Ballet-Tap Combination Class

Ballet classes for kids and Tap dance combined at American Dance Institute Seattle with studios in Greenwood, Magnolia Shoreline WA.

In addition to the classes on this page, American Dance Institute also offers tap dance lessons for adults, teen tap classes, kid's tap dance classes for ages 8-10. American Dance Institute offers a comprehensive selection of children's ballet and taps dance classes for ages 5-7, kids ballet classes for ages 8-10, kid's ballet classes for ages 11-14, ballet lessons for Teenagers, and ballet classes for adults.

What to look for in an excellent combo ballet-tap dance class.

Look for non-competitive ballet and tap dance classes where everyone is friendly and your child will always feel welcome.
Look for a class where the teacher understands that the pace of the class has to be good for your child.

Look for dance studios with specially designed 'sprung' wood floors that 'give' to protect their feet and ankles. Avoid studios with regular wood floors and heaven to bid, run away from dance studios with concrete floors.
Look for accommodating school policies like a 100% money back guarantee if you don't like your class for any reason. Look for clean, bright sunlit studios.

Most importantly look for a school that has expert dance teachers who know how to give your child personalized attention so they will progress faster.

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Winter/Spring 2018 Kid's Tap Dance Class schedule.

Greenwood and Magnolia Winter/Spring sessions run February 5 - June 15, 2018.

Shoreline session run March 12th- June 15, 2018.

Ballet & Tap Combo Classes in Greenwood

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Rating: 5.0
Author: American Dance Institute

Pre-Ballet / Tap Dance Combination Class Level I

Ages 5-7

Please note age cutoff date is August 31.

Fridays, 4:00-4:50 PM with dance instructor, Ines Andrade, in Studio #2

Saturdays, 9:55-10:45 AM with dance instructor, Amy Beck, Studio #1

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Ballet & Tap Combo Classes in Magnolia

There are currently no Pre-Ballet/Tap classes running at our Magnolia location. We do offer Pre-Ballet classes in Magnolia here.

Ballet & Tap Combo Classes in Shoreline

Classes start in early March 2018

Pre-Ballet / Tap Combination Class

Ages 5-7

Mondays, 4:00-4:50 PM with dance instructor, Julia Hart, in Studio #1

Fridays, 6:00-6:50 PM with dance instructor, Julia Hart, in Studio #1

Saturday, 3:15-4:05 PM with dance instructor, Dakota Crist, in Studio #2

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Class Attire

Girls wear short sleeve cotton leotard (Bloch Style #CL5402) in light pink, pink tights, pink Ballet slippers, and black tap shoes.

Boys wear black tights and white T shirt, black or white Ballet slippers, and black tap shoes.

Note: Please get tap shoes with an elastic tie to facilitate the changing of foot wear.

"Young children do not understand competition. We encourage students to first discover their 'best self' and not to compare themselves to others who may have more or less natural ability."

Elizabeth Chayer

Founder/Director, American Dance Institute

Meet Your Ballet Teachers

"Just as in any great school, the quality of your child's dance instructor makes all the difference."

Elizabeth Chayer

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Ines Andrade

Amy Beck

Dakota Crist

Julia Hart

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Parent Class Ratings

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Non-Competitiveness
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Consistently Excellent Instruction
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5.0

Instructor Ines Andrade

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Based on 10 reviews

For me, ADI has the family spirit going, where we pay attention to the student's heart. Teachers here are ambassadors for growth and connection and want to continue to see the kids from the neighborhood bring magic, as future adults, into the wider community .

Ines Andrade
ADI Instructor 10+ yrs

Classes Ines Teaches

Children's Creative Dance
Pre-Ballet

Tap Dancing

Testimonials

Ines's teaching skills are extraordinary. My son says; "She's the fun-est lady in the whole world!"
She has so much energy and is so patient with the girls! J. Vicers

My children were in Inez's class 2 years ago and LOVED her. Paige still remembers her. D. Ellington

7 additional students rated Ines Consistently awesome - 5 stars.

Ines's Bio

Ines Andrade received her BFA in Dance/Choreography from University of Florida/New World School of the Arts. Before moving to Seattle, she performed, choreographed and taught young children in Paris, France, Florida and the San Juan Islands.

