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Dance Classes
Ages 3-32 months
Grown Up + Me
Dance with Me – Babies
ages 3–12 months
Dance with Me Intellidance® class is a playful and creative approach to movement education in the early years. Our program is based on current best practices and recommendations in early childhood development and education, coupled with child and caregiver-approved fun! Dance with Me combines exploration and discovery with dance, music and play designed to nurture our littlest dancers, while strengthening the child-caregiver bond!
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Dance with Me – Walkers
ages 12–18 months
As babies begin walking and exploring the world around them, Dance with Me Walkers supports this exciting stage of development through playful movement and music. Caregivers and toddlers participate together in songs, rhythms, and imaginative activities that build balance, coordination, and confidence.
Through dancing, bouncing, clapping, and exploring props, little ones develop motor skills and social awareness while experiencing the joy of moving to music.
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Little Leapers
ages 18-32 months
Little Leapers is an imaginative grown-up-and-me movement class designed for toddlers who love to explore. Each week brings a new adventure—flying through outer space, visiting the circus, dancing with animals at the zoo, or growing a magical garden.
While children delight in the playful themes, they are also developing important early skills including balance, coordination, turn-taking, listening, and creative expression. Caregivers enjoy sharing smiles, giggles, and special moments as their little one begins discovering the joy of dance.
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Preschool Program
Ready, Set, Leap!
ages 2.5 – 3.5
Ready, Set, Leap! is the perfect next step for children transitioning from a Grown Up + Me class to dancing independently. This creative movement class introduces young dancers to the magic of music and movement while building confidence in the classroom.
Students develop coordination, rhythm, and body awareness through imaginative activities, dance games, and musical exploration. They also begin learning important classroom skills such as listening, following directions, and participating in group activities.
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Leap and Learn Ballet
age 3-4
Leap N Learn is a fun and engaging introduction to pre-ballet. This 45-minute class blends creative movement with the earliest foundations of ballet technique.
Through playful exercises and imaginative storytelling, dancers develop coordination, flexibility, balance, and musicality while building confidence in the studio. Our developmentally appropriate curriculum prepares students to move into the Pre-Primary Ballet program with a strong foundation and a love of dance.
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Ballet Foundations Program
*add tap, jazz and hip-hop at this level
Pre-Primary Ballet
ages 4 – 6
Pre-Primary Ballet classes introduce young dancers to the fundamental elements of classical ballet in a positive and encouraging environment. Students develop flexibility, balance, coordination, rhythm, and spatial awareness while learning basic ballet vocabulary and classroom structure.
Imagination and creativity remain an important part of class as dancers explore movement through music and storytelling while building a strong technical foundation for future ballet training.
Students in this age group may also begin exploring additional styles such as Tap, Jazz, or Hip-Hop to build coordination and musicality.
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Primary Ballet
ages 6 – 8
Primary Ballet is where students begin experiencing a more structured ballet class while continuing to nurture creativity and joy in movement. Dancers expand on the foundations developed in Pre-Primary classes while learning more ballet terminology and technique.
Students work on coordination, posture, musicality, and increasingly complex combinations. They begin remembering longer movement sequences and developing greater independence as dancers.
At this stage, many students enjoy adding Tap, Jazz, or Hip-Hop to expand their dance experience and develop versatility.
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Academy Ballet Program
Level 1 Ballet
ages 8+
Level 1 students are ready to build strength, stamina and confidence in their movement. They will build on their skills acquired in pre-primary and primary ballet but with a higher expectation. They begin joining steps to create more complex movements. Imaginative expression doesn’t stop here and in fact we believe it’s even more important to allow student this age to express themselves. Dancers will have an opportunity to use pantomime, expression and their ballet steps to act out different classical ballet stories at the end of class and as they prepare for larger roles in their end of year performance.
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Level 2 Ballet
ages 8+
Level 2 students have completed Level 1, are ready to be challenged and put forth more effort to discover the dancer they will become. Level 2 dancers should attend class twice per week in order to build strength, stamina and confidence in their movement and prepare for future pre-pointe class.
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Level 3 Ballet
ages 10+
Level 3 students are ready for the next step in their dance journey. Building on the strong foundation of Levels 1 and 2, Level 3 ballet takes dancers to the next level in both technique and artistry. We’ll focus on deepening your understanding of proper alignment, posture, and execution of ballet steps. Barre work will become more challenging, incorporating more complex combinations and footwork. As movements become more demanding, we’ll focus on building the strength and stamina needed to excel in ballet.
