Curriculum

Courses offered by the Studios may be taken by students from ages 3 to adult, beginner through advanced. Students may study one hour weekly, or may choose from competitive programs meeting twice or three times weekly.

TOT CLASSES FOR AGES 3-5: ( a DeMarie specialty) are offered Saturday mornings, weekday mornings, and weekday afternoons. This course introduces the fundamentals of jazz, tap, and ballet to the very young. With music appreciation and character acting, the child's creativity, motor skills, and confidence are developed while having fun. The children sing and dance to music designed especially for this age group.

IRISH STEP DANCING:will be offered to children 8 and older.

BALLET CLASSES: are offered from age 5. Ballet develops excellent structure, tone, placement, technique, strength, and flexibility of the body. As the "mother" of dance, ballet is essential for any student who desires to be placed on our competition teams..

TAP CLASSES: are offered from age 5 and are a great source for rhythmic and motor skill development. As an audible dance form, tap is effective in stimulating a natural sense of rhythm and beat, and is popular for all ages.

JAZZ CLASSES: are offered from age 5. This free style of dance involving a full warm-up, stretches, pisolations and combinations influenced by the contemporary dances and music of today, is taught backed by the DeMarie technique. Also Included is locomotor movement, progressions, jumps, kicks, turns, as well as combinations.

HIP-HOP CLASSES: are offered from age 8. This trendy fad based on street dancing combines today's latest music and moves as seen in music videos. A fun and energetic class!

ACROBATIC CLASSES: are offered from age 6. Acro develops flexibility, strength, and coordination. This course is based on floor exercise and tumbling. A must for the all-around dancer.

CHEERDANCE CLASSES: are offered for ages 8 and up. This class combines contemporary jazz and hip-hop movement with the use of pom-poms, mounts and cheers.

JAZZ TECHNIQUE CLASSES: This non-performing class concentrates strictly on Jazz Technique. Students will work on intermediate progressions of jumps, turns and kicks.

MUSICAL THEATER: This "production" style class is offered for ages 8-13. Classic Broadway music is combined with choreography to create a truly theatrical experience.

ACTING CLASSES: Are offered for ages 7-9, 10-12, and 13 and over at our Clarence Studio. Class will include relaxtion technique, self-awareness, theatre games, speech, improvisation, monologues, ensemble work, and scene study.

VOICE LESSONS: Are offered for ages 11 and up at our Clarence Studio location only. All lessons are one hour in length and include vocalises, breathing technique, vocal pedagogy, pitch awareness, and classical and/or musical theatre repertoire. Previous vocal experience is required (school chorus, etc,). Please visit our link on our website for the downloadable lesson request form. You will be contacted by Mr. Bill to arrange your weekly lesson time. A 24-hour cancellation request is required in advance; otherwise you will be charged a $25 fee. “Mr. Bill” will teach all individual lessons. Each one-hour lesson is $50 weekly, payable to ddd (cash or check only). Do NOT submit your payment to the office, but to Mr. Bill directly at the beginning or end of your lesson. Late payments are assessed an additional $5 fee. We will be having "open" auditions for any ddd student ages 11 & over for the NEW ddd Show Choir in December. Participation in private voice lessons with Mr. Bill is encouraged, but NOT mandatory. There will be 4 Show Choir rehearsals monthly, from January -May. The fee to join the Show Choir is $200, and is to be paid separate from regular ddd dance class tuition. This fee covers all rehearsals (both in vocal sections and choreography), and the accompanist. The Show Choir will perform live in two recitals in June and also other venues such as senior homes,malls etc. If any student involved in the Show Choir does NOT participate in performing ddd dance classes, they are subject to a $25 Performance fee to cover Recital rehearsals and tickets.

SHEILA'S FITNESS JAM: A complete adult exercise program with classes held mornings and/or evenings. Visit http://www.sheilasfitnessjam.com for class offerings, schedules, and pricing.