SARATOGA SCHOOL of DANCE is the most complete and trusted dance studio for lessons and classes in the Bay Area.
We make learning dance fun. Tap classes beginning at age 18 months. We teach tap fundamentals, technical precision, improvisational skills, rhythm, and we can even build up speed tap. The curriculum was created to encourage age appropriate creativity, musicality, and physicality. Your child will dance and have fun with an emphasis on the foundations.
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Well Rounded Students
We offer students a homework lounge and parents are welcome to view classes from the back of the room.
Tap improves memory skills and neuroplasticity (brain function). Tap dancers memorize complex routines and rapid footwork, which boosts mental acuity. By its very nature, tap is rhythmic. Students count beats and measures, which reinforces mathematical skills and ratios - naturally. Tap teaches musicality and develops a keen sense of timing, tempo, and phrasing.
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Strength, Flexibility...
Tap is a full-body cardio workout and builds a strong engaged core. This class will pull from multiple fitness techniques to help students achieve greater stamina, flexibility, and range of motion. Tap improves balance and boosts coordination. Tap tones legs, thighs, hips, and calves and builds strength. You want better balance? Then tap. Want a more agile body and reduce the risk of falling? Then tap. Want better posture... tap ... and tap reduces back pain, too.
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Excellence in all areas
The Saratoga School of Dance’s ballet mission focuses on excellence in dance class nurturing children and young people (and adults, too). Our students learn patience, persistence, attention to detail, discipline, teamwork and self-motivation. Saratoga School of Dance has developed a reputation as one of the Bay Area’s top training programs. Learning new skills and expressing oneself through improvised or choreographed rhythms builds self-confidence. These are things we want for our children and for ourselves.
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Social Skills and Building Community
Tap provides stress relief. Have a bad day? Pound it out. Tap is a nautural decompressor: movement and endorphens, creating music with your feet (how great is that!), the percussive sound of your taps is a fun and carthartic release. And when you are in the creative flow your mind can't loop on the other stuff. This is an activity you can do with your kids, build teamwork and connections, learn together. Group classes foster a sense of community and friendship.
John Bubbles
Listen to my feet and I will tell you the story of my life.
some of Our TAP dancing students
We meet you where you are: brand new to dance ... experienced tap dancers returning after a long break ... dancers trained in technical precision, improvisational skills, rhythm, or speed tap - versatile dancers who are ready for work in the industry. It's lovely noise, and you learn core tapping fundamentals. Build community.Evelry year many of our students are picked to dance in competitions or dance invitationals.
