Acro focuses on strength, flexibility, muscle control and balance in combination with traditional gymnastic skills such as somersaults, cartwheels, handstands, walkovers, etc. The emphasis is to seamlessly incorporate skills into traditional dance to add exciting movement, line and extension to enhance the emotional and artistic expression of dance.

Parents - Please be aware that during acrobatic classes, our instructors will need to provide physical contact with students for spotting and safety purposes. This contact is essential to ensure proper technique and to prevent injuries. At DAU, our Acro deprtment priorotizes the safety of our both students and instructors by following strict guidelines for physical interactions. If you have any questions or concerns regarding these policies, please feel free to contact our management team. 

Acro Director - Myky Lopez

Myky Lopez and Tami Burton - Acrobatic Arts Certification

We offer a wide variety of Adult Dance And Fitness classes! We have a Brand New DAU App that you can sign up for and book your own classes each week!

Visit our Adult Page for more information!

Ballet is the foundation of other dance disciplines and helps students develop grace, posture, body alignment and artistry. Starting your child in ballet when they’re young can teach them an early appreciation for dance and art forms, but it can also encourage key qualities and skills you want your little one to know. Ballet classes for kids offer several physical benefits, such as the development of muscles, better balance and coordination, and honed motor skills.

Ballet Director - Jennifer Hammer

For kids looking for an exciting challenge, look no further than our Breaking classes. Breaking (also referred to in studio settings as breakdance) is the first style of Hip Hop and is known for being a lively/entertaining style of dance. Breaking is an exciting challenge that will allow kids to gain confidence and master amazing skills like footwork, powermoves, freezes, etc. while bringing out their own unique style. As one of the more dynamic and technical forms of dance, Bgirls/Bboys need to come determined and focused. While no previous skills are required, Breaking can be challenging and we recommend that all students come in with a can-do attitude—it will take you far!

Our Tap/Jazz and Ballet/Jazz combo classes for 6-8 year olds offer the best of both worlds for those dancers too old for an Intro to Dance class, but too young to know what discipline of dance they would most like to pursue. For more details on the specifics of those genres, click on our Ballet, Tap, and Jazz pages or contact the office.

Early Dance Education Director - Tami Burton

Creative Movement is a structured 45-minute class for 3 year olds. With imaginations fully engaged, dancers are introduced to ballet elements as they playfully explore creative movement.

Early Dance Education Director - Tami Burton

Dancer Conditioning focuses on building stamina, stability, and strength. The goals of this class are to reduce injuries and improve posture, flexibility, coordination, and overall fitness. Students will engage in exercises that include body alignment, resistance training, core strengthening, stability, endurance exercises, etc. 

Our Femme Hip Hop class focuses on the more feminine street styles of hip hop. Students will learn the fundamentals of waacking (posing, arms, footwork) as well as the elements of voguing (duckwalk, catwalk, hands, floorwork, and spins/dips). Previous experience in Hip Hop and/or Jazz is recommended.

Hip Hop Director - Gabby Bruno

Do you dream of being on your high school Dance Team? Or are you a current high school dance team member who wants to up your game? This is the class for you! Offering a dynamic blend of technique, choreography, and teamwork, we’ll explore various dance styles including contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, and lyrical, allowing you to discover and develop your unique dance style. You'll have the opportunity to refine your technical skills, improve your flexibility and strength, and learn exciting new choreography. But this class is more than just about dance steps – it's about building confidence, discipline, and camaraderie as part of a supportive team environment.

Hip-Hop dancing is an energetic, popular dance style that involves whole body movement and is about self-expression. Hip Hop comes in many styles and forms and is about strength, endurance, and movement quality. Hip Hop tells a narrative story through musicality and intricate gestures. Students will learn about movement dynamics, be introduced to floor work and footwork, and understand how culture and community affect art and dance.

Hip Hop Director - Gabby Bruno

Intro to Dance is designed for 4-6 year olds and teaches the fundamentals of Tap and Ballet in a fun and nurturing environment. In addition to learning dance vocabulary and technique, students build self-esteem, engage their creativity and make new friends. Dancers must be the required age by October 1, 2024.

Early Dance Education Director - Tami Burton

This class is designed for our younger dancers, ages 6-8. Participants will learn basic techniques in the styles of Ballet, Jazz, and Modern and begin exploring how to fuse these styles to tell a story. Lyrical is a style of dance that focuses heavily on emotional connections to the music and free movement.

