Summer 2024

Name
Days
Location
EMERALD
Ballet/Tap/Jazz/Acro with ballet story, craft and DTL provided snack
Tuesday
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Dancing Through Life
Preschool 2/Elementary K Saturday
Ballet/Tap/Acro
Saturday
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Dancing Through Life
VIOLET
Ballet/Tap/Acrobatics with craft, DTL provided snack, and intro to jazz
Tuesday
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Dancing Through Life
Toddler 2/Preschool 1 Saturday
Saturday
10:00 AM to 10:45 AM
Dancing Through Life
GREEN
Intro to ballet, music, and tumbling for 2-4 year olds
Monday
10:15 AM to 11:00 AM
Dancing Through Life
BLUE
Intro to ballet, music, and tumbling for 2-4 year olds
Wednesday
10:15 AM to 11:00 AM
Dancing Through Life
Elementary 1-2 Saturday
Ballet/Tap//Jazz/Acro
Saturday
10:45 AM to 12:00 PM
Dancing Through Life
Toddler 1 Open House
Parent/Child (sometimes called "Mommy and Me") Dance, Music, and Tumbling
Saturday
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
50 Years of Hip Hop Camp
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip hop, and dance through time with lessons in choreography, hip hop history, and the impact hip hop has had on the world of dance.

Age 7 and up
Thursday Friday
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Studio 2
Dancing Through Life
Toddler 2/Preschool 1 Monday
Monday
4:15 PM to 5:00 PM
Dancing Through Life
Elementary Ballet Monday
Ballet technique and creative movement for first and second graders with, at least, one year of dance experience, and older dancers with no dance experience. There are two tuition payments. The first is due upon registration. The second is due July 1st.
Monday
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Dancing Through Life
Ballet 1+
Stay in shape and keep up with your ballet training with Miss Dorie! There are two tuition payments of $98. The first is due upon registration. The second is due on July 1st.
Monday
6:00 PM to 7:15 PM
Dancing Through Life
Beginner-Intermediate Tap and Lyrical Camp
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
5:00 PM to 6:45 PM
Dancing Through Life
Theme Camps
Themed dance class, obstacle courses, craft, snack (provided by studio), and photo shoot
Age 3-8, potty independent, $50/each day, 5 day pass: $225
After purchasing a 5 day pass, please reserve your chosen camp days, as a drop-in and select “paying with punch card.”

July 12: Frozen
July 19: Encanto
July 26: Ariel
August 2: Barbie
August 9: Cinderella
August 16: Pop Star
August 23: Belle
August 30: Unicorn Rainbow

DRESS CODE: Comfortable clothing dancer can move in (Princess and themed outfits are welcome!) and ballet shoes or bare feet. Bring a labeled water bottle. Snack will be provided.
Friday
9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Dancing Through Life
All Ages Line Dancing
Tuesday Thursday
5:15 PM to 6:00 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Miss Danielle's Acro Camp
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Dancing Through Life
RED: Toddler 1-2 Monday
Parent/Child (sometimes called "Mommy and Me") Dance, Music, and Tumbling
Monday
11:00 AM to 11:45 AM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Summer Dance Team
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Dancing Through Life
Beginner Breaking
Thursday Friday
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Dancing Through Life
Mandatory Company Camp Age 9 and up
Technique, conditioning, and choreography for Fall Events and Christmas Show
*All dancers in our 2024/25 company are required to attend
DRESS CODE: Black leotard, skirt or bike shorts (optional), tan or pink tights, ballet shoes, jazz shoes, hair in a bun, bring a water bottle, nut-free lunch, and a nut-free snack.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
9:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Dancing Through Life
Mandatory Company Camp Age 8 and under
Technique, conditioning, and choreography for Fall Events and Christmas Show
*All dancers in our 2024/25 company are required to attend
DRESS CODE: Black leotard, skirt or bike shorts (optional), tan or pink tights, ballet shoes, jazz shoes, hair in a bun, bring a water bottle, nut-free lunch, and a nut-free snack.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
10:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Dancing Through Life

2024/25

Name
Days
Location
Preschool 2 Monday
Preschool 2
4-6 Year Old Ballet/Tap/Acrobatics, 60 minutes

Preschoolers learn fundamental ballet and tap technique, terminology, and musicality. They focus on linking steps together, connecting movements, and staying on the beat. They build strength and confidence in themselves by learning how to perform beginner and intermediate acrobatic moves, such as forward rolls, handstands, and cartwheels. The class includes a ballet story that the teacher and students dance out and a fun seasonal dance number to perform. This class is for 4 year olds with at least one year of dance class experience or 5-7 year olds with no dance class experience.
Monday
3:45 PM to 4:45 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Ballet 1-2 Monday
Age 8+, 60 minutes

