DanceAbility: Adaptive Dance for Special Needs
Explore the world of dance with creative movement and exciting music. For preschool students through adults with special needs, who use a wheelchair, are gross motor skill impaired or with limited or no sight. Classes by request and special arrangement.

Baby & Me 1.0
Creative movement & play for babies and adult. Using mats, parachutes & tunnels, work on socialization & motor skills.

Baby & Me 1.5 & 2.0
Creative movement & play for babies and adult. Using mats, parachutes & tunnels, work on socialization & motor skills.

Dance Sampler 1.0 & 1.5
Intro to ballet, tumbling and tap. A steppingstone to pre-school when students attend independently.

Dance Sampler 2.0
Intro to ballet, tumbling and tap. A stepping stone to pre-school when students attend independently.

Dance Sampler 2.2
Intro to ballet, tumbling & tap.

Adult Ballet 1.0 with Kathleen Gottus- NEW TIME
Learn to be graceful, tone and lengthen muscles. For adults with no previous training.

Ballet 1.0 & 1.2
Covers basic ballet terms, positions & dancing in rhythm.

Ballet 1.1 
Covers basic ballet terms, positions & dancing in rhythm.

Ballet 1.3
Covers basic ballet terms, positions & dancing in rhythm.

Ballet 3.0 – 3.3
For students with some previous ballet experience.

Ballet 4.0
Turnout, extension, turns, leaps, terminology & body placement.

Choreography and Composition
Get in touch with your inner creativity, musicality, and composition. This class will challenge you to learn new dances in an hour as well as allow you to create your own dances and show them to your peers. This class will also create an end of the year recital piece with Miss J’lyse! Let’s move!

Cirqué de Ballet
Improve flexibility, balance, and strength. Acrobatics and tumbling with “Gumby Kids” contortion skills. Ballet is the foundation to continue the beauty and grace needed. Must be enrolled in 1:15 Saturday Ballet to take this class.

Variations Class
Any dancer that wants to go to a summer program or dance professionally needs to be prepared to learn variations and learn them in a certain amount of time. This class will allow dancers to learn various classical, neo classical, and contemporary ballet variations and get the chance to dance them in class.

Kmotion
No dance experience required for this high energy class that mixes Latin, hip-hop, pop, and world beats along with easy to follow high energy moves. Must be at least 5 years old. Please wear sneakers and bring a water bottle.

Full Life Arts & Wellness: Fit & Flex
Stay fit and flexible in this one-hour combination class. The first 30 minutes focuses on low or no impact aerobic exercise. Using resistance bands and intentional movement, you can achieve strength, cardiovascular endurance, and range of motion. The second 30 minutes is a gentle chair yoga experience focusing on balance, flexibility, and stress reduction.  Both segments are taught with the assistance of a chair and are designed for beginners. Modifications will be offered at every step of the class so you can work at your own pace. Please wear sneakers, comfortable clothes, and bring water. Held at OI School of Dance.

Full Life Arts & Wellness: Strength & Balance for Adults 65+
Increase your upper and lower body strength, improve your balance, and most importantly, reduce your risk for falls in this class specifically designed for older adults. You’ll learn evidence-based exercises, how to monitor your progress, and ways to continue to improve your health at home. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring water with you! Held at OI’s School of Dance.

Walk with Ease
Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching, strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. This program was specifically developed for adults with arthritis who want to be more physically active, but is also appropriate for people without arthritis who want to get more active. Evidence-based outcomes include decreased pain, increased strength, increased balance, and increased self-efficacy. The only prerequisite is the ability to be on your feet for at least 10 minutes without increased pain. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. This is a hybrid program, with two in-person sessions and one self-guided session per week. Held at WesBanco Arena.

Hip Hop 4.0 
For advanced jazz students only with focus on all elements of hip hop dancing. Class involves a series of fast, sharp actions and breakdance floor work.

Jazz 1.0 
Learn jazz technique of Luigi and Matt Mattox.

Jazz 2.0 & 3.0 
Learn jazz technique of Luigi and Matt Mattox. 

Jazz 3.5
Learn jazz technique, turns and jumps to the latest in modern music.