In addition to her classes at American Dance Institute, Ines also teaches at pre-schools, elementary schools, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. She also performs in an array of ethnic dance forms and is a member of Seattle Early Dance (Renaissance and Baroque work).

Ines has been with American Dance Institute since 1999 teaching Creative Dance, Pre-Ballet and Tap.

Instructor Amy Beck

9 student reviews.

Classes Amy Teaches

Ballet

Parent Toddler

Pre-Ballet

Children's Ballet

Testimonials /Comments

I like how she works with the girls, firm but not mean. She has a fun way of showing of correcting them by using examples of the difference.

Heather B.
ADI Parent

Amy is consistently awesome and she has boosted my daughters confidence and love for ballet!! She has a would quiet teaching style that is fun and enjoyable!!!

Xanasha R.
ADI Parent

Consistently awesome!

Johnna E.
ADI Parent

6 additional students rated Amy 'Consistently Awesome -5 stars'.

Amy's Bio

In 1991, 4 year old Amy boldly announced to her mother that she was ready to be a dancer. Her mother obliged and Amy has been dancing with American Dance Institute ever since progressing through our Creative Dance, Pre-Ballet, Children’s Ballet, Junior Ballet and Teen/Adult Ballet programs.

She participated in and taught dance classes while she attended the University of Portland, but she pursued her passion for language, majoring in English and German. She is now pursuing a Master of Arts in Teaching.

She has always loved the welcoming atmosphere at ADI, and was thrilled to join the teaching staff at ADI in 2011. Amy teaches Parent/Toddler, Creative Dance, Pre-Ballet and Children’s Ballet.

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Amy executing a grand plie in the first position.

Dakota Crist

Dakota Crist had her early training in Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary and Modern Dance at Diane’s Dance Works in Helena, Montana, then went on to study at Creative Arts Center in Helena, Ballet Montana Academy and Sacramento Ballet.

She holds a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts. Dakota is currently a company member of The Three Yells dance company and she has been teaching since 2009.

She joined American Dance Institute in January of 2018.

Julia Hart

Julia Hart grew up studying Ballet, Jazz, Tap and Contemporary at Dancenter North in Libertyville, Illinois, She has performed extensively, including multiple roles in 10 years of Nutcracker performances. Julia choreographed for and performed with 2 separate dance companies at the University of Notre Dame. She has been teaching dance since 2012, with a special affinity for rhythm tap. Julia joins American Dance Institute as we open our Shoreline location in January of 2018.

Dakota, had her early training in Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary and Modern Dance at Diane’s Dance Works in Helena, Montana, then went on to study at Creative Arts Center in Helena, Ballet Montana Academy and Sacramento Ballet. She holds a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts. Dakota is currently a company member of The Three Yells dance company and she has been teaching since 2009.

She joined American Dance Institute in January of 2018.

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Why We Do In-Studio Performances

Young children love to perform but don’t need to be paraded across a big stage to get that thrill. And three minutes on a stage cannot possibly convey how much they’ve learned all year.

Additional performance opportunities abound for our older, upper-level students including Greenwood Art Walk, Phinney Winter Festival, Seattle Summer Streets, Greenwood Seafair Parade and more.

Our Children's Program Dance Classes

Our Children's dance classes teach to the whole child to dance, think, create and work well with others.

Our Children's Program Dance Classes Incorporate Intellect, Creativity & Discipline.

Kids love to move and when you play music, they dance around the room. Observe them closely and you will notice that they repeat the same movements over and over. They not only have a limited early speaking vocabulary, they have a limited early movement vocabulary.

As they become familiar with movement concepts, they can understand points of reference and perspective. For example, they will take one movement that feels very familiar in their body and with our instructor’s guidance make it into a dozen different movement variations. They'll try it high, try it low, try it backwards, upside down, with a partner etc. It’s all wrapped in fun creative themes and it opens up unlimited possibilities to move, express and relate to the world around them.

Our children's program leverage a child's love of movement with a movement vocabulary and we build on that vocabulary to help them define the physical and social world around them. Dance is more than physicality, it involves intellect, creativity, and discipline. Kid's love our dance classes because they are fun. We make learning dance fun because it works. Like you, we believe that every child deserves an essential dance foundation for a happy life pursuing excellence in all things.

