Specially designed for the youngest in our midst!

The Studio for the Performing Arts, Inc. (SPA) was founded in 1997 in Newark, NY. Our goal since is to give students a dance education in an environment that is structured, challenging, rewarding, emotionally safe, and encouraging, while promoting the love of dance.

TINY TOTS

2 & 3 year olds • $40 per month
Monday 10:45 am / Saturday 10 am
>>Dance Attire = Comfortable clothes bare feet OR Solid Leotard & Tights / Hair UP<<
This class is designed to help toddlers with socialization skills as well as motor skills. This is a fun thirty minute class of movement and the first step of three in our pre-school program.

CREATIVE MOVEMENT

3 - 5 year olds • $40 per month
Monday 4:30 pm / Wednesday 10:45 am
Wednesday 5:15 pm / Saturday 9:30 am
>>Dance Attire = Solid Leotard & Tights / Hair UP<<
The Creative Movement class is the next step developed for our youngest dancers; class time is extended to forty-five minutes. Our curriculum is designed especially to encourage their wonderful imaginations, love of move-ment and song, to create a fun yet educational classroom setting. At this level our goal is to start teaching the basic ballet positions and terms, while continuing to develop motor skills.

PRE-COMBO

5 - 7 year olds • $50 per month
Tuesday 5:30 pm / Wednesday 4:30pm
Saturday 10:15 am
>>Dance Attire = Solid Leotard & Tights / Hair UP<<
Pre-Combo has been developed as the third step for our young dancers. Here students are familiar with basic bal-let and will continue to work on ballet vocabulary, form, and technique. Students will now start learning the basics of Tap the terms, sounds and steps. The class increases from forty-five minutes to an hour.

Curriculum

We meet various dance abilities with an array of well-disciplined classes in ballet, jazz, lyrical, and tap. For our younger students, instructors use age-appropriate methods to help further develop motor skills, socialization, discipline, poise, and self-esteem.
Ballet is the foundation of the SPA dance curriculum, as it introduces students to essential terms and techniques needed to launch and maintain a strong dance education. It is designed to guide students from early, fundamental creative movement classes to more technically rigorous advanced classes, where motivated students can prepare for further training in college or beyond.

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