Toddler/preschool dance classes:
18 months - kindergarten
parent participation
(18 months - 3 years)
Teacher: Pippa
Saturday, 11:00 - 11:45am
Green Studio
This class is designed to give the young dancer a chance to begin moving. Parents can completely focus on their child for 45 minutes. The instructor uses world music, nursery rhymes, instruments, and lots of props to help children learn the basics of movement. Parents learn a repertoire of new songs and activities to enjoy with their children.
This class is sessional:
Session 1: September 7 - December 21
Price: $236.78
Course Code: PPSAT1
Session 2: January 11 - March 8
Price: $135.30
Course Code: PPSAT2
Session 3: March 29 - May 10
Price: $101.48
Course Code: PPSAT3
Saturday, 11:00 - 11:45am
Green Studio
This class is designed to give the young dancer a chance to begin moving. Parents can completely focus on their child for 45 minutes. The instructor uses world music, nursery rhymes, instruments, and lots of props to help children learn the basics of movement. Parents learn a repertoire of new songs and activities to enjoy with their children.
This class is sessional:
Session 1: September 7 - December 21
Price: $236.78
Course Code: PPSAT1
Session 2: January 11 - March 8
Price: $135.30
Course Code: PPSAT2
Session 3: March 29 - May 10
Price: $101.48
Course Code: PPSAT3
What to wear for Parent Participation Class:
Bare feet ONLY
and any of the following:
Leggings and a dance leotard (bodysuit)
Dance leotard and a dance skirt
Sweat pants and a t-shirt
NO ballet shoes or tights that cover feet
adventures in movement
(3-4 years old)
Teacher: Pippa
Saturday, 10:00 - 10:45 am
Green Studio
These classes offer children a fun and fulfilling way to prepare for dance technique classes such as ballet, jazz, and contemporary. It is also a great place to start for the potential breakdancer or all around athlete! All preschool classes can help prepare children for an active lifestyle. This class does not perform in the year end recital.
Saturday, 10:00 - 10:45 am
Green Studio
These classes offer children a fun and fulfilling way to prepare for dance technique classes such as ballet, jazz, and contemporary. It is also a great place to start for the potential breakdancer or all around athlete! All preschool classes can help prepare children for an active lifestyle. This class does not perform in the year end recital.
This class is sessional:
Session 1: September 7 - December 21
Price: $236.78
Course Code: AIM2
Session 2: January 11 - March 8
Price: $135.30
Course Code: AIM2
Session 3: March 29 - May 10
Price: $101.48
Course Code: AIM3
Session 1: September 7 - December 21
Price: $236.78
Course Code: AIM2
Session 2: January 11 - March 8
Price: $135.30
Course Code: AIM2
Session 3: March 29 - May 10
Price: $101.48
Course Code: AIM3
What to wear for Adventures in Movement:
Bare feet ONLY
and any of the following:
Leggings and a dance leotard (bodysuit)
Dance leotard and a dance skirt
Sweat pants and a t-shirt
NO ballet shoes or tights that cover feet
**Please note that we do not offer the option of monthly payments for sessional classes**
Pre-DANCE
(age 3/4 - Kindergarten)
Pre-Dance is a progressive preparatory program for our ballet, jazz, contemporary, and hip hop programs. Our Pre-Dance program is rooted in ballet technique but focuses on skills that are transferrable across all genres including coordination, musicality, and learning choreography. Dancers explore movement accompanied by many styles of music – classical, world, rock, and popular children’s songs. The instructor’s focus is to make the class fun, challenging, and rewarding. The curriculum for this class is based on the principals of early childhood and primary education, the Royal Academy of Dance ballet syllabus, and Creative Dance Technique developed by Dr. Anne Green Gilbert and Mary Joyce. Pre-Dance classes perform in Art from The Heart, our year-end recital at the Yukon Arts Centre.
Prices include yearly tuition and a costume/production performance fee. Monthly installment plans over 11 months are available and include a 5% installment charge. The first payment is due the day of registration, and subsequent payments are due on the 1st of each month from September 1st to June 1st.
*Please note that the monthly prices stated are NOT monthly payments - they are instalments as all participants must commit to the full year.
A late registration fee of $40 will be effective after August 27nd, 2024.
Prices include yearly tuition and a costume/production performance fee. Monthly installment plans over 11 months are available and include a 5% installment charge. The first payment is due the day of registration, and subsequent payments are due on the 1st of each month from September 1st to June 1st.
*Please note that the monthly prices stated are NOT monthly payments - they are instalments as all participants must commit to the full year.
A late registration fee of $40 will be effective after August 27nd, 2024.
pre-dance 2
(Age 4 before december 31, 2024)
Teacher: Pippa
Saturday, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Green Studio
Price: $693.95/year or $66.24/month
Course Code: PRED2
Saturday, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Green Studio
Price: $693.95/year or $66.24/month
Course Code: PRED2
pre-dance 3
(Kindergarten)
Teacher: Pippa
Saturday, 1:15 - 2:15 pm
Green Studio
Price: $693.95/year or $66.24/month
Course Code: PRED3
Saturday, 1:15 - 2:15 pm
Green Studio
Price: $693.95/year or $66.24/month
Course Code: PRED3
What to wear for Pre-Dance 2-3:
Bare feet ONLY
and any of the following:
Leggings and a dance leotard (bodysuit)
Dance leotard and a dance skirt
Sweat pants and a t-shirt
NO ballet shoes or tights that cover feet
General skills for Pre-Dance 2 & 3:
Dancers are introduced and begin to master the following specific skills which include elements of ballet, jazz and contemporary dance techniques:
* Turn out * Plié
* Relevé * Retiré
* Tendu *Positions of the feet turned out and parallel
* Point the toe * Flex the toe
* Spring point * Gallop
* Skip * Leap
* March * Jump
* Hop * Pas de chat in parallel/turned out
* Turn in retiré * Jazz hands
* Step-touch * Isolations
* Grapevine * Chassé
* Chassé ball change * Kick ball change
* Pivot turn
- Listening to the teacher
- Working in a group
- Learning class structure; working in a circle and in lines, dancing across the floor in twos and threes
- Practicing a proper technique
- Practicing creative exercises
- Taking corrections
- Learning a dance for recital, and performing with little guidance from the instructor
Dancers are introduced and begin to master the following specific skills which include elements of ballet, jazz and contemporary dance techniques:
* Turn out * Plié
* Relevé * Retiré
* Tendu *Positions of the feet turned out and parallel
* Point the toe * Flex the toe
* Spring point * Gallop
* Skip * Leap
* March * Jump
* Hop * Pas de chat in parallel/turned out
* Turn in retiré * Jazz hands
* Step-touch * Isolations
* Grapevine * Chassé
* Chassé ball change * Kick ball change
* Pivot turn