Joanne Langione Dance Center

- 38 Border St, Newton, MA 02465

Dance School

AcroDance is the fusion of classic dance technique with the precision and athleticism of tumbling. Acrobatic training teaches flexibility, balance, strength, muscle control, and above all, discipline and concentration.

AcroDance is the fusion of classic dance technique with the precision and athleticism of tumbling. Acrobatic training teaches flexibility, balance, strength, muscle control, and above all, discipline and concentration.

Acrodance is the fusion of dance technique with the precision and athleticism of tumbling. Students gain flexibility, balance, muscle control, and above all learn discipline and concentration becoming instantly proud of their new-found skills.

Award winning Babydance is a gentle movement class that encourages babies’ natural curiosity for exploration and helps advance social and physical skills, confidence and contentment setting the stage for future healthy development.

This is the fusion of age classic dance technique with proper body alignment and the precision and athleticism of tumbling. Under the guidance of our qualified teachers, students learn basic acrobatic skills such as handstands, cartwheels, bridges, forward and backward rolls.

Competition helps keep students on the ladder of progress in performance and technique while giving them confidence and strengthening bonds with classmates.

Creating, composing, and performing are important tools for our students to develop and discover talent. Coaching dancers in performance is an integral part of JLDC’s artistic life.

Danceworks is a set of four dance technique classes in three genres. Students take two ballet classes, a jazz, and tap class meeting twice weekly. As students develop strong ballet technique and progress through the program they are introduced to more challenging curriculum.

The Foot Lab focuses on strengthening all of the muscles that we may not always think about but are extremely valuable to improve stability, control, and injury prevention. Advanced dancers may take class en pointe.

Full Day Summerdance is a week-long performance based program for beginner/intermediate students that culminates in a fully staged musical showcase in our black-box style Studio 4 Dance Theater.

In Fundamentals, the formal study of ballet begins with simple barre and center floor technique. A fun, short section of tap, jazz and hip-hop is given to increase strength, mobility, and control in this 1.5 hr class.

Our Half Day Summerdance program provides an opportunity to learn to dance in an informal setting with emphasis on creativity, fun and the joy of movement. Dancers will participate in arts and crafts and outdoor games daily in our covered backyard classroom.

Hip Hop 1 introduces students to hip hop dance technique which offers freestyle movement and expression while improving balance, coordination and flexibility as students learn beginning isolations and footwork of popping and locking.

JLDC Hip Hop Team for intermediate/advanced students provides intense training in the latest freestyle technique to prepare for try-outs for the High School Dance Team. Connect through dance. Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork.

Hip Hop is a dynamic art form in which all the latest dance techniques are created. Set to popular music, Hip Hop helps develop a sense of rhythm, improves flexibility, balance, coordination and individual style.

Hip Hop is a dynamic class teaching all the latest moves aimed at improving flexibility, balance, and coordination. Set to popular music in a fun, fast-paced setting, Hip Hop class helps develop a sense of rhythm, musicality and individual style.

Hip Hop/Acro combines fun hip hop moves with the fitness of basic tumbling. This is a fast paced class that keeps students moving, building skill, and feeling confident in a fun, safe environment.

Hip Hop/Acro combines fun hip hop moves with the fitness of basic tumbling. This is a fast-paced class that will keep kids moving and feeling confident in a fun, safe environment.

Advanced AcroDance builds upon basic technique while continuing to work on flexibility, balance, strength, muscle control and also learning more advanced acrobatics.

Introduction to Dance teaches age-appropriate basic ballet movement such as plié, elevé, sauté, and echappé in an informal class that allows for exploration, imagination and fun taught by ballet instructors who have studied early childhood development and who love working with young children.

The Excel Program is offered to students who have worked diligently to develop their own creativity and technique. Classes are accelerated and offered to qualified students by invitation.

Jazz/Tap introduces students to the basics of Tap and Jazz technique set in a traditional warm-up, progressions, and choreography class structure. Students improve flexibility, rhythm, coordination, and confidence as they build their dance vocabulary.

These core classes teach students the foundational technique of each genre. Classes include a warm-up, technique exercises, progressions, stretches and choreography. Students also explore the creative process and experiment with improvisation and musicality at all levels.

The Junior Apprentice program is geared toward a unique and exciting opportunity to be classroom leaders. Apprentices participate in the Full Day program with the additional benefit of demonstrating in the classroom, choreographing, and working closely with JLDC faculty.

Students will build strength and flexibility in leaps and jumps. As dancers advance, they will learn new variations that they can implement into their dance technique. Advanced dancers should have full split flexibility.

For babies and toddlers who are discovering so much about the world around them each day, our award-winning Playdance program continues throughout the year and helps advance physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development.

Playdance 1 is a unique, hands-on class that fosters toddlers’ natural love of music and movement. Using a large open dance space, engaging props, and a variety of popular song and movement activities, Playdancers are encouraged to use their imaginations and repetition.

Playdance 1 is a unique, hands-on class that fosters toddlers’ natural love of music and movement. Using a large open dance space, engaging props, and a variety of popular song and movement activities.

Playdance 2 combines new and familiar song and movement activities in an engaging environment that builds in routine, helping pre-schoolers understand transitional cues and sequence. While encouraging imagination and play each week, fun listening and movement games.

Pre-Ballet/Tap teaches basic ballet movement terminology introducing the ballet barre for the first time. Center floor exercise focuses on learning ballet positions to advance technique and memory.

JLDC Dancers Preparatory Program trains upper school students to dance at the collegiate level or pre-professional level upon graduation. Core classes are taken along with elective and specialty classes geared to students ability and interest.

Dancers of all levels will learn techniques such as chin stands, aerials and illusions. Beginner students will learn the fundamentals and progress towards achieving new skills, while advanced dancers will have the opportunity to refine intricate moves that will compliment their training.

Leave Strength Lab a stronger version of YOU! Age appropriate strength training allows students to meet the needs that dance physically demands.

One of the most important aspects of dance training is strengthening flexibility. Students will increase their range of motion by using proper body alignment, bands and blocks

A seminar class designed for beginner/intermediate dancers who wish to study technique in four dance styles: ballet, contemporary, jazz, and hip hop. Students study fundamentals of each dance technique while refining skills.

From working on a single pirouette, to mastering multiple turn sequences, beginner and intermediate dancers will improve their balance, strength, and spotting techniques. While more advanced dancers will work on executing multiple turn rotations, fouettés and turns in second.

Tweens learn the basics of jazz and tap technique and choreography. While refining their skills each week they create deeper connections to the music, movement, and each other.

Un.Convention Boston is a unique 4 day dance workshop that delivers the best aspects of a dance convention in an intimate, studio setting, offered exclusively at JLDC. Dancers take class alongside JLDC faculty and friends with some of the best dancers and choreographers in the world.

theDANCELAB is an individualized training program at JLDC for dancers to advance performance technique working on flexibility, turn stability, leap height and extension, correct body alignment, core strength and foot stretching skills.