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RAD Ballet
Ballet is a theatrical form of dance with a long history. It creatively expresses the full range of human emotions through physical movements and gestures. This class helps to develop correct everyday posture, improving balance and coordination all while building the foundations and fundamentals of dance technique!
Ballet is the backbone of all dance styles and promotes body awareness, strength and technique.
A beautiful, disciplined yet graceful syllabus, students have the ability to progress through Royal Academy of Dance examinations from Pre Primary up to Advanced 2. Exams are available but not compulsory.
Jazz
One of the most popular and well known forms of dance. This high-energy dance has a liveliness that sets it apart from traditional dance forms, such as ballet or lyrical classes.
Jazz dance develops in parallel to pop music, with an upbeat, high energy, technical dance style including strength, flexibility, leaps, turns and modern choreography. This genre attracts dancers who are focused, goal oriented but want a fun, upbeat class environment and have energy to burn.
Jazz dance includes any style of jazz, from commercial, lyrical, broadway or street jazz.
Hip Hop
Hip-hop is an exciting style of street dance that combines a variety of freestyle movements to more upbeat music creating a different level of fun and creativity.
Including fresh choreography, hip hop is an expressive, dynamic style that promotes performance, coordination and groove. Hip hop is awesome for developing confidence, performance skills and coordination.
Our classes include breakdancing featuring acrobatic moves, including headspins, handstands, and freezes. Breakdancing is often associated with rap music. Freestyle is characterized by loose body movements and freestyle rhyming lyrics. Krumping is characterized by sharp, jerky movements, aggressive execution, and expressiveness where dancers tend to use their bodies in rapid, exaggerated movements. Locking focuses on technical precision with smooth movements that seamlessly flow together without pauses between steps or turns. Popping is another popular form of hip-hop dance characterized by fast movements with the feet and hands.
Both locations have their own crews. Students can also dance in a boys-only environment to facilitate a more masculine style of movement.
Lyrical/Contemporary
These genres attract dancers who want to express themselves and explore storytelling, interesting body movement patterns, and release.
Lyrical dance is a fusion of ballet and jazz dance techniques. Lyrical dance challenges dancers to use motion to interpret music and express emotion. A dancer’s movements in lyrical are fluid, continuous, and graceful, with the dancer flowing seamlessly from one move to another with little or no stopping, holding finishing steps as long as possible. It is performed to music with lyrics so that it inspires expression of strong emotions the choreographer feels from the lyrics of the song. These emotional dance moves help the dancer connect on an emotional level with the audience.
Contemporary dance is an expressive style of dance that abandons the rigid, centered aspect of classical forms of dance, and utilizes unconventional movements from styles around the world. It incorporates certain elements of ballet, modern dance, and jazz.
Contemporary dance focuses more on big movements, feeling the emotion of the music, and pushing the boundaries of dance.
Musical Theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines singing, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. Performers in this genre are commonly referred to as ‘triple threats’ Musical theatre dancing is less of a particular style, and more of a description of dancing that is rooted in the diverse history of Broadway musicals.
A fun combination of dance, singing and acting. Perform to modern and classic musical theatre songs to grow your performance ability. This genre attracts expressive and outgoing personalities who want a fun and energetic class.
Tap
Tap Dance is an exciting, percussive, rhythmical dance form. Its main feature is the sound made by tap shoes hitting the floor creating catchy rhythms with their feet.
Tap classes are designed to develop rhythm, style and sound. Students will learn a variety of tap styles from Broadway to Rhythm tap.
This genre attracts dancers who love rhythm, musicality and coordination.
Technique
Technique classes teach dancers to execute moves within a genre perfectly. The placement of each limb, the posture, and position of the body are specifically addressed in technique classes. These classes are used to improve movement, lines, and the overall look of the dancer.
All the tips and technique you need to develop your turning skills plus reinforcing your skillset to develop a strong foundation for all genres of dance.
This class also offers different combinations of kicks, turns and jumps that will help to enhance your technique.
Acrobatics
Acrobatic Arts gives students the skills and knowledge to safely perform acrobatic tricks with a real understanding of how their body works, instilling in students the confidence to perform without fear.
Acrobatics also known as Acro has a focus on fundamental acrobatic technique learning such things as handstands, chin stands, elbow stands, cartwheels, back bends, walkovers, backflips, handsprings, somersaults, tucks, balance, & contortion tricks and are practised on the floor using tumbling mats for added cushion.
Acro technique includes balancing, limbering, tumbling and partnering, based in flexibility, contortion and strength.
Trained by accredited teachers, students have the opportunity to take exams in the Acrobatic Arts syllabus from Primary – Level 8 should they wish.
Cheerleading
These classes are fun, challenging and taught using Poms in a fast paced dynamic routine that showcases the dance side of cheerleading.
Next Level Performing Arts is home of the Hills Bulls Cheerleaders.
Students in our Cheer class have the opportunity, if they wish, to perform high energy routines at all home games of the Hills Bulls Ron Massey team. Performances generally commence in April through to June and take place at Crestwood Oval on alternate Sundays around 3pm.
Dance Squad
If you love to dance with your friends but don’t want to compete at competitions, learn fresh choreography across multiple genres and the foundation of good technique then this is the class for you.
Our Dance Squad will still perform at our concert.
Private Singing Lessons
Our Private singing lessons are fun and engaging and offer many benefits for students who are interested in singing.
We offer Individualized attention which focus solely on the needs of the students. We assess the student’s strengths and weaknesses, and create a customized lesson plan that will help improve better vocal technique working on breathing, pitch control, dynamics and much more.
Our purpose to is increase confidence as dinging in front of others can be nerve-wracking, especially for children. Private lessons can help students feel more comfortable and confident with their singing abilities.
Troupe & Crews
Wanting to take your dancing to the next level?
NXLPA Troupes are specifically designed for our top dancers to reach their potential. Troupe members will dance in competitions and events throughout the year that help to develop their performance skills through to a professional level.
Troupe and Crew are through invitation by the teacher only. .
To be eligible for our Troupes you need to be taking unlimited classes, ballet, technique & acrobatics.
Private Lessons
Private lessons are available to those interested in competing in solos, duos and/or trios at competition and esteddfords.
These classes are highly sought after and strictly limited.
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