Classes
About our Classes
DanceWorks Indy is proud to offer a variety of adult dance classes.
Read on to find out more about the kinds of classes and styles of dance we offer!
Ballet
Ballet is an artistic dance form performed to music using precise and highly formalized set steps and gestures. Classical ballet, which originated in Renaissance Italy and established its present form during the 19th century, is characterized by light, graceful, and fluid movements.
Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT)
Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) is a codified class that helps dancers create muscle memory in service of their ballet technique. Every exercise in the PBT repertoire is designed to help develop more coordination and muscular accuracy that translates directly into ballet class. This revolutionary technique from Australia has now become global and taken over the world of ballet training! Come see how this low-impact class can help you grow your ballet technique even more efficiently.
Tap
Tap dance is characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor. The sound is made by shoes that have a metal “tap” on the heel and toe. There are several major variations on tap dance including: flamenco, rhythm (jazz) tap, classical tap, Broadway tap, and post-modern tap.
Musical Theatre
Calling all Broadway lovers! Learn approachable and fun choreography to songs from your favorite musicals. This all-levels class has something for everyone, and never fails to lift spirits and release endorphins!
Hip Hop
Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or that have evolved as part of hip hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles. The television show Soul Train and the 1980s films Breakin’, Beat Streat, and Wild Style, showcased dance crews and hip hop dance styles in their early stages, giving hip-hop mainstream exposure. The dance industry responded with a commercial, studio-based version of hip-hop—sometimes called “new style”—and a hip-hop influenced style of jazz dance called “jazz-funk”. Classically trained dancers developed these studio styles in order to create choreography from the hip-hop dances that were performed on the street. Because of this development, hip-hop dance is practiced in both dance studios and outdoor spaces.
Contemporary & Modern
Contemporary dance is a genre of dance that developed during the mid twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in the U.S. and Europe. Although originally informed by and borrowing from classical ballet, modern, and jazz, it has since come to incorporate elements from many styles of dance. Contemporary dance ranges from involves large, full-bodied movements to incorporating floor work, to encouraging improvisation and movement exploration.
Modern dance, the predecessor to contemporary dance, typically refers to the codified techniques of Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Lester Horton, Merce Cunningham. Modern is often considered to be a “rebellion” to the more formal dance forms like classical ballet.
Jazz
Jazz dance is very broad style that may refer to vernacular jazz, Broadway jazz, or studio jazz dance. All genres build on the African American vernacular style of dancing that emerged with jazz music. Some popular broadway and theatrical jazz choreographers include Bob Fosse and Gus Giordano. Currently, the term “jazz dance” has been used in ways that have little to do with jazz music, and has developed into a technique that is commonly cultivated by competition dance teams and studios, in which students dance to various forms of pop music.
Heels
A fusion of the strong attitude from Hip Hop, with the sexiness of belly dancing or burlesque, heels is a really fun dance class. Our open level class for all dancers who just want to groove, feel & look great, and learn more about high-heels dancing!
K-POP
Learn the original choreography from your favorite K-Pop music videos! Live your K-Pop start fantasy by dancing the actual moves your favorite artists like BLACKPINK, BTS, TWICE, and many more do in their videos.
305 Fitness
305 Fitness is the the 45 min, non-stop, sweaty, easy to follow, all-levels cardio dance party you didn’t know you needed. With custom music mixes curated by NYC DJ’s, killer choreo, and a little toning section thrown in, you’ll be moving and grooving with us before you know it.
SWERK
SWERK—Sweat, Work, Twerk—The world’s best hip-hop cardio fitness workout! This booty poppin, glute-focused cardio dance fitness class will change your routine for fitness.
Circuit Conditioning
This full-body conditioning class will focus on building muscle tone in the arms, legs, glutes, and abs while switching exercises to fatigue the different muscle groups. All fitness levels are welcome, there will be opportunity for personal attention from the instructor and modifications/challenges will be offered throughout class.
Yoga
Yoga is a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline that incorporates breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures to lengthen and strengthen the body.
Vinyasa is a style of yoga characterized by stringing postures together so that you move from one to another, seamlessly, using breath. Vinyasa classes offer a variety of postures and poses, appropriate for all fitness levels.
DanceWorks offers both slow flow and more challenging and upbeat classes.
Private Lessons
Looking for one-on-one feedback on your technique?
Not comfortable coming into the studio for a group class, but wanting to dance in our studios rather than your home?
Why not try a private lesson?