Sunset Dance Academy Curriculum

At the Sunset Dance Academy we aim to progress students by the upper age of the
class; however mastery and understanding of the movements and terms are needed in
order to progress to the next level. The age range of classes are a helpful guide, but a
dancer’s ability and development will be the deciding factor on class placement.

PRE PRIMARY/PRIMARY BALLET SYLLABUS

Tiny Toes: 2.5-3.5 years

Pointe and flex feet

Seated grande battement
Seated stretching
Plié- Turned in 1st and 2nd position
Tendu- Turned in- devant and à la seconde
Degagé- Turned in- devant and á la seconde
Piqué- devant and à la seconde
Marching- with high knees
Sauté- on two feet
Port de bras- arms in 1st position, 2nd position, and 5th position.
Relevé
Chassé

Pre-Ballet 3-4 years

Continued from Tiny Toes
Seated
• feet point and flex
• legs turn out and in
• battements
• stretching
Demi Pliés- 1st and 2nd position
Port De Bras- 1st, 2nd and 5th
Tendus- turned out, devant and à la seconde
Degagé- turned out, devant and à la seconde
Piqué- turned out, devant and à la seconde
Sauté- 1st and 2nd positions with hands on hips
Walking with stretched (pointed feet)
Bourré
Chassés- à la seconde, and devant
Swaying movements changing weight
Pre-Ballet 2, 3-4 years
Continued from Pre-Ballet
Demi Pliés- 1st, 2nd, 3rd position
Port De Bras- 1st , 2nd ,3rd ,5th
Bourré turn
Tendus continued.
Degagé continued.
Piqué continued.
Sauté- echappé
Leap (jump from one foot to the other)

Beginning Ballet 4-6 years

Continued from pre-ballet/2
Plié – demi, turned out 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
Relevé
Port de bras- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th

Facing Barre
• demi pliés
• relevé
• tendu, devant, à la seconde, and derrière
• degagé, devant, à la seconde, and derrière

Centre
• pointe and flex feet
• turnout, turn in
• stretching
• seated battements
• beginning coordination of port de bras and positions of the feet
• tendus- à la seconde, hands on hips
• plié, relevé
• sauté – echappé, 1st and 2nd position
• chassé à la seconde and devant
leaps (jump from one foot to the other)
walking with stretched feet and arms in demi seconde (ballet walks)
bourrées
bourré turns
marching
beginning skipping

Allegro 4-7
All the levels of pre/pre2/beginning ballet taught at a faster pace and introducing multiple styles
of dance at a faster pace; by invitation only.
Ballet Basics 5-7 years
Continued from beginning ballet, at a faster pace
Positions- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
Port de bras- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th –working on 4th

Barre-facing the barre

• Continued from beginning ballet
• Add rond de jambes
o Preparing ¼ rond de jambes
o ½ rond de jambes
o Full rond de jambes
 Working on comprehension of turnout
o Pas de cheval
o En croix – tendu, degage
• Cou de pied
• Retiré (noun)
• Passé (verb)
Walking with stretched feet arms, demi seconde—directional changes
• walking in circle
• walking diagonal
• walking straight
Marching
• Directional changes
Skipping is progressing; and eventually mastered
• Directional changes

Sautés – 1st, 2nd,3rd , echappé

Leaps
 Ballet 1 Syllabus 7+ years
Continued from ballet basics. Terms and movements to be learned and mastered before going
into Ballet 2.

At the barre: facing the barre

• Positions 1st-5th
• Demi plié1st-5th
• Work up to grande plié, 1st 2nd 5th
• Battement tendu from 1st
• Dégagé from 1st
• Relevé in all positions
• Rond de jambe á terre (through 1st position)
Sous-sus
• Pas de cheval
• Grande battement (90 degrees or below)
• En Croix (front, side, back, side)
• cou de pied
• retiré passé
• arabesque (first)
• balance retiré and cou de pied (flat foot)
Center:
Adagio
• Demi plié centre
• Tendu (changing weight)
• Balance in retiré
• Arabesque (first arabesque)
• Ballet walks (toe heel) **
• Balancé de côté (à la seconde)
• Tendu Double
• Tombé
• Pas de bourre
Petit Allegro:
• Petit Jeté
• Sauté΄ 1st , 2nd, 3rd
• Échappé sauté (first into second)
Beginning Pirouette en dehors
• Preparation and single (tendu to 4th demi plié to retiré)
o ¼ turn
o ½ turn
o full single pirouette
• Glissade from 1st position
• Retiré passé from 1st & 5th
• Relevé 1st 2nd , 5th
• Pas de bourrée (back, side, front to 5th)
 • Temps lié- à la seconde

