FALL 2025

CONTEMPORARY, HIP HOP, TAP & JAZZ

Contemporary Dance

Contemporary dance is a popular, dynamic, and ever-evolving style of concert dance that incorporates elements from other genres, such as ballet, jazz, modern, and lyrical. It's known for its emphasis on fluidity, freedom of movement, and emotional expression, and it encourages dancers to use their own interpretations and creativity. Contemporary dance is often less rigid than other styles, and dancers may break guidelines from other styles while building their own foundation. Some techniques used in contemporary dance include:

  • Ballet-inspired leg movements
  • Fall and recovery
  • Floor work
  • Improvisation
  • Manipulating time, rhythm, space, gravity, breath, and energy


Beginning Contemporary - Ages 7+ or ABT Level 1 and 2

Tuesdays, 6:30 - 7:30 pm

Intermediate Contemporary - Ages 9+ or ABT Levels 2 and 3

Mondays, 6:00 - 7:00 pm

Advanced Contemporary - Ages 11+ (ABT Levels 4+)

Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:00pm

Adult Contemporary, Ages 13+, any experience level

Tuesdays, 8:00 - 9:00 pm


Dress Code - Black leotard, no tights or convertible tights; barefoot; hair pulled back/up, turners optional; contemporary dance socks, optional

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Hip Hop

Hip hop dance is a street dance style that originated in New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It's characterized by its freestyle movements, unique rhythmic combinations, and integration of complex movements and music.Hip hop dance is often performed to hip hop music, and can include a variety of styles, such as breaking, locking, popping, and krumping, each with their own distinct rhythms and move.


Beginning Hip Hop, Ages 5+

Wednesday, 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Intermediate/Advanced/Adult  Hip Hop, Ages 10+ (or with permission)

Mondays, 5:30 - 6:30 pm


Dress code- Clean black athletic or hip hop  shoes; black long sweat pants; white or black loose fitting t-shirt; hair pulled up


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Jazz

Jazz dance is characterized by its fast pace, call and response format, and incorporation of classical ballet movements. Dancers respond to the music with their bodies, changing their movements to the musicians' improvisations. Key movements in jazz dance include the jeté, or leap, and the pivot, where one foot is placed in front of the other and then the direction is changed.


Beginning Jazz Technique

Thursdays, 5:30 - 6:30 pm, Ages 7+ (or with permission for younger students)

Advanced Jazz Technique

Tuesdays, 4:30 - 5:45 pm, Ages 10+, ABT Levels 3B+, or with permission for younger students.

Intermediate Jazz Technique

Saturdays, 11:30 - 12:30 pm, Ages 8+, ABT Levels 2+ or with permission


Dress Code - Black leotard, tights, black or tan jazz shoes, hair pulled up/back in a ballet bun.

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Tap

Toledo Met's tap program is inspired by the origins of tap dance.  Tap dance is a rhythmic, percussive American art form that originated in the late 19th century. It involves dancers wearing shoes with metal plates on the toes and heels to create audible beats by striking the floor or other hard surfaces. Tap dance is often accompanied by music, but can also be performed a cappella.  Toledo Met curriculem is inspired byt he Al Gilbert curriculum allowing for students to progress in a methodical manner with the master of steps and combinations at appropriate skill level.

Creative Movement, Ages 3-5 (Tap/ballet combination class)
Mondays, 4:30 - 5:15 pm (young 3s); Tuesdays, 4:30 - 5:15 pm; Wednesdays, 5:15 - 6:00 pm; Thursdays, 5:30 - 6:15 pm
Tap/Jazz Combination Class, ages 4-6
Tuesdays, 4:30 - 5:15 pm
Intermediate Tap Technique
Prerequisite - One full year of beginning tap.  Call for placement.
Tuesdays, 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Advanced Tap Technique
Wednesdays, 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Prerequisite - At least two years of intermediate tap.  Call for placement.
This is a required class for Toledo Met's TeenTap Competition Team.

Tap can also be taking in Saturday Musical Theater Dance Lab.  Fine more information here.

DRESS CODE - Younger students -  black Mary Jane or Lace Up Tap Shoes;  Beginning Tap and Up - Black lace up tap shoes (no split soles); Athletic or dance attire; hair pulled up or away from face.
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