Jazz 4.0
Learn jazz technique, turns & jumps to the latest in modern music.

Lyrical Dance 1.0 & 2.5
Interpretive, expressive movements set to modern music.

Lyrical Dance 3.0 & 4.0
Interpretive, expressive movements set to modern music.

Beginner Pointe
Must have at least 3 years ballet experience.

Intermediate Pointe
Must have at least 3 years ballet experience.

Advanced Pointe
For students who have completed Beginner & Intermediate Pointe.

Private Dance Lessons
Lessons in ballet, tap, jazz, various others as requested.

Introduction to Square Dancing
Exercise the mind as well as the body as you are introduced to the basics of Modern Western Square Dance. No partner needed.

Advanced Square Dancing
For dancers who have completed the introductory level, continue your whole body exercise using your mind as well as your body. Participants will be introduced to the “Mainstream” calls of Modern Western Square Dance. No partner needed.

Ballroom Dancing with Peter Lim
Covers the fox trot, waltz, cha cha, swing, and rumba. Partner not necessary, but recommended. Held at the Stifel Fine Arts Center.

Tap

Adult Tap 1.0
Concentrate on time steps and rhythms. Beginners welcome.

Tap 1.0 & 1.1 
For children with little or no previous training.

Tap 1.0 & 1.2
For children with little or no previous training.

Tap 2.5 and 3.5
For children with some tap experience. Rhythm and time steps will be covered.

Intermediate Tap with Rebecca
Concentrates on time steps and combination turns. For dancers with some tap experience but not ready for 4.0.

Tap 4.0
Concentrates on time steps & combination turns.

Baton
Learn the basics and fundamentals of twirling Bring a baton.

Extreme Acrobatic Artistry 3.5 & 4.5
Enrollment in this class is with permission of instructor. Designed for the senior advanced dancer who has studied all disciplines of acrobatics, ballet, lyrical, and contemporary dance. Those disciplines with elements of extreme flexibility, artistry, and partner skills will be enhanced through performance storytelling.

Extreme Acrobatic Artistry 5.0
Enrollment in this class is with permission of instructor. Designed for the senior advanced dancer who has studied all disciplines of acrobatics, ballet, lyrical, and contemporary dance. Those disciplines with elements of extreme flexibility, artistry, and partner skills will be enhanced through performance storytelling.

Gumby Kids Gymnastics 2.0 & 3.0
For children who have taken sessions and are aware of basic acrobatic skills with emphasis on increasing flexibility tricks and improving proper form and technique. Taught to the needs of each child’s ability.

Jumps and Turns 1.0 
Work on proper dance and gymnastics jumps and turns technique.

Jumps and Turns 2.0
Continue to develop more advanced gymnastics jumps and turns technique.

Private Instruction in Tumbling
One-on-one instruction in tumbling. For children with little or no previous training.

Tumbling and Acrobatics 2.0 & 3.0
Continue to develop the basic tumbling skills, with emphasis on proper form, technique & strength. Walkovers, round-offs, handstands & splits. Mixed ages; taught to needs of each child’s ability.

Tumbling and Acrobatics 4.0 & 5.0
Enrollment in this class is with permission of instructor. Students are mastering and turning basic skills and elements into more advanced skills. This is a concert class that will be performing in June.

Four Sundays Workshops 
Intensive dance workshops with master teachers and renowned professional dancers & choreographers. This unique opportunity allows for concentrated study with nationally and internationally traveled instructors over a four-week period. Types of dance covered include Ballet, Tap, Hip Hop, and Musical Theater. Students gain insight into the world of professional dance while strengthening technique & talents in an intimate studio environment.

Dance and Movement Workshop with Dancing Wheels Company
Instructed by members of the Dancing Wheels Company of Cleveland, Ohio, this workshop uses movement and performance in a unique approach to education and therapy. Individuals who previously found limited access to the arts due to physical, sensory, or developmental disabilities will enjoy inclusive dance and participatory learning with their disabled and non-disabled peers. The result is a freeing, educational and joyous art experience. Open to students with or without physical disabilities.

This program is presented with support from the Rosemary M. Front Charitable Trust.