Term 2 2024

Name
Days
Location
Balletbarre - Grade 1 Mon
Tabetha Vagliviello
Grade 1 starts to work on balance, core and coordination while the students are still being creative and enjoying their classes.
Monday
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Contemporary/Lyrical - Primary Level 1
Laurissa Brugman
An expressive dance style that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet. Contemporary dancers strive to connect the feelings, mind and the body through fluid dance movements.
for juniors it is recommended that classical ballet classes are taken in conjunction with this class (either in the recreational or professional pathways) for safe dance and muscle conditioning.
Monday
4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Studio 1
1. Midland
Jazz - Primary Level 1
Laurissa Brugman
Dancers will learn the basic steps of jazz dance with turns, kicks, and leap steps along with popular simple rhythm techniques and fun expression. We use fun, popular and age appropriate music.
Monday
4:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Studio 1
1. Midland
Balletbarre Grade 4 - (Floorbarre) Mon
Tabetha Vagliviello
Grade 4 - floorebarre re-aligns the posture correctly and defines all of the key muscles. As the floorbarre strengthens the core, it also teaches the students to execute exercises correctly so it relieves stress on the joints. Giving so much core control, there is much more balance. The floorbarre is also structured to give the students advanced coordination, suppleness and advanced core control which is required for upper levels.
Monday
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Tap - Primary Level 1
Laurissa Brugman
This progressive class will introduce students to the fundamental tap steps, rhythms, musicality and so much more. Tap shoes are required by the third class.
Monday
5:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Mini 3
1. Midland
Balletbarre - Grade 3 Mon
Tabetha Vagliviello
Grade 3 is a more technical level. Building on previous technique, muscle conditionoing and strong ballet foundations, Grade 3 introduces students to progressive step building and allows the students to actually dance their movements.
Monday
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Intermediate Bellydance
Tabetha Vagliviello
This class is designed as a continuation from the progressive beginners class. It will introduce more complex and layered movements that will be developed into more intricate choreography. Intricate steps and patterns will be explored as we the look at aspects of classical, folkloric, traditional and cabaret dance styles together with an introduction to various props i.e. zills, sticks and veils, and start building your strength for more advanced movements. This is a solid introduction to Middle Eastern music and dance that focuses on correct dance.
Monday
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
MDS Bellydance Troupe
Tabetha Vagliviello
MDS Bellydance Troupe is a performance group class (Must be enrolled in Intermediate bellydance). This class is for aspiring intermediate level students and beyond to work on performance skills and rehearse choreographies for performances at festivals, fetes and community events. This is a pre-requisite for invitation to Zahara Dance Company.
Monday
8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
MDS Fitness & MumFit
Tabetha Vagliviello
Channel your inner performer and rock your body with this modern-day fusion of movement and music. Drum along to a slammin soundtrack using Ripstix weighted drumsticks designed to transform drumming into a kick-ass, fat burning, full body interval workout that will leave you dripping sweat.
Tuesday
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Studio 1
1. Midland
Social Adult Ballet
Tabetha Vagliviello
Introduction to ballet learning control, placement, correct alignment, balance, core, and coordination This is a comprehensive introduction to ballet fundamentals followed by a cuppa with class friends.
Tuesday
11:00 AM to 12:00 AM
Theatre
1. Midland
Balletbarre - Pre-Primary Ballet
Tabetha Vagliviello
Pre-Primary Ballet is the first step toward ballet foundations. Introduction to technique, linking steps together creating simple combinations. The class is structured for the students to learn while having fun with a huge sense of achievement and confidence building.
Tuesday
4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Balletbarre - Primary Ballet
Tabetha Vagliviello
Primary introduces students to basic ballet exercises at the barre and in the center. These aspiring ballet dancers will enjoy a little bit of class structure with a lot of fun, creativity, musicality, mime and basic step combinations. Primary level is the transitional class from little fun ballet, to a more serious structured pathway for next levels of ballet.
Tuesday
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Beginners Jazz - Teen
Tabetha Vagliviello
Teen/Adult Jazz addresses the skills, knowledge and performance requirements to work towards advanced level jazz dance from performing to choreography and commercial dancing. Will include variose styles of jazz like commercial jazz style. Commercial jazz is a highly choreographed dance form, features a mixture of sharp and fluid movements, popping & locking and animated expression similar to dances seen on commercial video clips
Tuesday
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Balletbarre - Adult Beginners Grade 1
Tabetha Vagliviello
Adult Balletbarre 1 - Introduction to ballet learning control, placement, correct alignment, balance, core, and coordination This is a comprehensive introduction to ballet fundamentals
Tuesday
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Drum Circle
Tabetha Vagliviello
Join our drum circle to learn arabic and middle eastern rhythems, put combinations together will include work with tabla, zills, and doffs. Time to time we will have skype, youtube or have special lessons with advanced instructors to improve and hone our skills.

