DANCE TECHNIQUE / CHOREOGRAPHY  

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Ballet [Beginner]

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. This is a basic class that introduces the student to the elementary positions of classical ballet. Classes are slow and thorough to ensure proper alignment and understanding.

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Belly Dance

Belly Dance is a cultural dance style rooted in North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey and Greece.  The origin of the name “belly dance” comes from the French Danse du ventre, which translates “dance of the stomach”.
 

• [Beginner] - In this class you will learn in-depth movement, full body isolation, traditional belly dance technique and fundamentals followed by choreography.  Classes begin with a pilates grounded warm up to activate the core and into belly dance fundamentals, learning body placement, building on muscle memory and intermediate choreographed combinations.  We suggest that you take this class for a minimum of 6-8 weeks to get in the swing of new body movement.
   

• [Intermediate / Advanced] - In this class you will learn in-depth movement, full body isolation, traditional belly dance technique and fundamentals followed by choreography.  Classes begin with a pilates grounded warm up to activate the core and into belly dance fundamentals, learning body placement, building on muscle memory and intermediate choreographed combinations.

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Bollywood Funk Choreo [Beginner / Intermediate]
Bollywood Funk is a dance style that merges traditional Bollywood signature moves with modern dance steps. Bollywood dance originated in India around Bombay (now known as Mumbi) in the 20th century and can be found in today’s signature music video and commercialized dance choreographers.  This style has a contagious energy fusing Bollywood's most stylized dance moves while influencing and borrowing from other dance genres in Hip Hop, Latin, Jazz, Funk, and other Street style dances.  Must have at least 8-12 months experience of basic Bollywood, Hip-Hop, or Jazz Funk fundamentals.

Bollywood Fusion [Beginner / Intermediate]
Bollywood Fusion is a dance style that merges traditional Bollywood signature moves with modern contemporary dance steps. Bollywood dance originated in India around Bombay (now known as Mumbai) in the 20th century and can be found in today’s signature music video and commercialized dance choreographers.  In this class you will learn cultural Indian semi-classical rooted movements, foundations and vocabulary along with inspired styles from Hip Hop, Contemporary movements. 

Contemporary

Contemporary dance originated from Europe and America in the 19th and 20th century with various styles of expressive dance that combines modern, ballet, lyrical jazz and today, other forms of street dance movement.

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• [Beginner] - In this class you will begin center floor with a full body warm up into a beginner class combo.  Your class goals are to strive to connect the mind and body through fluid dance movements.
   

• [Intermediate] - In this class you will take the skills and knowledge from the Beginner class to enhance your skills and movement quality. This class will include a combo that will be challenging, yet a pace that will be able to elevate your learning and technique. Your class goals are to strive to connect the mind and body through fluid dance movements.
   

• [Intermediate / Advanced] - In this class you will begin center floor with a full body warm up into a loner and more intense class combo.  Your class goals are to strive to connect the mind and body through fluid dance movements.

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Contemporary Jazz

Contemporary Jazz is a dance form rooted from Africa that shares movement characteristics with classical ballet, modern dance and contemporary influences, and traditional jazz.  This class starts with a full body warm up, core activation, across the floor, a beg/int class combo with an emphasis on expression, flexibility, extension and jazz turns.

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• [Beginner / Intermediate] - This class starts with a full body warm up, core activation, across the floor, a beg/int class combo with an emphasis on personal expression, flexibility, extension and overall Contemporary and Jazz technique. This style will help you understand rhythm and syncopation to help with musicality and movements.
   

• [Intermediate / Advanced] - This class starts with a full body warm up, core activation, across the floor, an int/adv class combo with an emphasis on personal expression and technique. This class will focus on a more enhanced routine with a chance for more performative jumps and turns to highlight skills, movement, and musicality.

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Heels [Beginner / Intermediate]

The history of dancing in heels goes back to the early 20th century, However, the teaching of the art of Heels was popularized around the globe in the early 21st century by artists such as Aisha Francis, Danielle Polanco, and Yannis Marshall.  Heels is a choreographed dance class for students utilizing any type of high-heeled shoes, not necessarily character heels.
 

