Cathy's Dance Studio offers Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Pointe, Modern, HipHop, and Acrobatics, from beginner to advanced levels.  Classes run from September to June and culminate in a recital in June at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City. 

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In addition, Cathy's offers Summer Classes so students can keep up on their dance practice and/or try new classes.

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Beginner Classes focus primarily on developing strength, musicality, and confidence. We want your child to love coming to class and to develop a lifelong love of dance.

 

Intermediate and Advanced Classes focus on teaching the fundamentals of the dance style in addition to form, flexibility, and strength development.

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BALLET supports and enhances the study of all other dance forms and improves posture, flexibility, and coordination. 

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TAP classes include both Rockette style/Broadway style tap and Rhythm Tap.  Students focus on proper tap technique and on understanding the rhythms and musicality of various songs and dances.  

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JAZZ is a high-energy dance form used often in Broadway Musicals and other dance-related performances. It is a mix of isolated body movements and syncopated beats.

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MODERN expands upon strength, knowledge, and musicality learned in Ballet and Jazz and is therefore best started after a child has established the basics of those other forms (usually age 10+ but depends on each child)

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POINTE is ballet done on Pointe Shoes and is best started after a child has mastered ballet basics and is strong enough to support pointe work.  (usually 13+ but depends on each child)

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HIPHOP has been part of our studio since the early 1980s because Queens was one of the birth places of RAP and HIPHOP. It was taught by a Breakdance Troupe from Ravenswood Houses.  Currently, our Hip-Hop classes incorporate modern music and street movement with old school HipHop. We offer HipHop to ages 8 and up.

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ACROBATICS incorporates mat-based gymnastics movements with choreography and dance.  Skills taught include handstands, back bends, walkovers, shoulder rolls, backward rolls, forward rolls, cartwheels, jumps, and combinations. 

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