Kids Classes

Kids on the Move Fall 2025

Session Dates: September 8 - December 14, 2025. Classes are canceled November 24-30, 2025.



 The full schedule of classes is listed below. Scroll down to check out our pay-what-you-can and scholarship options.

Classes take place in the Hyman M. Perlo Studio (HMP) and Brookland Arts Space Lofts Studio (BAL).

Vaccination Policy: Students under the age of 18 are not required to be vaccinated to take classes at Dance Place

Fall 2025 Class Schedule
Monday:
  • 4:00-4:45 PM Creative Movement with Haley Combs (Ages 3-5)

  • 4:00-4:45 PM Pre Hip-Hop with Jamison Curcio (Ages 4-6)

  • 5:00-6:00 PM Beginning Ballet with Haley Combs (Ages 6-8) 

  • 5:00-6:00 PM Beginning Hip-Hop with Jamison Curcio (Ages 6-8) 

  • 5:15-6:15 PM Beginning Jazz/Modern with Ava Delasanta (7-9)

Tuesday:
  • 4:00-5:00 PM Pre Ballet/Tap with Sylvana Christopher (Ages 4-6) 

  • 4:00-5:00 PM Beginning Tap with Stephanie Vadala (Ages 7-10) 

  • 5:00-6:00 PM Beginning Ballet with Sylvana Christopher (Ages 6-8) 

  • 5:00-6:00 PM Teen Hip-Hop with Kevin White (Ages 13-18)

Wednesday:
  • 4:15-5:15 PM Beginning Modern with Jamison Curcio (Ages 8-13)

  • 5:15-6:15 PM Intermediate Modern with Jamison Curcio (Ages 9-14)

  • 5:15-6:15 PM Intermediate Tumbling with Chloe Conway (Ages 7-11) 

  • 5:30-6:30 PM Cuban Social Dancing with DC Casineros (Ages 10-14)

Thursday:
  • 4:00-5:00 PM Tiny Tumblers with Mia Heckler (Ages 4-6) 

  • 4:00-5:00 PM Beginning Hip-Hop with Kevin White (Ages 6-8)

  • 4:00-5:00 PM Teen Ballet with TBD (Ages 13-18) 

  • 5:00-6:00 PM Beginning Tumbling with Mia Heckler (Ages 6-8)

  • 5:00-6:00 PM Intermediate Hip-Hop with Kevin White (Ages 8-13)

  • 5:00-6:00 PM Teen Jazz/Modern with Haley Combs (Ages 13-18) 

Friday:
  • 4:00-4:45 PM Creative Movement with Sylvana Christopher (Ages 3-5)
  • 5:00-6:00 PM Pre Ballet/Tap with Sylvana Christopher (Ages 4-6)
  • 5:30-6:30 PM Teen Contemporary with Daché Green (Ages 13-18)
Saturday:
  • 9:00-9:45 AM Move with Me with Sylvana Christopher (Ages 1.5-3) 

  • 10:00-10:45 AM Creative Movement with Sylvana Christopher (Ages 3-5) 

  • 11:00-12:00 PM Pre Ballet/Tap with Judy Estey (Ages 4-6)

  • 12:00-1:00 PM Beginning Ballet with Judy Estey (Ages 6-8)

Sunday:
  • 9:00-9:45 AM Move with Me with Arianna Salerno (Ages 1.5-3)
  • 10:00-10:45 AM Creative Movement with Arianna Salerno (Ages 3-5)
  • 11:00-12:00 PM Pre Ballet/Tap with Arianna Salerno (Ages 4-6)

We recommend novice students or students with only one year of experience in a style to start with the beginning level. Students with two or more full years of experience can try the intermediate level. If you have a question about which class would be best for your child, please feel free to reach out to kidsclasses@danceplace.org

Coyaba Academy

Click here to learn more information about the Coyaba Academy and register your student for classes in African dance!

 
For additional information, email: coyabaacademy@gmail.com

 

Fall Tuition Rates

We are offering families pay-what-you-can options for all Kids on the Move classes. Each payment option represents the price of one class per week for the entire semester.

Option 1: $400

Option 2: $360 (use code kompwyc2 at checkout)

Option 3: $320 (use code kompwyc3 at checkout)

Scholarships

Scholarships available. Please email kidsclasses@danceplace.org to inquire about scholarships. Payment Plans available at checkout through Sawyer Registration! 

Class Descriptions

Ballet exercises including barre work, center work, and across the floor combinations, combined with creative lessons in rhythm, coordination, balance.

This class uses movement activities and creative play to develop students’ motor skills, spatial awareness, movement quality, sense of rhythm, coordination, and balance. 

Hip-Hop focuses on various hip-hop techniques including popping, locking, and house elements.

This class provides an introduction for young students and one accompanying adult to movement and dance. Using singing, props, and the help of their adults, students develop their basic motor skills, coordination, and self-expression. 

This class introduces students to contemporary dance techniques founded in various styles including Jazz, Modern, Ballet, and African dance.

This class introduces students to the fundamentals of tap dance. Students will learn tap terminology while working on the embodiment of rhythm, coordination, and musicality. 

This class focuses on basic gymnastic movement and flexibility, working on mats and the mini-trampoline. 

This class introduces students to both the elements of ballet and the fundamentals of tap dance.

This class is an upbeat, stylish and versatile dance form. This technical class includes a warm-up, across the floor movements, leaps, turns and center combination work to fun and upbeat music. 

This class focuses on modern and contemporary dance technique including gestural and pedestrian movements, floor work, across the floor and choreography.

Cuban Social Dance class is a lively session for young dancers to explore a variety of Cuban dance styles—including Casino, Rueda de Casino, Rumba, Son, and Conga—through accessible, engaging instruction.