Season Calendar & Events
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AUGUST 2018
Preschool Classes: CSD is extremely proud of their Preschool Program. Our classes are backed by years of expertise and designed to keep your dancer excited and engaged each week!
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BALLET/TAP COMBO CLASSES
Baby Ballet: 2.5-3 years old
This super fun 30 minute class is designed for the tiniest of princesses. Through monthly themed lesson plans, these princesses will use magic, imagery, and themed props to learn pre-ballet, develop motor skills, and spatial awareness. Your prince or princess will have a royal ball!
Broadway Babies: 3-4 years old
This program is designed for your Broadway Baby! These Broadway Babies will enhance creativity, coordination, and musical awareness through monthly themed lesson plans. Dancers will use imagery, rhythmic games, magic, and themed props to learn pre-ballet and introduced to tap! Class is one hour. Class will perform a Ballet & Tap routine in the June Recital.
Showtime Starlets: 4-5 years old (Pre-K)
This program is designed for your super star! These Showtime Starlets will expand their ballet knowledge through super fun monthly themed lesson plans. These Showtime Starlets will use imagery and themed props to enhance their ballet knowledge. Dancers will engage in center and across the floor work. These little stars will expand their tap knowledge by adding rhythmic skills and across the floor progressions. Class is one hour. Class will perform a Ballet & Tap routine in the June Recital.
Petite Pizzazz: 5-6 years old (Kindergarten)
This program is perfectly designed for your dancing diva! These dancers will enhance their ballet and tap skills using imagery and monthly themed lesson plans. This fun class helps your dancer learn proper terminology and age appropriate dance steps in a creative, lively and fun setting. These dancers will engage in barre, center, and across the floor work in ballet and enhance their rhythmic skills and across the floor progressions in tap. Class is one hour. Class will perform a Ballet & Tap routine in the June Recital.
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Saturday 12:15-1:15pm
ADDITIONAL FUN & UNIQUE CLASSES
Tumbling Tots (Ages 3-6)
This class is designed for your active little one! This half hour super fun class is an introduction to acrobatics. Dancers will work on basic acrobatic skills, strength, and flexibility. Class will perform one routine in the June Recital.
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Tuesday 4:45-5:30pm
Hip Hop Flip Flop
This class is designed for your sassy little dancer. This high energy class will allow dancers to show off their dance moves through age appropriate hip hop basics and basic acrobatic and tumbling skills. Class is one hour. Class will perform one routine in the June Recital.
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Saturday 1:15-2:15pm
Snazzy Jazzy: 4-6 years old
Super fun and high energy, age-appropriate music, dancers will learn the basics of jazz and movement in a fun and engaging way. Class is 45 minutes and will perform 1 routine in the June recital.
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All pre-school ballet & tap combination classes require a special dance class uniform where each level will have their own color dance dress. CSD has their own site where you can purchase all of your class needs! This is the only website where the dance attire can be purchased. Please see our Dress Attire tab for additional details.
Elementary School Classes
Elementary (Grades 1-2 & Grades 3-5)
Ballet: Ballet is the foundation of all dance forms, and is emphasized at Cheryl’s School of Dance. Students will learn the beautiful art form of ballet along with terminology, proper placement, and correct techniques while incorporating grace, precision of movement and body awareness. Class will consist of barre work, center, across the floor, comprehending vocabulary, melodic execution, and understanding correct placement and usage of the body.
Jazz: A fun and upbeat class that is designed to develop stylized movement, strength, body placement, coordination, and performance style while focusing on proper terminology and technique. This class consists of warm up, stretch, center floor and across the floor combinations. Dancers will learn various styles of jazz, along with rhythm and musicality.
Tap: Tap can be considered not only an entertaining style of dance, but also a percussive instrument. Develops an understanding of rhythm, music theory, and the mechanics that the body requires to “play” their instrument. Focuses on muscle strengthening, memory quickness, coordination, control, improvisation, rhythmic timing and performance skills.
Hip Hop: An energetic class that offer versatile styles of dance that encourages freedom of movement while using their own personalities. Hip Hop uses your own personal rhythm, as well as current dance moves while using age appropriate music.
Acrobatics: We are proud to use Acrobatic Arts syllabus and technique in our training! Technical training includes tumbling and floor exercises with emphasis on developing the student’s ability, strength, flexibility and coordination. We encourage each student’s individual growth and progress according to their abilities.
Lyrical: An expressive form of dance that incorporates a fusion of many dance styles including ballet, jazz, modern and contemporary. Through choreography and dance phrases, dancers tell a story. Dancers are encouraged to explore their emotions and movement through improvisation. It is expressive, simultaneously subtle and dynamic, focused on conveying musicality and emotion through movement.
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Grades 1-2
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Friday
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Grades 3-5
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Middle & High School Classes
Middle & High School Age Classes
Ballet: Ballet is the foundation of all dance forms, and is emphasized at Cheryl’s School of Dance. Students will learn the beautiful art form of ballet along with terminology, proper placement, and correct techniques while incorporating grace, precision of movement and body awareness. Class will consist of barre work, center, across the floor, comprehending vocabulary, melodic execution, and understanding correct placement and usage of the body.
Jazz: A fun and upbeat class that is designed to develop stylized movement, strength, body placement, coordination, and performance style while focusing on proper terminology and technique. This class consists of warm up, stretch, center floor and across the floor combinations. Dancers will learn various styles of jazz, along with rhythm and musicality.
Tap: Tap can be considered not only an entertaining style of dance, but also a percussive instrument. Develops an understanding of rhythm, music theory, and the mechanics that the body requires to “play” their instrument. Focuses on muscle strengthening, memory quickness, coordination, control, improvisation, rhythmic timing and performance skills.
Hip Hop: An energetic class that offer versatile styles of dance that encourages freedom of movement while using their own personalities. Hip Hop uses your own personal rhythm, as well as current dance moves while using age appropriate music.
Acrobatics: We are proud to use Acrobatic Arts syllabus and technique in our training! Technical training includes tumbling and floor exercises with emphasis on developing the student’s ability, strength, flexibility and coordination. We encourage each student’s individual growth and progress according to their abilities.
Lyrical: An expressive form of dance that incorporates a fusion of many dance styles including ballet, jazz, modern and contemporary. Through choreography and dance phrases, dancers tell a story. Dancers are encouraged to explore their emotions and movement through improvisation. It is expressive, simultaneously subtle and dynamic, focused on conveying musicality and emotion through movement.
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Grades 6-12
Monday
Wednesday
4:30-6:00 Jazz/Lyric Combo Class
1530 Mineral Spring Ave, North Providence, RI 02904 | 401 . 353 . 5620 | register@cherylsschoolofdance.com