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Absolute Beginner Ballet

Instructor: Kat Wildish
Firdays 7:30pm
Learn the basics and refine your technique.

Absolute Beginner Hip-Hop

Instructor: Tweetie
Monday 7:00pm / Wednesday 8:00pm
An introduction to Hip-Hop culture with a fun and energetic routine.

Adv. Beg./ Int. Samba / Afro-Brazilian

Instructor: Quenia Ribeiro
Tuesdays 7:30pm
This class is for people who want to expand their knowledge about Samba / Afro-Brazilian dance.

Adv. Beginner/Intermediate Samba/Afro-Brazilian

Instructor: Quenia Ribeiro
Sundays 4:00pm & Tuesdays 7:30pm
This high energy class explores the cultural diversity of Brazil through movement and rhythm.

Advanced Beginner Afro-Cuban

Instructor: La Mora
Wednesdays 6:00pm - 7:30pm & Fridays 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Sway to the rhythms of Cuba, while building strength and agility.

Advanced Beginner Ballet

Instructor: Kat Wildish
Mondays, Wednesdays 10:00am & 7:30pm Fridays 10:00am
Reinforce the seven movements in dancing and the ballet vocabulary while building upon basic fundamentals.

Advanced Beginner Broadway Jazz

Instructor: Sue Samuels
Saturday 5:00pm
This class emphasizes the jazz style with strong proper body alignment and clean technique through placement using barre warm-ups and combinations.

Advanced Beginner Dunham

Instructor: Joan Peters
Saturdays 3:00pm - 4:30pm
This class concentrates on building strength, flexibility, and the ability to undulate your torso and hips fully and rapidly.

Advanced Beginner Hip-Hop

Instructor: Robin Dunn
Tuesdays 7:30pm - 9:00pm / Wednesdays 7:00pm-8:30pm
This course builds upon techniques learned in Absolute Beginner Hip-Hop.

Advanced Beginner Horton

Instructor: Iquail Johnson
Mondays 7:00pm
This class is based on the fundamentals of the Horton technique: flat backs, primitive squat, descent and ascent, lateral stretches, release swings, leg swings, deep lunges, T positions, coccyx balance and stag position.

Advanced Beginner Jazz

Instructor: Sheila Barker
Fridays 6:30pm
This class emphasizes on breaking down turns, leaps, placement, connecting movement so it flows, which will bring your technique to the next level.

Advanced Beginner Sabar

Instructor: Babacar M’Baye
Mondays 6:30-8:00pm
Highly energetic class expanding on the traditional movement. Incoportates a lot of hip twisting, jumping, arm swinging and high knee lifting.

Advanced Beginner Theatre Dance

Instructor: Vic DiMonda
Tuesdays 7:45pm / Saturdays 4:30pm
Basics of technique and alignment through a ballet-based warm-up and specific context and setting for each week's combination.

Advanced Beginner/Intermediate Ballet

Instructor: Kat Wildish
Saturdays 4:30pm
Build from techniques and vocabulary used in beginning level classes.

Afro Cuban Modern Dance

Instructor: Noibis Licea
Sundays 3:00 - 4:30pm
Afro-Cuban Modern Dance is a dynamic fusion of North American Modern Dance

Afro-Cuban

Instructor: La Mora
Wednesdays 6:00pm
Immersion in the beat, rhythms and overall feeling of the Afro-Cuban style.

Ailey Extension CLOSED for Thanksgiving Day


Ailey Extension CLOSED on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day


Beginner Ballet Level 1

Instructor: Finis Jhung
Mondays 7:30pm / Fridays 7:30pm / Sundays 12pm
Develop correct posture, positioning and while developing strength and control of your movements.

Beginner Ballet Level 2

Instructor: Finis Jhung
Tuesdays 6:30pm / Thursdays 6:30pm / Sundays 2:15pm
Perfect for those moving from Level 1 who wish to build upon the skills they have obtained at a faster pace.

Beginner Capoeira

Instructor: Tiba
Tuesdays 7:00pm / Saturdays 4:30pm
An introduction to the proper techniques of Capoeira and the basic tools necessary to advance in this hip martial art/dance form.

Beginner Capoeira EXTRA

Instructor: Tiba
Thursdays 7:15pm - 9:15pm
This unique combination class starts with 1 hour of Beginner Capoeira class and transitions into the intermediate level for the next hour.

Beginner Hip-Hop

Instructor: Jonathan Lee
Saturdays 2:30pm - 4:00pm
This class is geared toward students who have little to no hip-hop dance background.

Beginner Hip-Hop

Instructor: Jonathan Lee
Thursdays 7:00pm
Fundamentals of Hip Hop including funk styles and B-boying.

Beginner Hip-Hop

Instructor: Robin Dunn
Sundays 3:00pm
The class begins with a basic warm-up to stretch and tone the body, followed by across the floor progressions, concluded with a fun and energetic routine.

