Jane Mannion’s School of Dance offers a variety of dance and gymnastics classes for children of all ages and adults. We have classes for beginners to advanced students. Click the class names listed below to view the class descriptions and learn more about each class. We can't wait to see you in class!
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Children's Dance Classes
 Specialty Dance Classes
Competition Level
Gymnastics Classes
Musical Theater
Children’s Dance Classes
Parent and Tot Class: (Ages 6 months - 36 months): This class is a great way for you and your child to learn together and bond. This class promotes the development of the child’s motor and cognitive skills through pre-locomotion and locomotion activities. Your child will build both their body and brain by exploring, communicating, and learning naturally fundamental movements. It also allows for new social experiences and interaction with other children which contributes to the development of expressiveness, creativity, and social security. So bring your play-dates to this class for a fun and new experience that is great for both you and your child. Class consists of one 45 minute class per week.
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Fairytale (Ages 3-4): These classes are for first year students. Students will learn creative movement, ballet and jazz. Students also learn classroom etiquette such as raising your hand, taking turns, and respecting others. The classes are based on a new program called Leap and Learn. Leap and Learn is a comprehensive early childhood dance program that provides consistency and structure, while being educational and fun. It incorporates intellectual concepts of self-awareness, creative expression, imagination, basic body/health awareness, and teamwork through a variety of teaching methods. The classes are upbeat and stimulating. Drawing on the child’s wonderful imagination and boundless energy, the exercises are taught through song, story and role-playing. The class consists of one 45 minute class per week and performance in an end of the year recital. Recital rehearsal is incorporated into weekly class.
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Stars/Combination Dance: (Ages 5-8): Classes designed to provide children between the age of five and eight years of age with a strong foundation of dance using movement sequencing, patterning, and spatial relationship. Educators now know that training in these concepts will lay a strong foundation for the later development of reading, mathematics, and other educational skills. The children will become familiar with two out of three disciplines of dance, tap, ballet, and/or jazz in every class. There are different levels to meet your child’s dance education needs, Combo 1, Combo 2, and Combo 3. The class consists of one 50 minute combination class per week and performance in the end of the year recital. Recital rehearsal is incorporated into the weekly class.
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Specialty Dance Classes
Ballet: Learn the classical art of ballet from professionally trained instructors. Our classes inspire the love of movement through graduated levels designed to teach awareness and respect for the body. We emphasize careful technical training that will enhance all physical endeavors (i.e. tap/jazz/modern dance, soccer, gymnastics etc.) and welcome all ages and levels, beginning to professional, regardless of previous training. We strive to nurture the desire to move joyfully and enrich the lives of our students. All students will be placed in the correct class as determined by the instructor. The class consists of one 50 minute class per week.
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Jazz: Jazz is a style of dance that finds its roots in ballet, but was enhanced by musical trends, social dances, and the popularization of dance through movies and musicals. It can be percussive with intricate rhythm patterns or fluid with emotional intensity. These classes place an emphasis on isolating body parts, increased flexibility, and exhibition of individual personality. We offer classes for all ages and abilities. The class consists of one 50 minute class per week and performance in the end of the year recital. Recital rehearsal is incorporated into the weekly class.
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Hip Hop: Get pumped up in Hip Hop learning the hottest new dance moves from your favorite hip hop/rnb/pop music film clips and original choreography. Hip Hop encompasses movement that has elements of poppin', locking, and breaking as well as freestyle movement to give students the opportunity to develop their own sense of style. The class includes a basic technique warm-up, basic hip hop moves, steps that travel across the floor, and combinations. While no previous training is required, classes will use basic body isolations found in other technique classes. The class consists of one 50 minute class per week and performance in the end of the year recital. Recital rehearsal is incorporated into the weekly class.
