Elementary and upper school students (the ones who attend classes at 16:00 and 17:00): Tuesday, December 10, 2024 in TASIS Theater at 18:30.
ELC students (the ones who attend classes at 15:00): Friday, December 13, 2024 in TASIS Theater at 9:00 AM.
The TASIS Dance Academy offers young people the opportunity to train in a variety of dance disciplines including ballet, jazz, and contemporary.
Designed to encourage fitness, appreciation of dance, and for those interested, a path to post-secondary study or vocational training and even a career in the arts. Students are credited with an additional course on their transcript, and this activity usually supplants other after-school activities. The goals of the TASIS Dance Academy include:
Promoting fitness, a healthy lifestyle, teamwork, self-discipline, musicality, and creativity
Building confidence and self-esteem
Inspiring an appreciation for a range of dance styles
Setting the foundations for further studies and training in dance, such as A Level Dance, the Creative and Media Diploma, and vocational training (depending on the interests and aptitudes of the student)
The Academy is open to students in 1st Grade and above and teaches both beginners and students who have previous dance training, those interested in dance as a form of exercise, and those who want to train more seriously. Students may select a 2, 3, or 4-day program and additional fees are prorated by the number of hours of instruction. Dance Academy uniforms can be purchased from a local dance shop and online.
TASIS Dance Academy is now offering private dance classes at school!
These individual sessions provide dancers with the opportunity to progress beyond regular group practice, allowing for faster advancement. Dancers can focus on solos, technique, or their preferred style.
Classical Ballet is a beautiful and highly disciplined art form that can also be a creative outlet, cultivating imagination, self-expression and musicality. It develops physical skills such as co-ordination, control, spatial awareness, stamina, strength and flexibility, as well as physical and mental confidence. Attending Ballet classes can inspire a strong independent work ethic and tremendous self-discipline. Ballet also provides the fundamental building blocks for many other forms of dance and encourages broader knowledge of and respect for other art forms and other cultures.
Jazz is an energetic dance style with high kicks and leaps, quick turns and intricate footwork. Each lesson begins with a warm up and stretch, it then progresses through to technique and skill break down. The class focuses on choreographed routines that vary from Lyrical, to Broadway and Commercial while assisting with building flexibility, strength and co-ordination.
Contemporary is a style of dance that relies on storytelling through movement and emotion. It draws on inspiration from ballet, jazz, and modern styles while blending age-old technique with abstract motion. Contemporary dance pushes dancers’ boundaries and allows for a freedom of expression.
Hip-hop classes are packed with a variety exercises as dance to a up beat tempo, jumping and stretching designed to foster trust in their own abilities, and to develop balance and a good coordination. The great beat from the hip-hop music will make sure than now one can still in the room. These foundational dance skills pave the way for learning dance, music and coordination in a fun way with the steps from diverse genres of modern dance and hip-hop. The dancers in this class will experience a great energy and plenty of movements and dancing.
Dance Fun classes let the child experience different dance styles, learning dance steps from Ballet, Jazz, contemporary, and hip-hop dance. We also teach children to listen and count music, jumping, rolling and stretching. This class is designed to foster trust in their own abilities, and to develop balance and coordination. These foundational dance skills allows the student to experience improvising and plenty of dancing styles.
Emma de Macedo
Dance Academy Director
TASIS Portugal is pleased to announce the new lead for the Dance Academy, Emma Nilsson de Macedo, who has over 20 years of experience leading both school and club programs of the highest quality in Portugal.
Emma graduated from The Ballet Academy of Sweden, which opened the doors to a two-decade professional career in dance, musical theatre, and television, as a dancer and choreographer. Emma’s great passion for teaching and working with children led her to found the Cascais Dance Academy in 1999. CDA has since grown to include members ranging in age from 3 to teenage, and has achieved success at national and international competitions, including many TASIS students. Recently, her dancers won the best dance school award among the 40 participating schools in a national competition.
We are confident that Emma and her professional team will expand our program in size and scope, with plans to offer classical ballet, modern jazz, contemporary, and hip-hop beginning at age 3. We look forward to introducing her to those who are not yet familiar with her work.
