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DANCE CLASSES FOR
3-5 YEAR OLDS
Our classes are specifically designed to develop foundation dance techniques and build skills essential to your child's early development.
Our little dancers are met with a world of magic and make-believe.
Welcome to dance and acrobatics classes for 3-5 year olds. This cohort is
called the Introduction to Dance Level.
Typically, children are in this level for 2 years, and work towards their first ballet and tap exam.
On a Saturday morning, this 30 minute class is designed to be an introduction to dance, and we offer the BBODance Pre-Graded Introduction to Dance Ballet and Tap Syllabi.
We also offer
Acro Dance Classes
for 3-5 year olds. This 1 hour class is designed to be an introduction to acrobatics for dancers to further underpin the flexibility, balance, and coordination, needed for their dance classes, and overall development of their physical skills.
what do we offer in our
Ballet and Tap Dance Class for 3-5 year olds?
Saturday mornings-
9.30-10.00am
In this 30 minute lesson our students work towards their first classical ballet examination. As a recommendation, children are entered for the "Introduction to Dance" ballet exam at 5 years of age. There is a strong focus on performance: every step, exercise, dance, and task, has been considered with characterisation, personality, musicality, and style, in mind.
If successful, candidates receive a report, certificate, and badge for each exam.
Intermittently, our students also learn tap dance, developing technical steps including toe taps, toe kicks, heel digs, brushes forwards, shuffles, toe heel walks, heel toe walks and ball changes.
We recognise that each child learns at a different pace and that some children may need slightly longer to successfully complete their exam. The Principal will discuss with you any recommendations we have for your child's progression.
What Ballet Steps Do We Include in Our Ballet Class for 3-5 year olds?
The Introduction to Ballet Syllabus is fun and imaginative.
It includes the following exercises:
- Entrance and Welcome
- Galops and Claps
- Foot Flexes and Marches
- Hand Exercise
- First Creative Movement
- Pointe and Close
- Plies
- Sways
- Jumps
- Second Creative Movement
What Tap Steps Do We Include in Our Tap Dance Class for 3-5 year olds?
The Introduction to Tap Syllabus is fun and imaginative and includes the following exercises:
- Steps and Stamps
- Hands and Feet
- Gallops, Jumps and Skips
- Even, Flat and Ball Beats
- Character
- Tap Bow
Saddleworth Ballet School
The Dance Studio
Greenfield Primary School
Shaw Street Greenfield
Saddleworth
Oldham
OL3 7AA