Each of the following classes is offered to different age groups and different skill levels.

We’d love to help you choose classes if you’re not sure which ones best fit you! Please call or come in and talk to Lissa (the owner) or our helpful front desk staff.

Tap

• Instructor: Lauren Lynch
• Classes available for ages: 6 – adult
• dress: street clothes fine, but tap shoes required

Learning rhythms and sounds is the goal of our tap program for students ages 6 to adults. Tappers will develop musicality, rhythm, quick thinking and the ability to “hear” music.

Tap is considered the true American dance style that has been passed down by everyone from African drums, Irish cloggers, Western dancers and more. Our tap classes will expose your dancer to a variety of tap styles, including traditional tap and rhythmic/funk tap.

Ballet

• Instructors: Ryan Beck
• Classes available for ages: 6 – adult

Ballet is the foundation of all dance styles and is one of the most challenging and rewarding classes a dance student could take. Providing dancers with precise technique, correct body placement, and proper dance terms, ballet offers all students the opportunity to experience what dance is all about.

Ballet teaches alignment, balance and elegance. American Dance of SLO encourages all students to enroll in a ballet class.

Jazz

• Instructors: Leslie Baumberger, Suzy Miller, Stacy Estrada, Ryan Beck,Rose Patti
• Classes available for ages 6 – adults

Jazz is an exciting, fast pace, interesting and always changing dance art. Jazz relies on a dancers classical ballet training yet pushes the student to connect emotionally to the music and physically to the movement that helps the dancer expand beyond the classroom and into the
world of dance.

Our Jazz classes incorporate a variety of styles: Theater Jazz, Modern Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Lyrical, African, Traditional Jazz, and more.

American Dance of SLO prides itself on it’s ability to offer our students the most varied jazz classes on the Central Coast. Many of the jazz classes offered have a rotating teacher list which enables our jazz students to experience the most up to date instruction available.

Hip Hop

• Instructors: Sarah Marshall, Ryan Beck
• Classes available for ages: 6 yrs to adults

This is a great adventure in moving, offering innovative and contemporary style with great music and a fun, positive atmosphere. This is a great class for a teen interested in joining the fun of a dance class.

American Dance of SLO also offers a Strictly Boys Hip Hop class and performance opportunities for interested boys.

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