Fun chilled class full of earthy rhythems and basey beats...
Tuesday
7:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Mini 3
1. Midland
Progressive Beginners Bellydance
Sharon Kuipers-Chan
This class is designed as a continuation from the 10 week beginner course but you can attend if you have not participated in the course. The basic beginner class gently guides you through basic belly dance movements broken down in a step by step fashion to aid better understanding of movement and flow.
Tuesday
7:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Bunny Ballet
Tabetha Vagliviello
Bunny ballet is the introduction for the Balletbarre Syllabus. The focus of this class is basic introduction to ballet foundations including technique, musicality, basic choreography plus a lot more then adding a spoonful of fun so the children are not only challenged but enjoying themselves as well. Singing Dancing and loads of fun...
Wednesday
9:30 AM to 10:00 AM
Mini 3
1. Midland
MDS Fitness & MumFit
Tabetha Vagliviello
Channel your inner performer and rock your body with this modern-day fusion of movement and music. Drum along to a slammin soundtrack using Ripstix weighted drumsticks designed to transform drumming into a kick-ass, fat burning, full body interval workout that will leave you dripping sweat.
Wednesday
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Studio 1
1. Midland
Social Bellydance
Tabetha Vagliviello
Enjoy a Coffee/Tea sweet treat and wiggle and a giggle with a friend! The last 15-30mins is a cuppa and catch up with friends from academy or class

Have fun, get fit and make new friends as you learn the basic moves of belly dance. Learn to dance with the veil and other props. Bring out the Goddess within you! This course can be enjoyed by women of all ages.
Wednesday
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Studio 1
1. Midland
Contemporary/Lyrical - Secondary
Laurissa Brugman
An expressive dance style that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet. Contemporary dancers strive to connect the feelings, mind and the body through fluid dance movements.
Wednesday
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Hip Hop Secondary
Tabetha Vagliviello
Intermediate Hip-Hop further building on techniques from beginners isolations, coordination, body control, strengthening, stretching and knowledge of correct execution of movement will be built upon offering progression for the students. These elements will be emphasized as the ground work from which we will build our style and funk for Hip-Hop while also learning popping and so much more...
Wednesday
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Studio 1
1. Midland
Balletbarre - Grade 2 Wed
Tabetha Vagliviello
Grade 2 - Building on the fundamentals of the previous level students will layer further complexities of movement and ballet technique learning control/placement of movement, correct alignment, strength, balance, and core development in preparation to easily transition into the next levels of technical work.
Wednesday
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Balletbarre- Pointe Class
Tabetha Vagliviello
This class is for dancers beginning to learn pointe and working on pointe advancing technique as they progress.
Wednesday
6:00 PM to 6:45 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Balletbarre - Grade 3 Wed
Tabetha Vagliviello
Grade 3 is a more technical level. Building on previous technique, muscle conditionoing and strong ballet foundations, Grade 3 introduces students to progressive step building and allows the students to actually dance their movements.
Wednesday
6:45 PM to 7:45 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
MDS Fitness & MumFit
Tabetha Vagliviello
A mixed fitness class step dance boxing or pound we will have heaps of fun burning up a sweat to greet our Saturday morning
Thursday
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Studio 1
1. Midland
Hip Hop - Primary (5-10yrs)
Tabetha Vagliviello
Children will be introduced to range of hip hop styles, from reggaeton, to r'n'b slow jams and the foundations of freestyling. Learning a range from grooves and some simple choreography.
Thursday
4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Studio 1
1. Midland
Acro - Level 1
Jamie Olsen
Similar to Gymnastics, students learn balance, flips, contortion and more. Acro level 1 teaches students the basics of control and the flexibility needed to perform their tricks safely. Classes are a lot of fun and perfect for developing acrobats or for students who just love to safely perform tricks for recreation and fun.
Thursday
4:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Studio 1
1. Midland
Acro - Level 2
Jamie Olsen
Acro level 2 classes is designed for older students and consists of extensive warm up followed by a series of exercises to improve strengths, flexibility, balance, control and agility which is needed to perform more difficult acrobatic tricks.
Thursday
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Beginners Tap - Adult/Teen
Jamie Olsen
In Adult/Teen Tap class you will sharpen skills like stamina, speed, clarity, tone, listening, complex choreography and much more. You will be challenged in this class.
Thursday
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Mini 3
1. Midland
Balletbarre - Adult Beginners Grade 2
Tabetha Vagliviello
Adult Balletbarre 2- This is the second technical level in the Balletbarre Professional pathway. Building on the fundamentals of the previous level students will layer further complexities of movement and ballet technique learning control/placement of movement, correct alignment, strength, balance, and core development in preparation to easily transition into the next levels of technical work.
Thursday
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Theatrical Studies - Primary
Laurissa Brugman
This class is aimed at further increasing the confidence and creative expression of the children in singing and acting. The children will build on the foundation taught in the juniors class or if they are new will introduce them to singing and acting.