Basic Directions of the body:

• En face
• Croisé
• À la seconde

Across the floor and from the corner of the room:

• Chainé (step turn) broken down to ½ turn, with spotting
o Arms open in second, find spot, arm close to first, spot.
• Piqué passé
• Chassé
• Chassé passé
• Sauté arabesque
• Saut de chat (leap)

Ballet 2 Syllabus 9+ years

Continued from Ballet 1 all terminology and movements must be mastered before moving to
ballet 3.

Barre- facing away from the barre (one hand on the barre)
• Plié- demi and grande 1st 2nd 4th 5th – basic port de bras
• Tendu- from 1st and 5th positions – arms held in seconde, progressing to port de bras
• Degagé- from 1st and 5th – arms held in seconde progressing to full port de bras
• Rond de jambe a terre- from 1st position, eventually introducing rond de jambes from 5th
toward end of level.
• Fondu- tendu, 45 degrees
• Frappe- (cou de pied) flex, strike a terre
• Developpé- to 45 and up to 90 degrees
• Stretching at the barre
• Grande battement- en croix from 1st and 5th position with port de bras
• Cambré in all positions
• Attitude
• Balance Retiré en relevé
• Balance Cou De Pied en relevé
• Petit battement
• Grande battement en cloche
Centre-

Adagio:
• Tendu with port de bras
• Temps lié – devant, à la seconde, and derrière with port de bras
• Arabesque – 1st and 2nd arabesque
• Balancé de côté, devant, and derrière with port de bras
• Single Pirouette from 4th, working on double from 4th
• Single pirouette from 5th
• Relevé and elevé in all positions

Petit Allegro
• Sautés in 1st 2nd 4th and 5th
• Changemment de pieds
• Echappé from 1st to 2nd and 5th to 2nd
• Temps levé
• Assemblé
• Glissade from 1st
• Soubresaut
• Coupé

Across the floor

• Chané
• Ballet walks with stretched feet through cou de pied
• Ballet running with stretched feet through cou de pied
• Pas de chat
• Grande jeté (straight leg leap)
• Saut de chat
• Sauté arabesque
• Sauté passé
• soutenu
 Ballet 3 Syllabus 12+
Continued from ballet 2

Barre
• Facing away from the barre (one hand on the barre)
• Plié- demi and grande 1st 2nd 4th 5th – full port de bras
• Tendu- from 1st and 5th positions – full port de bras
• Degagé- from 1st and 5th – full port de bras
• Rond de jambe a terre- from 1st and 5th position
• Grande Rond de jambe en l’air- 45 degrees working up to 90 degrees
• Fondu- tendu, 45 and 90 degrees
• Frappé- (cou de pied) flex, strike a terre en croix with port de bras, double frappé
• Frappé- en l’aire , double frappé
• Developpé- working at 90 degrees
• Stretching at the barre
• Grande battement- en croix from 1st and 5th position with port de bras
• Detourné
• Cambré
• Relevé fouette (into arabesque etc.)
• Attitude
• Petit battement

Centre
Adagio
• Glissade from 5th and 1st positions
• Tendu with coordination of head positions
• Temps lié devant, à la seconde, and derrière with port de bras
• Tendu double
• 1st 2nd and 3rd arabesque
• Double en dehors pirouettes from 5th and 4th
• Classic ballet walks into arabesque
• Single pirouette en dedans from 4th and 5th

