Adult Dance Classes at Shirley McPhail School of Dance, Ballet, Tap, Jazz Hip-Hop Dance Classes Austin, Texas

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It's never too late! We offer a wide variety of dance classes for adults, including tap, jazz, ballet, "ballet shape", contemporary, hip-hop and yoga.

Adult Dance classes offer an opportunity to learn new skills, have fun, make new friends, and get exercise (much more fun than laboring on the treadmill). An especially excellent workout comes with the relatively new “Ballet Shape” class, taught by Jennifer Tcharikova, who calls it the “weekend redemption” class.

With beginner, intermediate and advanced adult dance classes, you're sure to find one that will be a perfect fit for your dance level. We are known for our easy, fun, relaxed atmosphere, where you can progress at a pace that is comfortable for you. And yes, we welcome men as well as women!

The adult tap dance classes at Shirley McPhail School of Dance were featured in a news article and video by News 8 Austin in their Fit for Friday section. Click here to read the article and watch the video.

Please visit our Classes page to learn about our dance classes for children and youth.

Classes	Description
Ballet	Receive the benefits of traditional barre and center exercises to strengthen and elongate muscles that are used in everyday life. Improve your flexibility, posture, and grace on the dance floor in a friendly environment.
Tap	Develops better coordination, rhythm and timing; strengthens feet and legs. Beginner, intermediate and advanced classes available.
Jazz	A fun and energetic class designed to build strength and flexibility through unique theatrical movements and stylized steps. Allow your own personality to explode on the dance floor.
Contemporary	A non-traditional, emotionally driven exploration of motion that uses basic fundamentals of suspension, dynamics, fluidity and freedom of expressions.
Hip-Hop	Incorporates isolation and stretching exercises to enhance student's physical fitness
Yoga	This class is appropriate for all levels, with emphasis on building strength, enhancing flexibility and balance and exploring your "edge" in each class. Each class will be different and challenging. Yoga has been shown to reduce blood pressure, increase flexibility and strength, manage stress, and provide participants with a general feeling of well-being.
Ballet Shape	Ballet Shape is an exercise class for Adults using the fundamentals of ballet technique at the barre with low impact. No jumps allowed in this class! Ballet Shape focuses on using repetition to target those hard to shape areas such as inner thighs, lower back, and glutes. You will continue to reshape your body with conditioning on mats, then on to a cool down with a total body stretch. This will be your "weekend redemption" class!

TESTIMONIALS FROM ADULT TAP DANCERS

"If you’re interested in meeting fun new friends, who laugh a lot, perspire heavily while building new brain cells and destroying old fat cells, join an adult tap class at SMSD! It’s the most fun activity of my week! And it’s a great conversation starter—" Alice Sessi

"I have stopped being embarrassed by the fact that I can't keep my feet from "tapping" while waiting in line at the grocery store, walking down the sidewalk of a new city on vacation, or waiting on my delayed flight in an airport! I can tap in tennis shoes, flipflops and house shoes. Can you tell, I'm hooked on tap dancing????? Thanks to Edwina Worley and her adult tap class at Shirley McPhail School of Dance, I have finally been able to fulfill a dream to be able to dance with a group of people as an adult--something unavailable to me as a child in a small town in Oklahoma. I will be signing up for my 12th season in the fall and can't wait! Our class has become another family group to be a part of that is refreshing, fulfilling, challenging and just fun fun fun!" Carla Sachar (58 years young)

SHIRLEY MCPHAIL SCHOOL OF DANCE HAS TWO AUSTIN LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU!

Send ALL mail to: Mesa Dance Studio 8018 Mesa Drive Austin, Texas 78731 512-345-1284				Plaza 183 Studio 13450 N. Hwy 183, Suite 234 Austin, Texas 78750 512-258-3793

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