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Intro to Dance | Ballet | Hip Hop | Breaking | Modern | Jazz | Capoeira | Choreography Lab
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Mommy & Me |
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This class is a perfect introduction to movement and dance for your tot. Parents interact and play with your child in a structured class emphasizing tumbling, stretch, dramatic play and music.
Clothing requirements: Girls:leotard(tights and ballet slippers optional) Boys: sweat pants or shorts and a t-shirt.
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Instructors:Kerstin Stuart
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Intro to Dance |
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Dance Exploration |
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A class for young dancers exploring the different dynamics that come together to create dance and movement. Playing with vocabulary from different dance styles, exploring different ways the body can move and providing structure for dancers to express their own unique physical style. Fun, innovative and open to all!
Instructors:Kerstin Stuart
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Ballet |
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Roco offers kids of
all ages classical ballet training. Younger children will experience joyful
movements like hops, skips, and gallops and simple ballet
positions. While older children will progress at their own speed to more
challenging ballet vocabulary which emphasizes placement, musicality and
coordination. Ballet is the foundation of modern and jazz and will aid any
class a dancer chooses to pursue. Clothing requirements: Girls:Black leotard, pink tights and ballet slipper. Boys: Long shorts, white t-shirt, black ballet shoe.
Instructors: Gabby Thompson | Bridget Bartholome | Erica Jeffrey | Joan Lazarus | Maggie Sapienza
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Hip Hop |
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The best Hip Hop classes
in the Bay Area! This ever-popular street dance offers kids a non-intimidating
approach to rhythm and choreography. At Roco, Hip Hop is expertly broken down
in a way that kids of all ages and all backgrounds can understand. Expect great
music – Hip Hop, Rap and other popular music. Formal dance wear not required
loose athletic clothes recommended. Wear tennis shoes.
Instructors: Micaya | Alison DeOliveira | Joe Gray | Becca Rozell |
Shana Walt
Nicole Klaymoon
| Jena McRae
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Breaking |
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This creative street
dance started in the 70’s. It is free form set to
hip hop or R&B rhythms where dancers form a circle and perform a series
of acrobatic tricks where different body parts touch the ground. Our program
teaches fundamental through advanced skills so that each dancer can perform
at their own level. Breaking builds strength, rhythm, flexibility and balance.
Wear loose athletic clothes, tennis shoes. Knee pads recommended.
Instructors: Miles Kenedi
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Modern |
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This expressive and athletic form is at the heart of RoCo. Modern dance is a healthy and enriching medium for dancers to find themselves and express who they are through their bodies. This form is famous for breaking and tweaking the traditions of formal dance. Some movement challenges include: dancing “off-center,” in and out of the ground, isolating body parts, power, momentum, stillness, articulation and musicality. The music is diverse -anything from opera to hip hop. Clothing requirements Girls: leotard and footless tights- any color. Boys: sweat pant and t-shirt. Barefeet.
Instructors: Annie
Rosenthal Parr | | Jennifer Meek | Jennifer Maecker | Emily Bass
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Jazz |
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This hot and flashy
style is most commonly seen in Broadway productions and commercial venues.
Jazz takes the ballet vocabulary, brings it lower to the
ground and emphasizes line and isolation of the body. Popular music. Clothing requirements Girls: Black bootleg pant, legging or tights and fitted black top or leotard. Boys: sweat pant and t-shirt. Black jazz slipper or dance paw.
Instructors: Gabrielle Thompson | Alison DeOliviera
| Shana Walt
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Modern/Jazz |
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This traditional dance class is a combination of modern, jazz and ballet vocabulary and techniques to build strength, flexibility, coordination and rhythm. Energetic traveling phrases, improvisation and playful dance combinations are set to contemporary music. Clothing requirements Girls: leotard and footless tights- any color. Boys: sweat pant and t-shirt. Barefeet.
Instructors: Jenni Bregman
| Shana Walt | Emily Bass | Becca Rozell | Jennifer Meek
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Capoeira |
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Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines a subtle blend of dance, gymnastics, and acrobatics.
Capoeira's roots originate from the Bantu tradition in Angola and was used by the enslaved Africans in Brazil as a form of revolution. The African slaves masked their self-defense tactics in to a dance so that the slaves masters and plantation overseers were not able to recognize their self-defense training. Capoeira is a game that is "played," not fought.
Instructors:
Samuka
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Choreography Lab |
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Choreograph, dance, collaborate, learn, play and invent under the guidence of choreography teacher Nicole Klaymoon. Students create movement and phases to be manipulated and taught to one another to assemble their own piece for RoCo show! This class is designed for all types of experieced dancers between 7-12 grade.
Instructors:
Nicole Klaymoon
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