Our dance season culminates in a year-end Recital with performances each class can share with their families and loved ones to show all the hard work they have done throughout the year. Starlight Program, Combo, and Core classes are all included in the Recital.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to read about our new Professor Pirouette academic dance curriculum!
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to read about our new Professor Pirouette academic dance curriculum!
Starlight Program
Learn more about our Starlight Program
Learn more about our Starlight Program
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Starlight Babies (ages 2-3)
This 30-minute class is a fun introduction to movement exploration. Both tap and ballet skills are introduced using teddy bears, hula hoops, and music sure to get children dancing along. Starlight Babies are required to wear pink. Starlight Tots (ages 3-4)
This 45-minute class combines tap and ballet for an unforgettable dance experience. Students will learn to shuffle and plié, among other dance skills, while making friends, learning how to participate in a class, and bouncing along to their favorite songs. Starlight Tots wear purple. Starlight Kids (ages 4-5 and 5-6)
This 45-minute class combines tap and ballet for an opportunity to further your child's dance journey. Students will learn shuffle hops and tendus, among other dance skills, while making friends in a fun, educational environment. Starlight Kids are required to wear blue. Mommy & Me (ages 18-26 months)
This 30-minute class is designed as movement exploration for children ages 18-26 months to complete with their moms in a 10-week session. The use of props, mats, and sing-along songs allows each mom to help her child develop motor and coordination skills in a fun, structured environment with a Starpath Dance Academy instructor. This class is a perfect opportunity for babies to get in on the dance fun before they are old enough to join class on their own for more dance instruction. Dancers are required to wear ballet slippers or bare feet; adults are required to come barefoot. |
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Combo Classes
Hip Hop / Jazz / Ballet (ages 6-8)
One hour of Hip Hop, Jazz, and Ballet for students who are old enough to get a more in-depth exploration of different styles of dance. This will give your dancer a taste of three unique styles, allowing them to decide which path is right for them!
One hour of Hip Hop, Jazz, and Ballet for students who are old enough to get a more in-depth exploration of different styles of dance. This will give your dancer a taste of three unique styles, allowing them to decide which path is right for them!
Pre Jazz / Acro (ages 6-8)
This one-hour long class combines acrobatics with the Jazz style of dance. This is a great opportunity for dancers to develop agility and strength as they expend their energy having fun!
This one-hour long class combines acrobatics with the Jazz style of dance. This is a great opportunity for dancers to develop agility and strength as they expend their energy having fun!
Pre Tap / Jazz (ages 6-8)
This one-hour long class allows students to learn and enjoy two fundamental dance styles. Allowing students to explore rhythmical and percussive movements with tap, and leaping and turning with jazz, this high-energy class is a solid foundation of dance and sure to be a favorite!
This one-hour long class allows students to learn and enjoy two fundamental dance styles. Allowing students to explore rhythmical and percussive movements with tap, and leaping and turning with jazz, this high-energy class is a solid foundation of dance and sure to be a favorite!
Pre Tap / Ballet (ages 6-8)
This one-hour long class allows students to continue from the Starlight Program or start new and learn and enjoy two fundamental dance styles. Allowing students to explore rhythmical and percussive movements with tap, and graceful technique with ballet, this is a great class to shine in!
This one-hour long class allows students to continue from the Starlight Program or start new and learn and enjoy two fundamental dance styles. Allowing students to explore rhythmical and percussive movements with tap, and graceful technique with ballet, this is a great class to shine in!
Core Styles
Acro
This style of dance teaches students developmentally appropriate acrobatic and tumbling movements including backbends, back walkovers, cartwheels, round-offs, handstands, elbow stands, aerials and more. Dancers will work on and develop strength, balance and flexibility.
This style of dance teaches students developmentally appropriate acrobatic and tumbling movements including backbends, back walkovers, cartwheels, round-offs, handstands, elbow stands, aerials and more. Dancers will work on and develop strength, balance and flexibility.
Ballet
The foundation to many dance forms and the epitome of discipline, Ballet is arguably the most elegant style of dance. It is also a dance form that students benefit from starting with early in their dance career. Among a plethora of important skills, it teaches dancers to understand their center and gain flexibility and focus.
The foundation to many dance forms and the epitome of discipline, Ballet is arguably the most elegant style of dance. It is also a dance form that students benefit from starting with early in their dance career. Among a plethora of important skills, it teaches dancers to understand their center and gain flexibility and focus.
Ballet Fusion
Ballet Fusion is a class that allows students to learn and develop ballet discipline and skill sets and applies them to story-telling, lyrical movements and fun, age appropriate music! The class is offered to our 6-8 year old students.
Ballet Fusion is a class that allows students to learn and develop ballet discipline and skill sets and applies them to story-telling, lyrical movements and fun, age appropriate music! The class is offered to our 6-8 year old students.
Contemporary
Many colleges and high schools offer modern/contemporary dance programs and focus on this form of dance. Contemporary dance stresses movement from the torso, floor work, contractions, releases, and fall and recovery. Contemporary elements allow dancers to express a unique vision through movement.
Many colleges and high schools offer modern/contemporary dance programs and focus on this form of dance. Contemporary dance stresses movement from the torso, floor work, contractions, releases, and fall and recovery. Contemporary elements allow dancers to express a unique vision through movement.
