Arts & Crafts
Grades K - 5
Tue from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
22 students
$259 for 10 classes
Description
Hip Hop Creative Dance is an energy packed hour full of inspiring music, creative dance and fun movement activities to exploring many ways to move the body musically and expressively. Students practice hip hop party moves from the 80s to present day, plus techniques including popping, waving, breaking and T.U.R.F. dancing style, from Oakland, CA.
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A big part of class is building confidence in freestyles and developing their own original movements based on natural instinct and what they enjoy doing and are encouraged to integrate daily activities and skills they enjoy like gymnastics, sports, martial arts, ballet etc. Each week students learn several new moves to help them be more fluent in connecting ideas together in creative, fun and intelligent sequences.
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Dance is a super fun and stimulating way to improve mind-muscle connection, imagination, visualization, athleticism, social skills and overall emotional-physical expression. Andre has taught youth dance enrichment for over a decade and directed dance camps the past few summers. Classes are designed to nurture kids innate creativity and unique expressions, while teaching values of respect, originality and social connection through music and movement. Students will perform on the last day for families, all are welcome.
*** NO REFUNDS *** Please be certain your child can attend this course before enrolling. Thank you.
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What to bring
Athletic shoes, Water bottle and Extra Mask
Cancellation policy
No refunds! Please be mindful and only enroll child if certain will work with schedule. In emergency cases, email provider dance@andrecole.com for refund consideration with reason. Refund will only include amount paid to provider, not extra card fees and school fees.
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About the provider
Cole Arts: Hip Hop Creative Dance
André has been teaching creative dance implementing Hip-Hop, contemporary, ballet and afro-Brazilian for almost two decades. He loves educating students on the power of movement and music to improve self-expression, discovery, fitness and creative thinking.
Andre also runs Cole Arts Camp (coleartscamp.com) with his dad Doug Cole for yearly school break sessions (Thanksgiving, Winter, Spring & Summer)
For Andre's artistic work visit AndreCole.com
In Hip Hop Creative Dance, students their imaginations and skill of how their senses can be used for self-expression, including movements, sounds, colors, environments, textures, theatrical characters and more. Kids learn moves, patterns, names and origins of street dance styles from around the the U.S. while practicing styles created across more than 5 decades of culture. Each class has a theme focusing on foundation movements and musicality from old school hip hop of breaking, popping, waving, gliding and more to present day styles being created by the next generation. Class engages kids in fun freestyle movement games, create movement concepts, while listening to familiar and unfamiliar music.
Students become better story tellers with their body language and grow confidence, kinesthetic awareness, musical sensibilities, athletic abilities and overall mind-body-soul connections. Class is designed to promote great fitness, individual imagination and group collaboration, along with learning to communicate clearly and respectfully no matter how abstract an idea or style, because individuality is everything.