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Tap: Is an exciting rhythmic exercise and dance form which is enjoyable to both kids and adults. Rooted in African-American History, tap offers a variety of styles and techniques. Students will realize results in dance movement after a minimum of classes. The classes stress the basics of tap and build into combinations which are great to watch and delightful to hear. The class consists of one 50 minute class per week and performance in the end of the year recital. Recital rehearsal is incorporated into the weekly class.
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Lyrical: This class and style incorporates ballet, modern and jazz and is interpretive of the music and lyrics. It is a 50 minute class/week with option to perform in the end of the year recital.
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Leaps and Turns: Leaps and Turns is a specialty class designed to teach proper technique for turns (chaines, pirouettes, piques, axels, etc.) We recommend this class be taken along with a students regular dance class but not in place of their dance class. The class consists of one 50 minute class per week.
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Conditioning and Stretching: Even the best sense of rhythm, the most careful technical training, and the most astute dance intuition are not enough to make a dancer truly excel; you also need focused strength, balance, and flexibility to execute the movements with power and grace. Conditioning for Dance improves your technique and performance in all dance forms by strengthening the body's core (abdominal and back muscles) while improving coordination, balance, and alignment and optimizing flexibility. The result is more lift without tension, deeper pliés, higher jumps with less effort, tighter turns, and improved extension and turnout. This class meets for 50 minutes per class.
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Cheerleading: This class is recommended for students 4th-8th grade interested in cheerleading, are enthusiastic, and full of energy! The instructor teaches children the basic skills needed to advance in the sport of cheerleading. Your child will learn to use basic cheer motions to memorize cheers and master the art of performing them. Students will better their skills of jumping and tumbling, and begin learning stretching techniques. This class consists of a 45 minute class per week.
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Competition Team
The competition team is an award-winning, nationally recognized competitive dance team. Competition team members are selected by the staff. There are three levels of competitive teams based off of their commitment level and dance ability.
See 2008 Competition Levels (PDF)
Team members are required to take technique classes and ballet classes, as well as their regular classes. There are additional costs for practice classes, costumes and entry fees. Students learn the value of discipline, hard work, winning, losing and more. Jane Mannion’s School of Dance’s competitive team is known across the United States not only for their talent, but also for the professional level of dedication they have achieved. Ask to see additional information for descriptions of the different levels of competitive options.
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Gymnastics
Gymnastics - (Ages 6 and Up): Our gymnastics classes will offer your child an introduction to the fundamentals of gymnastics with a focus on tumbling that will provide the building blocks necessary for their potential development in gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, and overall fitness. By learning the benefits of flexibility, balance, strength and body control, your child will be better equipped to safely enjoy and excel in all of his or her future athletic endeavors. Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Gymnastics classes are offered for children 6 and up. These classes are 50 minute classes per week. All gymnastics classes are encouraged to participate in a gymnastics exhibition held at the beginning of May each year. The exhibition is an opportunity for all students to display their achievements of the year to family and friends.
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Parent & Pup Gymnastics: (Ages 18 months-2 years): Become a stronger dancer, become a stronger you! Pilates is an exercise system designed to strengthen the lower back, abdominals, and buttocks. By addressing these core areas, Pilates also benefits the rest of your body by toning and strengthening other key muscle groups. Pilates benefits many different disciplines, including dance, because of its emphasis on lengthening and toning muscles without adding muscles mass to ones physique.
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Kittens (ages 3-4): Students will develop basic gymnastics skills using the bar, balance beam & mat tumbling. Concepts taught include hand/foot/eye coordination, spatial awareness, & direction (up, down, through, and around, right, left). This class consists of a 45 minute class per week.
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Cats (ages 5-6): Develop basic gymnastics skills using the bar, balance beam & mat tumbling. Activities involve balance, flexibility, coordination, strength, gross motor skills, direction, spatial awareness and hand/foot/eye coordination. This class consists of a 50 minute class per week.
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Other Classes
Musical Theater: This class prepares students for Musical Theatre Auditions and/or exposes students to various styles of choreography which are generally only found in Broadway musicals or movies. It is a 50 minute class that meets once a week.
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