Petit Allegro
• changemment de pieds
• soubresaut
• sauté royale
• assemblé
• temps levé
• glissade from 5th (not changing)
• echappé relevé
Across the floor:
• tombé pas de bourré
• pas de chat
• saut de chat
• grande jeté with port de bras
• sauté battement
• piqué arabesque
• sissonne fermé and ouverte
• alternating chassé
• piqué turns
• lame duck
• soutenus
• waltz turn

Cecchetti Body positions

1. Croisé devant
2. Ecarté
3. À la quatrième devant
4. Effacé
5. À la seconde
6. Époulé
7. À la quatrième derrière
8. Croisé derrière

Ballet 4 Syllabus- 14+years

Barre Facing away from the barre (one hand on the barre)

• Plié- demi and grande 1st 2nd 4th 5th – full port de bras
• Tendu- from 1st and 5th positions – full port de bras
• Degagé- from 1st and 5th – full port de bras
• Rond de jambe a terre- from 1st and 5th position
• Grande Rond de jambe en l’air- 45 degrees working up to 90 degrees
• Fondu- tendu, 45, 90 degrees, and above
• Frappé- (cou de pied) flex, strike a terre en croix with port de bras – double frappé
• Frappé en l’aire (cou de pied, en relevé)
• Developpé- working at and above 90 degrees
• Petit battement
• Stretching at the barre
• Petit Rond de jambes en l’aire
• Grande battement- en croix from 1st and 5th position with port de bras
• Detourné
 • Cambré
• Relevé fouette (into arabesque etc.)
• Attitude
• Circular port de corps

Centre:
• Promenade in arabesque and attitude
• Positions of the body
• Temps lié
• Pas de basque
• Pirouettes double from 4th and 5th en dehors and en dedans; working on triples en
dehors
• Fouetté turns
• Attitude turns
• Piqué Pas de bourré (passé)
• Pas de bourré coupé
Petit Allegro
• Entrechat
• Sauté royale
• Changemment
• Glissade changing and not changing
• Assemblé
• Temps levé

Across the Floor

• grand tour jeté en tournant
• Alternating chassé
• saut de basque
• Tombé
• Contretemps
• Fouetté sauté
• Assemblé
• Promenade (arabesque, attitude)
• Balancé en tournant
• Pas de bourrée en tournant
• Sissonne: Landing open on one foot (front, back)
• Sissonne fermée (landing closed in 5th on 2 feet)
• Russian Pas De Chat
• Grande Pas De Chat
 BALLET 5 SYLLABUS 15+years
Continued from ballet 4.

Barre Facing away from the barre (one hand on the barre)

• Plié- demi and grande 1st 2nd 4th 5th – full port de bras
• Tendu- from 1st and 5th positions – full port de bras
• Degagé- from 1st and 5th – full port de bras
• Rond de jambe a terre- from 1st and 5th position
• Grande Rond de jambe en l’air- 45 degrees working up to 90 degrees
• Fondu- tendu, 45, 90 degrees, and above
• Fondu en l’aire (relevé)
• Frappé- (cou de pied) flex, strike a terre en croix with port de bras, triple frappé
• Frappé en l’aire (cou de pied, en relevé) , triple frappé
• Developpé- working at and above 90 degrees
• Developpé en l’aire (relevé)
• Petit battement
• Stretching at the barre
• Petit Rond de jambes en l’aire
• Grande battement- en croix from 1st and 5th position with port de bras
• Detourné
• Cambré
• Relevé fouette (into arabesque etc.)
• Attitude
• Circular port de corps

In the center and across the floor:

•  Penché
•  tour jeté
• double piqué
• Saut de basque
• Fouetté sauté
• Temps levé
• Piqué attitude, tour jeté en tournant
• Cabriole
• Assemblé battue (beaten)
• Entrechat
• Emboîté
• Entrechat cinq
• Ballonné
• Manége
• Balance on one foot without the barré en demi pointe holding the opposite leg in
different positions (passé, arabesque, attitude front, side or back)
• Hand and heel stretch
 • Fouetté tour to other landing positions (4th, lunge, knee…etc)
• Grande pirouette à la seconde
• Brisé
• Pas faille
• Tour jeté landing to other positions (4th, lunge, knee…etc)
Renverse´

Lyrical 1 Syllabus 7+ years

Terms and movements to be learned and mastered before going into Lyrical 2. Student will do a
variety of combinations in counts of 8 in the center and across the floor.

