Pacific Dance Center in Redondo Beach, CA | Dance Schools | California Catalog

We help our students set and reach realistic goals so that they may excel to the best of their abilities. Above all, we believe the confidence, pride of accomplishment, and joy our students learn in the dance studio, will shine a positive, influential light into their daily lives.
Our teachers have both professional dancing experience and a Masters of Fine Arts or Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance. We are committed to teaching proper technique to ensure a lifetime of dance.
Class Descriptions:
- Toddler and Preschool Classes. Especially designed for young child to develop coordination, large motor skills, musicality, listening skills and spatial awareness. Instruments, props and special music are incorporated to stimulate the child’s imagination as they dance.
- Combo classes incorporate beginning ballet and tap and hip-hop movements. These classes focus on coordination, rhythm, and creativity. In combo 2, 3 and 4 the children continue developing the study of each technique, learning simple dance step patterns form our prepared syllabus.
- Ballet 1, 2, 3, 4. Our Classical Ballet syllabus is structured on the fundamentals of ballet technique. Proper positions, posture, carriage and technique are established while learning the self-discipline necessary to continue their advancement of classical ballet.
- Ballet 4, 5, 6, 7. Placement in these levels must be approved by the director. At this level the student’s will expand their knowledge of ballet as well as move on to advanced techniques such as Pointe work and performance.
- Youth and Adult Beg./Int. Ballet. Dancers of all ages and abilities are welcome here at Pacific Dance Center. We offer beginning to advanced level youth and adult classes. These classes are an excellent form of exercise as well as a way to increase flexibility, develop long lean muscle tone and give anyone the grace of a dancer.
- Hip Hop, Jazz & Tap . This style of dance is fun, funky and jazzy. The students will learn dance moves as seen in music videos and stage shows. Lively, age appropriate music keeps the class energized. This dance is “current” with all the latest trends in the Hip- Hop, Jazz and Tap world.
- Contemporary is another word for "modern" or "current". Contemporary dance is therefore always changing with the times and developing, and takes its inspiration from many different modern forms of dance. It can be danced to almost any style of music, and it can be mixed up with other dance forms such as street-dance, ballet, jazz, African and Asian dance, and other forms of exercise such as martial arts and yoga, to create new dance moves.
Pacific Dance Center has three fully equipped dance studios, changing rooms, parent lobby and ample parking.
Students are welcome to enroll at any time.