ACRO DANCE AND CHEERLEADING
LEVEL I 3-5, LEVEL II 6-8, 8-10, LEVEL III 11+
Acro Level I Ages 3-5: Our Acro Dance program uses ballet technique for proper feet and body placement as students begin with basic stretches onto pencil rolls, forward rolls, baby crab walks, and back rolls. They then advance to push-up back bends, lying
on their abdomens and touching their feet to the back of their head, and working on the concept of a cartwheel, fun activities such as playing hopscotch, step hop arabesque, and small split leap jumps.
Acro Level II Ages 6-8, 8-10, Level III Ages 11+: Also including Ballet/Lyrical and Jazz movements, students begin with basic stretches onto pencil rolls, forward rolls, baby crab walks, and back rolls. Students advance to headstands, handstands, and back bends from standing to floor and up again. Students progress to one-handed cartwheels, round offs, front limbers, and back walkovers introducing running tricks such as running cartwheels, round offs, and front handsprings. As they advance to walkovers of all kinds, Arabian limbers (any trick that takes off from two feet and passes through a handstand; variations include tuck front, pike front, straddle front, and back Arabian), spotting cartwheels, cartwheel drop splits, elbow stands, shoulder stands, hand walks, simple double tricks (like double cartwheels), and back handsprings. Advance introduction of full reverse walkovers (forward and backward) half reverse tensica, castovers, double back walkovers, triple cartwheels, aerial walkovers holding hands, and so forth.
Acro/Cheerleading Ages 8+
This class is designed to improve self-confidence, physical health, and teamwork skills all while having a ton of fun! Learn and perfect arm movements, cheers, chants, and choreography that are full of excitement and energy. This is a type of dance which includes turns, kicks, toe touches, split jumps, split leaps, acrobats and more, with sharp fast paced combinations incorporating the use of poms. (Dance Terminology Taught). By the end of the season students can perform set work independent of the teacher, memorize exercises and sequences, to perform on stage at our annual recitals.
on their abdomens and touching their feet to the back of their head, and working on the concept of a cartwheel, fun activities such as playing hopscotch, step hop arabesque, and small split leap jumps.
Acro Level II Ages 6-8, 8-10, Level III Ages 11+: Also including Ballet/Lyrical and Jazz movements, students begin with basic stretches onto pencil rolls, forward rolls, baby crab walks, and back rolls. Students advance to headstands, handstands, and back bends from standing to floor and up again. Students progress to one-handed cartwheels, round offs, front limbers, and back walkovers introducing running tricks such as running cartwheels, round offs, and front handsprings. As they advance to walkovers of all kinds, Arabian limbers (any trick that takes off from two feet and passes through a handstand; variations include tuck front, pike front, straddle front, and back Arabian), spotting cartwheels, cartwheel drop splits, elbow stands, shoulder stands, hand walks, simple double tricks (like double cartwheels), and back handsprings. Advance introduction of full reverse walkovers (forward and backward) half reverse tensica, castovers, double back walkovers, triple cartwheels, aerial walkovers holding hands, and so forth.
Acro/Cheerleading Ages 8+
This class is designed to improve self-confidence, physical health, and teamwork skills all while having a ton of fun! Learn and perfect arm movements, cheers, chants, and choreography that are full of excitement and energy. This is a type of dance which includes turns, kicks, toe touches, split jumps, split leaps, acrobats and more, with sharp fast paced combinations incorporating the use of poms. (Dance Terminology Taught). By the end of the season students can perform set work independent of the teacher, memorize exercises and sequences, to perform on stage at our annual recitals.
