Dance

MISSION STATEMENT

Expressions Dance Studio

The River Trails Park District’s Expressions Dance Studio is founded with the principles of providing participants with a safe and fun environment where your child’s development is nurtured through both an expressive and structured–based curriculum with outcomes focused on skill development, self–confidence and an understanding of dance terminology.

Please Support Our Annual Dance Recital!

Recital

Saturday, March 11, 2023 | 11 am Location: River Trails Middle School

Rehearsal

Friday, March 10, 2023 | 4:30 pm Location: River Trails Middle School Structure: Children registered for the September session of Expressions Dance will be in the annual dance recital in March.

Dance Class Descriptions

Ballet/Tap: Ballet exercises will be introduced and start each class, and basic ballet vocabulary movements include locomotor, elementary positions and musical rhythm, and creative expression and imagination! The class will also include basic tap skills, sounds, and rhythm exercises. Ballet and Tap shoes are required.

Hip Hop: Wear your sneakers and join this high-energy, upbeat hip hop class! Learn new, fun and exciting moves to music you hear on the radio. We’ll do strength work, stretching, isolations, and footwork to inspire dancers to leave it all on the dance floor! Learn exciting age-appropriate choreography and create your moves. Clean sneakers must be worn.

Lyrical/Leaps & Turns: Students will explore techniques and skills from ballet and jazz and will continue improving flexibility, extension, core strength, and balance. Lyrical emphasizes the interpretation of musical lyrics or melodies while telling a story with movement that can be fluid or abstract. We will also spend part of class focusing on technical dance skills such as alignment, positions, leaps, turns, and jumps that dancers perform in Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, and Contemporary. Ballet shoes are required.

Private Dance Lessons

Available by request. Perfect for audition preparation and professional one-on-one instruction. Please visit the Weiss Center or contact Katie at 847.255.1200 for more information.

Dance Class Schedule

All classes held at Burning Bush Community Center

Class Age Day Time Dates Fee Instructor Pre-Ballet/Tap 3-4 W 4-4:45 pm 4/26-5/31 $51R/$62N Dani Pre-Hip Hop 3-4 W 4:45-5:30 pm 4/26-5/31 $51R/$62N Dani Beginning Hip Hop 5-7 W 5:30-6:15 pm 4/26-5/31 $51R/$62N Dani Beginning Ballet/Tap 5-7 W 6:15-7 pm 4/26-5/31 $51R/$62N Dani Hip Hop I 8-10 W 7-8 pm 4/26-5/31 $68R/$82N Dani Lyrical/Leaps & Turns 8-10 W 8-9 pm 4/26-5/31 $68R/$82N Dani