South Carolina Dance Company of Lexington, SC | Performing Arts Education | Dance Instruction

South Carolina Dance Company Offers Classes in the Following Dance Disciplines:

SCDC offers a 10 month dance session followed by summer classes, summer dance camps, and SCDC Company intensives. We offer the following dance classes:

Ballet – Ballet is notable for its techniques, turn out of the legs, its graceful. flowing, precise movements, and its ethereal qualities.

Pointe – Pointe work is a part of ballet technique that involves pointe work, where the dancer supports all body weight on the tips of fully extended feet with pointe shoes.

Jazz – Essential foundation for all dance movement and enables a dancer to focus on the stylistic and performance aspects of dance.

Tap – A style of American theatrical dance using precise rhythmical patterns of foot movement and audible foot tapping.

Lyrical – Lyrical is a fusion of ballet and jazz techniques. It is a very passionate and emotional style of dance that portrays emotions and tells a story through every movement made.

Contemporary – Contemporary is a fusion of several dance styles including ballet, lyrical, and modern.

Acro – A unique dance class that is a fusion of dance technique, tumbling, and acrobatics. There are different levels offered, depending on a student’s existing skills. Demonstrated skills include front and back walkovers, aerials, chin stands, back hand springs, etc.

Hip Hop – As hip hop dancing is such a broad genre, the teacher has much freedom and room for personal interpretation, and often mixes various styles freely, even mixing them with other dance forms such as jazz.

All Boys Hip Hop – All Boys Hip Hop is a hip hop class designed specifically for males of all ages. Various styles of dance are combined including jazz, theatrical, and street dance, which are then primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture.

Pre School and Terrific Twos – Classes include creative movement and stretching, dance games, use of props, theater games, songs, ballet fundamentals, and tap with a creative approach and lots of imagery.