Warm-up:
• Positions 1st -5 th
• Demi plié1st -5 th
• Tendue from 1st • Piqué
• Battement tendue from 1st (at the barre)
• Elevé in all positions
• Relevé in all positions
• Port de bras
• Rond de jambe á terre (through 1st position)
• En Croix (front, side, back, side)
• Stretches • Lunges
• Splits Center:
• Saute΄ 1st, 2nd 5 th • Échappé sauté (first into second)
• Balancé (side, back, front)
• Pirouette en dehores – preps and single (tendue to 4th demi plié to passé)
• Chassé ball-change
• Contractions
• Isolation of head, shoulders, ribcage, waist, hips

Across the floor and from the corner of the room:

• Grande battement (front, side, and back)
• Triplet walks
• Prances turned in first, then out
• Chainé (step turn)
• Pas de bourrée (back, side, front)
• Grande jeté (straight leg leap)
• Saut de chat
• Ballet walks/lyrical (toe heel) through cou de pied
• Chassé
• Chassé chané
• Chané plié
• Sauté arabesque
• Glissade
• Developpé
• Cross, ball change
• Step, pivot
• Pas Couru (ballet run)

Lyrical 2 SYLLABUS 9+ years

Dancers MUST be enrolled in a ballet class at GPD. Terms and movements to be learned and
mastered before going into Lyrical 3. Student will do a variety of combinations in counts of 8 in
the center and across the floor.

Warm-up:
• Positions 1st -5 th
• Demi plié1st -5 th
• Tendue from 1st • Piqué
• Battement tendue from 1st (at the barre)
• Elevé in all positions
• Relevé in all positions
• Port de bras
• Rond de jambe á terre (through 1st position)
• En Croix (front, side, back, side)
• Stretches • Lunges
• Splits Center:
• Saute΄ 1st, 2nd 5 th • Échappé sauté (first into second)
• Balancé (side, back, front)
• Pirouette en dehores – preps and single (tendue to 4th demi plié to passé)
• Chassé ball-change
• Contractions
• Isolation of head, shoulders, ribcage, waist, hips
• Conditioning
o Pushups
o Pilates abs – series of five
o Hip Lifts/Squeeze
• hinges

At the barre:
• Développé
• Passé releve΄
• Attitude
• Relevé fouetté
• Fouetté prep and tour
• Arabesque relevé
• Attitude relevé

In the center and across the floor:

• Arch-ups
• Coccyx balances
• Falls to the floor
• Triplet turns
• Soutenu
• Battment tendue from 5th
• Échappé relevé
• Fouetté sauté
• Pirouette en dehores doubles
• Échappé sauté (Fifth into second)
• Piqué turns
• Piqué arabesque
• Piqué arabesque, grande tour jeté en tournant
• Attitude relevé
• Alternating chasse
• Pas de bourrée turns ( ½ and whole)
• Pas de bourrée spiraling upper back
• Pilé chainé
• Fan kicks
• Lay-outs
• Saut de chat
• Fish flop

Lyrical 3 SYLLABUS 12+ years

Lyrical 3 Syllabus Dancers MUST also be enrolled in a ballet class at GPD. Continued from Lyrical
2.

