Winter/Spring 2024 - Season 9

Name
Days
Location
(1) Class A la Carte Option
The Ala-Carte Package Option allows for students to take any (1) class per month.

Students in this package may participate in the December Showcase, Annual End of Year Recital & Photography Session (performances are dependent on the class selection and the performance that is offered for that class)

- Core Classes
o Tiny Tots
o Contemporary Ballet
o Majorette
o Hip Hop

- Electives
o Cultural Dance & Music
o Liturgical Praise
o Tap
o Jazz/Pom
o Cheer & Tumble
o Mentorship

12:00 PM to 12:00 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
DICA GOLD PACKAGE
This package is offered to students ages 7-17y.
Package Includes:
o Up to 3 Core Weekly Classes
o Up to 4 Elective Classes (parents may add on any additional elective class for $15 each month)

Students in this package participates in the December Showcase, Annual End of Year Recital & Photography Session, are offered the opportunity to perform in local/national parades, events, and showcases, this package also qualifies the student to become a member via way of audition for the DICA All-Star Competition Team. Please note: This the ONLY package that offers these opportunity as noted above.

Upon successful enrollment, a link will be provided via email for you to select your students classes.

- Core Classes
o Tiny Tots
o Contemporary Ballet
o Majorette
o Hip Hop

- Electives
o Cultural Dance & Music
o Liturgical Praise
o Tap
o Jazz/Pom
o Cheer & Tumble
o Mentorship


12:00 PM to 12:00 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
DICA PURPLE PACKAGE
This package is offered to students ages 7-17y.
Package Includes:
o Up to 3 Core Weekly Classes
o Up to 1 Elective Classes (parents may add on any additional elective class for $25 each month)

Students in this package participates in the December Showcase, Annual End of Year Recital & Photography Session. NOTE: This package does not include the opportunity to become a member via way of audition for the DICA All-Star Competition Team. This opportunity is only offered in the Gold Package.

Upon successful enrollment, a link will be provided via email for you to select your students classes.

- Core Classes
o Contemporary Ballet
o Majorette
o Hip Hop

- Electives
o Cultural Dance & Music
o Liturgical Praise
o Tap
o Jazz/Pom
o Cheer & Tumble
o Mentorship

12:00 PM to 12:00 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
DICA RED PACKAGE (NO ELECTIVES)
This package is offered to students ages 7-17y.
Package Includes:
o Up to 3 Core Weekly Classes
o No Electives (add-on elective not eligible in this package)

Students in this package participates in the December Showcase, Annual End of Year Recital & Photography Session. NOTE: This package does not include the opportunity to become a member via way of audition for the DICA All-Star Competition Team. This opportunity is only offered in the Gold Package.

Upon successful enrollment, a link will be provided via email for you to select your students classes.

- Core Classes
o Tiny Tots
o Contemporary Ballet
o Majorette
o Hip Hop

- Electives
o Cultural Dance & Music
o Liturgical Praise
o Tap
o Jazz/Pom
o Cheer & Tumble
o Mentorship

