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Tap 4 (Ages 10 & Up) – Similar to Tap 3 only students will be given more advanced steps
and combinations. Audition may be required. Instructor: Tanya Fisher

Advanced Irish Step Dance (Ages 8 & Up) - A continuation of Beginning Irish Dance,
students in this course will learn more complicated dances like slip Jig and single Jig. They
will continue to build muscle strength and coordination as they work their way up to beginning
dances in hard shoe, the electrifying type of dance seen in shows like River dance and Lord
of the Dance. Instructor: Christopher McGrory

Intro to Classical Ballet (Ages 12 & Up) -This course is for the student who is 10 and older
and has never had ballet training. Students will be introduced to barre work, proper ballet
posture and alignment, port de bras and beginning ballet vocabulary. This course is great for
anyone wanting to become more graceful, flexible and strengthen their core. Great for moms,
teenagers, theater students, athletes. Students will learn a basic group dance to perform at
the end of the year at the Fine Arts Festival. Instructor: Amy Stahlman

Ballet Fundamentals Intermediate (Ages 11 & Up) - Students will expand their ballet
vocabulary, strengthen and train their bodies. Students will have several set combinations at
barre and continue to learn new ballet vocabulary as well as adding port de bras (arm
movement) and stringing different steps together. Proper alignment and placement is
stressed. Students will learn choreography and there will be many performance opportunities
including Quest Connects, Fine Arts Festival and possibly the Christmas Gala. Instructor:
Amy Stahlman

Leaps, Turns, Creating Choreography (Ages 7-12) Intermediate/Advanced - Designed for
trained dancers in Ballet, Contemporary, and/or Jazz disciplines. (prerequisite: 3 years’
experience, including ballet for at least 1 year). Discover a whole new and beautiful way to
communicate your faith and glorify God! The dancers will practice a variety of ballet and jazz
contemporary turns and leaps traveling across the floor. Students will also learn and explore
several components of choreography including the use of space, time, relationships, music,
emotion, and story. Students will have the opportunity to share their creative work during
informal showings to family and friends, and during Quest Connects community events
throughout the year. Improvisation will become a useful tool during the process of creating
interesting choreography. Throughout the course, students will discover various approaches
to the art of improvisation, both as solo performers and in a group, dynamic incorporating
contact improv techniques. Improv is becoming an essential skill for serious, aspiring
dancers and it really can be exhilarating once you "let go", feel the music, and trust yourself to
explore new ways of movement! Students need dance attire and jazz or ballet
shoes. Students are required to simultaneously take another intermediate or advanced level
dance or acrobatic course. It is highly recommended to take the 30-minute Stretch & Strength
course which is right before this course. Instructor: Tanya Fisher

Dance Through the Decades (Ages 13 & Up) - Students will learn dances from the turn of
the century and continue through the 1920’s, 30’s 40’s,50’s 60’s 70’s 80’s. Students will also
explore the history, culture, literature and music of each decade. A fun way to hang history
hooks with dances. Instructor: Amy Stahlman