Dance Classes

Dance Classes

Dance Classes
Near Buffalo, Cheektowaga, Williamsville & Amherst, NY

At Center Stage Dance Studio, we offer dance classes to the greater Buffalo, Cheektowaga, Williamsville & Amherst, NY areas.  Our 10,000 sq. ft. facility has five dance studios with sprung hardwood and marley floors, mirrored walls, barres, state of the art sound systems, and dressing rooms. A sprung floor is a floor that absorbs shocks giving it a softer feel. Such floors are considered the best available for dance and indoor sports and physical education. They enhance performance and greatly reduce injuries. Modern sprung floors are supported by foam backing or rubber feet, while the traditional floors are cushioned mechanically.

Our Dance Studio Offers the Following Dance Classes:

Tap shoe
Tap is a form of dance characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion.
Jazz dancer
Jazz is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Every individual style of jazz dance has roots traceable back to African-American vernacular dance or modern jazz dance..
Ballet dancers
Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread, highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology. It has been globally influential and has defined the foundational techniques used in many other dance genres.
Pointe dancers
Pointe is the part of classical ballet technique that concerns pointe work, in which a ballet dancer supports all body weight on the tips of fully extended feet. A dancer is said to be en pointe when the dancer's body is supported in this manner, and a fully extended vertical foot is said to be en pointe when touching the floor, even when not bearing weight. Pointe work is performed while wearing pointe shoes, which employ structural reinforcing to distribute the dancer's weight load throughout the foot, thus reducing the load on the toes enough to enable the dancer to support all body weight on fully vertical feet. 
Modern dance group
Contemporary dance embodies ballet, modern, jazz and lyrical. It uses a technique such as ballet as its fundamentals and creates many more movements that do not adhere to the strict rules of ballet and modern. There are different categories of contemporary dance such as Contemporary Ballet and Contemporary Jazz. In terms of the focus of its technique, contemporary dance tends to combine the strong but controlled legwork of ballet with modern that stresses on torso. It also employs contract-release, floor work, fall and recovery, and improvisation characteristics of modern dance.
Hip-Hop Dance Group
Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking, locking, and popping which were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the United States.
Acro Dancer
Acro dance is a style of dance that combines classical dance technique with precision acrobatic elements. It is defined by its athletic character, its unique choreography, which seamlessly blends dance and acrobatics, and its use of acrobatics in a dance context.
Mommy / Daddy & Me
Mommy & Me Dance Group
Mommy/Daddy & Me is a combination class of both Tap & Ballet for children ages 2 - 4 and Mommy (or Daddy)!   The parent works together with the child in class to learn the basics of beat, counting, and creative movement while enjoying the music.
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