Tap

Tap develops a sense of rhythm, style, and sound in the dancer. Exercises focus on building flexibility of the knee and ankles, coordination, and speed of movement, set to many different genres of music.

Jazz

Jazz dance is set to popular or jazz music and requires ballet technique for control of the body. It develops agility, strength in turns and leaps and a sense of modern rhythms. Jazz releases the dancer to express, through movement, in a more unconventional way than ballet.

Lyrical

Strong ballet-based movement incorporating the freedom, fluidity, and expressiveness of jazz and/or contemporary and modern dance—expressive, simultaneously subtle and dynamic, focused on conveying musicality and emotion through movement.

Progressing Ballet Technique

Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) is an innovative body conditioning and strengthening program that has been designed to enhance students' technique and injury prevention by focusing on training the muscle memory required in each exercise in all forms of dance.

PBT focuses on core strength, weight placement and alignment of the body with a gradual approach of carefully designed exercises and repetitions of these exercises that trigger their muscle memory. The program is designed with safe dance methodology to promote a long, healthy career. PBT is not only a program to improve technique in ballet dancers, it is now being appreciated and incorporated in training by all forms of dancers, athletes, physiotherapists and even footballers!

Cecchetti Grade Work

The Cecchetti method of classical ballet is a training technique developed by the Italian ballet maestro Enrico Cecchetti (1850–1928). His method emphasizes regimen, elasticity, strength, and a true mastery of ballet technique and history.

At Kristie Wright School of Dance, we find that his method and teachings produce dancers with beautiful technique and musicality.