Children learn the art of ballet. They focus on ballet terminology, body alignment, foot articulation, and musicality. Our ballet level classes are for dancers age 8-12 with 1-7 years of dance experience, and for teens with no dance experience. Call 732-475-3210 for placement.
Monday
4:15 PM to 5:30 PM
Studio 2
Dancing Through Life
Elementary 1 Monday
Elementary 1
6-8 Year Old Ballet/Tap/Jazz/Acrobatics, 75 minutes

Primary school dancers build their repertoire of ballet and tap steps. They focus on linking steps together with varying rhythms, and proper foot articulation and body alignment. They begin learning the fundamentals of jazz dance, such as isolations, box steps, kick ball change, and jazz pas de bourree. They build strength and confidence in themselves by learning how to perform intermediate acrobatic moves, such as straddle rolls, handstands, cartwheels, round-offs, and backbends. The class includes a ballet story that the teacher and students dance out and a fun seasonal dance number to perform. This class is for 6-8 year olds with 2 or more years of dance class experience.
Monday
4:45 PM to 6:00 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Ballet 3-4
Age 10+, 90 minutes

Children learn the art of ballet. They focus on ballet terminology, body alignment, foot articulation, and musicality. Our ballet level classes are for dancers age 8-12 with 1-7 years of dance experience, and for teens with no dance experience. Call 732-475-3210 for placement.
Monday
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Studio 2
Dancing Through Life
Acro 1
Age 5 and up, 45 minutes

Dancers focus on strength, flexibility, and agility. They learn acrobatic movements such as somersaults, cartwheels, backbends, kickovers, round-offs, and handstands.
Monday
6:00 PM to 6:45 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Pointe/Pre-Pointe
Technique for dancers have been invited to start pointe or are preparing to go up on pointe, and have at least 3 years of experience in ballet.
Monday
6:45 PM to 7:15 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Toddler 1-2 Tuesday
Toddler 1-2
10-36 Month Child/Parent Dance, Tumbling, and Music, 45 min.
Little ones learn basic ballet steps, such as ballet arms, pointing feet, and walking on tip toe. They practice dancing to the beat, and improve strength and coordination with essential acrobatic skills, such as forward rolls, backward rolls, and baby handstands, all while having a blast. Parents bond with their child and make cherished memories of dancing with their little one.

This class will begin the year as a parent/child class and will become more and more independent as the school year continues, until it is a completely independent from parent class. Dancers will perform in our May recital!
Tuesday
10:15 AM to 11:00 AM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Hip Hop 1-2
Young dancers learn fundamental and intermediate hip hop technique such as combination body isolations, hitting, popping, rolling, locomotor progressions across the floor, and breakdancing on the floor. They focus on putting movements together in a combination, understanding step combinations with diverse rhythms, and hitting movements with different levels of intensity and attack. They learn to perform choreography in a canon and with other dancers performing coordinating movements.
Tuesday
4:00 PM to 4:45 PM
Studio 2
Dancing Through Life
Elementary 2 Tuesday
Elementary 2
7-12 Year Old Ballet/Tap/Jazz/Acrobatics, 75 minutes

Primary school dancers build their repertoire of ballet and tap steps. They focus on linking steps together with varying rhythms, and proper foot articulation and body alignment. They begin learning the fundamentals of jazz dance, such as isolations, box steps, kick ball change, and jazz pas de bourree. They build strength and confidence in themselves by learning how to perform intermediate acrobatic moves, such as straddle rolls, handstands, cartwheels, round-offs, and backbends. The class includes a ballet story that the teacher and students dance out and a fun seasonal dance number to perform. This class is for 7-9 year olds with 2 or more years of dance class experience or 9-12 year olds with no dance class experience.
Tuesday
4:45 PM to 6:00 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Hip Hop 3
Dancers learn fundamental and intermediate hip hop technique such as combination body isolations, hitting, popping, rolling, locomotor progressions across the floor, and breakdancing on the floor. They focus on putting movements together in a combination, understanding step combinations with diverse rhythms, and hitting movements with different levels of intensity and attack. They learn to perform choreography in a canon and with other dancers performing coordinating movements. Dancers, also, learn Horton, Limón, Graham, and Taylor modern technique, such as flat backs, swings, fall and release, curves, and angles.
Tuesday
4:45 PM to 5:30 PM
Studio 2
Dancing Through Life
Jazz/Acro 3-4
Age 8 and up, 45 minutes

