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Description
Cast TBD. Show Week is December 7-13.
Acro-contemporary dance seamlessly blends classical dance technique with acrobatic elements such as tumbling, balancing, and contortion. It focuses on building strength, flexibility, and fluid movement to integrate floor work, tumbling, inversions, and tricks seamlessly into choreography. Classes are focused to build a strong foundation by teaching proper terminology, form, and execution. Acro offers progressions of skills taught step by step so the dancer will have the correct technique. Acro technique includes balancing, limbering, tumbling, and partnering, based in flexibility, contortion and strength. Contemporary dance encompasses a range of different techniques and movement vocabularies being practiced today.
Dancers will explore different movement styles through a wide range of floor work and movement through space all while maintaining proper placement and alignment. Dancers will strengthen their techniques and physicality, enhance their movement quality, and expand their versatility.
In acro, dancers will be tumbling and often upside down. Dancers are required to wear form-fitting clothing such as a leotard or leggings/shorts and a fitted top. Baggy or loose clothes should be avoided because they can fall over the dancer's face or otherwise restrict their movements, making them a safety risk. Dancers must be barefoot (no socks) for class. Hair must be pulled back and secured out of dancers' faces. No jewelry is allowed, especially dangly necklaces, bracelets, or earrings as they can become a safety risk.
Class Sub-Category
Contemporary/Modern Dance
Location
Weehawken Montrose Studio 3 at Weehawken Creative Arts in Montrose
Prerequisites
Dance Annual Reg Fee
or Dance Annual Reg Fee
Instructor
Natalie Griffith
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