Senior Program 16yrs+

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Senior Program (16 Years +)

We have many classes available for your child aged 16 years or older.

Our Senior Program will not only give your child the opportunity to excel in their confidence, dance abilities and performance levels, their overall life skills will be enhanced preparing them for a joyful journey into early adulthood.

This age group tends to need an outlet from their stressful and busy lifestyles and keeping active in a nurturing and loving environment is the best way to keep your child focused, inspired and physically and socially active!

Senior Program

Class Information

Technique Class

Tuesdays 6-6:30pm

 $44 pp per month

Our Senior Technique class is designed to strengthen and refine dancers’ overall skills across all styles. With a focus on strength, flexibility, alignment, control, and safe dance practices, students work on turns, kicks, leaps, balance, and technical precision. This class helps senior dancers build confidence, consistency, and strong foundations to support their performance in every style they dance.

Senior Tap

Tuesdays 6:30-7pm

$65 pp per month

Our tap classes are noisy, enjoyable and inspiring!

Students are taught this genre under the guidance of the ‘Glenn Wood Tap’ Syllabus which is designed and also followed by the famous ‘Tap Dogs’! Dancers join the wonderful, rustic and hard hitting street style of tap, where banging your feet on the ground and making as much noise as you can is accepted!

Acro Accelerate

Wednesdays 5-5:45pm Level 4
Wednesdays 7-7:45pm Level 2-4

$70 pp per month

Our Acro & Tumble classes are designed for students aged 3 years and older who are interested in gaining more strength and flexibility to be able to perform acrobatic and tumbling tricks and skills. United Dance is a certified Acrobatic Arts studio with qualified and experienced Acrobatic Arts teachers. Acrobatic Arts is a world wide known curriculum in developing versatile acrobats with a high focus on safety and progression readiness. All of our Acro & Tumble classes consist of mandatory strength and conditioning to assure the safety and readiness for our students to perform these skills. Students who enrol in this new program need to be aware of the strength and conditioning component of the class, as this type of exercise is based on level of strength and flexibility. It is a stepping stone program, meaning we will not teach your child to perform skills they are not ready for, this is why the strength and flexibility component are so important.

Open Cheer (11yrs+)

Wednesdays 6-7pm

$142 pp per month

Get ready to jump, stunt, tumble, fly, and shine! All Star Cheerleading is an action-packed sport that blends strength, flexibility, teamwork, tumbling, and performance, and it pairs perfectly with acrobatics. Because these two styles go hand in hand, students must be enrolled in an Acro class to join Cheer, ensuring they develop the power, skills, and confidence needed to cheer safely and successfully.

To give our athletes the ultimate training experience, we offer an All-Inclusive Cheer & Acro Combo Program. This combo allows students to build strong foundations in Acro while mastering dynamic Cheer techniques, creating confident, resilient, and performance-ready athletes.

Senior Jazz And Hip Hop Combo

Wednesdays 7-8pm

$89 pp per month

Modern and dynamic, hip hop and jazz are certainly addictive.

These powerful, high-energy dance styles rely on a punchy beat and a little bit of sass!

Enjoy our unique takes on hip hop and jazz by learning the foundations of these styles in one class.

Senior Lyrical And Contemporary Combo

Wednesdays 8-8:45pm

$81 pp per month

When you participate in contemporary and lyrical combo classes at United Dance you will be dancing the basic foundations of ballet combined with our modern edge. Students are taught and encouraged to use their musicality, imagination, creativity, dynamics and emotions in class.

Young dancers also learn the correct technique to improve your grace, style, strength and flexibility to perform kicks, leaps, tricks and turns. We encourage all of our students to ‘let go’ in class to enjoy a wonderful feeling of freedom.

Open Ballet

Fridays 4:30-5:15pm

$73 pp per month

Enjoyment, grace and elegance is rich within our ballet classes and you will enjoy the unique teaching style of our teachers.

United Dance follows the Australian Teachers Of Dancing (ATOD) syllabus, which is designed to engage students in learning the foundation to all other dance styles along with the correct technique to improve musicality, strength and rhythm.

Students who take ballet classes build self-control, body awareness and self discipline as they learn to master increasingly technical moves.

Pre Pointe

Fridays 5:15-5:45pm

 $60 pp per month

Our Pre-Pointe program is designed to safely prepare dancers for the exciting transition onto pointe shoes. This class focuses on strengthening the ankles, feet, legs, and core, while developing correct posture, alignment, balance, and ballet technique. Dancers work through carefully structured exercises at the barre and centre to build the strength, control, and understanding needed before progressing to full Pointe training.

Elementary Ballet

Fridays 5:45-6:30pm

 $53 pp per month

Elementary Ballet focuses on developing strong foundational ballet technique, posture, turnout, coordination, and musical awareness. Through structured exercises at the barre and centre, students build strength, flexibility, discipline, and confidence while progressing their ballet skills.

Elementary Tap

Fridays 6:30-7:15pm

 $53 pp per month

Our Elementary Tap class helps dancers develop clear sounds, strong rhythm, and confident musicality while building on their tap foundations. Students learn a variety of steps, combinations, and performance skills, improving coordination, timing, and technique in a fun and supportive environment.

Elementary Jazz

Fridays 7:15-8pm

 $53 pp per month

Elementary Jazz focuses on developing clean jazz technique, strength, flexibility, musicality, and performance quality. Dancers work through progressions, combinations, and choreography to refine skills such as kicks, turns, leaps, and controlled movement.

Important Information

REGISTRATION is $55 per person OR $99 Family Includes a complimentary United Dance Tshirt!

Senior students will perform 1 dance routine per class in our end of year showcase, except the combo classes will perform 2 routines. The monthly price includes costumes. Pre Pointe and elementary classes do not perform in the showcase and do not need a costume

We’re happy to offer a 5% family discount on recreational classes for families with three siblings enrolled at United Dance. (Please note this doesn’t apply to the Kickstart Program, Exclusive Program, private lessons, or adult classes.)

Cheer students will perform 1 cheer routine and 1 acro routine in our end of year showcase. The monthly price includes costumes (acro costume to keep, cheer costume to hire) as well as tuition for the cheer and 1 acro class.

Try A United Dance Class Today

Whether your goal is to reach the world stage or simply build new skills, we have a class for you at our Thornton dance studio.