While our regular Lyrical/Contemp. classes for ages 9+ require a concurrent ballet class, Intro to Lyrical can be taken as a standalone class. *No Ballet requirement*

Early Dance Education Director - Tami Burton

Jazz is a genre of technique-focused movement that is lots of fun and very high-energy. Jazz dance includes the basic technical skills acquired in ballet dance classes with a combination of unique rhythms and various stylistic gestures. Jazz is a dance style that includes isolation and dynamic changes in the movements. In Jazz class, students learn how to build muscle strength, increase their body flexibility, develop their own movement style, and familiarize themselves with the concept of ‘body awareness’. It also focuses on clean lines, extensions, turns, jumps, and tricks.

Jazz Director - Tami Burton

K-Pop, an abbreviation for Korean pop, is a genre of popular music originating in South Korea. K-Pop dance class blends hip hop, jazz funk, and house dance forms to create choreography that is set to popular K-Pop music. This class will put memory, patience, and body control into practice for our dancers.

Since K-Pop is a specific dance style, our K-pop classes are choreography based only. A Hip hop class or jazz class is recommended to also take for technique.

Leaps and Turns is a focused class designed to maintain and improve any technique that involves leaping and turning! Dancers will acquire the tools needed to improve their technical skills and prowess while gaining holistic full-body awareness. If you would like to improve your leaps and turns or simply want to expand your vocabulary of tricks and skills, sign up for Leap and Turns today!

Lyrical and Contemporary dance classes are fusion genres of movement that come from the basic techniques and skills found in Ballet, Jazz, and Modern dance styles. Students will explore learning improvisation, partnering and weight sharing exercises in addition to technique. This class emphasizes interpretation of music and lyrics while telling a story. Students will learn that movement has different qualities that can be complex, fluid or abstract. All students must be taking a Ballet class to enroll in a Contemporary or Lyrical class. Must also perform in both classes at end of the year recital.

Lyrical/Contemporary Director - Ember Hopkins

Musical Theater class builds performance skills in acting, singing, and dancing through a study of improv games, vocal technique, and musical theater numbers from various genres. Audition skills and regular in-class performance practice is emphasized to gain confidence on the musical theater stage.

Pointe is a challenging derivative of Ballet dance that we offer to our most advanced ballet students. Students will fine tune and finesse their physical ballet vocabulary, posture, body alignment, and artistry. This discipline is essential for any student looking to pursue higher levels of jazz, contemporary or lyrical as nearly all of the vocabulary for these disciplines comes from ballet.

Must be enrolled in a Con-Current Ballet Classes at DAU.

Due to the difficult nature of having to train and dance in pointe shoes, this class is invite only.

Ballet/Pointe Director - Jennifer Hammer

Pre Ballet (for our 5-7 year olds) introduces basic ballet terminology, musicality, and technique for our younger dancers in a fun and expressive environment. The ballet curriculum is based on the Royal Academy of Dance and integrates free movement and imagination.

Early Dance Education Director - Tami Burton

Pre Hip Hop (for our 5-7 year olds) provides a fun and educational introduction to the Hip Hop culture. The students learn the fundamentals of movement and coordination through the bounce and grooves of breaking, locking, popping, and freestyling.

Early Dance Education Director - Tami Burton

Pre Jazz (for our 5-7 year olds) builds foundational skills and vocabulary for children wishing to explore the high-energy jazz dance form. Students will learn fundamental technique, balance, rhythm, and style in a fun environment to engage our younger dancers.

Early Dance Education Director - Tami Burton

Tap is an audible art form which incites the creation of music and melody from the feet. Tap class introduces and enforces the understanding and creation of different rhythms. Students will learn how to implement a ‘musical ear’ for analysis of timing and proper tap technique. Students will also gain an understanding of the difference between rhythms that are ‘even’ or ‘syncopated’, intricate counter-rhythms, and practice using their bodies as an instrument of percussion.

Tap Director - Gabby Bruno

Turn Technique refines and expands a dancer’s turning repertoire. Dancers will learn about full-body connections and mechanics that are vital for successful turns, perfecting pirouettes and learning new skills. With step-by-step guidance on body placement and engagement, along with targeted exercises, dancers strengthen turn-specific muscles and elevate their intermediate skills.