Acrobatic training teaches flexibility, balance, strength, muscle control, and above all, discipline and concentration. With careful, quality instruction, a dancer will gain more flexibility and upper body strength. It is an excellent way to learn spatial awareness, an important element in partnering and ensemble work. Acro dance is safe, challenging, and takes a certain amount of flexibility and agility to perform. Acrobatic movements can include handstands, hand balances, flips, handsprings, and cartwheels! DanceFusion is an Acrobatic Arts Certified Studio.

Acro-Dance Open level 9-12yrs

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Acrobatic training teaches flexibility, balance, strength, discipline, and concentration. A dancer will gain more flexibility and strength to achieve skills thru safe and progressive training. Dancers will learn through games, drills, and techniques to develop their skills. Acrobatic movements can include handstands somersaults, headstands, and cartwheels, bridge, walkovers and more! The goal is to place Acro skills into a dance routine, therefore blending artistry with athleticism.
For this level dancers do not need prior experience, as there will be a variety of skills and progressions introduced to safely be able to accommodate where they are at.
Individual exercises will be given to fit their ability as students will have different needs and may be ready for more advanced skills.

DanceFusion is an Acrobatic Arts Certified Studio.

Term runs May 29th-June 26th
THIS CLASS IS HELD AT STUDIO ALIVE.
Price: $92+ GST

Acro-Dance Open level 6-9yrs

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Acrobatic training teaches flexibility, balance, strength, discipline, and concentration. A dancer will gain more flexibility and strength to achieve skills thru safe and progressive training. Dancers will learn through games, drills, and techniques to develop their skills. Acrobatic movements can include handstands somersaults, headstands, and cartwheels, bridge, walkovers and more! The goal is to place Acro skills into a dance routine, therefore blending artistry with athleticism.
For this level dancers do not need prior experience, as there will be a variety of skills and progressions introduced to safely be able to accommodate where they are at.
Individual exercises will be given to fit their ability as students will have different needs and may be ready for more advanced skills.

DanceFusion is an Acrobatic Arts Certified Studio.

Term runs May 29th-June 26th
THIS CLASS IS HELD AT STUDIO ALIVE.
Price: $92+ GST

Acro Dance 6-9yrs

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Acrobatic training teaches flexibility, balance, strength, muscle control, discipline, concentration, CREATIVITY and expression to music.  At this age we introduce bridge, along with cartwheels and handstands, headstands and rolls, along with dance terminology and musicality. Acrobatic movements can include hand balances, walkovers, and cartwheel variations as students get older.

This dance class will provide the potential for personal expression as well as coordination skill building. One of the goals is to communicate through movement and use imagery and games to have fun while creating the building blocks for future development. This class also uses traditional exercises to familiarize students with dance vocabulary, musicality, and choreography.
DanceFusion is an Acrobatic Arts Certified Studio.
Spring Term runs June 2nd-June 23rd.
Cost is $92 +gst

Acro-Dance Intermediate 8-10yrs

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Acrobatic training teaches flexibility, balance, strength, discipline, and concentration. A dancer will gain more flexibility and strength to achieve skills thru safe and progressive training. Dancers will learn through games, drills, and techniques to develop their skills. Acrobatic movements can include handstands somersaults, headstands, and cartwheels, bridge, walkovers and more! The goal is to place Acro skills into a dance routine, therefore blending artistry with athleticism.
For this level dancers need to be able to push up into a bridge without a spot and hold for 10 secs, can go from standing down to a bridge on their own or with a spot, do a forward roll(no heading touching mat) handstand with good form, even if not able to hold, and a proficient cartwheel one one side, hold plank for 25 secs. We will work safely from this base of skills.
This is not a beginner/open level class,and is geared for dancers with prior dance experience, please email if in doubt about level.
Individual exercises will be given to fit their ability as students will have different needs and may be ready for more advanced skills.
It is strongly recommended that students are enrolled in one other class to support dance technique/development and coordination at this level. Ballet, HipHop, or Thurs. DanceFusion excellent 2nd class options.
DanceFusion is an Acrobatic Arts Certified Studio.

Term runs May 29th-June 26th

Price: $92+ GST

Acro Dance 12-16yrs

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Acrobatic training teaches flexibility, balance, strength, muscle control, discipline and concentration. It is an excellent way to learn spatial awareness, an important element in ensemble work.
Acrobatic movements can include bridges, walk-overs, handstands, hand balances, somersaults, and cartwheel variations and more! This class is geared for students to work on skills at an appropriate level to their previous experience, a range of skills will be worked on.
The goal is to place Acro skills into a dance routine, therefore blending artistry with athleticism. Attending a second dance class as well is very helpful at this level, this helps students with choreography retention and dance technique, as the Acro class on its own cannot cover all these aspects.
A second dance class is highly recommended ( not required) for dancers in this class.
DanceFusion is an Acrobatic Arts Certified Studio.

Term runs May 29th- June 26th

Price: $92+ GST

Acro-Dance Intermediate 11-14yrs

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Acrobatic training teaches flexibility, balance, strength, discipline, and concentration. A dancer will gain more flexibility and body strength. Acrobatic movements can include handstands, hand balances, somersaults, headstands, elbow stands, walkover variations, cartwheel variations and more!
This class is an intermediate class and students will be given variations for their experience to work safely where they are at.

The base skills for this level are to be able to go from standing down to a bridge, bridge with retirè leg, solid cartwheel with legs straight, Handstand with good form, forward roll, hold V/plank sit for 25 sec.

Intermediate level dancers must be enrolled in 2 + classes a week.

Email if you have questions about the appropriate level.
DanceFusion is an Acrobatic Arts Certified Studio.

Spring Term runs May 31st-June 28th.

Price $92 +GST