Age 10+, 45 minutes

Dancers learn intermediate/advanced jazz technique, such as pirouettes, leaps, battements, and isolations. They learn stylized jazz choreography. Dancers focus on strength, flexibility, and agility. They learn acrobatic movements such as backbends, kickovers, walkovers, and aerials.
Tuesday
5:30 PM to 6:45 PM
Studio 2
Dancing Through Life
Lyrical 1-2
Age 6 and up
Lyrical jazz is slower style of jazz that expresses the lyrics and emotions of a song with the movement and dancer’s expression.
Tuesday
6:00 PM to 6:45 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Competition
Rehearsal for dancers who have been invited to compete at dance competitions.
Tuesday
6:45 PM to 7:45 PM
Studio 2
Dancing Through Life
Preschool Acro
Age 2-5
Every preschooler, whether they are a dancer or not, should take this class for proper development of the muscles and brain.

Preschool Acrobatics 3-5 Year Old Focus on Strength, Flexibility, and Coordination, 30 minutes
Can your preschooler jump off of two feet, hop on one foot, skip, march, somersault, plank, sit in a pike with a straight back, and throw and catch a ball? These are all important developmental milestones, that in today’s world, many children are not able to do. Preschool Acro will give your child the tools they need to be physically fit, self aware, and coordinated, while teaching important social skills, like following directions and taking turns. This class is a great add-on class for dancers already taking Preschool 1 or 2. It is also a great class for non-dancers in-need of core strength and coordination. There is no recital dance, for this class.
Wednesday
3:45 PM to 4:15 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Acro 2
Age 6 and up, 45 minutes

Dancers focus on strength, flexibility, and agility. They learn acrobatic movements such as backbends, kickovers, walkovers, and aerials.
Wednesday
4:15 PM to 5:00 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Jazz/Tap 1-2
Age 8+, 45 minutes

Dancers learn intermediate jazz technique, such as pirouettes, leaps, battements, and isolations. They learn stylized jazz choreography. Dancers learn intermediate tap technique, such as time steps, pull-backs, and wings. This is a class for dancers age 9-12 with 2 or more years of dance experience or dancers age 13 and up with no dance experience. We recommend taking Jazz/Tap and a weekly ballet class. We, also, highly recommend taking the Stretch, Strength, Leaps, and Turns class, right after Jazz/Tap from 5:45-6:30.
Wednesday
5:00 PM to 5:45 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Stretch, Strength, Leaps & Turns
Conditioning, injury prevention, stretching, and ballet and jazz turn and leap technique for dancers age 7 and up
Wednesday
5:45 PM to 6:30 PM
Studio 2
Dancing Through Life
Lyrical 3
Age 10 and up
Lyrical jazz is slower style of jazz that expresses the lyrics and emotions of a song with the movement and dancer’s expression. In Contemporary/Modern, dancers learn Horton, Limón, Graham, and Taylor modern technique, movements such as flat backs, swings, fall and release, curves, and angles.
This class is for dancers 10 and up with at least 2 years of experience.
Wednesday
6:30 PM to 7:15 PM
Studio 2
Dancing Through Life
Tap 3
Age 10-15

Dancers learn intermediate/advanced tap technique, such as time steps, pull-backs, and wings, and practice speed and clean moves. This is a class for dancers age 9-12 with 2 or more years of dance experience or dancers age 13 and up with no dance experience. We recommend taking Tap and a weekly ballet class.
Wednesday
7:15 PM to 8:00 PM
Studio 2
Dancing Through Life
Toddler 2/Preschool 1 Thursday
Toddler 2/Preschool 1
2-4 Year Old Ballet, Acrobatics, and Creative Movement, 45 minutes

Young dancers learn fundamental ballet technique and musicality. They build strength and confidence in themselves by learning how to perform acrobatic moves, such as forward rolls and crab walks. The class includes a ballet story that the teacher and students dance out and a fun seasonal dance number to perform. The class is for 3 year olds with one year of dance class experience or 4-5 year olds with no dance class experience.
Thursday
3:45 PM to 4:30 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Preschool 2/Elementary K Thursdays
4-6 Year Old Ballet/Tap/Acrobatics, 60 minutes

