Arts & Crafts
Grades K - 5
Mon from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
22 students
$191 for 8 classes
Description
Hip Hop Creative Dance is an energy packed hour full of eclectic music familiar and fresh, fun group movement games while being educated on dance techniques and history. Students practice hip hop party moves from the 80s to present, and how to articulate music using popping, waving, gliding, miming and other storytelling and acting techniques. These movements are applied in street dance styles including Oakland's own T.U.R.F dancing.
Students learn that any movement can be a dance move if made musical. Each class builds upon simple feel-good moves they do easily and ones that inspire them, from subconscious movements like walking to sports, martial arts, skating, gymnastics, video games, movies etc.
Students will have fun, learn a wide range of knowledge of skills and how to more confidently express their emotions and ideas. Each week kids will learn several new moves, which will be in the group choreography and can be used to freestyle with.
Dance is a super fun and stimulating way to improve mind-muscle connection, imagination, visualization, athleticism, social skills, deep breathing and overall emotional-physical expression.
Andre has taught youth dance enrichment for over a decade and directs dance camps for a few years now. Classes are designed to nurture kids innate creative impulses and unique expressions, while teaching values of respect, originality and social connection through music and movement. Students are guaranteed to leave each class happy, inspired and more knowledgeable. Dance is a balance of both feeling and imaginative thought and technical ability. An all around athletic, fun, musical, theatrical and imaginative class. Learn more about André and see his work at AndreCole.com. Also visit ColeArtsCamp.com for yearly camps in Summer, Spring and Winter!
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What to bring
Water Bottle, Extra Face Mask, Athletic Shoes and Extra Snack
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.
