Dance styles
Dancehall Queenstyle / Female Dancehall
Dancehall is part of Jamaican culture. Female Dancehall and Dancehall Queenstyle focus on the feminine side of Dancehall. Dance styles emphasize femininity and sexuality in a powerful and fascinating way. Dancehall is empowering, liberating and really fun! The main features of Female Dancehall and Dancehall Queenstyle are a confident attitude, hip rotation, booty shaking, Female Dancehall steps and acrobatic movements such as splits and headstands.
During the class, you will learn different pelvic movements & techniques, steps, acrobatics and find your inner baddie! In this class, you will get an effective workout and immerse yourself in the fascinating world of Dancehall.
Knee pads, comfortable clothes and training sneakers are good equipment for the class.
Commercial Dance
Commercial Dance is a fusion dance style. It is similar in style to music videos and choreographies seen in the background of the artists. The classes are heavily influenced by the techniques of different dance styles. The teacher's own style is strongly represented in the choreographies.
During the class you will learn isolation of different body parts, versatile movements from different dance styles and techniques. However, the main focus of the class is on learning choreography. The music varies according to the styles of the choreographies, but a lot of well-known songs are played in the class.
Comfortable clothes and training sneakers are good equipment for the class.
Twerk
Twerk has its roots in African dances. However, twerk has evolved into a dance style of its own as part of African-American Hip Hop culture and is well known from Rap and Hip Hop music videos. There are so many dance styles around the world that involve hip movements, and Twerk has spread and merged through cultural encounters. Nowadays there are so many different styles of songs that sing about Twerking. In twerk, Hip Hop is most often used as music, but also Afrobeat, Reggaeton, Brazil Funk, Soca & Dancehall can be used.
Twerk is wonderfully sexy, fun and empowering. The classes focus on lower body control, pelvic movements and various booty shaking and popping techniques. In addition to technique exercises, choreography is also danced in the class.
Knee pads, comfortable clothes and training sneakers are good equipment for the class.