Tap Dance Lessons Near Me

This fun and energetic combo class introduces young dancers to the fundamentals of both jazz and tap dance in a supportive and engaging environment. Students will build coordination, rhythm, flexibility, balance, and musicality while learning beginner jazz technique and foundational tap skills. Class will include warm-ups, across-the-floor exercises, basic combinations, and age-appropriate choreography designed to keep dancers moving and learning. Through both styles, dancers will develop confidence, classroom discipline, listening skills, and performance quality while exploring movement and self-expression. Jazz encourages strong technique, sharp movement, and stage presence, while tap focuses on rhythm, timing, and sound awareness. This class provides a strong foundation for future dance training and performance opportunities. No prior experience is required, just a willingness to learn and have fun! Required Materials: Black tap shoes Tan jazz shoes Comfortable dancewear (leotard, leggings, dance shorts, or fitted athletic wear) Hair secured away from the face Water bottle Optional: small dance bag for shoes and belongings Recital Costume This registration fee DOES NOT include costumes. Parents can expect to purchase 1 costume for their child for the end of semester recital, selected by the instructor of the class. This costume purchase is required.

This upbeat and challenging combo class builds on the foundational skills introduced in Level 1 while continuing to develop technique, rhythm, coordination, and performance quality in both jazz and tap dance. Dancers will expand their vocabulary through more complex combinations, across-the-floor progressions, turns, jumps, and rhythmic tap patterns. Class focuses on strengthening musicality, flexibility, precision, and confidence while encouraging students to grow as performers. Students will continue developing strong classroom habits and dance terminology while learning to pick up choreography more quickly and perform with greater expression and style. In jazz, dancers will work on sharper movement quality, transitions, and stage presence, while tap training will emphasize timing, clarity of sounds, and rhythmic accuracy. This class is designed to help dancers build technical skills and confidence as they prepare for more advanced dance training and performance opportunities. This class will participate in a brief recital alongside other dance classes at the end of the semester. Students from Jazz/Tap Level 1 MUST get permission from the instructor to register for this course prior to registration. Required Materials: Black tap shoes Tan jazz shoes Comfortable fitted dancewear Hair secured away from the face Water bottle Dance bag for shoes and personal items This registration fee DOES NOT include costumes. Parents can expect to purchase a costume for their child for the end of semester recital, selected by the instructor of the class. This costume purchase is required and will range from $25-$40 in cost.

Join us on a journey through over four centuries as we walk down NYC’s oldest street! Originally a Native American footpath and Dutch farm road, site of the first free Black homesteads, it witnessed gang wars, the bloody Astor Place Riot, & Lincoln’s famous anti-slavery speech at Cooper Union. It was the working-class main street for sailors, shopgirls, gangs, gays, and waves of immigrant Irish, Italians, Germans, Jews, and Chinese. NYC’s first entertainment district, it has seminal links to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish theater, Houdini, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Mae West, modern tattooing, Abstract Expressionism, Beat literature, improvisational jazz and punk rock. Though it declined in the 1900s, when flop houses and dive bars proliferated, it nonetheless became home to affordable jewelry, lighting, and restaurant supply stores, and a live-work home for artists like Marc Rothko, Maya Lin, William Burroughs, Robert Frank, and Debbie Harry.