North Dakota Academy of Dance
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Summer Dance Age 13+

Technique Classes, Specialty Classes, & Master Classes
​Session runs June 1 - July 31 (no class June 29 - July 3)

Technique Classes

​Ballet Technique
Age: 13+ years old
Time: Monday & Wednesday 4:00-5:00pm
Session Tuition: $320
Ballet Technique is designed to elevate your dancing, focus on foundational movements, proper alignment, and strength-building exercises. You'll practice barre work, center practice, and across-the-floor combinations, all aimed at refining your skills and enhancing your grace. This class emphasizes precision and artistry, helping you become a more confident and versatile dancer.

Tap Technique 
Age: 13+ years old
Time: Tuesday & Thursday 8:15-9:15pm
Session Tuition: $320
Tap Technique class is designed to enhance your rhythm and style. In this energetic class, you'll work on fundamental tap steps, combinations, and improvisation techniques. Focus on timing, coordination, and musicality as you build your skills. 

Jazz Technique
Age: 13+ years old 
Time: Tuesday & Thursday 5:00-6:00pm
Session Tuition: $320
Jazz Technique class is all about energy and expression! In this lively class, you'll explore fundamental jazz movements, warm-ups, and dynamic combinations. Focus on style, flexibility, and performance quality while enhancing your musicality and coordination.

Hip Hop Technique
Age: 13+ years old 
Time: Monday & Wednesday 6:00-7:00pm
Session Tuition: $320
Hip Hop Technique class is all about attitude and fun! In this high-energy class, you’ll learn essential hip hop moves, choreography, and improvisation skills. Focus on rhythm, body control, and style while boosting your confidence and creativity.

*All dancers in a technique class will automatically be reassessed for the genre in which they are taking a technique class and will not have to complete the necessary number of private lessons for reassessment. For example, if a dancer is wanting to be reassessed to a higher level for ballet, they can either take ballet technique to complete the assessment or take 6 private lessons working on ballet technique. ​

Specialty Classes

​Pre-Pointe
Age 13+: Wednesday 5:00-5:45pm
Session Tuition: $160
This class is perfect for a dancer with aspirations of being en pointe someday, but also a dancer in ANY genre wanting to build strength in the ankles, feet, and core. Correct alignment, balance, and exercise execution is stressed in this class.

PBT (Progressing Ballet Technique)
Age 14+: Thursday 4:15-5:00pm
Session Tuition: $160
PBT is an innovative body-conditioning and strengthening program that has been designed to enhance students' technique by focusing on training the muscle memory required in each exercise in all forms of dance. The program helps with injury prevention and rehabilitation and enhances the ability of athletes to perform at their best. PBT focuses on core strength, weight placement, and alignment of the body with a gradual approach of carefully designed exercises and repetitions of these exercises that trigger their muscle memory. 

Pointe (1 year of pointe required)
Age: 13+ years old
Time: Monday 7:00-8:00pm
Session Tuition: $175

Improv
Age:
 13+ years old
Time: Tuesday 7:30-8:00pm
Session Tuition: $145
Improv challenges a dancer to explore music, space, and body to create their own unique form of movement. This class encourages more focus on content than technique, and allows dancers to travel through shapes, pathways, levels, dynamics, and more. Improv can also explore and help dancers achieve a deeper understanding of concealed thoughts or feelings allowing emotional release through dance and expression. 

Stretch
Age:
 8+
Time: Wednesday 8:00-8:30pm
Session Tuition: $145
Stretch aims to improve a dancer's flexibility through deep stretches and muscle release exercises. 

Competition Audition Prep Class
(Three Weeks - June 1-15th)

Age 13+: Monday 8:00-8:45pm
Session Tuition: $60

Acro
Age: 9-18 : 
Tuesday or Wednesday 8:15-9:15pm
Front Walkover Class: June 2nd, June 3rd, July 7th, and July 8th
Back Walkover Class: June 9th, June 10th, July 14th, and July 15th
Aerial Class: June 16th, June 17th, July 21st, and Just 22nd
Advanced Airborne: June 23rd, June 24th, July 28th, and July 29th
(must have aerial or backhand spring to enroll in advanced airborne)
$24 each
Want to learn a new acro skill? Come to these specialized classes that focus on each skill. If you didn't it in the first class, come join the next class.

Master Classes (Age 13+ or by invitation)

Jumps
Tatum Sand
June 2nd: 6:00-7:30pm
$35

 
Importance of Dynamics 
Tatum Sand
June 4th: 6:00-7:30pm
$35

 
Contemporary Ballet
Luci Suckert
June 9th: 6:00-7:30pm
$35

Conditioning 
Tatum Sand
​June 11th: 6:00-7:30pm
$35

 
 
Contemporary Combination
Ashley Hertwig-Frieler
​June 16th: 6:00-7:30pm
$35


 
Hip Hop Combination
Bria Boroski
June 18th: 6:00-7:30pm
$35
This class encourages confidence, individuality, and stage presence while helping dancers improve memory, timing, and overall movement quality. Suitable for dancers of all levels, it provides an energetic and engaging environment to grow as a performer while mastering hip hop choreography.
 
           
La Bayadere - Nikiya's Death Variation
Leah Roeske
June 23rd: 6:00-7:30pm
$35
This beautifully sad variation explores grief, betrayal, heart break and as implied, death. We will learn parts of the variation as it is quite lengthy. Come in ballet flats and/or pointe shoes. 


 
The Art of Lyrical 
Bailey Bormann
June 25th: 6:00-7:30pm
$35

Express yourself through movement in our Lyrical Dance Class! Lyrical encourages dancers to connect movement with feeling while developing strength, control, and artistry.​

Modern
Carina Schell
July 7th: 6:00-7:30pm
$35


 
Across the Floor Progressions and Stretch
Bailey Bormann
July 9th: 6:00-7:30pm
$35

Our Across the Floor Class focuses on building strong foundational dance technique through a series of traveling combinations. Students will practice leaps, turns, jumps, and transitions, emphasizing proper alignment, balance, and control while moving across the floor.​

 
Jazz Funk
Zowie Lee
​​July 14th: 6:00-7:30pm
$35


 
Tap Fundamentals
Bailey Bormann
July 16th: 6:00-7:30pm
$35
Our Tap Dance Class offers a dynamic introduction to the art of tap, combining precise footwork, rhythmic patterns, and musicality. Students will develop coordination, timing, and strength while learning clean technique and expressive choreography.
 
TBD
Carina Schell
​July 21st: 6:00-7:30pm
$35
 
Fosse Jazz
Reegan Weitnauer
​July 23rd: 6:00-7:30pm
$35
This Fosse Jazz Class introduces dancers to the iconic style inspired by the choreography of Bob Fosse. Students will explore the distinctive movements that define Fosse technique, including stylized isolations, sharp precision, expressive musicality, and dramatic performance quality.

Pom
Allison Pillar
​July 28th: 6:00-7:30pm
$35
 
Basics of Choreography
Reegan Weitnauer
​July 30th: 6:00-7:30pm
$35
The Basics of Choreography Class introduces dancers to the creative process behind building and structuring movement. Students will learn how to develop original choreography through musical interpretation, movement exploration, and fundamental composition techniques.
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