Dance Classes in Union for Grades 2nd to 5th Build Strong Skills and Confidence Through Dance
Help your dancer grow with classes that strengthen technique, inspire creativity, and support meaningful progress. Students in grades 2nd to 3rd explore Lyrical and Contemporary, Hip Hop II, Acro Tumble II, Ballet, Tap, and Jazz. Dancers in grades 4th to 5th advance through Lyrical and Contemporary, Hip Hop II, Acro Tumble II and III, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, and Ballet Pre Pointe II. At Villa West Performing Arts, every class encourages growth, confidence, and a lasting love for dance.
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Watch Your Dancer Shine One Step at a Time
At Villa West Performing Arts, dancers in grades 2nd to 5th refine balance, control, and motor skills through intentional technique work. Whether they are practicing ballet alignment, tap rhythms, jazz patterns, hip hop foundations, or acro tumble progressions, students build full body awareness that supports safe and confident movement.
With personalized instruction and uplifting support, dancers learn to set goals, face challenges, and celebrate each achievement. From mastering new turns to improving flexibility or advancing through Acro Tumble levels, students experience the confidence that comes from steady growth and a positive learning environment.
Villa West Performing Arts is a place where students feel seen, supported, and welcomed. Dancers build friendships, collaborate with peers, and learn teamwork through group choreography and shared class experiences. The result is a sense of belonging that keeps them motivated and excited to return each week.
Inspiring Progress and Passion at Every Level
Dancers in grades 2nd to 5th thrive when they are encouraged to grow, try new skills, and strengthen their technique. Our program at Villa West Performing Arts provides the perfect balance of structure and creativity, guiding students through meaningful progression in styles like ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, lyrical, contemporary, and acro tumble. Each class supports personal development by reinforcing discipline, focus, teamwork, and resilience. In a welcoming and uplifting environment, dancers build confidence, form lasting friendships, and discover the joy of seeing their hard work turn into real improvement. Every step forward prepares them for new challenges and helps them grow both as dancers and as individuals.
Lyrical/Contemporary: Combines expressive movement and musicality to help dancers build emotion, control, and smooth transitions.
Hip Hop II: Focuses on rhythm, coordination, and confidence through energetic movement and structured choreography.
Acro-Tumble II: Develops strength, flexibility, and balance using safe progressions that connect tumbling skills with dance movement.
Ballet: Builds proper posture, alignment, and technique while strengthening focus and discipline.
Tap: Improves timing, listening skills, and coordination through rhythmic footwork and sound patterns.
Jazz: Encourages sharp movements, flexibility, and performance quality through upbeat choreography.
Lyrical/Contemporary: Expands expression and artistry by combining technical control with emotional storytelling and fluid movement.
Hip Hop II: Strengthens musicality, precision, and stage presence through structured combinations and rhythm-based training.
Acro Tumble II and III: Advances tumbling technique while improving core strength, coordination, and control within dance sequences.
Ballet: Refines technique, balance, and alignment while preparing dancers for more advanced training.
Tap: Enhances rhythm accuracy, coordination, and musical awareness through increasingly complex footwork.
Jazz: Builds strength, flexibility, and confidence with dynamic choreography and performance-focused movement.
Ballet Pre Pointe II: Introduces foot strength, alignment, and conditioning to prepare dancers for future pointe training.
Why Families Choose Villa West Performing Arts
We understand that families balance schoolwork, activities, and daily routines. Villa West Performing Arts offers a variety of class times across styles like ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop, and acro tumble. This gives dancers in grades 2nd to 5th the flexibility to learn and grow without added stress on the family schedule.
Parents want a studio where their children feel safe, supported, and motivated. Our instructors create an encouraging space where dancers can take risks, strengthen technique, and advance confidently. With age appropriate progressions and a focus on injury prevention, students build skills in a positive and structured environment.
Villa West Performing Arts is a place where dancers and families feel connected. Students build friendships, support one another, and learn the value of teamwork through every class and performance. Families love the sense of belonging that comes from being part of a caring and uplifting community.
