This Tap/Jazz class is a one-hour class especially for middle schoolers that meets once per week. Students do 30 minutes of tap concentrating on basic and intermediate skills, and tying those skills together in combinations. Dancers work on counting music and also practice rhythm skills that are the foundation of tap. Skills are used in the center in combination and traveling across the floor.

The 30 minute jazz portion of the class uses upbeat, hip, age appropriate music while teaching jazz basics. The class begins with stretching techniques that enhance the dancers' flexibility. Center jazz work focuses on leaps, turns, and various jazz skills.

The Tap/Jazz classes also have performance opportunities during the year. These classes perform one dance in our annual Christmas Show in December, and they perform two dances in our spring recital.

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