L’Académie de Danse de Montréal offers a wide variety of dance classes, including Hip Hop, Street Jazz, Contemporary, Ballet, Tap, Musical Theatre, Acro, Creative Dance, and Parent & Me. We accept students aged 2 and up. In a positive, warm and friendly environment, our students’ passion comes to life in our state-of-the-art facilities. Performance opportunities in our shows additionally allow our students to showcase their hard work and live magical moments on stage!
Parent & Me**
Our Parent & Me dance classes promote parent-child bonding while being active and having fun! This class offers a magical dance adventure in a friendly and inviting atmosphere. In these classes, our highly-trained staff introduce dancers and their parents to movement, beginner technique, and choreography. Our dance activities are designed to enhance children’s motor skills, coordination, and spatial awareness.
Classes are offered for 2 to 3 year olds
Creative Dance**
Our Creative Dance classes are a great way to introduce your child to dance and movement! These classes are carefully crafted to channel children’s energy and tap into their creative potential. They promote a sense of autonomy, social skills, bodily awareness, and coordination. Your child will be educated in various fundamental techniques and choreography through our friendly and attentive staff!
Classes are offered for 3 year olds
Street Jazz*
Our Street jazz classes are high in energy and the style is a fusion of jazz dance and elements of hip-hop dance. This class will focus on jazz technique partnered with the intricate styling that hip-hop dance has to offer. The warm up will focus on flexibility, muscle conditioning and core strengthening. Following warm up, dancers will focus on across the floor progressions and traditional technique and rhythm exercises. The class will conclude with a fun street-jazz choreography.
Classes are offered for 4 to 5 and 6 to 8 year olds
Ballet*
Our Classical Ballet classes provide your child with the essential foundations to become a strong technical dancer. Your child will be educated in various ballet fundamentals while developing self-confidence, grace, flexibility, and poise. Our goal is for students to learn to express themselves through dance while also encouraging self-discipline and knowledge about the anatomy of their bodies.
Classes are offered for 4 to 5, 6 to 8, and 9+ year olds
Musical Theatre*
In our Musical Theater classes, dance, acting, and song are combined to create a dynamic and all-around fun class! Your child will learn choreography based on music from popular musicals while further enhancing their confidence and creativity. This class allows dancers to step into the shoes of new characters to convey emotion, communicate through movement, and become storytellers.
Classes are offered for 6 to 10 and 12+ year olds
Tap*
Our Tap classes are a great way to introduce yourself or your child to the art of tap. Tap is a dance style that allows a dancer to create sounds with their feet! The dancer’s feet act as musical instruments and to create intricate and complex rhythms, often synchronized with music. This class promotes the development of tap technique, coordination, musicality, rhythm, and footwork.
Classes are offered for 7+ year olds and to teens/adults
Hip-Hop*
Hip-Hop is a high-energy dance style that is rooted in hip-hop culture and music, characterized by intricate footwork, body isolations, and freestyle. Students are educated in various grooves and fundamentals of hip-hop through our friendly and well-trained staff. Our hip-hop classes celebrate creativity and self-expression while providing a platform for dancers to connect, communicate, and learn the history of hip-hop.
Classes are offered for 6 to 8, 9 to 11, 12 to 15, 15 to 20 year olds, and adults
Jazz-Contemporary*
Our jazz-contemporary class offers a dynamic blend of technique and movement from both the jazz and contemporary styles. Students will learn the technical precision and dynamic movements of jazz while also practicing the fluidity, emotional expressiveness, and storytelling characteristics of contemporary dance. This class allows students to develop their flexibility, coordination, musicality, performance, and self-confidence.
Classes are offered for 6 to 10 year olds and teens
Acro*
Acro dance is a style of dance that combines classical dance technique with acrobatic and gymnastic elements. Unlike gymnastics, which uses elements such as bars and beams, acro primarily relies on the dancer’s body and the floor as the performance space. In our acro classes, students will enhance their athleticism, strength, and flexibility while practicing balances, contortion, lifts, partner work, and tumbling.
Classes are offered to dancers ages 8+
*Please note that these classes will be performing choreography in our mid-year show (February) and year-end session show (June).
**Please note that the Parent & Me and Creative Dance classes will be performing choreography in our year-end show (June) only.