Why Dance Creates a Stronger Path for Growing Dancers
Dance offers far more than physical activity. It supports your dancer’s full development by strengthening emotional awareness, creativity, focus, teamwork, and personal discipline. See how the experience in our Grades 2nd to 5th classes compares with traditional kids sports and discover why dance provides such a well rounded path for growth.
Many sports place most of their attention on physical performance. This can limit opportunities for kids to explore creativity, emotional expression, and character development.
In team sports, less experienced players may receive less playing time or fewer opportunities to participate. This can lead to frustration, discouragement, and lower confidence.
Competition can motivate, but it can also create pressure when the emphasis is mainly on winning. For some children, the experience becomes stressful instead of enjoyable.
Large teams make it difficult for coaches to give every player individualized support. Without consistent guidance, a child’s personal growth may slow down.
Our program supports the whole dancer. Students build strength, flexibility, and coordination while also developing creativity, emotional expression, and personal growth through styles like ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, lyrical, contemporary, and acro tumble.
At Villa West Performing Arts, every dancer shines. Whether learning new skills, progressing through levels, or performing on stage, each student is given equal time, encouragement, and support.
Our curriculum promotes patience, attention to detail, accountability, and dedication. These habits help dancers succeed both in the studio and in everyday life, including schoolwork and social experiences.
Students learn to listen carefully, follow direction, collaborate with others, and show respect for their instructors and classmates. These interpersonal skills strengthen teamwork and help children build positive relationships.
Exploring Dance Styles Through Creativity and Growth
Dancers in grades 2nd to 5th begin developing stronger coordination, musicality, and body awareness, and our program gives them a space to explore all of it with confidence. Students learn a variety of styles, including ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, lyrical, contemporary, and acro tumble, each supporting a different part of their growth. Ballet builds posture and control. Jazz strengthens sharpness and energy. Tap improves timing. Hip hop boosts rhythm and confidence. Lyrical and contemporary enhance emotion and expression. Acro tumble increases strength and flexibility.
Every class blends technique, creativity, and age appropriate activities, keeping dancers motivated while building real skills. Teachers break down movements in simple steps so dancers feel supported as they try new combinations. As they explore different styles, dancers begin to understand how each one contributes to their progress. By the end of the season, they take the stage to share their improvement in a performance filled with confidence, joy, and pride.
A Well Rounded Dance Experience for Growing Dancers
Our curriculum for grades 2nd to 5th helps dancers grow through skills that carry across every style. Students build alignment, control, and strength in ballet, develop timing and musicality in tap, and gain power, precision, and energy in jazz. Hip hop introduces grounded movement and rhythm. Lyrical and contemporary encourage emotional expression and fluidity. Acro tumble builds core strength, balance, and confidence through safe progressions.
Each class balances technique, creativity, and fun, helping dancers learn without feeling overwhelmed. Through warm ups, across the floor exercises, drills, and choreography, dancers improve flexibility, balance, focus, and discipline. They also discover how training in one style supports another, which keeps them eager to learn more. By the time they reach the end of the season, dancers take pride in a performance that highlights their hard work and steady growth.
Fostering Confidence, Coordination, and Creativity
Dance plays a meaningful role in helping children grow both as dancers and as individuals. Our program builds confidence as students learn new skills across ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, lyrical, contemporary, and acro tumble. They develop trust in their abilities, learn to take direction, and celebrate achievements that support long term self esteem. Group activities, partner work, and choreography encourage teamwork, communication, and connection, helping dancers feel included and supported.
At Villa West Performing Arts, we focus on life skills that extend beyond technique. Students build discipline through consistent practice, focus through detailed combinations, and perseverance as they work through challenges. These experiences shape dancers into motivated, thoughtful young people who are proud of their progress. The end of year recital becomes a powerful moment where dancers share their accomplishments and feel the support of their community.
The Joy of Dance Beyond the Studio
The impact of dance continues long after class ends. Dancers in grades 2nd to 5th build friendships, discover confidence, and learn what it feels like to be part of a supportive community. Through a mix of technique, creativity, music, and performance, students begin to view dance as something that enriches their daily lives, not just a weekly activity.
Styles like ballet, jazz, hip hop, tap, lyrical, contemporary, and acro tumble give students multiple ways to express themselves while building strength and artistry. These moments help dancers grow socially and emotionally while finding joy in movement. At Villa West Performing Arts, dancers create memories that strengthen their confidence, motivate their goals, and spark a lifelong love of dance.
