Adult Tap Dance Classes Adelaide

Tap dance is the one where your shoes make the noise. But it’s more than noise. You learn to become a percussionist with your feet. It’s genuinely addictive, and a great cardio workout.

Tap dance emerged in the 1800s. It evolved through confluence of West African dances of enslaved people in the US, with the clog dances and jigs from Irish, Scottish, and English immigrants. It evolved throughout the 20th century, and now includes a diversity of styles, including rhythm tap, Broadway tap, and funk tap.

Now taking new dancers for our Jul to Sep quarter.

The quarter starts on Mon 29 June.

Intake of new dancers ends Sat 18 July.

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Contemporary Dance Classes Adelaide

Are you thinking “where are contemporary dance classes near me?”. Dragonfly Dance offers contemporary dance classes in Adelaide and welcomes adults of all ages and experience levels. Through adult contemporary dance classes you'll learn to move in a way that feels more fluid and effortless. You'll build strength, flexibility, and ability. Contemporary dance classes do often include floor work, which some adults feel concerned about. But our teachers will show you how to move in and out of the floor with ease, and support you to become more comfortable with this idea, which will pay off in ease of movement in your everyday life.

Tap Dance at Dragonfly

Dragonfly Dance offers adult tap classes in Adelaide for all levels. You’ll learn rhythm, technique, musicality, and a routine that pulls it all together, from old school Gene Kelly to more modern rhythm tap styles.

You’ll build technique, speed, rhythm, and styles in a studio that takes your dancing seriously, without taking itself too seriously.

✔ all body shapes and sizes welcome

✔ no judgement or competition, just encouragement and support

✔ adult tap dance teaching method and curriculum

✔ find the right level to start, and progress with confidence

✔ no leotards or tights required

✔ never too late to start

Our tap dance classes include:

warmup
technique and movement vocabulary
timing and rhythmic complexity
improvisation and group work (eg call and response, canons)
a routine that is built over several weeks, with each routine covering a specific tap style (eg rhythm, funk, lyrical, Latin, Broadway

If you always dreamed of learning to tap, but never had the chance, or you did it when you were younger and thought that door had closed for ever, then we’d love to help you rekindle that dream, and discover that dance as an adult is quite a different experience.

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