Level Placement CCD believes in nurturing each student as an individual, carefully cultivating and crafting their education every step of the way. We believe in investing ourselves in each student, so they feel seen and cared about. To facilitate this, each student is individually assessed when they begin to take classes with us, and we continue to oversee their progress throughout the year, providing evaluations periodically to the dancer and their family. Our ballet training is based on a mixture of the English RAD, the Italian Cecchetti, the French, and Balachine methods. Our kinesthetically healthy classical technique builds great strength, versatility, and artistry while also allowing every kind of physical form to reach its potential in a healthy, accepting environment. Our jazz technique syllabus aims to guide our dancers from the historic vernacular roots through the performative styles of Broadway and classic jazz to current forms underpinning much of popular dance. We encourage our dancers to become generalists in jazz technique with a historic understanding of the past and present of the art form. CCD’s modern dance syllabus focuses our dancers on the general concepts and techniques of modern dance while imparting somatic understanding and improvisational skills. This conceptual understanding allows dancers to be successful in a range of modern styles while creating a full and developed physical understanding of their body and its abilities. Included is a historical overview of modern dance allows students to better interpret the development and execution of this technique. CCD’s contemporary syllabus explores dance methods, forms, and techniques that fall under the broad umbrella of contemporary dance. Dancers will study historic and present-day philosophies, ideas, attitudes towards performance, and cross-disciplinary creative approaches to movement exploration. Students will examine their own understanding of dance and performance and beginning their artistic identities as thinkers, movers, and makers.
Did you know that CCD has a family discount? We offer a 3% discount for the 2nd child and 3% for all subsequent siblings. This discount is applied automatically! 10
