Dance Classes
See also: Performing Ensemblesam
Creative Movers (3-5 years)
45-minute class Instructor: Christine Scheibl |
Ballet Preparation (5 to 6 years)
60-minute class Instructor: Christine Scheibl |
Jazz (6 to 19 years)
60, 75, and 90-minute classes Instructor: |
Ballet (7 to 19 years)
60, 75, and 90-minute classes Instructors: Omosede Idehen, Christine Scheibl |
Modern Dance (6 to 19 years)
60, 75, and 90-minute classes |
Pointe (12 to 19 years)
45-minute class Instructors: Omosede Idehen, Christine Scheibl |
Men’s Class: The Young Man’s Development Program
60-minute class |
Tap (ages 5 to 19 years)
60, 75, and 90-minute classes |
Performing Ensembles: |
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Journey Dancers I (ages 13-19 years)
Schedule: Journey I: Thursdays from 5:00 to 6:30 pm in the McDowell Room 90-minute class Journey Dancers II (ages 11 to 15 years)
Schedule: Journey II with Omosede: Tuesdays from 6:00 to 7:30 in the McDowell Room 90-minute class Instructor: Omosede IdehenJourney Junior Dancers (ages 7 to 10 years)
Schedule: Journey Juniors with Kelly Schroeder: Saturdays from 12:30 to 1:30 on the Stage or Room 1 90-minute class |
"Rats in Tandem" (tap performance) |
This class introduces students to the study of dance. The movements are designed to engage them in interactive, imaginative and fun ways to experience dance as a form of expression. The children learn coordination skills and basic movement patterns, as well as listening and observation skills for a positive and safe learning experience.
This class introduces students to ballet vocabulary and dance aesthetics. This is the student's first experience at the ballet barre where they learn basic positions and exercises. Students begin to learn about alignment while increasing their sense of body awareness. They learn movement patterns and sequences, improve coordination as they experience the joy of dancing.
Classical jazz style emphasizes strong body placement through stretching and strengthening exercises. An American art form, styles are constantly changing. This high energy class emphasizes full body strength and musicality. The teacher may chose from a wide variety of jazz forms: Hip Hop, Broadway, Street Jazz, Chicago or West Coast style Jazz.
This class is an essential for all dancers. Terminology, proper body alignment and turnout are further developed. An emphasis on building strength and flexibility is stressed. There is a focus on improving performance skills through an enhanced understanding of dance phrasing, musicality and expressiveness. Continuous study will progress the student through beginning, intermediate and advanced levels.
This class draws from a variety of modern dance styles, while developing full body integration through organic motion. Students warm up with a combination of floor exercises, body isolations and technical phrases. Utilizing material from the warm-up, longer combinations are crafted to stress spatial relationships, floor patterns and weighted and released movements. Students are encouraged to develop their own creativity through improvisational studies.
This class is an extension of ballet, it requires solid, consistent and current ballet training, coupled with strength in the core, legs and feet. Barre exercises build strength and alignment. Center work develops grace and agility. Traveling across the floor, with turns and elevations, dancers gain greater control and stamina.
Discipline, Drive, Reasoning, Respect, Dedication, Responsibility, Accountability, and Consistency. No matter the road or path one chooses, these foundational treasures are essential to being successful in any thing we want to do in life. Through disciplined structure of dance, these foundations will be instilled. This class will be just as fun, rhythmic, vocabulary induced, and cultured as regular technique class, with the addition of constructive challenges geared towards the mentoring of young men. Using athletics to train the body as it moves through space, while making the connections with dance, they develop a powerful and dynamic style.
A uniquely American dance form evolved from African American and Irish-American folk dances, this class teaches coordination, rhythmic variations, and performance skills. Technique and terminology are stressed. Learning to tap helps younger students to count, as they use their feet as percussive instruments. As the student advances, this class will develop rhythmic sensibility and excellent motor coordination while learning dance combinations and developing improvisational style.
Our premiere dance troupe, founded in 1999, represents our dancers of the highest performing caliber. Dancers work with BMS faculty and artists-in-residence. Their yearly performance schedule includes all BMS dance productions (they are featured in "A Brooklyn Nutcracker") and a variety of city wide venues. Dancers must be enrolled in one ballet class and an additional class (not including the company class) at BMS.
Founded in 2000, this group represents dance students with a strong desire to perform, who also exhibit the ability to learn a varied repertory of choreography. They perform in all BMS dance productions, in the community and are featured in "A Brooklyn Nutcracker." Dancers must be enrolled in one ballet class and an additional class (not including the company class) at BMS.
The youngest performing ensemble was founded in 2001 in response to a growing number of younger dancers who had the ability and desire to develop their performing skills. They perform in all BMS dance productions, in the community and are featured in "A Brooklyn Nutcracker." Dancers must be enrolled in one ballet class (not including the company class) at BMS.