12:00 PM to 12:00 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
HIP HOP- DRS
Hip-Hop classes is designed to allow students to let go and dance freely to up beat tempos. We target major skills such as footwork, body control, and fast pace learning. Hip-Hop classes prepare students to awaken inner confidence and grow within themselves.
Monday
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
MAJORETTE - DRS
Majorette dancing is high-energy, synchronized, rhythmic dance moves that draw from ballet, jazz, modern dance, hip-hop and gymnastics. Majorette dance places emphasis on physical expression, physical fitness, stamina, and confidence. Majorette classes prepare students to be competitive in the majorette dance world and cultivate daily discipline skills.
M 5:30 PM-6:30 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
CONTEMPORARY BALLET - DRS
Students learn ballet vocabulary and classical technique, and also learn to develop placement, alignment, coordination, and movement quality allowing them to tempos and on different counts.
Tuesday
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
CONTEMPORARY BALLET DSS/DAS
Students learn ballet vocabulary and classical technique, and also learn to develop placement, alignment, coordination, and movement quality allowing them to tempos and on different counts.
Tuesday
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
Cultural Dance & Music
In this class, students learn both traditional and contemporary cultural dances choreography, songs, drums, and dance techniques, with a special focus on the rhythms and traditional dances and movements of African culture.
Tuesday
7:30 PM to 8:30 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
HIP HOP- DSS/DAS
Hip-Hop classes is designed to allow students to let go and dance freely to up beat tempos. We target major skills such as footwork, body control, and fast pace learning. Hip-Hop classes prepare students to awaken inner confidence and grow within themselves.
Thursday
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
MAJORETTE- DSS/DAS
Majorette dancing is high-energy, synchronized, rhythmic dance moves that draw from ballet, jazz, modern dance, hip-hop and gymnastics. Majorette dance places emphasis on physical expression, physical fitness, stamina, and confidence. Majorette classes prepare students to be competitive in the majorette dance world and cultivate daily discipline skills.
Th 6:30 PM-7:30 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
STEP TEAM
Stepping is a percussive dance form in which the participant's entire body is used as an instrument to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand claps. With a rich history in African American music, step requires style, precision, discipline, strength, creativity, and coordination. The participants will learn choreography and will participate in a competition/ performance step team. This class is intended for youth between the ages of 8 and 17.
Materials- None
Wear- tennis shoes, black leggings, black top (no loose fitting clothing/ no jeans)
We will compete in local competitions. Students must attend all practices and pay monthly dues to participate in competition.
Saturday
10:45 AM to 12:45 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
JAZZ/POM- DRS
Students learn a series of technical exercises that display a range of skills within the genre, to include jumps, turns, high kicks. and includes incorporating pom poms in many routines and performances.
Saturday
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
JAZZ/POM- DSS/DAS
Students learn a series of technical exercises that display a range of skills within the genre, to include jumps, turns, high kicks. and includes incorporating pom poms in many routines and performances.
Saturday
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
DICA TINY TOTS ALA CARTE PACKAGE
This package is offered to students ages 6y & under only. DICA Tiny Tot classes are offered twice per week for 30 minutes. Each week Tiny Tot students will learn one or more of the core dance classes. Tiny Tots are given the opportunity to take many of the genres of dance we offer at DICA to include Hip Hop, Contemporary Ballet, Majorette, Cultural Dance & Music and even Cheer & Tumble. Tiny Tot students performs in the December Showcase, Annual End of Year Recital & Photography Session
Sa 10:00 AM-10:30 AM
DICA- Potomac Mills
LITURGICAL DANCE & MOVEMENT
Designed to connect spiritual expression and dance, the liturgical dance and movement class combines techniques such as Ballet, Modern and African. The class will draw on the theologies of liturgical movement that will enhance "the dance" within faith and worship communities. This class is open to ages 12 years old and above, with an expressed and welcomed invitation to adults.
Tu 7:30 PM-8:30 PM
Sa 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills
DICA TINY TOTS PACKAGE
This package is offered to students ages 6y & under only. DICA Tiny Tot classes are offered twice per week for 30 minutes. Each week Tiny Tot students will learn one or more of the core dance classes. Tiny Tots are given the opportunity to take many of the genres of dance we offer at DICA to include Hip Hop, Contemporary Ballet, Majorette, Cultural Dance & Music and even Cheer & Tumble. Tiny Tot students performs in the December Showcase, Annual End of Year Recital & Photography Session
W 4:45 PM-5:15 PM
Sa 10:00 AM-10:30 AM
DICA- Potomac Mills
EMPOWER-HER: MENTORSHIP & STEM
Hybrid Class (Meets Virtual each week, weekly assignments, with (1) in person session on the 3rd or 4th Sunday of each month
What you will learn: Mentorship
How to be the best versions of themselves
Self Love
Gratitude
Affirmation
How to set Short-term and long-term goals
Giving back

What you will learn: STEM
SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY
ENGINEERING
MATH
COLLABORATION, INNOVATION, AND TEAMWORK
Sunday
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
DICA- Potomac Mills