This will also prepare the children for the more advanced techniques and will be expressive crazy fun...
Friday
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Theatrical Studies - Secondary
Laurissa Brugman
This class is aimed at further increasing the confidence and creative expression of the children in singing and acting. The children will build on the foundation taught in the juniors class or if they are new will introduce them to singing and acting.

This will also prepare the children for the more advanced techniques and will be expressive crazy fun...
Friday
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Balletbarre Repertoire - Grade 1 and beyond
Tabetha Vagliviello
This class is preparation of choreography for recitals and performance, all students in this class are required to participate in annual mid year and end of year recital. (Please note pre rec for this class is balletbarre technique classes)
Friday
5:15 PM to 6:15 PM
Studio 1
1. Midland
10wk Adult theatre studies Course
Laurissa Brugman
Adult theatre studies is a special term by term theatrical course. Each term students focus on elements of theater of acting, singing, monologue and other various techniques.
Friday
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
MDS Fitness Class
Tabetha Vagliviello
A mixed fitness class step dance boxing or pound we will have heaps of fun burning up a sweat to greet our Saturday morning
Saturday
7:45 AM to 8:45 AM
Studio 1
1. Midland
Bunny Ballet
Tabetha Vagliviello
This class is full
Bunnyballet is a sweet fun introduction to ballet. Each class is full of fun and creativity so the children are not only being challenged but enjoying themselves. We begin class with a basic introduction to ballet foundations including simple technique, mime, musicality, basic choreography plus a lot more…
Saturday
9:00 AM to 9:30 AM
Mini 3
1. Midland
Balletbarre - Grade 1 Sat
Tabetha Vagliviello
Grade 1 starts to work on balance, core and coordination while the students are still being creative and enjoying their classes.
Saturday
9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Theatre
1. Midland
Balletbarre - Grade 4 (Floorbarre) Sat
Tabetha Vagliviello
Grade 4 - floorbarre re-aligns the posture correctly and defines all of the key muscles. As the floorbarre strengthens the core, it also teaches the students to execute exercises correctly so it relieves stress on the joints. Giving so much core control, there is much more balance. The floorbarre is also structured to give the students advanced coordination, suppleness and advanced core control which is required for upper levels.
Saturday
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Theatre
1. Midland
10 Week Beginners Bellydance Course (Sat)
Sharon Kuipers-Chan
Have you always wanted to try belly dancing but not known where to start? Start here with a basic beginner’s course!

Week by week curriculum covering: Basic belly dance principles and poses, core movements, beginner travel steps, hands, arms and upper body movements, elegance and expression…
No previous dance experience needed!
Saturday
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Mini 3
1. Midland
Balletbarre - Grade 2 Sat
Tabetha Vagliviello
Grade 2 - Building on the fundamentals of the previous level students will layer further complexities of movement and ballet technique learning control/placement of movement, correct alignment, strength, balance, and core development in preparation to easily transition into the next levels of technical work.
Saturday
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Theatre
1. Midland
Advanced Bellydance Sat
Tabetha Vagliviello
Advanced Bellydance classed focus on improving technique to a higher level. Students are encouraged to develop their own unique style and interpretation on the music, as well as complex isolations and layering of movements. Prop work such as stick and sword are studied to a master level along with improvisation, development of advanced choreography, solo work and professional performance level skill. This is the launching pad to a professional solo career!
Minimum Pre Requisite: Attendance of intermediate dance classes (Approx. 2years + bellydance training recommended)
Saturday
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Theatre
1. Midland