Dance Styles
We offer a range of dance styles, each with its own unique technique, energy, and expression.
This page gives you a clear overview of what to expect in each class, helping you choose the style that best suits you or your child.
Contemporary
Contemporary dance is a dynamic and expressive style that encourages freedom, creativity, and individuality. At Muse Dance Studios, we embrace contemporary dance as a way for dancers to explore movement beyond traditional boundaries.
This versatile style focuses on storytelling, emotion, and connection, allowing each dancer to develop their own unique voice. Through fluid movement, floor work, and powerful shifts in energy, contemporary dance inspires confidence, creativity, and self-expression—making it an exciting and meaningful experience for dancers of all levels.
dance acro
Dance acro is an exciting and dynamic discipline that seamlessly blends the strength and flexibility of gymnastics with the fluidity and expression of dance.
At Muse Dance Studios, our dance acro classes focus on building solid acrobatic technique such as balances, lifts, and tumbling, while integrating these skills into graceful, controlled movement and storytelling. Dancers learn how to transition smoothly between tricks and choreography, creating performances that are both powerful and expressive. Making it a perfect choice for dancers who love to combine athletic skill with artistic performance.
commercial
Commercial dance is an energetic and versatile genre that brings together a range of styles, including street dance, hip hop, jazz, and more. Rather than being a single technique, it’s a fusion designed for performance, focusing on confidence, stage presence, and connecting with an audience.
At Muse Dance Studios, commercial dance is all about learning how to perform with impact—whether on stage, in music videos, commercials, or live concerts. Dancers develop not only their technical ability but also their individuality and performance quality, making this style perfect for those who want to shine, tell a story, and captivate any audience.
jazz
Jazz dance is a vibrant and high-energy style that combines strong technique with an expressive performance quality and strong musicality.
At Muse Dance Studios, our jazz classes draw on a mix of influences from classical jazz foundations to modern, commercial styles, creating a dynamic and engaging experience for dancers. This style focuses on sharp, precise movements, turns, kicks, and leaps, all performed with rhythm, style, and personality. Jazz dance encourages confidence, versatility, and individuality, making it perfect for dancers who love to perform with power, attitude, and flair.
lyrical
Lyrical dance is a beautiful and expressive style that combines the technical foundations of ballet with the freedom and emotion of contemporary dance. It encourages dancers to connect with the music through storytelling, musicality and expressive movement.
At Muse Dance Studios, our lyrical classes focus on developing strong technique, control, flexibility and performance quality while helping dancers grow in confidence and artistry. This creates graceful, emotional performances that are both technically strong and engaging to watch.
Lyrical is only available to dancers in our Muse Motion squads.
ballet
Ballet is the foundation of many dance styles, developing the strength, technique and discipline that support a dancer's overall training. It focuses on posture, alignment, flexibility, balance and musicality while building grace, precision and control.
At Muse Dance Studios, our ballet classes provide dancers with a strong technical foundation that enhances performance across all styles, helping them grow into confident, versatile and well-rounded performers.
dance technique
Dance Technique is one of the most important parts of a dancer's training, providing the foundation for all other dance styles.
At Muse Dance Studios, this class develops essential skills including jumps, turns, leaps, kicks, strength, flexibility, control, and correct body alignment. A strong technical foundation helps dancers progress safely, build confidence, and perform with precision.
Technique is a compulsory class for all competition squad dancers, ensuring they have the skills needed to perform at their best.
dance fitness
At Muse Dance Studios, our Dance Fitness classes are designed to help dancers build the strength, flexibility, and stamina needed to support all aspects of their training. Through a combination of conditioning, targeted exercises, and functional movement, dancers develop greater body awareness, control, and overall fitness.
Dance Fitness is an essential part of a well-rounded dancer’s training, providing the foundation for strong, healthy, and resilient dancers both in the studio and on the stage.