​​​Hip Hop

Hip Hop began forming as a culture and art movement in the Bronx of New York City in 1970. Hip hop dance is a range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or sub-generes of hip-hop music that has evolved as part of the hip hop culture with various elements of dance styles.

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• [Beginner] - In this class, you will learn the rhythms and movements of Hip-Hop, the five elements of Hip-Hop, grooves, fundamentals, history, musicality, and terminology in its relation to the Hip-Hop dance culture. A beginner-friendly Hip-Hop dance combo and education around Hip-Hop. This course is a prerequisite requirement for many of our intermediate/advanced classes. Prepare to take this class for at least 6-8 weeks before advancing to the next class.
   

• [Beginner / Intermediate] - This course is a prerequisite requirement for many of our intermediate and intermediate/advanced classes. Students in this class should have a basic understanding of hip hop terminology, movement and grooves.
   

• [Intermediate] - In this class, you will dive more in-depth on fundamentals and improving you movement quality, followed by a longer choreographed combo centered around musicality and movement quality.
   

• [Intermediate / Advanced] - In this class, you will be pushed on performance, movement quality, pace, and musicality while building on choreography retention.

Jazz Funk [Intermediate]

Jazz Funk dance, a super-set of Jazz and influenced by the Hip Hop dance style. This style of dance is usually fast-paced pointed gestures and quick movements.  In this class, you are expected to have basic knowledge of jazz foundations while learning quick pace combos emphasizing on feminism and intricate movements.

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Jumps & Turns [All Levels]

Jumps and Turns is a jazz-based technique class based on a five-level curriculum. This class focuses on strict technique to help the dancer achieve their fullest potential. This class focuses on developing the strength, power, flexibility, and technique necessary for dancers to advance their jumps and turns. An emphasis will be placed on proper body alignment, spotting, and turnout. This class is a blend of traditional ballet and jazz techniques.

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K-Pop [Beginner / Intermediate]

K-pop, short for Korean popular music, is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture. ​​It includes styles and genres from around the world, such as pop, hip hop, R&B, experimental, rock, jazz, gospel, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, disco, and classical on top of its traditional Korean music roots. Originally known as 'Gayo' in Korea, modern K-pop "idol" culture began in the 1990s. Our K-Pop instructors will either highlight other K-Pop choreographers reteaching combos from various music videos or create their own choreographed influences from various styles of dance.  Students should expect to learn fun combos and increase their performance quality.

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Pop Jam [Intermediate]

Pop Jam originates from dance-pop, a popular music sub-genre that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s.  It is generally uptempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable.  Pop Jam is influenced by various dance styles including, Jazz Funk, Hip-Hop, and Latin dance.  Students are expected to have basic fundamentals of these dance genres.  This class moves at a true intermediate pace starting with a full body warm up, isolations into choreography.  Bring knee pads for those who wish to do floor work.  Floorwork and standing options are available.

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Reggaeton [Beginner / Intermediate]
Reggaeton is a hybrid dance form built from salsa, dancehall, and hip-hop influences.  It reflects the musical and cultural journey of Jamaican migrants across the Caribbean (especially Puerto Rico, which is credited with creating 'mainstream' Reggaeton) towards Latin American and the United States. Reggaeton blends Jamaican music influences of reggae and dancehall with those of Latin America, such as Bomba and Plena, as well as that of hip hop. Reggaeton focuses on strong and sensual hip movements (commonly known as dancing 'perreo') and often incorporates Hip-Hop grooves and Latin dance technique. In this class, students will learn choreography to gain an understanding of the genre and its associated terminology. See instructor IG to view choreography style.

R&B
Come explore the smoother side of commercial dance with this RnB technique class! Grounded in hip-hop style, RnB dance uses a vocabulary of smooth movements, isolations, and urban footwork to build slower tempo choreography that is feel good, look good, and full of swagger - all danced to your favorite RnB hits!
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Salsa

Salsa is a Latin dance, associated with the music genre of the same name, which was first popularized in the United States in the 1960s in New York City. Salsa is a partnered dance where the lead takes the follower through a series of spins and turn patterns to music. Salsa's tempo ranges from about 60 bpm (beats per minute) to around 130 bpm, although most dancing is done to music somewhere between 80 and 120 bpm.

