Ballet is the core fundamental of formal dance training. Ballet fortifies abilities and skills in other forms of dance. Focus is heavy in the areas of classical technique and contemporary variances. Students will learn the basics that lead into more intermediate movements. Students will be exposed to classical music and learn varied tempos paired with movement. Ballet will focus on discovering beautiful and graceful moments through performing ballet movement. Students will learn proper alignment, positions or arms and feet, musicality, and rhythm. Students will learn the lines their bodies can make to create the beautiful pictures admired by the world.
Flexibility class teaches students to stretch their bodies. It pushes what students know and/or believe their bodies can do. Students will increase their flexibility, endurance and strength. The class includes a cardio warm-up to get muscles warm and prevent injury. Students use the barre, across the floor and the walls to make stretches more effective.
Hip hop is the expression of more current modern dance through percussive, precise movement blended with style and attitude of the street with influences rooted in African and Jazz. Hip hop will focus on isolations, individuality, confidence, and strength in movement to current and old school music. Students will learn to hear the layers in music and distinguish different portions of music and translate it into movement. Students will learn choreography and learn to adapt their own personal expression in the dance.
Jazz relies heavily on the dancerís classical ballet training and dance technique. Students will focus on rhythm, stage presence, balance, coordination, turns, leaps, and combinations from simple to complex. Students are taught basic isolations to improve coordination. Jazz influences vary from ballet, lyrical, hip hop, funk, modern, Broadway and many other genres. Classes include warm-ups, across the floor combinations, and choreography.
Modern dance is a form of dance which focuses on the serious expression of inner emotions, using a free-flowing, interpretive style, rather than following the rigid rules characteristic of many dance disciplines.
Tap classes emphasize the development and strengthening of basic tap technique, and terminology highlighting the importance of rhythm and sound. Focus will be on rhythm, footwork, and creating a percussive instrument with the dancers' feet. Tap class includes warm-up, rhythm sequences, across the floor, and combinations.
Tumbling is a form of gymnastics which is performed without the assistance of props; you may also hear it referred to as floor gymnastics. Like other forms of gymnastics, tumbling requires physical strength, flexibility, and stamina. This class covers all the basics of running and standing tumbling such as handstands, cartwheels, round-offs, and back handsprings. In the beginner class we focus on form and technique.
Chromolume Dance Studio
P.O. Box 641964
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Phone: (323) 205-1046
Fax: (866) 763-6097
Chromolume Dance Studio
5429 W. Washington Blvd., 2nd Fl
Los Angeles, CA 90016