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Anchorage Music & Dance Center is celebrating 30 years of private & group music instruction and 15 years of dance!
Our Summer session gives students a chance to continue taking classes and keep their skills fresh! It’s also a great time to try a dance class that you wouldn’t normally take during the school year.
My First Ballet Class (3-5yrs)
We make your child's first experience with ballet a positive & special experience! They will receive a quality dance education in a caring and fun environment that grows with them. Classes are based on curriculum designed by internationally renowned master teachers and child development experts for these young students' bodies & their capabilities. Our teachers have all been trained in pre-ballet curriculum.
Tues: 4-4:45pm
Thurs: 5-5:45pm
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Beginning Ballet
A beginning ballet class for students where they will learn ballet fundamentals with barre work, across the floor exercises and connecting steps & vocabulary.
5-6yrs Mon: 4-5pm
6-10yrs Tues 5pm
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Ballet (9-14yrs)
Great class for students with 1 year ballet experience. Students continue to explore ballet with in-depth barre exercises & across the floor work, as well as perfecting technique on learned steps & an introduction to more complicated vocabulary & steps.
Wed: 5-6pm
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Ballet/Jazz (10-14yrs)
The first half of class exposes dancers to the building blocks of ballet. The basics of posture, turnout, & movement will be the focus, as well as an intro to the terminology. The second half will introduce jazz dance using a fusion of "old school" & "new school". Class begins w/a warm up designed to improve strength, flexibility, posture & alignment.
Wed: 5-6pm
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Ballet/Lyrical (9-14yrs)
A beginning combo class where students will learn ballet fundamentals including proper positions, cross the floor exercises and connecting steps & vocabulary. Students will also learn fundamentals of lyrical. Lyrical combines elements of contemporary and modern dance where the lyrics of the song are what the choreography of the dance is based on.
Thurs: 4-5pm
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Ballet/Modern (6-10yrs)
This Ballet/Modern class invites students with 1 or more years of ballet. It incorporates the fundamentals of ballet with the free flowing movements of modern, in which dancers tell a story with their bodies. Many basics of ballet and modern will be covered.
Thurs: 4-5pm
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Ballet/Tap
Dancers learn the building blocks of ballet: basics of posture, turnout, and movement as well as an introduction to terminology. Then move into basic tap terms and moves, training muscles for isolated foot moves, and class routine. Emphasis is placed on the importance of rhythm & clear sounds. Great class for beginners who want to mix it up!
5-6yrs Wed 4-5pm
6-10yrs Mon: 5-6pm
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K-Pop Dance (8-14yrs)
Have fun learning the dance sensation sweeping the world! Learn new routines and moves from popular K-Pop (Korean pop) groups. Guaranteed F.U.N.
Tues: 6-7pm
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Anchorage Music & Dance Center is celebrating 30 years of private & group music instruction and 15 years of dance!
We are a unique school offering quality private & group music and dance classes at one convenient location. Multiple students from the same family can take private or group music lessons and dance classes on the same day. That means parents only have to drive to one location for everyone's lessons & classes. What a time saver for the entire family!
We work with most all homeschool & charter schools in the State of Alaska. We are a direct bill vendor which means we invoice the school, so there is no "out-of-pocket" expense for the family!
Our network of schools include: Family Partnership; Frontier Charter School; PAIDEIA; IDEA; Mat-Su Central; Twindly Bridge; Denali Peak, PACE, CyberLynx & Raven.
Don't see your school here? Contact us and we'll see if we can work with them too!