Dance

Dance is not only a joyous activity but a lifetime skill. It helps improve strength, coordination, flexibility, agility, and gracefulness. In fact, dance is so beneficial, trained professional athletes of various sports ranging from gymnastics, ice skating, to football and basketball have been known to use dance as a supplement to their training.

In Victory's dance program, we not only aim to physically train in different dance styles but to allow each child to gain self confidence and apply it to other activities outside of the dance room. We offer classical training in the form of ballet. We also offer a contemporary pop moves class with our hip hop classes. For a dance style that combines both classical with contemporary pop, our jazz class will be a sure hit. All of our dance classes are for the ages of 6 and up. For children under the age of 6, we offer our Shooting Stars classes. Shooting Stars is a 50 minute long class of both ballet and tap. Children are allowed to explore different rhythms using their feet as an instrument in tap. Afterwards, simple classical dance moves are explored in the ballet portion. Classes are always ended with a guided free dance time in order for each student to show off all the skills they have learned and already know. This allows the end of each class to be a reward of such hard work dedicated within those 50 minutes.

At Victory Gymnastics Academy, we are incredibly pleased to have a very talented dance instructor, Elaine Steinman. Elaine began dancing at the age of 8 and recently earned her Bachelors of Arts in dance. In all her years of dance training, Elaine has had the pleasure of studying under and working for various professional dance instructors. This includes Sue Gilson, a member on the Board of Directors for the Jazz Dance World Congress, Andrew Vaca, a "jazz dance specialist" who is also known for choreographing for NBA and NFL dance teams, and being an assistant choreographer to Lorin Johnson, a former American Ballet Theater dancer under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov. Elaine takes pride in all of her dance training and applies her education as well as work experience as a dancer to each and every one of her classes offered at Victory Gymnastics. She looks forward to watching her students growth as dancers as well as outside of the dance room.