CLASSES
CLASSES
The High Kick Difference…
Foster a love of dance in an upbeat, positive environment, and watch your child’s confidence grow, all while they develop their skills and create lifelong friendships. Whether you or your child are stepping into the studio for the first time or want to shine on the world stage, High Kick Dance has a class for you.
Dance Academy is open to students who attend Ferntree Gully North Primary School. This program builds student’s coordination, strength, and self-discipline in a fun, nurturing environment.
Mini: Prep to Grade 2 (Start to Dance)
Youth: Grades 3 & 4 (Love to Dance)
Junior: Grades 5 & 6 (Live to Dance)
Dance Academy
Warranwood
Dance Academy is open to students who attend Warranwood Primary School. This program builds student’s coordination, strength, and self-discipline in a fun, nurturing environment.
Mini: Grade 1, 2 & 3
Junior: Grades 4, 5 & 6
Ferntree Gully North
Training classes at High Kick Dance are designed to build the essential foundations needed to help each student succeed. We offer a wide range of dance styles taught by current industry professionals for ages two and above.
Training Classes
Ballet
Ballet is one of the world’s most beautiful and revered art forms. This style is a great place to start for a beginner.
Strength, flexibility, terminology, and technique are pivotal parts of the structure of this class. Dancers who truly want to progress in various styles should undertake at least one ballet class per week.
You will notice a difference over time in your dancer’s abilities and focus. While it can be challenging at the high levels, this traditional dance form is a pleasure to learn for all ages. Students who take ballet classes build self-control and body awareness as they learn to master technical movements.
Jazz
Jazz dance combines the techniques of classical ballet and modern dance with current forms of popular dance.
Classes include a warm-up, isolations, stretches, across-the-floor progressions, and choreography combinations. These sessions are designed for dancers who enjoy precision and rhythm, physical challenges, and developing their style and expression.
Exercises focus on increasing flexibility, strength, rhythm, and isolation, making it a popular and dynamic style for all ages.
Jazz is enjoyable for any dancer who wants to just get moving! Students have the opportunity to work towards performances or just come along for their enjoyment.
Contemporary
Contemporary bridges the gap between jazz and ballet, offering a fluid movement style and encouraging creative thinking.
This form of dance often shares emotive narratives, encouraging students to express themselves through movements.
While it is less “rigid” than ballet, contemporary still requires students to build a strong technical foundation.
Theses classes are for dancers who like creative challenges, connecting dance to other mediums, and physical challenges that require persistence and practice. Exercises focus on increasing flexibility, strength, total body connectivity, and creative problem-solving.
Hip Hop
Modern and dynamic, Hip Hop is certainly addictive. This powerful, high-energy dance style relies on a punchy beat and a little bit of attitude!
Hip Hop dance includes a wide range of “street dance” styles that are associated with the Hip Hop culture born in New York City in the mid-’70s.
Children and adults will learn to master individual movements before progressing to longer routines. Classes include a warm-up, isolations, freezes, and learning choreography combinations, which help to improve strength and control.
Musical Theatre
Musical theatre is the fusion of singing, dancing, and acting.
Classes include breathing, singing techniques, acting and improvisation techniques and performance.
These classes are for dancers who like the spotlight, drama, singing and telling a story through dance. Students combine their love of music with dance in these energetic and diverse classes.
Tap
Tap focuses on rhythms and patterns in footwork through proper technique as well as personal style and producing clear sounds.
classes include a variety of top styles from Broadway to Rhythm Tap. These classes are for dancers who like rhythm, precision footwork, and creative styling.
Exercises focus on building flexibility of the knee and ankles, coordination, and speed of movement. As students progress through each level the curriculum will become increasingly more complex and intricate.
Acrobatics
This style of dance combines classical dance techniques with precision acrobatic elements. It is defined by its athletic character.
The unique choreography of Acro blends ballet and jazz styles and dance movements with acrobatic skills. At the intermediate level and advanced levels, acro dance requires a solid ballet foundation to develop the strength and control required to progress to higher levels.
Physical Theatre
Physical theatre is a broad term encompassing works with elements of movement, mime, acrobatics, dance-theatre, clowning, stylised actions and gestures, circus, and more.
while recognised as an art form on its own, physical theatre can also involve aspects of other recognised styles such as performance poetry, cabaret, musical theatre and more. critical to the genre is the human body being at the centre of the action and the ability to communicate meaning and a story to an audience.
Acting
In this course, actors will learn the development of a sense of confidence and discipline, appropriate rehearsal and performance attitudes, understanding of stage terminology and orientation, and the use of sensory and emotional awareness, observation, concentration, motivation, personalization, and imagination in acting.
Competitions are a great way to push students harder as they strive for a more polished performance and professional-quality technique.
High Kick Dance’s competition program gives ambitious, high-energy students the chance to learn from dancers who are currently working in the industry.
We expect a strong level of commitment from these students and look forward to helping them develop into the superstars of the future.
Acceptance is by application and assessment only. Contact us for more information.
Competition Program
The Basin
Competition Program
TEAMS
Mini - COMING 2025
Junior - Blitz
Senior - Hype
Open - Velocity
Adult - Glamour
2024
AASCF QLD Nationals
Hype - Open Coed Hip Hop - 1st & All-Star Hip Hop Grand Champions
Glamour - Adult Novice Hip Hop - 1st
Hype - Senior Hop Hop - 2nd
Glamour - Adult Jazz - 2nd
Hype - Open Coed Lyrical - 3rd
Glamour - Adult Pom - 5th
Hype - Senior Jazz - 6th
Aussie Gold VIC States
Cranbourne West
Competition Program
TEAMS
Mini - COMING 2025
Junior - COMING 2025
Senior - COMING 2025
Open - COMING 2025
Adult - COMING 2025
RESULTS
2023
AASCF VIC Nationals
2022
AASCF QLD Nationals