Beginner Horton

Instructor: Iquail Johnson
Wednesdays 7:00pm & Sundays at 3:00pm
Basic fundamentals of Horton to stretch and strengthen different areas of the body with focus on the Achilles tendon, abdominal, spine, and hamstring muscles.

Beginner Sabar

Instructor: Babacar M’Baye
Tuesdays 7:30pm
Originating from Senegal, West Africa, danced up off the ground with abundant arms and twisting of the hips.

Beginner Samba / Afro Brazilian

Instructor: Quenia Ribeiro
Mondays 6:00pm / Wednesdays 7:30pm
This is a basic Brazilian dance class that incorporates its Afro-Brazilian roots and the rhythms of Brazilian Samba.

Beginner Tap

Instructor: Germaine Goodson
Tuesdays 6:30pm
This class guides students through syncopation, correct technique, and improving basic tap skills.

Beginner West African

Instructor: Maguette Camara
Mondays & Thursdays 6:30pm / Saturdays 11:30am / Sundays 3:00pm
A high-spirited, high-powered rhythmic dance experience for anyone who loves to dance.

Capoeira

Instructor: Tiba
Fridays 7:30pm
Simple moves and techniques that train in this Afro-Brazilian art form.

Contemporary Dance

Instructor: Michael Leon Thomas
Tuesdays & Thursdays 7:30pm
Improve harmony of movement by incorporating a series of non-stop combinations.

House Dance

Instructor: Eddie Stockton
Thursdays 8:00pm
The fundamental movements of House Dance while exploring your freedom of expression through rhythmic sequences and improvisation.

Intermediate Ballet

Instructor: Kat Wildish
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 6:00pm
Strengthen and point your feet, improve your turn-out and your body alignment and develop your ballet technique.

Intermediate Capoeira

Instructor: Tiba
Tuesdays 8:00pm
This class will teach you different kicks, sweeps, head butts and sparring that build upon your knowledge of Capoeira.

Intermediate Theatre Dance

Instructor: Vic DiMonda
Thursdays 7:45pm
This class moves at a faster pace than the advanced beginner level with more combinations and twice the fun.

Intro Horton

Instructor: Karen Arceneaux
Fridays 7:30pm / Saturdays 3:30pm
Fundamentals of the Horton technique for the dance beginner.

Masala Bhangra Workout®

Instructor: Sarina Jain
Mondays 8:00pm / Saturdays 10:35am
Overall toning, body conditioning to build endurance, stamina and balance.

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New York Salsa 101

Instructor: Ahtoy WonPat-Borja
Tuesdays 6:30pm
Move comfortably and confidently to Latin rhythms, transitioning into fundamental salsa footwork, while taking a unique approach to partner work.

Open Haitian Folkloric

Instructor: Peniel Guerrier
Sundays 2:00pm
Enhance the energy and flow of traditional forms of Haitian dance with beautiful, vivid body shapes.

Open Middle Eastern / Bellydance

Instructor: Samara
Saturdays 5:00pm
Emphasis on body alignment, stretches and isolations which will evolve into fluid and rhythmic movements.

Pilates Mat Fusion

Instructor: Neil Totton
Sundays 10:00am
Incorporates the proper alignment and stability principles of Pilates into a balanced, efficient, total-body conditioning class.

Pointe

Instructor: Kat Wildish
Wednesdays 11:45pm / Saturdays 6:15pm
Serving all levels of pointe technique, from beginners to seasoned professionals maintaining fundamentals.

Power Ashtanga Yoga

Instructor: Irini Res
Wednesdays 7:30pm / Fridays 7:30 / Sundays 5:00pm
Synchronizing the breath with a progressive series of poses to produce intense internal heat and detoxification.

Powerful Body Pilates

Instructor: Sarita Allen
Saturdays 9:35am
This class strengthens the core of your body, internally to externally. Develop and tone your muscles through the use of standard Pilates principles.

Samba / Afro-Brazilian

Instructor: Quenia Ribeiro
Saturdays 4:00pm
This is an open level Brazilian dance class that incorporates its Afro-Brazilian roots and the rhythms of Brazilian Samba.

SharQui - The Bellydance Workout®

Instructor: Sharon Zaslaw
Thursdays 6:30pm
An urban, aerobic method that gets your heart pumping, feeds the soul and celebrates the body.

STORM CLOSURE OCT 28: All Ailey Extension Classes after 5pm Cancelled


STORM CLOSURE OCT 29: All Ailey Extension Classes Cancelled


STORM CLOSURE OCT 30: All Ailey Extension Classes Cancelled


West African

Instructor: Maguette Camara
Fridays 6:00pm
Body, mind and spirit combine in an energetic union of music, dance and oral tradition.

Zumba® Fitness

Instructor: Samuel Salazar
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays at 12:30pm / Tuesdays & Thursdays at 6:30pm / Mondays, Wednesdays at 6:00pm / Saturdays at 11:35am & 6:00pm / Sundays at 10:00am & 11:30am
Zumba® Fitness is a feel-happy workout that combines a motivating fusion of Latin and International music.

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