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• Level 1 [Beginner] - In this class the student will learn the fundamental principles of partner dance, dance floor etiquette, timing, basic footwork, left & right turns, 'cross body lead', and other basic core elements and patterns for leading or following Salsa. It is recommended that students take this class for between 4-6 weeks before progressing to the level 2 class.

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Shuffle [Beginner]

Shuffle originated in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1980’s and was danced in the club scene to EDM music.  Over the years shuffling has taken the world by storm from clubs to festivals. Shuffling is known to be inclusive, freedom, spiritual, liberating, free of judgment, true expression. Shuffle Dance connects you with the music you love in a special way.  In this class students will learn basic shuffle skills like the running man, and the T-step, while also learning to incorporate their own stylistic movements.  

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Street Jazz [Intermediate / Advanced]

Street Jazz is a high-energy fusion of jazz dance and elements of hip-hop dance. This style was shown in its early form on the sketch comedy series In Living Color. The resident dance troupe, the Fly Girls, of which Jennifer Lopez was a member, opened and closed every show with a hip-hop and jazz performance choreographed by Rosie Perez. This style of dance remains popular today, and has been used in music videos by Beyoncé, Paula Abdul, Gwen Stefani, and Janet Jackson. This class will focus on jazz technique partnered with the intricate styling that Hip-Hop dance has to offer. A vigorous warm up will focus on muscle conditioning and core strengthening.

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Twerk [All Levels]

Twerking is a type of dance that came out of the bounce music scene of New Orleans in the late 1980s. Twerking is rhythmic rotating, revolving and waving movements of the pelvis to make the booty shake. During your lessons, you will learn the twerking techniques. Each class includes a booty camp, which focuses on glute and leg activation. Plus isolation exercises to help tone and strengthen the hips, legs, glutes and back. You will also work on “core” twerk moves to develop twerk skill. You will then learn different twerk moves, shapes, holds and techniques that will be combined into a short sequence so that you and the whole class can shake your booty’s together.​

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  CARDIO DANCE  

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BollyX [All Levels]

A Bollywood cardio dance fitness class inspired and driven by the heart-pumping, energetic rhythms of Bollywood. The class embodies dynamic choreography and easy-to-follow dance aerobics. Learn the origins and vocabulary of traditional Bollywood dance steps in this all-level class. Suggested footwear: Sneakers.

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DRENCHED! [All Levels]

DRENCHED! is a signature Rae Studios cardio dance-based class created by Jessica Rae featuring pre-choreographed dance combos.  Music genres include Hip Hop, Latin Dance, Dancehall, Afro Dance, Reggaeton, and Pop. In this class, prepare to bring a towel and bottled water.  Class will continuously move with three levels of movement.  Levels 1-2 are easy to follow with Level 3 designed to move vigorously while pushing choreography retention. We suggest taking this class for at least 3-5 weeks to get in the swing of learning combos.  Class is great for all levels.  Modified movements available and instructed by the teacher for every class.

Zumba [All Levels]
Zumba is a fitness program that involves cardio and Latin-inspired dance founded by Colombian dancer and choreographer Beto Pérez in 2001. Zumba incorporates four basic rhythms including Salsa, Reggaeton, Merengue and Cumbia with each basic rhythm having four core steps. In this class you should expect a high energy environment with easy to follow choreography to form the ultimate calorie-burning experience. Music genres may include Latin beats, Reggaeton, Hip Hop, and Pop music.

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  FITNESS  ​
 

Power Barre [All Levels]

Barre was created in 1959 by a ballet dancer named Lotte Berk after injuring her back.  Berk combined ballet movements with rehabilitative therapy to form a few methods of exercise.  Power barre is positioned on the center floor.  Also known as “off the barre”.  This class includes high + low impact traditional barre combos using medium and light weights along with other props that change weekly.  This class is centered around traditional ballet, dance, yoga and pilates foundations. This is an all-levels class.  Arrive early to save your seat at the mat.​​​

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