Dance for Children

For more than 50 years, Hochstein's Dance Program has provided opportunities for children, teens and adults, at any level, to expand their appreciation of the art of dance in a stress-free atmosphere that both encourages and challenges. Hochstein's program concentrates on the building blocks of technique, and the development and maintenance of healthy bodies. A variety of classes in dance styles including classical ballet, pointe, modern, jazz, tap and Latin/Caribbean, and Spanish/Flamenco are held in our beautifully renovated and spacious studios.
 
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Dance for Children

Dance for Children offers a full range of sequential, guided instruction focusing on the joy, and enjoyment, of the art of dance. With an emphasis on nurturing the whole dancer, our professional faculty works with each student to develop confidence and creativity as well as technical and performance skills. Our Intensive Training Program and Scholarship Dance Ensembles available at our Rochester location offer the serious student advanced training and the opportunity to work and perform in a repertoire ensemble. For more information please call (585)396--3778.

Jazzy Juniors
ages 3-4
Children discover and explore the fun of movement and rhythms as they develop body awareness through creative games, stretches and beginning dance elements.

Creative Movement
ages 4-6
Age appropriate discovery of the fun ways little bodies can move using music, animal and alphabet shapes, stories and imagination.

Pre-Ballet cancelled
ages 5-6
Beginning ballet techniques are introduced as well as body awareness and movement exploration through games and exercises that are age appropriate. This class is designed to foster interest in pursuing more advanced ballet techniques.

Children’s Tap & Jazz
ages 6-8
An age appropriate introduction to the basics of the popular dance forms, Tap and Jazz.

Ballet A
ages 7-12
Develop coordination, grace, musicality, flexibility, and balance in this sequential program that introduces and builds skills in basic ballet technique and vocabulary, barre work, adagio and allegro movements, and dancing in unison.

Dance Sequence
ages 8-13
Dance Sequence gives a taste of jazz, tap, and musical theatre! Dance experience for this class is welcome, but not necessary!

FEE: $396 yearly tuition, payable in quarterly installments of $99. Students enrolled in individual lessons at Hochstein qualify for a reduced fee of $5 per class for one Children's Dance or Music FUNdamentals class ( a savings of $6 per class).