Warm-up:
• Positions 1st -5 th
• Demi plié1st -5 th
• Tendue from 1st • Piqué
• Battement tendue from 1st (at the barre)
• Elevé in all positions
• Relevé in all positions
• Port de bras
• Rond de jambe á terre (through 1st position)
• En Croix (front, side, back, side)
• Stretches • Lunges
• Splits Center:
• Saute΄ 1st, 2nd 5 th • Échappé sauté (first into second)
• Balancé (side, back, front)
• Pirouette en dehores – preps and single (tendue to 4th demi plié to passé)
• Chassé ball-change
• Contractions
• Isolation of head, shoulders, ribcage, waist, hips
• Conditioning
o Pushups
o Pilates abs – series of five
o Hip Lifts/Squeeze
• hinges

In the center and across the floor:

• Lateral and flat backs
• Coccyx balance turns
• Falls to the floor
• Triplet turns with directional change
• Pirouette en dehors and endedans doubles
• Échappé sauté (fifth into second)
• Piqué turns
• Double piqué turns
• Piqué arabesque, grande tour jeté en tournant
• Attitude tour
• Fan kick to releve´
• Lame duck
• Hinge (en demi pointe and over the toes)
• Pike
• Illusions
• C-jumps
• Turning C jumps
• Jete´ back attitude
• Tilted grande battement
• Center leap
 Beginning Jazz SYLLABUS 4-6 years

Warm up:
• Demi pliés
• Jumping Jacks
• Marching
• chassé 2x side, clap on count
• Body isolations
o Head looking up and down, side to side
o Shoulders up and down together, separate
o Hips shaking side to side
o Hip circles
• Relevé
• Basic Stretches
• Lunges

Across the Floor:

• Forced arch Jazz walks

o Starting as walking with straight legs on relevé kicking feet behind
o Walking forward
• Marching
• Chassés devant and à la seconde
• Grande battements (front) brushing through first
• Grapevine
• Jazz hands
• Leaps
o Jumping from one foot to the other

Jazz Basics SYLLABUS 5-7 years

Continued from beginning jazz
Warm up:
• Demi pliés
• Jumping Jacks
• Marching
• chassé, ball change
• Body isolations
o Head looking up and down, side to side
o Shoulders up and down together, separate
o Hips shaking side to side
o Hip circles
• Relevé
• Basic Stretches
• Lunges
• Splits
• Contractions and releases
• Touch turn
• Grapevine
• Counting music
o Clapping to music

Across the Floor:

• Forced arch Jazz walks

o Starting as walking with straight legs on relevé kicking feet behind
o Moving toward bending knees
o Jazz walks forward.
o Jazz walks sideways crossing in front
• Marching
• Chassés devant and à la seconde
• Grande battements (front) brushing through first
o Adding grande battements derrière
• Half pirouette – turned in
o Eventually mastery of single pirouette en dehors
o With spotting
• Spotting
• Grapevine
• Beginning chané turns,
o Half turns, arms in seconde, find spot, arms move to first, change spot
• Jazz hands
• Jazz squares
• Step pivot
• Ball change
• Kick, ball change
• Cross touch – hands on hips
• Leaps
o Jumping from one foot to the other
o Saut de chat beginning
o Working toward grande jeté
 Jazz 1 Syllabus

Continued from jazz basics. Student will do a variety of combinations in counts of 8 in the
center and across the floor.

Warm up:
• Demi pliés
• chassé, ball change
• Body isolations (head, shoulders, ribs, hips)
• Hip circles
• Contractions and releases
• Elevé
• Relevé
• Stretches
• Lunges
• Splits
• Around the world In the center and across the floor:
• Grande battements (front, side, and back, pointed and flexed)
• Grapevine
• Jazz hands
• Jazz square (box)
• Pivot turn
• Paddle turn

CENTRE
• Forced arch jazz walks (bent knees) (heels up)
o Add shoulder rolls
o Add hips
• Cross touch with arms (Jazz combo no arms)
• Pas de bourrée with arms
• Kick ball change

Across the Floor

• Grande jeté (straight leg leap)
• Saut De Chat
• Chasse΄ ball-change
• Pirouette preperations
• Single pirouette en dehors
• Passé
• Chassé (front and side)
• Chainé (step turn)
• Alternating chassés
 Jazz 2 SYLLABUS 9+ years
Continued from jazz 1. Combinations in counts of 8 and 16 in the center and across the floor.

