What is Acro Dance?
Acro Dance is not the same as gymnastics. It is a fusion of the artistry of dance and the athleticism of acrobatics. It is also the hottest new program to teach strength, flexibility and acrobatic skills! Our instructors are certified in the world renowned Acro Arts program.
Top 5 Benefits of Taking Acro Dance Classes
The Acrobatic Arts Syllabus is broken into 5 different categories including; flexibility, strength, balancing, limbering and tumbling. Each class is spent focusing on different skills in each area of the syllabus.
The first part of the Acro season dancers work on developing their skills and tricks! The second part of the season is spent on combining tricks and skills into a flowing beautiful Acro dance, bringing their skills together with dance!
Orange: All students ages 5-7. Acro orange dance class is the beginning level for our youngest dancers. All students start learning lots about safety, proper placement and alignment and tumbling skills. This level uses beginning level dance steps as well. Additional dance class suggested to maximize your dancer's growth and progress.
Green: All students ages 8 and up. Acro Green dance class is the beginning level and all students start learning lots about safety, proper placement and alignment and tumbling skills. This level uses beginning level dance steps as well. Additional dance class suggested to maximize your dancer's growth and progress.
Blue: Instructor evaluation required. Acro Blue dance class is our intermediate level. This level implements longer balancing and strength holds, continuing level tumbling skills and more dance technique. Another dance class taken in conjunction with Acro Blue is strongly encouraged.
Red: Instructor evaluation required. Acro Red dance class is our advanced level. This level implements advanced technique in tumbling, limbering and other skills. Advanced dance movement is used in this class and all dancers are required to be enrolled in additional dance classes.
ACRO ELITE: Our highest level of acro, audition required. Acro Elite is our competitive advanced acro team. Students compete acro dance at local dance competitions.
HOW DO I KNOW WHAT LEVEL TO ENROLL IN?
Our mission is to encourage our students to be the best they can be while following specific safety guidelines. There is a step by step syllabus we will follow in order to ensure proper form and readiness for new skills. Proper placement in the program is the key to success.
If you are new to acro, we recommend speaking with Miss Ashley, our in-house acro coordinator. We will review any previous experience your student has had and set you up with a trial dance class. During the trial dance class, we will assess strength and skill level to place you in the best fitting class. Students enrolled in school year dance classes remain in the same dance class level for summer dance classes unless otherwise noted by instructor.
Looking for Acro supplies for home?
Our mats are from the very trusted and reliable website, Tumbl Trak. They can find the mats that we have at the studio here!
Yoga blocks we use can be found on Amazon and we recommend every dancer have one for stretching at home!
““Cirque du Soleil sees acrobatic training for dancers valuable in the same light as it sees ALL multidisciplinary training for dancers valuable for today’s (and tomorrow’s) artistic workforce. To work in the dance milieu today, mastering several disciplines is almost a necessity; for Cirque du Soleil multidisciplinary is an absolute must for the majority of the dance roles…” ”
