Abby Lee Dance Company

The Abby Lee Dance Company was once a not-for-profit organization. Ballet is the foundation of all dance.  Its origins stem from Italy.  It is a highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.  It is best known in the form of classical, but can additionally include neoclassical and contemporary ballet. Each class begins with a ballet barre, moves to a center floor adage, petite and grand allegro, and concludes with a formal grand reverence.

Students will learn terminology in French, correct body alignment, how to improve their natural turn-out and develop a love for the most graceful living art. Jazz is an umbrella term that refers to several related dance styles including roots from a tap, ballet, jazz music, and African-American rhythms and dance.

Tap is the only form of dance that incorporates sound.  Developed in the United States during the nineteenth century, tap has become popular all over the world.  The name comes from the tapping sound made when the small metal plates on the dancer’s shoes touch a hard floor.  This lively, rhythmic tapping makes the performer, not just a dancer, but a percussive musician.

Classes in lyrical will emphasize one’s interpretation of music lyrics while telling a story with movement that can be fluid or abstract.  Students will take the slow fluidity of ballet and combine it with the turns and leaps of jazz. Contemporary is a dance performance genre developed during the mid 20th century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world.