Creative Dance is an opportunity to master gross locomotor movement skills and coordination through fun and play. Many children begin here before moving onto creative movement improvisation.

The children will learn concepts on space (levels, pathways, general and personal space), body, relationships, energy, and rhythm, which are prerequisites to choreography. They will learn coordination, gross locomotor and non-locomotor movement, teamwork, cooperation, how to compromise, and how to communicate. This movement will translate into choreography. No prerequisite.

Classes at Dance IQ are scaffold in a transitional design to allow for challenges appropriate for each child’s level and dance experience. All classes are conducted under the National Standards of the National Dance Education Organization. Dance IQ provides a safe environment where children have the freedom of expression and curiosity to explore moving in space as they develop choreography skills. Building performance skills and audience etiquette is a part of every class. Learning dance at Dance IQ is a complete dance education. As a recommendation, classes are designed to be repeated for three to six sessions before students advance to the next level.

Dancers explore energy efforts (flow vs. bound, sudden vs. sustained, direct vs. indirect, and light vs. strong), space, and time as they learn the kinetics while gaining flexibility and increased coordination. Dance skills and content are developed through expressing ideas, feelings, narration, and movement phrases for choreography. No prerequisite.

This course is designed for dancers new to improvisation. Dancers will learn concepts unique to modern dance while creating choreography skills while having fun in a safe and social environment. No prerequisite.