Mission Statement
All That Dance is a positive community where our students discover the joy of dance in a nurturing environment with skilled staff who guide every student to reach their potential – as dancers and as people.
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Studio Philosophies
Curriculum
We believe every body is a dancing body and we strive to provide an ideal class for each student. We aim to enrich and develop each individual’s dancer within.
Preschool Curriculum
Fun and creativity abound as teachers incorporate playful stories and colorful props into weekly class activities. Social skills develop as dancers learn how to take class with one another, moving to music and following a rich curriculum designed to enhance age-appropriate brain development.
Kid & Teen Curriculum
Every type of dancer, from the beginner to the pre-professional or college-bound dance major, will find a class here. Performance, advanced technique, kinesiology, injury prevention, body image, and self-care are just some of the areas included as skilled teachers move dancers through our year-long curriculum.
Brain Compatible Learning for All Ages
ATD curriculum teaches students with the brain in mind. Your dancer will explore movement concepts each week, such as rhythm, size, pathways and more. Anne Green Gilbert’s BrainDance is also part of our weekly classes and consists of eight developmental movement patterns that humans naturally move through in the first years of life. In addition, students are encouraged to play, create, and reflect in order to build upon skills learned in class.
Placement Philosophy
ATD takes pride in providing individual placements for students – keeping in mind skill level, body awareness, safety, and development of each dancer. At the end of the school year, each dancer receives a personalized placement for the upcoming season. Classes that are Level III and above generally follow a two-year curriculum to allow dancers to expand their knowledge and gain more confidence in material before moving on.
Free Trial/Placement Classes
Exploring dance for the first time? Our studio offers a free trial class to find the right fit for your dancer. Students who come to ATD with previous dance experience are often asked to take a placement class, allowing our staff to determine which level is best suited for your dancer.
Making the Leap to Teen Classes
Our Teen classes are designed for dancers 12+ and are the next step in a challenging course curriculum. Because these classes move at a faster pace and cover more technique, the class levels will vary between the two age sets. For instance, a student in Jazz IV might graduate into a Teen Jazz II class.
Advanced Classes
To ensure that we are training well rounded, multifaceted artists, we require that all dancers enrolled in a Teen level V+ class of any genre, will be required to enroll in at least one class of any other genre.
Studio Watching Statement
Our studio is committed to creating a safe, welcoming space where every dancer can explore movement, creativity, and self-expression with confidence.
For this reason, our studios do not have viewing windows from our lobby. While it can be exciting to watch your dancer, it can sometimes be distracting or may cause a dancer to feel self-conscious or uncomfortable. By keeping the focus on the class, dancers are encouraged to participate fully, take risks, make mistakes, and grow without feeling like they are being watched or evaluated.
Throughout the season, we offer special events such as Open House, Watching Week, and Sneak Peek Week, where families are invited into the studio to celebrate the hard work, growth, and accomplishments of our dancers. At a teacher’s discretion, there may be times when families are invited in for a special short viewing.
Our focus is always on building self-esteem, confidence, independence, and a love of dance. Thank you for partnering with us to give every dancer the space they need to learn, grow, and shine.
Building strong foundations for every dancer is our priority, and we believe in building life skills through dance.
Performance Philosophy
Dance is a performing art, and our Spring Performance is all about giving dancers time to shine and share the skills they have developed all year through their hard work and dedication. Performing builds self-esteem and confidence in our students and is a fun event that our community looks forward to year after year.
All of our classes for ages 5 and older (except for Pre-Pointe and Teen Beginning Pointe) build toward a Performance at the end of each year in June. We look forward to our year-end performances every year and hope you’ll join us. We also acknowledge that performance is not for everyone, due to schedules or other commitments—we still welcome non performers in our classes.