Hip Hop
Starpath Dance Academy offers Hip Hop classes for various age groups. It is a street style of dance primarily performed to hip hop music. Dancers love this fun-loving, energetic style of current dance and never want it to end!
Starpath Dance Academy offers Hip Hop classes for various age groups. It is a street style of dance primarily performed to hip hop music. Dancers love this fun-loving, energetic style of current dance and never want it to end!
Jazz
Jazz dance combines movement and skill sets from different forms of dance, including Ballet, ethnic, and contemporary styles. It is an upbeat style set to popular music which makes this the favorite for many students. Miss Lindsey was one of those students!
Jazz dance combines movement and skill sets from different forms of dance, including Ballet, ethnic, and contemporary styles. It is an upbeat style set to popular music which makes this the favorite for many students. Miss Lindsey was one of those students!
Lyrical
Lyrical is a class that combines jazz and ballet technique and skills to tell a story! It is a wonderful class to learn different turns and jumps while also expressing oneself in an artistic manner! This is a great opportunity for students to really discover and showcase their artistry!
Lyrical is a class that combines jazz and ballet technique and skills to tell a story! It is a wonderful class to learn different turns and jumps while also expressing oneself in an artistic manner! This is a great opportunity for students to really discover and showcase their artistry!
Lyripop
This dance form came into the spotlight as the television show So You Think You Can Dance gained international popularity. Using the stories and movement from Lyrical dance and combining them with popping and locking elements of the Hip Hop style, Lyripop allows dancers to not only have a blast, but challenges them to be open to anything!
This dance form came into the spotlight as the television show So You Think You Can Dance gained international popularity. Using the stories and movement from Lyrical dance and combining them with popping and locking elements of the Hip Hop style, Lyripop allows dancers to not only have a blast, but challenges them to be open to anything!
Pointe
Once dancers have completed pre-pointe class, they are ready for this class done entirely in pointe shoes! Must be approved to enroll and must be enrolled in Ballet.
Once dancers have completed pre-pointe class, they are ready for this class done entirely in pointe shoes! Must be approved to enroll and must be enrolled in Ballet.
Pre Pointe
This class is available to our Advanced students, who must take at least one Ballet class per week in order to enroll. Preparing to dance in pointe shoes with special stretches is an exciting challenge!
This class is available to our Advanced students, who must take at least one Ballet class per week in order to enroll. Preparing to dance in pointe shoes with special stretches is an exciting challenge!
Tap
Rhythm is key in this style of dance. With both percussive and Broadway-style movements, students enrolled in tap class not only give their feet a workout, but their brains get one, too. Young dancers love the noise their "special" shoes make, and are amazed at how many different sounds can be generated with different parts of their feet.
Rhythm is key in this style of dance. With both percussive and Broadway-style movements, students enrolled in tap class not only give their feet a workout, but their brains get one, too. Young dancers love the noise their "special" shoes make, and are amazed at how many different sounds can be generated with different parts of their feet.
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre is for those who love the stage! Learn the importance of performance and exaggerated movements, while dancing and acting!
Musical Theatre is for those who love the stage! Learn the importance of performance and exaggerated movements, while dancing and acting!
Miss Lindsey created the Professor Pirouette program to engage children in academics through dance! This program follows N.C. Curriculum Standards and will focus on literacy, mathematics and science, and learning grade-specific concepts through dance - moving, reading, choreographing and more.
This program has been in the works for years and was scheduled to become a reality this fall with the opening of our new Green Level West location. With many children staying home from school or school plans uncertain, we thought NOW would be an even better time to introduce this exciting new program. We will begin a virtual six-week session, LIVE taught by one of our Starpath teachers, for each elementary grade level K-3. To begin, each grade level will have a 30-minute session per week.
Examples of curriculum by grade:
Kindergarten:
This program has been in the works for years and was scheduled to become a reality this fall with the opening of our new Green Level West location. With many children staying home from school or school plans uncertain, we thought NOW would be an even better time to introduce this exciting new program. We will begin a virtual six-week session, LIVE taught by one of our Starpath teachers, for each elementary grade level K-3. To begin, each grade level will have a 30-minute session per week.
Examples of curriculum by grade:
Kindergarten:
- Read dance stories and talk about the characters! Create our own characters and stories!
- Practice writing (and performing) dance-related sight words
- Introduce Fractions with Rhythmical Patterns
- Learn force and motion through dancing!
- Practice writing our own stories about dance
- Introduction to Poetry and Rhythm
- Use rhythmical patterns to learn how to work with fractions
- Choreography and formations to explore area and perimeter
Testimonials
"We really enjoyed this program! Especially during COVID. It was a great way for my daughter to do some work but also learn more about dancing. It was never a fight to get her to join, she loved it every week and was excited to be apart of it. We would defiantly want to do this again!"
"It's a wonderful way for the kids to be engaged to dance in a different element. Really trying to get them to understand the terminology with concepts they learn in school."
"It was fantastic! Miss Devin is great with the kids."
"It's a wonderful way for the kids to be engaged to dance in a different element. Really trying to get them to understand the terminology with concepts they learn in school."
"It was fantastic! Miss Devin is great with the kids."
100% of parents surveyed after the first six-week session said they would re-enroll their dancer in Professor Pirouette classes multiple times per week.