Preschoolers and kindergarteners learn fundamental ballet and tap technique, terminology, and musicality. They focus on linking steps together, connecting movements, and staying on the beat. They build strength and confidence in themselves by learning how to perform beginner and intermediate acrobatic moves, such as forward rolls, handstands, and cartwheels. The class includes a ballet story that the teacher and students dance out and a fun seasonal dance number to perform. This class is for 4 year olds with at least one year of dance class experience or 5-6 year olds with no dance class experience.
Thursday
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Christmas Show 1
Dancers will be "Hot Chocolate" tap dancers in our Christmas Show, L. B. Home for Christmas. The show will be Sunday, December 8th. Dancer must take, at least, one weekly technique class at DTL, to be in this class and be in the show.
Thursday
5:30 PM to 6:15 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Company
Dancers who have ben invited into our audition-only company will rehearse performances for various events throughout the community.
Thursday
5:30 PM to 6:45 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Christmas Show 2
Dancers will be "Candy Cane Toy Soldiers" in our Christmas Show, L. B. Home for Christmas. The show will be Sunday, December 8th. Dancer must take, at least, one weekly technique class at DTL, to be in this class and be in the show.
Thursday
6:00 PM to 6:45 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Ballet 2-4
Age 9+, 75 minutes

Children learn the art of ballet. They focus on ballet terminology, body alignment, foot articulation, and musicality. Our ballet level classes are for dancers age 8-12 with 1-7 years of dance experience, and for teens with no dance experience. Call 732-475-3210 for placement.
Thursday
6:45 PM to 8:00 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Musical Theater 1
Musical Theater Grades K-2, 45 minutes

Young performers improvise both speaking and non-speaking scenarios. They learn how to act out characters and ideas in a way that is effective, clear, and entertaining to the audience. Performers practice vocal exercises and learn how to use the correct muscles to sing loud, clear, and expressively. Choreographed numbers to renowned Broadway music are performed, and students have fun taking on many different characters. This is a mixed age class, and the different aged performers provide a multitude of opportunities for scene and character building.
Friday
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Musical Theater 2
Musical Theater Grades 3 and up, 45 minutes

Young performers improvise both speaking and non-speaking scenarios. They learn how to act out characters and ideas in a way that is effective, clear, and entertaining to the audience. Performers practice vocal exercises and learn how to use the correct muscles to sing loud, clear, and expressively. Choreographed numbers to renowned Broadway music are performed, and students have fun taking on many different characters. This is a mixed age class, and the different aged performers provide a multitude of opportunities for scene and character building.
Friday
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Preschool 1 Saturday
Preschool 1
3-5 Year Old Ballet, Acrobatics, and Creative Movement, 45 minutes

Young dancers learn fundamental ballet technique and musicality. They build strength and confidence in themselves by learning how to perform acrobatic moves, such as forward rolls and crab walks. The class includes a ballet story that the teacher and students dance out and a fun seasonal dance number to perform. The class is for 3 year olds with one year of dance class experience or 4-5 year olds with no dance class experience.
Saturday
9:15 AM to 10:00 AM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Preschool 2/Elementary K Saturday
Preschool 2/Elementary K
4-6 Year Old Ballet/Tap/Acrobatics, 60 minutes

Preschoolers learn fundamental ballet and tap technique, terminology, and musicality. They focus on linking steps together, connecting movements, and staying on the beat. They build strength and confidence in themselves by learning how to perform beginner and intermediate acrobatic moves, such as forward rolls, handstands, and cartwheels. The class includes a ballet story that the teacher and students dance out and a fun seasonal dance number to perform. This class is for 4 year olds with at least one year of dance class experience or 5-7 year olds with no dance class experience.
Saturday
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Toddler 1-2 Saturdays
Toddler 1-2
10-36 Month Child/Parent Dance, Tumbling, and Music, 45 min.
Little ones learn basic ballet steps, such as ballet arms, pointing feet, and walking on tip toe. They practice dancing to the beat, and improve strength and coordination with essential acrobatic skills, such as forward rolls, backward rolls, and baby handstands, all while having a blast. Parents bond with their child and make cherished memories of dancing with their little one.

This class will begin the year as a parent/child class and will become more and more independent as the school year continues. Dancers will perform in our May recital!
Saturday
11:00 AM to 11:45 AM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life
Elementary 1-2 Saturday
Elementary 1-2
6-12 Year Old Ballet/Tap/Jazz/Acrobatics, 75 minutes

Primary school dancers build their repertoire of ballet and tap steps. They focus on linking steps together with varying rhythms, and proper foot articulation and body alignment. They begin learning the fundamentals of jazz dance, such as isolations, box steps, kick ball change, and jazz pas de bourree. They build strength and confidence in themselves by learning how to perform intermediate acrobatic moves, such as straddle rolls, handstands, cartwheels, round-offs, and backbends. The class includes a ballet story that the teacher and students dance out and a fun seasonal dance number to perform. This class is for 6-8 year olds with 2 or more years of dance class experience or 9-12 year olds with no dance class experience.
Saturday
11:45 AM to 1:00 PM
Studio 1
Dancing Through Life