Placement for our jazz classes for our younger dancers is based on age as well as maturity and skill level. If you are a new student, call the studio for assistance in choosing the appropriate level. If you are a returning student, refer to your class placements when selecting levels. To read about the history of jazz and the styles we offer at CD&FS, click HERE.
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Jazz Kidz
Monday, 5:30pm - 6:15pm ● Ages 6-8yrs Amanda Supan Monthly Tuition: $58 |
In this lively and engaging class, your child will explore the exciting world of jazz dance. Perfect for young dancers, this class combines energetic movements, upbeat music, and creative expression to create a fun and dynamic learning experience. Students will also learn about the history of jazz dance and its relationship to jazz music.
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Junior Jazz 1-2
Friday, 4:45pm - 5:45pm ● Ages 9-11yrs Carissa Bellando Monthly Tuition: $65 |
This introductory jazz class is designed for dancers ages 9–11 and focuses on building a strong technical foundation in a fun and supportive environment. Dancers will explore rhythm, musicality, alignment, and movement dynamics through age-appropriate exercises and combinations. The class draws inspiration from vernacular and classic jazz styles set to upbeat and engaging music. Class will include a warm-up, center technique exercises, and across-the-floor progressions and center combinations to build coordination, strength, and confidence.
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Junior Jazz 3-4
Friday, 7:15pm - 8:30pm ● Ages 11-13yrs Carissa Bellando Monthly Tuition: $72 |
Expanding on the concepts learned in Junior Jazz 1-2, this class continues to build a strong technical foundation, focusing on rhythm, dynamics, musicality, and alignment. Using elements from vernacular and classical jazz styles, dancers will work through energizing combinations set to upbeat music. Class will include a warm-up, across-the-floor progressions and combinations and center phrase work and combinations are designed to enhance coordination, strength, and performance quality.
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Musical Theater
Tuesday, 3:45pm - 5:15pm ● Ages 11+ Carissa Bellando Monthly Tuition: $80 |
This class is designed for students age 11 and up with a basic knowledge of Jazz dance. It will explore the world of Musical Theater Jazz dance movement and performance. Each class will start with a warm-up and continue with movement and progressions across the floor to discover the many different styles of jazz dance featured in musicals. Discussions about the musical numbers we are working on in class and the shows as a whole, combined with acting exercises, will help the dancers explore and develop the characters they are portraying and roles they are dancing.
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CLASSES FOR TEENS & ADULTS
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Jazz 1
Tuesday, 5:15pm -6:30pm Carissa Bellando Monthly Tuition: $72 |
This introductory class is designed for teens and adults who are ready to explore the roots and foundations of jazz dance. Students will explore vernacular and classical jazz styles, building both technique and confidence. Each class includes a warm-up and center work to develop strength, flexibility, and alignment. Across-the-floor exercises will introduce and connect fundamental jazz steps, encouraging movement through space with clarity and style. Dancers will learn key elements of jazz vocabulary, including rhythm, kicks, stationary and traveling turns, and jumps/leaps. Class combinations will combine these skills and give dancers the chance to develop their performance quality while preparing choreography for the end-of-year performance.
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Jazz 2-3
Wednesday, 6pm - 7:30pm Isadora Snapp Monthly Tuition: $80 |
Jazz 2-3 is designed for dancers with prior jazz experience who are ready to continue building technique, confidence, and stylistic range. Dancers will work on strength, flexibility, alignment, rhythm, musicality, and control through warm-up, center work, across-the-floor progressions, and combinations. Class will include continued work on kicks, turns, jumps, leaps, and traveling steps while also exploring vernacular, classical, and contemporary jazz styles. Dancers will be encouraged to connect more fully to the music, develop performance quality, and begin bringing more individuality and expression into their dancing.
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Jazz 4
Wednesday, 7:30pm - 9pm Isadora Snapp Monthly Tuition: $80 |
Jazz 4 is an advanced jazz class for dancers with a strong technical foundation who are ready for more complex movement, musicality, and performance work. This class draws from vernacular jazz, classic jazz, and contemporary jazz styles while continuing to build strength, precision, rhythm, coordination, and dynamic range. Dancers will work through challenging warm-ups, across-the-floor progressions, improvisation, and longer combinations that ask them to move with clarity, full-bodied expression, and personal style. Class will focus on deepening dancers’ relationship to jazz music, expanding their movement vocabulary, and developing confident, expressive performers.
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