The most recent in additional in our Dance Academy, is for the benefit of all our dance students. We encourage our dancers to enroll in conditioning to better their durability, flexility and endurance, which will help them during the technique classes. Whether Ballet, Tap, or Modern, they can all benefit from this class.
Conditioning classes are crucial for all dancers' safety by developing basic strength and practicing alignment in all directions and planes of motion. Conditioning offsets some of the extremes of very stylized dance forms, it improves cardiopulmonary capacity, increases flexibility of muscles, and stabilizes joints to prevent injury while increasing power. Creative Arts conditioning classes are led by a certified trainer, with a degree in Kinesiology and a professional performing career. Variations will be customized per each dancer to challenge them at their needed level of simplicity or difficulty. Students must bring their own non-slip mat
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Classes offered from ages 8 (Sept. 1st) to Adult
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Register Here ✨ Classes offered from ages 8 (Sept. 1st) to Adult ✨
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PDF of tuition rates based on how many classes are taken.
These tuition numbers do not include a non-refundable $40 registration fee, due at the beginning of each year.
To inquire about scholarship opportunities, please contact the Creative Arts office.
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PDF of Policies and Procedures for the 2024-25 school year. Information includes class attire, class cancelation policies, etc.
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Included in tuition for all classes is a chance to perform at our Lecture Demonstration Performance.
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Kelly McCormick Bangs (Modern, Conditioning for Dancers, and Creative Movement Instructor)
Kelly McCormick Bangs started dancing in elementary school in Kokomo, studied with Joffrey Midwest, The Taylor School/Taylor 2, Takehiro Ueyama, and Amy Marshall during six summers of her teens and early 20's, then became a distinguished graduate of Indiana University with a B.S. Kinesiology-Dance and a theatre minor. She performed works by Ben Munisteri, Elizabeth Shea, Laura Poole, Gwen Hamm, Bill Evans, Paul Taylor, Martha Wittman, and student and self-choreographed dances. After completing graduate study at Skidmore College on her way to NYC in 2009, she subsequently performed with Illuminations Dance Co., DeMa Dance Co., Yesid Lopez, and Amy Marshall Dance Company. She earned a living as a trainer and group fitness instructor- which served as a shift to a sustainable family-centered career. Kelly opened KMB Studio for Music and Movement in 2014, a multidisciplinary studio focused on children and family programming, community, and anchored on her own unique fitness format of cross-training for functional movement throughout daily life. Kelly is certified through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and AFAA. She has garnered awards in performance and choreography, served as adjunct faculty at Butler University, IU Ballet Department, and the IU Contemporary Dance Program. She is Wife to Steven, and Mom to five wonderful children.
Kelly McCormick Bangs (Modern, Conditioning for Dancers, and Creative Movement Instructor)