Classes and Schedule
Circus Arts
Aerial Silks
Lyra
Acrobatics and Contortion
Lollipop Lyra
Aerial Hammock
Aerial Silks is a dynamic class that teaches students how to climb, wrap, invert, and perform beautiful poses and sequences on two suspended lengths of fabric. Classes focus on building upper body and core strength, flexibility, body awareness, and proper technique while progressing safely through foundational and advanced skills. Perfect for beginners and experienced aerialists alike, this class offers a challenging and rewarding way to develop strength, artistry, and confidence in the air.
Lyra, also known as aerial hoop, is an exciting class that combines strength, grace, and creativity on a suspended steel hoop. Students will learn foundational poses, transitions, spins, and sequences while developing upper body and core strength, flexibility, coordination, and confidence. Whether you're stepping into the hoop for the first time or advancing your aerial skills, this class provides a safe, supportive environment to explore movement and artistry in the air.
Acrobatics & Contortion is a progressive class that combines strength, flexibility, balance, and technique to develop impressive acrobatic and flexibility skills. Students will work on tumbling fundamentals, inversions, balances, backbends, splits, and contortion techniques through safe, structured training. With an emphasis on proper alignment, mobility, and body control, this class is ideal for anyone looking to increase flexibility, build strength, and expand their movement abilities in a supportive environment.
Lollipop Lyra is a unique aerial apparatus that combines the elegance of a Lyra (aerial hoop) with the stability of a grounded pole, making it an excellent option for beginners and experienced performers alike. In this class, students will learn poses, spins, transitions, and choreographed combinations while building strength, flexibility, balance, and confidence. With a focus on technique, artistry, and creative expression, Lollipop Lyra offers a fun and accessible way to experience aerial movement both on and above the ground.
New to CSSD, Aerial Hammock is a fun and engaging class that introduces students to movement using a soft fabric hammock suspended from the ceiling. Students will learn foundational skills including wraps, poses, transitions, inversions, and beginner sequences while building strength, flexibility, balance, and confidence. Whether you're new to aerial arts or looking to expand your skills, this class provides a supportive environment to explore movement in the air at your own pace.
Classes for Littles
Teeny Tots
Bit Bop
Tiny Tots (Ballet and Tap)
A class for students as young as 24 months. Broken down into 15 minute increments, students learn creative movement while learning a very early instruction into ballet & tap. Great opportunity for those early movers to try different styles.
A very popular combination class which introduces hip-hop movements and floor gymnastics. Hip Hop emphasizes coordination and fun dance moves. Floor gymnastics will include stretching and strengthening to develop the ability to perform such skills as forward rolls, cartwheels and headstands. This class compliments the Combo class. Both classes together form a well-rounded young dancer.
The class is split into two studies: ballet which helps develop technique, strength, flexibility, coordination and motor skills and tap for timing, rhythm, coordination and musicality. Students also play games that enhance cognitive and social development and learn classroom etiquette. These two disciplines are the core of all other dance techniques and will jump start your child’s journey into the world of dance as a discipline and an art.
Ballet
Ballet
Pointe
The base of all forms of dance, Ballet technique consists of stylized and controlled movements and positions, which develops ultimate strength and flexibility. Ballet is beneficial at any age, and is a safe form of exercise and building strength. We strongly encourage all of our students enrolled in more than one form of dance to study ballet, as the technique is found in every dance class.
This is the next step in ballet training. As your ankles strengthen and you gain more advance technique in your ballet training, pointe brings everything to the tips of your toes and trains a dancer to use all muscles to bring grace and poise through their advance technique training. To be enrolled you must be assessed by our ballet instructor.
Styled Classes
Contemporary
Hip Hop and Hip Hop Grooves
Jazz
Lyrical
Musical Theatre and Voice and Drama
Tap
Jazz Funk
Flexibility and Conditioning
A style that focuses on unconventional movement. It does not have fixed movement instead it is a search of new forms and dynamics. Oppositional movement, alignment, raw emotion and systematic breathing is its main focus. Contemporary draws from the ballet and modern dance worlds, blending and fusing the genres together to create new vocabulary. This class will draw from Bartinieff, Limon and Horton styles to create a unique class.
A fast-paced and exciting class that introduces students to intricate popular movements to hip-hop beats and lyrics. The class may include breaking, popping, and locking. Hip-Hop is a great aerobic workout that develops strength and flexibility. Hip-Hop is constantly changing, and new styles are regularly incorporated into classes.
A combination of a variety of styles of dance: ballet, African dance, Musical Theater, Modern, and social dances. Jazz dance has a firm technique and strength base, allowing for individualized movement. Jazz is a great form of dance for any age, developing strength and flexibility. Students of jazz are strongly encouraged to study ballet simultaneously for the best possible jazz dance experience.
An adaptation of ballet, modern and jazz expressing feeling with a focus on bodylines, balance, and sustained extensions. Higher-level class will include more contemporary skills and floor work. Students of lyrical are strongly encouraged to study ballet and Jazz simultaneously for the best possible lyrical dance experience.
A fun, fast paced class geared toward the future Broadway star in all of us. This class, takes acting and dancing to a whole new level, combining ballet, jazz and contemporary styles to music and lyrics.
A style that combines dance traditions from Europe and Africa. It is a dance of strong rhythms and relies almost totally on footwork. The feet become musical instruments marking out complex rhythms with the heel and the toe. In This class the student will develop a strong sense of music, timing and discipline.
This new fusion class at CSSD combines jazz and hip hop offering a fast paced and high energy movement class with elements of jazz technique while bringing the expression and hard hitting energy of hip hop!
Flexibility & Conditioning is a full-body class focused on improving strength, mobility, and flexibility through dynamic warm-ups, conditioning exercises, core work, and stretching. Designed for all experience levels, this class helps increase range of motion, build endurance, and support injury prevention, making it a great complement to dance, aerial arts, and other physical activities.