Warm up:
• Demi pliés
• chassé, ball change
• Chané, touch
• Body isolations (head, shoulders, ribs, hips)
• Hip circles
• Contractions and releases
• Elevé
• Relevé
• Stretches
• Lunges
• Splits
• Around the world In the center and across the floor:
• Grande battements (front, side, and back, pointed and flexed)
• Grapevine
• Jazz hands
• Jazz square (box)
• Pivot turn
• Paddle turn
• Conditioning
o Pushups
o Pilates abs- series of 5
o Hip raises/squeezes
• Stretching
• Counting music

CENTRE
• Forced arch jazz walks (bent knees) (heels up)
o Add shoulder rolls
o Add hips
o Add arm choreography
o Walking side (crossing in front)
o Turning direction walking backward
• Cross touch with arms
• Pas de bourrée with arms
• Kick ball change
• Single and double pirouettes en dehors
o Turned in
 (Turned out learned already in ballet)
• jazz splits
• fish flop
• knee turns

Across the Floor

• Grande jeté (straight leg leap)
• Saut De Chat
• Chasse΄ ball-change
• Pirouette preperations
• Single pirouette en dehors
• Passé
• Chassé (front and side)
• Chainé (step turn)
• Alternating chassés
• Pas de bourrée turns ( ½ and whole)
• Plié chainé
• Triplet walks
• Piqué
• Cross ball-change with arms
• Saut de chat (developing leap)
• Chassé chané
• Tuck jumps
• Chassé step Grande jeté
• Alternating chasse
• Soutenu
• Piqué turns
• 6 step
o cross ball change, cross ball change, (turn, etc)
• leaps to the floor
• rolls to the floor

Jazz 3 SYLLABUS 12+years

Syllabus Dancers MUST also be enrolled in a ballet class at GPD. Terms and movements to be
learned and mastered before going into Jazz 4. Dancers will continue to execute movements
learned in Jazz 1 and 2, and add the following terms and movements in class.

Warm up:
• Demi pliés
• chassé, ball change
• Chané, touch
• Body isolations (head, shoulders, ribs, hips)
• Hip circles
• Contractions and releases
• Elevé
• Relevé
• Stretches
• Lunges
• Splits
• Grande battements (front, side, and back, pointed and flexed)
• Grapevine
• Jazz hands
• Jazz square (box)
• Pivot turn
• Paddle turn
• Conditioning
o Pushups
o Pilates abs- series of 5
o Hip raises/squeezes
• Stretching
• Counting music

In center and across the floor:

• Forced arch jazz walks front, side (crossing in front), back
• Pencil turns
• Fouetté sauté
• Piqué arabesque
• Falls to the floor
• Toe touches
• Á la seconde leaps
• Saut de chat
• Attitude, attitude leap
• Double, triple pirouettes en dehors, single pirouette en dedans
• Leaps to the floor
• Fouetté prep and tour at the barre
• Piqué passé tour
• Layouts
• Pas de bourrée spiraling upper back
• Triplet turns
• Saut de chat (develop leap)
• pas de bourre turns
• developpé
• fan kicks
• capezio turns
• turning C jump
 Jazz 4 SYLLABUS 14+ years
Syllabus Dancers MUST also be enrolled in a ballet class at GPD. Terms and movements to be
learned and mastered before going into Jazz 5.

Warm up:
• Demi pliés
• chassé, ball change
• Chané, touch
• Body isolations (head, shoulders, ribs, hips)
• Hip circles
• Contractions and releases
• Elevé
• Relevé
• Stretches
• Lunges
• Splits
• Grande battements (front, side, and back, pointed and flexed)
• Grapevine
• Jazz hands
• Jazz square (box)
• Pivot turn
• Paddle turn
• Conditioning
o Pushups
o Pilates abs- series of 5
o Hip raises/squeezes
• Stretching
• Counting music

In center and across the floor:

• Attitude turn devant and derrière
• Triple turns en dehors, double turns en dedans
• Axel turns
• Piqué arabesque grand tour jeté en tournant
• Piqué turns
• Double piqué turns
• Fouetté turns
• Tour jeté
• Leaps out of turns
• Turns sur le cou de pied
• Lame duck
• Hitch kick
• Turning C jump
• attitude leaps
• Capezio turn
• Fish flop
• Tilted grande battement
• Lateral and flat backs
• Center leap
• Saut de chat derrière

Jazz 5 SYLLABUS 15+ years

Syllabus Dancers MUST also be enrolled in a ballet class at GPD. Terms and movements
to be learned and mastered in Jazz 5.

