Specialty Classes
Training across multiple dance disciplines gives dancers the versatility to approach unfamiliar choreography with confidence. Each style introduces new ways to move, interpret music, and express an idea, while strengthening the coordination, focus, and physical awareness that support their ballet training.
For dancers considering a professional career, this breadth of experience is especially valuable. The ability to move between styles with skill and artistic conviction prepares them for a wider range of roles and performance opportunities.
Tap
Primary Tap (Ages 5-8)
Monthly Tuition $70
Thursday 4:00-4:45pm
Tap 1 (Ages 8-9)
Monthly Tuition $70
Thursday 5:00-5:45pm
Tap 2 (Ages 10-12)
Monthly Tuition $75
Thursday 6:00-7:00pm
Tap 3 (Ages 13 and above)
Monthly Tuition $75
Thursday 7:00-8:00pm
Jazz
Jazz invites dancers to explore a lively range of rhythms, textures, and moods. Its movement can be sharp and energetic one moment, fluid and sustained the next. Learning to make those shifts with clarity helps students develop coordination, musical precision, and a stronger sense of timing.
Jazz also encourages dancers to perform with confidence and personality. As they learn to interpret the music and bring intention to each phrase, students expand their expressive range and become more adaptable performers.
Jazz 1 (Ages 7-11)
Monthly Tuition $75
Tuesday 5:15-6:30pm
Musical Theater
Musical Theater dance teaches students to tell a story through movement. By combining choreography with gesture, character, and expression, dancers learn how each choice onstage can reveal a feeling, advance a scene, or bring a character to life.
Classes encourage students to listen closely to the music, respond to the words and mood of a song, and perform with clarity and confidence. This work strengthens their stage presence and helps them connect with an audience, whether performing as part of an ensemble or taking on an individual role.
Musical Theatre (Ages 7-11)
Monthly Tuition $75
Friday 4:30-5:45pm
Contemporary
Contemporary dance brings together elements of ballet, modern dance, and other movement styles. Through floor work and expressive choreography, students learn to move with greater freedom, connect movement to emotion, and explore ideas drawn from the world around them.
As a requirement of the Training Division curriculum, Contemporary is introduced at Level 3 and remains part of each dancer’s training through the completion of the Academy’s Training Division.
Contemporary 1 (Ages 11+)
Monthly Tuition $80
Tuesdays from 6:30 - 7:45pm
Contemporary 2 (Ages 14+)
Monthly Tuition $80
Tuesdays from 7:45-9:00pm
Modern
Modern broadens a dancer’s movement vocabulary, deepens musicality, and encourages artistic expression. It is an essential part of their preparatory progression.
It becomes part of Ballet Pensacola’s curriculum at Level 2. After completing one year of Modern 1, students may advance based on an evaluation by their instructor.
Modern 1 (Ages 10+)
Monthly Tuition $80
Thursday from 6:30 - 8:00pm
Intermediate/Advanced Modern (Ages 13+)
Monthly Tuition $80
Thursday from 6:30 - 8:00pm