Our Programs
Pre-Dance
Our Pre-Dance classes focus on the development of skills such as coordination, motor skills, listening skills, musicality, and spacial awareness through dance. These classes are meant for young dancers from ages 2-4 to challenge their imagination and use it to create dance movement.
Tap
Tap classes are designed to develop rhythm, style, and sound. Students will learn a variety of tap styles. Exercises focus on building flexibility of the knee and ankles, coordination, and speed of movement. The class emphasis is on developing proper tap technique, producing clear tap sounds, and having fun. As students progress through each level curriculum will become increasingly more complex and intricate.
Jazz
Offered to ages 4 & up in various levels. Through an exploration of both classic and current styles of Jazz, students develop a stronger sense of contemporary dance technique and placement.
Lyrical and Contemporary
Offered to various ages. Lyrical focuses on the “lyrics” of music to interpret a story. Contemporary is interpretive, improvisational, and story-telling with abstract movement and choreography. It is a form of Jazz.
Summer Intensives & Workshops
This is your chance for students 5-13 to get active and moving during the summer. Our summer camps are each a week long with a new exciting theme each week. This summer we will be offering a Fairytale camp, Newsies Forever, and ULTIMATE! Dance. Our camps spend 1/2 of the time learning dances and exploring the dance world, while the other 1/2 is spent making summer memories that will last a lifetime! Camps are Monday-Friday 9:00am-1:00pm.
Flamenco
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Ballroom Dancing
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Ballet
CCD's Classical Ballet Program provides dancers with the opportunity to study classical ballet in a disciplined, professional atmosphere that is also supportive of each student's unique talents, passions, and creative voice. Bringing a rigorous syllabus into an inclusive space, CCD's Classical Ballet Program equips students with exceptional training that can carry them into a professional dance career or a lifelong, meaningful connection to ballet. The nurturing, encouraging, and body positive environment at CCD also gives students the confidence and persistence to make an impact in whatever life path they choose.
Each dancer in CCD’s Classical Ballet Program matriculates through the curriculum at a different pace. Unlike academic learning, dancers often progress through their training in a non-linear fashion, experiencing bursts of growth that can be followed by seemingly long periods of plateau in which a deepening of core values is built up to support the dancer’s next leap forward.
Dancers attend classes 2–5 days per week depending on placement. As dancers advance through the levels, they may add additional training in: Pointe, Jazz, Tap, Musical Theater and Contemporary. Dancers have the opportunity to perform in CCD’s annual Winter and Spring performances. Participation is optional.
A dancer’s journey is long and dynamic, but the skills learned along the way will serve students for the rest of their lives. Dedication, inclusiveness, curiosity, community, individuality, and appreciation are all values that CCD holds sacred, and the Faculty’s commitment to these core values enables students to thrive as dancers and as people.
Pointe technique:
Classical Ballet dancers in Levels 4–6 study a Pointe Syllabus, with classes in Pre-Pointe/Pointe. Pointe technique is the part of classical ballet were a ballet dancer is supported by a trained and strong body within specialized shoes called pointe shoes. A student must of progressed through Ballet Levels 3 or 4, taken pre-pointe classes for at least 2-3 years prior and successfully completed the pointe exam. Admissions from your ballet instructor is required before taking the pointe exam and or the pointe class. It is important not to start pointe until the growth plates in the dancer’s foot are finished developing.
Musical Theatre
Musical theater offers more expansive learning opportunities than any other style. Musical theatre encompasses several styles such as Jazz, Ballet, Tap and so much more! Our classes aim to educate our students on how several dance styles can contribute skills to one performance.
Our classes focus on the performance quality that is represented in Musical Theatre. These classes take a deep dive into different Broadway styles of dance while learning how to connect with an audience through the use of facial expressions, dramatic movement, and strong intentions.
Musical Theatre is a unique art form that uses songs and dance to further the plot of a story. Our program helps students discover how, as an ensemble member or solo performer, they can be a tool that is essential to a storyline. Our teachers are heavily involved in the theatre community both in and out of the Chico area. With a wide variety of knowledge, they share this complex form of dance with our students.
Adult Classes
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Belly Dancing
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