Warm up:
• Demi pliés
• chassé, ball change
• Chané, touch
• Body isolations (head, shoulders, ribs, hips)
• Hip circles
• Contractions and releases
• Elevé
• Relevé
• Stretches
• Lunges
• Splits
• Grande battements (front, side, and back, pointed and flexed)
• Grapevine
• Pivot turn
• Paddle turn
• Conditioning
o Pushups
o Pilates abs- series of 5
o Hip raises/squeezes
• Stretching
• Counting music

In center and across the floor:

• Axel turn lay out to the floor
• 1 and a half piqué arabesque tour
• 1 and a half piqué attitude tour
• Fouetté turns
• Triple turns en dehors and en dedans
o Cou de pied
 o Retiré
o Attitude
• Grande pirouette à la seconde
• Turning Disk (Chainé that leads into a toe touch)
• Switch-center leap
• Illusions
• switch leaps
• Toe touch
• Jete´ back attitude
• Turning C jump

TAP COMBO SYLLABUS 3+ years,

Vocabulary and Movements:

• flap – brush toe
• shuffle- brush spank
• spank- toe goes back
• brush- toe goes forward
• tip – tip of toe hits into floor
• jab/dig – tip of heel hits into floor
• toe- toe hits into ground
• heel- heel hits into floor
• stomp- foot hits into ground and stays there

Beginning Tap SYLLABUS 4+ years

Continued from combo
Vocabulary and Movements
• stamp—foot hits into ground and come back up
• leap – jump from one foot to the other
• hop- jump on one foot
• chug- two feet jump (moving forward)
• paradiddle- jab, spank, toe, heel
• rhythm clapping – (i.e. 3 shuffles clap 4, 3 stomps, clap 4)
• flap walking (brush toe)

Basic Tap SYLLABUS 5+ years

Continued from beginning tap
• irish step
 o shuffle, leap, step
• shuffle, stomp
• flap, ball change (Lindy)
• cramp roll (slowly)
o toe toe, heel heel
• flap running (brush toe)
• flap, heel
• skuff – jab (heel) forward
• spank, toe

Tap 1 SYLLABUS 7+years

Terms and steps to be learned and mastered before going into Tap 2.

Warm up:
• Ankle rolls
• Toe tap combination

Center Floor:
• Shuffle – (brush forward, spank back)
• Flap – (brush forward, toe down)
• Shuffle ball-change (brush, spank, step back step front)
• Paradiddles (jab/dig, spank, toe, heel)
• Hustle (toe, heel, toe, heel, toe, heel, dig or toe tap)
• Single military time step
o Shuffle hop step ball change
o Shuffle hop step ball change
o Shuffle hop step, shuffle hop step
o Shuffle hop step, ball change
• Lindy (flap with chasse ball change)
• Chug
• Dig/Jab
• Tip (point of the tap shoe hitting the tip of the toe into the ground)
• Spank (back)
• Brush ( forward)

Across the floor and from the corner:

• Traveling flaps
• Flap-heel
• Flap-heel-heel
• Cramp rolls (forward and backward)
• Buffalo
• Drawbacks (toe, spank, heel)
• Shuffle stomp
• Irish (forward and backward)
• Double irish (shuffle ball-change, irish) (forward and backward)

Tap 2 SYLLABUS 9+ years

Syllabus Terms and steps to be learned and mastered before going into Tap 3.

