Dance Attack! Has Programs For All Ages
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2023 – 24 Performing Company Auditions are held every April, and the company competes January to May . Read our company page or email info@danceattack.com if you have questions about the Performing Company.
With two convenient locations in Sunnyvale and Los Gatos, CA, Dance Attack! Performing Arts provides quality dance instruction for students of all ages, from toddlers to adults.
We offer a variety of styles including Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Latin Jazz, Tap, Acro, and Contemporary. We not only match the strengths of our students with our dance teachers, but also accommodate students with special needs, including developmentally disabled teens and adults and individuals in wheelchairs.
Some benefits of dance include:
- Motor skills
- Improved balance, posture, and flexibility
- Muscle tone and strength
- Increased endurance
- School preparedness (listening, taking turns, following directions)
- Spatial awareness
- Rhythm and musicality
- Communication
- Self-Confidence
- psychological well-being
- social skills
Dance Attack has won
- “Best of the Best” dance classes, Bay Area Parent
- Best Silicon Valley Dance Company, Metro Silicon Valley
- 2021 Best of Los Gatos (Education), Los Gatos Award Program
- Best “NU” group, NUVO dance convention
- “Stop the Clock” best routine, 24/Seven dance convention
- Best Choreography, Velocity dance convention
- Best of Style – Contemporary, Hip Hop, and Tap, Art of Movement convention
- Most Entertaining, Art of Movement convention
- Overall High Score, Starpower dance convention
- 5 Diamond studio, LA Dance Magic
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Preschool Age
Tap/Ballet Combo Class:
Our Preschool program offers a creative movement class including Tap and Ballet. Our classes help children develop balance, rhythm, dance fundamentals and a love of music and dance. Students must be 2 1/2 years old to attend the 2-3 class (30 minutes), 3 1/2 years old to attend the 3-4 class (45 minutes), and 4 1/2 years old to attend the 4-5 class (60 minutes).
Jr. Hip Hop:
Our Jr. Hip Hop class is our youngest “Intro to Hip Hop”. The class is 45 minutes and includes warm ups, drills and skills, combinations, and movement games. This class will help build coordination, confidence, and rhythm. Age-appropriate music!
Hip Hop/Acro:
Just like our Jr. Hip Hop class, and this also includes beginning Acro. The class is 60 minutes, and includes warm ups, drills and skills, combinations, tumbling, and movement games. This class will help build coordination, confidence, rhythm and help develop body strength. Age-appropriate music!
School Age
Dance Essentials 1 and 2 (formerly Combo 5.5-7.5 and 6-8) are combo classes designed to continue a student’s training in Tap and Jazz technique in preparation for hour long single subject classes. The 5.5 – 6.5 and 6 – 8 classes include tap, ballet, and jazz technique. These classes move at an accelerated pace and provides adequate training for students interested in auditioning for Performing Company. We recommend students take Ballet 1a in conjunction with this class
Students ages 6 and up may join our 1 hour classes in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Musical Theater, Latin Jazz, Acro, and Hip Hop. Once a student has taken 2 years of Ballet or Jazz, they can also add classes like Lyrical, Contemporary, and Modern dance.
Adaptive Dance
Dance Attack is proud to offer classes for students with special needs as a fully inclusive program, and we are dedicated to work with families to help ensure every dancer is able to participate. To that end, dancers who receive very specific accommodations at school or the workplace may be best suited to study dance in our adaptive program for dancers with special needs. This helps us to be sure our teachers are able to match the education plan you have in place to help maintain consistency across learning platforms. Our 2023-2024 Los Gatos classes for students with special needs are on Wednesdays at 6 pm for ages 7-15, and 6:45 pm for adults.
Teen/Adult
Whether you are new to dance or continuing your studies, we offer classes for older teens and adults. This includes Ballet classes for adults, and beginning Jazz, Tap, Tap for Musical Theater, and Hip Hop for teens and preteens who haven’t had any previous dance training. Email the studio at info@danceattack.com if you would like help finding the perfect class. Come dance with us!
Open Track
All of the above is what we call Open Track. Many dancers are involved in other sports, music or theater activities. We offer a full program for these dancers who want to continue enjoying dance on a once or twice a week program. Dancers 6 and up can choose classes in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Musical Theater, and Latin Jazz, and teen dancers can also try Modern or Contemporary. Additionally, juniors and teens who are high intermediate or advanced are welcome to take the more advanced Contemporary, Hip Hop, and Heels classes with teacher approval.
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Prep Squad(LG)/Mini Squad(SV)
In addition to our audition-based advanced team, Dance Attack! offers a special invitational competitive program for our littles who love to perform! Students age 4.5 to 6 attend 2 ½ to 3 ½ hours of class per week, learn a competition dance routine, perform at community events with our other students, attend a dance convention, and in the Spring they compete the routine that they learned. It’s a fantastic exposure to a higher level of commitment to dance, and the group has a great time together in classes and at competition.
Our Performing Company Has 3 Tracks
The Performing Company performs at community events and participates in top dance competitions and conventions. We have an outstanding team, with many national scholarship finalists and national convention company members. If your dancer has a passion for dance and competition, the Performing Company may be for you.
Training Track:
- Includes the invitation-only Sunnyvale Mini Squad and Los Gatos Prep Squad.
- Is for dancers who are newer to dance training, but would like to learn more and begin to try competition dance.
- Attends 1 convention to experience the classes, and 1 or 2 competition-only events as novice or intermediate dancers.
- Has 2 required technique classes per week (Tap and Jazz), a weekly rehearsal for the competition dance, and includes 1 bonus class of ballet. (Other optional styles offered at 50% of drop in rate.)
- May participate in community performances.
- Performs in the studio recital (during a recital year), and also the Candy Cane and Ice Cream Concerts.
- Performs in the Performing Company Showcase at the end of competitive season.
Competition Track:
- Attends 3-4 mandatory conventions and 1 or 2 competition-only events.
- Takes 5 to 15 hours of dance a week, depending on age, how many styles of dance they are learning, and how many routines they have learned for competition.
- Participates in community performances such as the Mountain View Art and Wine Festival, the Almaden Art and Wine Festival, the Los Gatos Childrens’ Christmas Parade, Christmas on the Row, and St. Mary’s Country Fair.
- Performs in the Performing Company Spring Showcase and at the studio recital (during a recital year).
All dancers interested in competing must attend the spring auditions. If it is their first time auditioning, we also recommend the Audition Class in March, to do a “practice audition” and learn what a dance audition is like.
Pre-professional Track:
- Is for advanced members who are Juniors and Seniors in High School.
- Provides additional training, but possibly fewer groups, fewer weekend conventions and competition.
- Is featured in an annual professional dance photo shoot, and appears prominently in our social media.
- Performs in the Performing Company Spring Showcase and at the studio recital (during a recital year).