Now the fun part: We’ll explore the relationship between movement and music, allowing you to express yourself with greater confidence and artistry. You’ll learn longer and more intricate center floor combinations, preparing you for a more prominent role in the end-of-year performance. You’ll continue to develop your storytelling skills, using pantomime and expression to bring classical ballet stories to life.
This class is ideal for dancers who have completed Levels 1 and 2 ballet, are eager to be challenged and refine their technique, possess a strong work ethic and dedication to ballet, and want to explore their potential as a dancer and performer.
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Level 4 Ballet
Level IV represents the highest level of ballet training at River Oaks Dance. Dancers continue refining technique, artistry, and performance quality while working on more complex choreography and advanced ballet vocabulary.
Students demonstrate strong commitment, discipline, and passion for dance.
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MORE STYLES
Hip-Hop
Ages 5+
We approach hip-hop class teaching fundamental and core values of hip-hop dancing including: popping, locking, breaking, freestyle, etc. and building on these concepts so dancers have the foundations to create choreography. From warming up with rhythms and grooves to free styling with cyphers and dance battles, students will develop their hip-hop style in this high energy, upbeat style of street dance. Participants will also learn some of hip-hop’s original social dances and how they are born directly from the primary prerequisite of the relationship between rhythm and music.
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Tap
ages 5+
Does your child have an interest in musical theatre? Are they already in theatre but just need to fine tune their dance skills to snag those lead parts? In this class, we’ll learn the fundamentals of theatre movement, including classic chorus style combos and basic tap steps. Focus will be on performance, expression, storytelling through song and dance, and dancing cleanly together as an ensemble. Class will be broken into segments of theatre dance and tap with the goal of meshing everything together for a fun Broadway musical number at the end of the session.
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Jazz
Jazz is the perfect class for your dancer who loves upbeat, energetic movement! This class begins with lots of strengthening and flexibility to perfect the leaps, turns, and sharp movements your dancer will need for this dance style. Combinations traveling across the floor will build your dancer’s technique, while fun end of class combos will piece those steps together to work on transitions between steps, and performance quality. Your dancer is sure to love this exciting class with music they recognize and the steps they’re dying to learn!
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Contemporary
Contemporary dance is a style of interpretive dance that embraces innovation, blending techniques from various genres, including classical ballet, jazz, modern and lyrical dance. Think fluid movements and floor work, creating beautiful lines and movements but less structured, strict and technical than ballet. Contemporary is for the dancer that loves the elegance of ballet but is seeking more freeform movement and expression.
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Cheer & Pom Squad
ages 6+
This exciting class combines dance, cheer fundamentals, pom technique, and high-energy cheers, chats and choreography. Students build coordination, strength, and teamwork while learning sharp movements, formations, and performance skills.
Perfect for dancers who love energetic routines and studio spirit!
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Ballroom Kids
Classes focus on musicality, partner skills, and performance in a fun and supportive environment.
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Our Dance Program
Our children’s dance program is specifically designed to provide boys and girls ages 2 to 12 with a strong foundation in dance and movement. Our focus is on the basic elements of:
In addition to these physical elements, we integrate the intellectual concepts of:
Concepts are explored throughout the year such as classroom etiquette, musical awareness, relationships to the working space and the stage, expressing emotion through movement, and pantomime.
- Physical space and how we relate to it as an individual and a group member
- Locomotor and non-locomotor movements
- Musical awareness
- Opposites, directions, and pathways
- Positions and movements of ballet
In addition to these physical elements, we integrate the intellectual concepts of:
- Self-awareness
- Teamwork
- Creative expression
- Imagination
- Basic body and health awareness
Concepts are explored throughout the year such as classroom etiquette, musical awareness, relationships to the working space and the stage, expressing emotion through movement, and pantomime.
Our Class Structure
There are four basic sections to each class
- Beginning – Each class begins with a brief sharing time followed by strength and stretching exercises.
- Center – Center includes all major muscle groups and is the basis for the barre work taught in ballet classes at a later date. From these exercises, students learn correct posture and the placement of the body over the legs (this is important for both dancers and non-dancers). They also learn balance, arm movements, and various jumps which aid in the development of locomotor skills.
- Across the Floor –These traveling skills provide the foundation for ballet movement to be learned in the future.
- Creative Expression – Students participate in a variety of free movement exercises that teach listening skills, levels, and directions. Young dancers who are consistently exposed to this type of activity are generally more creative and consistently freer in their movement and styles as they develop. Besides, it’s just plain fun.
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Houston, Texas 77057
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