Center floor:
• Riff
o Toe heel toe heel
• Single maxi-ford
o Stomp shuffle leap tip
• Single buck time step
o Stomp hop step flap step stomp
• Double buck time step
o Stomp hop, flap flap step stomp
• single shuffle time step
o Shuffle hop step flap step
• Pirouette preps and single pirouettes en dehors
• Shirley temple

Across the floor and from the corner:

• Buffalo combination (3 buffalos, flap, stomp, stomp)
• Double buffalo step
• Flap ball-change
• Flap-heel ball-change
• Flap-heel turns
• Flap-heel-heel turns
• Flap ball-change turns
• Crossover drawbacks
• Drawbacks to the side
• Double cramp roll

TAP 3 SYLABUS – 12+years

Continued from tap 2

Center floor:
• Double maxi-ford
• Triple buck time step
• Double-triple buck time step
• Five-point riff
• Double pirouettes en dehores
• Back essence
• Bell jump
• Double maxi-ford
• Trenches
• Paddle turn Across the floor and from the corner:
• Triple buffalo
• Maxi-ford turns (tip in back)
• Double-toe buffalo
• Click buffalo
• Irish turn
• Triple cramp roll (shuffle cramp roll) At the barre and center floor:
• Pullbacks
• Wings
• Syncopated toe stands
• Single toe turns

TAP 4 SYLLABUS – 14+ years

Continued from tap 3

In the center and across the floor:

• “Nick” step
• Syncopated wings
• Synocpated pullbacks
• Triple pirouettes en dehors
• Double toe turns
• Single leg toe stands
• Single leg pullbacks
• Single leg wings
• Traveling time steps
• Crossover pullbacks
• Maxi-ford turns (tip in front)
• Double back essence
• Bombershay
• Backward traveling flaps
• Cincinnati
• Scissor
• Over the top
 Tap 5 SYLLABUS 15+

Continued from tap 4

In the center and across the floor:

• Single pullback tip
• Irish pullback tip
• Switching wings
• Switching pullbacks
• Reverse cramp roll
• Wing tip
• Crossover wing
• Shuffle pullback
• Toe-tip dig bombershay

Hip Hop 1 SYLLABUS 7+ years

Warm up:
• Body isolations (head, shoulders, hips, ribs)
• Squats
• Stationary slides (scoop arms)
• Stretches
• Lunges

Across the floor:

• Flexed foot grande battement
• Walks with swagger (or attitude)
• Pas de bourrée (end in lunge)
• Slide touch
• Cross touch
• Kick, cross, touch (forward and backward)

In the center and across the floor:

• Tuck jump
• Pivot turns
• Which a ways
• Grapevine
• C-Walks
o Heel toe, heal toe
• Hip Hop Walks
o Directional changes- around shoulder, forward, backward
Center floor:
• Donkey kicks
• Knee slides
• Paddle turns
• Knee turns
• Cross turn
o Jump out, cross feet, turn

Hip Hop 2 SYLLABUS 9+ years

Continued from hip hop 1

Warm up:
• Stationary slides (using upper body and shoulders, switching heels)
• Isolations
• Throw back
• Popping
• Locking
• Hip circles
• Shoulder/ribcage pops
• conditioning

Across the floor:

• Kick ball-change (emphasize level changes, flex foot on the kick)
• Kick cross touch
• Floats (feet, toes in, out)
• Kick step out
• Pas de bourrée turn (end in lunge, level changes)
• Chainé

Center floor:
• Donkey flips
• Body rolls
• Tuck jump (landing down, leg out)
• Coffee grinders
• Turtle backs (spin on back)
• Single pirouettes en dehores (landing in grand plié 2nd & lunge forward)
• Shoulder rolls
• Jazz splits
 Hip Hop 3 SYLLABUS 12+ years

Syllabus Dancers MUST also take a jazz class at GPD. Continued from hip hop 2

Warm Up:

• Stationary slides (using upper body and shoulders, switching heels)

• Lean back
• Conditioning
o Abs Pilates- series of 5
o Pushups
o Hip raises/squeezes

Across Floor:
• Catch & throw
• Mike – N- Ikes
• Pas de bourrée turn (end in lunge, level changes)
• Kick, step, out (add arms)

Center Floor:

• Body rolls using heels in all directions

• Rotating coffee grinders (both legs)
• Double pirouettes en dehores (landing in grand plié 2nd & lunge forward)
• 6-step
• Kip-up to back bend (legs kick up in the air)
• Freeze ( on shoulder)