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FAQs
Dance classes at Villa West Performing Arts help students build coordination, balance, and strength through structured training across styles like ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, lyrical, contemporary, and acro tumble. Beyond movement, dancers develop important life skills such as discipline, confidence, focus, and respect. These skills support success in school, friendships, and extracurricular activities, giving dancers a strong foundation for personal growth.
Yes. Our classes for grades 2nd to 5th are thoughtfully designed to be age appropriate, safe, and supportive. Instructors introduce skills step by step and guide dancers through clear progressions that match their level. Students build strength, flexibility, and confidence at a pace that feels comfortable. Safety and encouragement are at the core of every class.
Students explore a variety of styles including ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, contemporary, and acro tumble. Each class includes stretching, technique work, across the floor practice, and choreography tailored to their grade level. Through this well rounded approach, dancers improve rhythm, musicality, posture, body control, and expression while discovering which styles they love most.
Support can be simple and meaningful. Encouraging regular attendance, celebrating progress, and showing interest in what your dancer is learning all make a difference. You can practice basic stretches, listen to their favorite dance music, or ask them to show you a new step they learned. Your involvement helps build confidence and keeps their excitement growing.
Dance strengthens far more than physical skills. It helps students build focus, listening skills, teamwork, and creativity. Dancers gain self esteem as they master new movements and perform on stage. They also learn the value of commitment, practice, and goal setting, which positively influences many areas of their lives.
Real Experiences from Villa West Performing Arts Families
Families in our community see the difference that quality training and a supportive environment can make. Parents share how their dancers in grades 2nd to 5th grow in confidence, coordination, focus, and creativity through styles like ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, lyrical, contemporary, and acro tumble. They celebrate the friendships their children build, the pride they feel after performances, and the joy that comes from being part of a positive studio community.
These real stories highlight how Villa West Performing Arts helps dancers feel encouraged, motivated, and excited to learn. We are grateful for every family who shares their journey and for the trust they place in us as their dancer grows on and off the stage.
Villa West continues to exceed my expectations that I had when I initially enrolled my super shy, very quiet 4 year old into their Acro classes over a year ago. Every single instructor and coach has been more than accommodating to my sweet girl. They are patient, kind, happy, joyful and always welcoming. They have been so energetic and encouraging that my daughter has requested to enroll into dance so she can perform ON HER OWN at recital! AMAZING! The confidence they build up in each athlete is something that they should feel so proud of!! They make every athlete (and this momma!) want to achieve their highest potential while keeping safety and everyday life obstacles at the forefront of minds and allowing these kids to be kids! Villa West is, hands down, the best gym and I’d recommend it to anyone and everyone!!!
We have been at Villa west for 3 years now and are so happy with this studio! The teachers are so knowledgeable and wonderful with our daughter. It’s such a great atmosphere filled with positivity! The kids get a chance to be a part of learning dance/acro, being active and building friendships. We can’t say enough good things about our experience there! 10/10 recommend!
Villa West is the BEST studio!! My daughter has been there for 5 years and we can not be happier!! All the staff/teachers are amazing and always so friendly. Walking in each night the first thing you see is their smiling faces and happy happy kiddos ready to dance!! We are so thankful to be apart of such an amazing family💜 …
This is our sixth year with Villa West and each season I am so so glad to be with this studio. Every teacher is so invested in their students’ growth both as athletes and individuals. They nurture a positive and uplifting environment and my girls have found a true home within VWPA.
We have been with Villa West for 5 years and counting. I initially chose the studio based on the credentials and experience of the instructors but have since learned this studio is so much more. The owner prides herself on making sure that Villa West teaches more than dancing. These kids are learning teamwork, character, and the value of hard work. All of the instructors make sure that the music, choreography, and costumes are age appropriate and that makes this studio stand out. This studio helps to reinforce values that are important to me. While we love to earn high scores and trophies, the instructors make sure that the dancers work to achieve their personal best and keep pushing to become better. This studio also allows dancers to participate in the level they are comfortable with from regular classes with a recital in the spring, to performance groups which go to a couple competitions, to dance company with accelerated classes and competitions. Miss Jenny continues to bring new talented instructors in and they have all become like family. She also continues to try new things and finds new ways to give kids opportunities to try new things out. We even love how involved she makes the parents feel. My girls love their Villa West family.
