The Dance Delaware Journey
Welcome to The Dance Delaware Journey™
Where Every Step Builds a Legacy.
At Dance Delaware Studios, we believe dance is so much more than learning steps.
It is about discovering who you are, believing in what you can become, and having a place where you feel safe, supported, inspired, and loved along the way.
Welcome to The Dance Delaware Journey™ — a journey designed to grow with every dancer, from their very first steps through the moments when they are ready to lead, inspire, and leave their own mark.
Here, every dancer has a place.
Whether your child dreams of stepping onto a stage for the very first time, building confidence, making lifelong friendships, becoming stronger and more disciplined, performing, competing, pursuing dance professionally, or simply finding something they truly love — their dream matters here.
We don't believe every dancer's journey should look the same.
Some dancers may dance once a week because it fills their heart with joy. Others may dream of performing, competing, teaching, or one day dancing professionally. Whatever their dream may be, we are here to help them believe in themselves, discover their potential, and accomplish more than they ever imagined possible.
Because at Dance Delaware, you aren't just joining a dance studio.
You are becoming part of a family.
A family that celebrates your successes, encourages you through your challenges, believes in you when you are still learning to believe in yourself, and cheers for you every step of the way.
Through The Dance Delaware Journey™, our dancers grow through meaningful stages designed to inspire confidence, technique, artistry, determination, leadership, and a lifelong love of dance.
Every journey begins somewhere.
SPARK — Dream Big.
SHINE — Believe.
ASPIRE - Reach Beyond
SOAR — Grow.
ELEVATE — Challenge Yourself.
LEGACY — Lead with Strength & Leave Your Mark.
These represent the journey of becoming — as a dancer and as a person.
From the little dancer walking through our doors for the first time to the graduating senior taking their final bow, every class, every challenge, every friendship, every accomplishment, and every memory becomes part of their story.
And long after the music stops, we hope they carry what they learned here into everything they do:
Dream big.
Believe in yourself.
Reach beyond your limits.
Never stop growing.
Challenge yourself.
Lead with strength.
And leave your mark on the world.
Your Journey Starts Here.
Come discover a place where your child can learn, grow, dream, achieve, and belong.
Come discover a place where they can be themselves while becoming everything they are capable of being.
Come become part of the Dance Delaware family.
Welcome to The Dance Delaware Journey™.
Where Every Step Builds a Legacy.
The Benefits Of Dance
Dancing is a highly physical activity, and kids who take dance lessons regularly should expect to see a significant improvement in their overall physical health. Regular dance practice can increase your child’s flexibility, range of motion, physical strength and stamina.
Dancing is a highly social activity. According to “FamilyTalk Magazine,” dance lessons can help children improve their social and communication skills, learn how to work as part of a team, develop a greater sense of trust and cooperation and make new friends.
Becoming a skilled dancer requires practice, discipline and focus, skills that can be useful in other areas of your child’s life. Dance lessons can help to spark creativity in young children and help them to develop an appreciation for the arts.
As children adjust to the movements and postures required in dance, they begin to get a better sense of their bodies. As they become more comfortable in their own skin, their confidence and self-esteem also improve.
Ballet & Pointe
Ballet is the foundation of all dance forms and it provides grace, poise, and technique needed to be proficient in all other areas of dance. Early ballet classes will help dancers with posture, flexibility, turnout, terminology and ballet positions.
Tap
Tap dance is an exciting form of dance that involves dancers using their feet like drums to create rhythmic patterns and timely beats. Dancers practice a series of steps, adding more difficult combinations as they become more proficient. Tap dancing is a vigorous form of dance, requiring a great deal of physical fitness.
Jazz
Jazz is a fun dance style that mixes many different forms of movement. Jazz dancing often uses bold, dramatic body movements, including body isolations and contractions.
Contemporary Lyrical
Contemporary Lyrical dancing is combining ballet and jazz technique to execute a more interpretive and expressive form of dance. This style performed to music with lyrics to inspire movements to express strong emotions the choreographer feels from the lyrics in the chosen song.
Hip Hop
This discipline teaches the latest, most innovative and trendy urban dance techniques. Elements include proper conditioning, stretch and strengthening techniques, as well as dance steps and combinations.
Technique
Focusing on core, leg, and arm strength and overall flexibility. Students will build muscle, obtain balance, and gain more abilities to become stronger dancers. Focused on leaps, turns, tricks, and legs while learning new and innovative choreography to expand the student's dance vocabulary and ability when performing.
Acrobatics
Learning acrobatics in conjunction with dance allows dancers to develop and display physical strength, flexibility, balance and agility.
Musical Theater Dance
Acting, singing, dancing = Recreating dances from broadway shows to television to film. Fun, energetic styles of dance for all levels to enjoy.