing physical skills, channel energy, stimulate imagination, and creativity
• Hip Hop
• Hip-hop dance is a vibrant form of dance that combines a variety of freestyle movements to create a cultural piece of art. Through its three main styles of popping, locking, and breaking, hip-hop dance has evolved into one of the most popular and influential styles of dance.
• Jazz
• Jazz is a quick moving, technical dance form that infuses a “cool” aesthetic. This class will focus on flexibility, turns and leaps, stylized steps, and coordination, through center-floor work, across the floor progressions, and combinations.
• Lyrical
• Lyrical is a contemporary dance form that integrates the discipline of ballet, the freedom of jazz, and the creativity of modern dance. This class will focus on the use of personal emotion and storytelling through movement that plays with the use of articulation, line, weight, and movement qualities.
• Musical Theatre
• Musical Theatre offers a fun approach to theatre through imagination, improvisation, and presentation. This class will focus on teaching students stage presence, singing, acting, dancing, and theatre history.
• Pointe (Permission required)
• Pointe dancers perform ballet and pointe technique while wearing pointe shoes that supports all of a dancer’s body weight on the tips of fully extended feet. Extensive training and practice are required to develop the strength and technique needed for pointe work.
• Stretch & Strength
• Stretch & Strength is a class that provides dancers tools to maintain proper dance facilities. This class will focus on conditioning, flexibility, proper alignment,  and injury prevention.
• Tap
• Tap is an American dance form in which the dancer creates exciting, dynamic rhythms with their feet. Instruction includes emphasis on musicality, clarity of tap sounds, proper technique, speed, and a variety of styles of steps.
• Tumbling
• Tumbling students will focus on developing tumbling and gymnastics skills in progression, while improving strength and flexibility through conditioning.

Dress Code

• Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Stretch & Strength
  Girls- choice of tights, bike shorts, jazz pants, capris, form-fitting tank tops, sports bras, workout tops, or leotards. Hair should be pulled back in order to spot (messy bun) – no long ponytails. (unless specified by your teacher)
  Boys- T-shirt, tank top, basketball shorts or leggings. No baggy pants.
  Shoes- Jazz shoes, foot undies, or bare feet. Bare feet for Stretch & Strength.
• Ballet:
  Girls- Leotard, pink tights, and pink ballet shoes. Hair in bun. (skirts optional)
  Boys- Form fitting shirt, fitted shorts or leggings, black socks, and black ballet shoes.
• Hip Hop: Loose clothing (no jeans) and dedicated clean sneakers/shoes.
• Tap: Ankles must show, no baggy clothing, tap shoes.