We have been at Villa West for 6 years, I can’t say enough great things about the studio! We took a year off to try different sports and my kiddos and I both knew that our hearts were missing the studio! The staff is always professional! They are great with all of the kiddos. The environment is welcoming and safe! But I also have to compliment the kids that attend there, especially the company and Acro gym team kids! They are one big family!! I love seeing them help each other grow, be so welcoming, and on breaks just play and be friends together!! I don’t know that VW will ever know how thankful we are for our dance family!!
The teachers at Villa West are truly the best! They are patient and kind. They give the kids the opportunity to be themselves and reach their potential with encouragement and understanding. We feel included by our coaches and have had a really great experience. A good learning experience for our family, and one that I am grateful to be a part of!✌️❤️
Villa West puts Family First! 💜
The care and compassion shown by the teachers and staff at Villa West is something that continues to make the studio our home away from home. Having a studio in our community that focuses on letting kids be kids while providing a foundation in dance and acro that will continue with them for a lifetime, is truly a blessing.
Miss Jenny and Miss Alley are so great. My granddaughter has learned so much. Definitely recommend
Villa West is simply the best. Madeline has been attending classes since she was 3 and we have never felt more at home (she’s 9 now!). The teachers are all wonderful and welcoming and the atmosphere is delightful. This is our first year on the competition team and it has been nothing short of amazing. Watching her confidence and skill grow each week makes this mommas heart so happy! Thank you to the staff for making our experience the best. Can’t wait to see the competition team in action in the spring!
Amazing dance studio. The staff is kind and always smiling. My daughter has learned so much in the last 3.5 years. She loves going and has made many new friends.
Wonderful, talented, and caring staff — a great school. They support their dancers as individuals, and also teach great teamwork. Very much a family, with open and welcoming arms to new dancers. Miss Jenny is amazing, but all the teachers are great. A variety of staff too, with different specializations and focuses. Well rounded curriculum makes this school available to everyone.
The atmosphere is absolutely fantastic! It feels like family at the studio. Friendships are made. Everybody encourages each other. It’s exactly what I want my daughter to see from older students and staff.
All of the teachers are fabulous as well. They are encouraging and teach students in such a way they flourish with their own style.
My daughter loves going to dance and I love taking her to a studio that cares for each student!
Villa West is a wonderful place to take your children to learn many forms of dance and acro. The instructors/coaches are amazing and care for each child as if they were their own. They are always smiling and full of encouragement. They instill hard work, proper technique, dedication, and perseverance into each student. And everyone is taught to lift up their fellow classmates and cheer one another on. The seasoned dancers are great role models to the younger kids and it’s so sweet to see the older girls making those bonds. I am so happy that my family is a part of Villa West!
We love Villa West!! The staff is phenomenal and my daughter looks forward to her class every Wednesday since we started. I’m so glad we chose this school for her dance classes. Check it out!
We love Villa West! I can see my kids’ skills and confidence growing in just two months of classes.
More Reasons Families Choose Villa West Performing Arts
Our dance classes help students strengthen active listening, concentration, and clear communication. Through choreography, group work, and style specific instruction, dancers learn how to follow direction, stay engaged, and express themselves with confidence. These skills support success in school, friendships, and everyday interactions.
With a supportive environment and structured milestones, dancers build commitment, determination, and follow through. They learn how consistent practice leads to improvement and how setting small goals creates steady progress. These habits carry over into academics, teamwork, and personal responsibility.
Dance teaches students to approach challenges with confidence and curiosity. When a skill feels difficult, dancers learn to keep trying, view mistakes as learning moments, and celebrate progress. This helps them build a strong, resilient mindset that supports them in every area of life.
Our classes promote full body strength, balance, and coordination. Each style enhances physical development in different ways, from ballet alignment to acro tumble strength and hip hop stamina. These benefits support not only dance training but any physical activity children pursue.
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