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| Acrobatics |
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Acrobatics is one of the performing arts, and is also practiced as a sport. Acrobatics helps to improve balance, agility and coordination. It involves a combination of dance, tumbling and "partner skills" which in turn involves "balance" and "dynamic" skills. Dynamic skills involve some form of aerial maneuver while balance skills involve poses and holds. Typically tumbling consists of aerial manoeuvres including somersaults, back flips and handsprings, but also extends to non-aerial maneuvers such as cartwheels and walkovers. The academies programme is designed to develop the skill at young age in a fun, safe and controlled learning environment. So that students learn to do the activity (which they all do in the playground at school) safely and correctly. The programme is designed to develop on these basic skills as the students’ progress through the levels.
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| Musical Theatre |
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Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Musical theatre works, usually referred to as "musicals", are performed around the world. Some famous musicals include Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Les Misérables, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Rent.
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Contemporary is a form of dance influenced by both classical ballet and modern dance. It takes its technique from classical ballet, although it permits a greater range of movement that may not adhere to the strict body lines set forth by schools of ballet technique. Many of its concepts come from the ideas and innovations of 20th Century modern dance, including floor work and turn-in of the legs.
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| Funk |
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Funk Styles or funk dance refer to dance styles that are primarily danced to funk music. More specifically they can be used for a group of street dance styles that originated in California in the 1970s, mainly popping and locking. Though these specific dance styles have today been incorporated into the hip hop culture to some extent, and are often seen danced to hip hop music and electronica as well, they were originally and are still commonly danced to funk music. One of the reasons that the term funk styles first appeared was to give these dances their own identity and avoid them being primarily associated with hip-hop and break dancing.
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| Conditioning |
Dance conditioning addresses many of the issues dancers often face such as unwanted tension, turn out restrictions, alignment problems and lack of flexibility in a very gentle format. It uses simple, corrective exercises with imagery so that the body can make more efficient, sensible choices and eliminate the results of volitional effort. This reduces the chance of injury, restores muscle balance, improves technique and enhances performance. Other aspects such as muscular strength and endurance, core stability and proprioception are also addressed.
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