Dance
5y0m - 12y0m
Wed from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
22 students
$332 for 11 classes
Description
Hip Hop Creative Dance promotes a fun, safe, energizing environment for students to freely express themselves through music, imagination and motion. Andre demonstrates movements with great enthusiasm and encouragement to inspire and educate about improvised freestyle and structured movement. Techniques taught include popping, waving, breaking, footwork, gliding, tutting, miming, animation and more! Students are taught ways to think about how their moves connect to drum rhythms, melodies, lyrics and the theatrical storytelling of songs. Students will hear a wide range of music from classic Hip Hop, instrumental beats, house, pop, rock, movie soundtracks and more offering lots of variety to energize each student to move! Andre’s live drumming, quality speaker and microphone keeps the class focused on small attainable goals and share ideas in order to discover and expand creative possibilities.
Group games and choreography build students' collaborative skills, while freestyles give space for individual creative flow. Dances taught are reviewed weekly and expand students’ vocabulary to pull from for freestyle and choreography. The class performs a final showcase on the last day of the session open to families and friends! Foundation, originality and community are at the core of Hip Hop culture and students are reminded to express without stress of doing something ‘right’, but rather in one's own unique way. They are encouraged to enjoy the process at their own pace of exploring new moves and ideas without judgement or fear of failure and reminded there is no wrong way to dance when you follow what feels fun. This mindset helps nurture creative flow, freedom and discovery, while promoting physical, mental and emotional fitness.
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What to bring
Water Bottle, Athletic Shoes and Snack for energy
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.