ADI's founder and current director, Elizabeth Chayer, continues to pioneer improved dance instruction practices and has been incorporating them into her school's curriculum for over twenty seven years.

Elizabeth wrote a quick read guide, explaining the must-ask questions to ask dance schools, before you give them your money. She wrote this guide after gleaning the repeat questions from over a thousand school interviews. Arm yourself with knowledge to make an informed choice. It is free and no email address is required.

Children's Dance Classes In A Noncompetitive Learning Environment

We teach to the 'whole child' to dance, think, create and to work well with others.

ADI teaches young children an alternative to 'competition with other students' and this alternative ultimately makes them ideal competitors, happier people, and excellent citizens.

ADI teaches every child to first discover 'their personal best' as a benchmark and not to compare themselves to others who may have more or less natural ability.

ADI's non-competitive environment actually improves your child's ability to learn.

Kid's Dance Classes In Safe Dance Studios

Our Seattle dance studios, located in Greenwood at 8001 Greenwood Ave North, and 3116 West Smtih Street in Magnolia, are ideally suited spaces for children to run, jump and land safely on 'sprung floors', protecting them from the injuries that occur on concrete, mat- covered or even common wood floors. Our dance floors are also steam cleaned daily and are fr

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Children's Dance Classes and Neural Connectivity

Stanford Professor Richard Powers writes in his paper; Use It or Lose It: Dancing Makes You Smarter, "Dancing integrates several brain functions at once-kinesthetic, rational, musical, and emotional-further increasing one's neural connectivity." Read more.

Mommy & Me Parent Toddler Dance

America Dance Institute offers FREE Mommy or Daddy & Me Parent-Toddler classes.

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Children's Tap Dancing Classes

A Children's Tap Dancing Class performance at a Greenwood-Phinney ArtWalk performance. Community performances such as ArtWalk provide a great opportunity to showcase what they've learned. It also builds community.

Children's Tap Dancing Class Schedule

All ADI dance classes introduce verbal and movement vocabularies, new conceptual frameworks, perspectives and problem-solving skills, and we are the A in S.T.E.A.M. concepts. Your child will better relate to the world around them and their peers and their ability to learn everything will increase as well.

Children's Hip Hop Dance Classes

ADI Instructor, Moira Bugler, leads a class of children in a Pre-Hip Hop dance class. Moira studied with Emmy award winning Choreographers Tabbitha & Napoleon and Luther Brown of the hit TV show: So You Think You Can Dance.

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My daughter studied at ADI for five years before we moved away. We loved and miss ADI.

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Sophia, a longtime student, began studying at ADI at age ten. She's off to college now and a wonderful life.

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Why Is Non-Competitive Better?

How To Choose A Dance School

Read about Dr. Peter Lovatt and John J. Ratty's work on the relationship between learning and movement.

Stanford Professor Richard Powers: Dance, Brain Function and Neural Connectivity

Sir Ken Robinson's Famous TED Talk on how we are failing to appreciate the importance of a child's curiosity and creativity.

Ontario Arts Council Video: Why I Dance

Read about scientific evidence that suggests that big dance movements create new brain synapse connections.

About Our Adult Dance Program

Excellence in dance instruction without the pretense.

Students Cara, Lara, Lisa, Jessica & Philip all having fun in our adult dance classes. These smiles convey perfectly what our adult dance program mission is and what your dance class experience will be. Choose from ballet, hip hop, contemporary/modern, tap, jazz, flamenco, and Irish dance classes for adults.

We offer noncompetitive, invigorating and fun dance classes.

Our school culture is very friendly, very accommodating and non-competitive. You'll always feel welcome and never feel that you're being judged. While everyone is a serious student at ADI, we don't take ourselves too seriously. Your day is full of challenges so we try to make our dance studios an oasis of love, respect and invigorating fun for all students.

Choose From Ballet, Hip-Hop, Contemporary/Modern, Tap, Jazz, Flamenco, and Irish dance classes for adults.

For The Experienced Dancer

We offer a range of classes for advanced, intermediate and beginning dancer.
Advanced dancers are placed with other advanced dancers and beginners with beginners.

Dance teachers are skilled at pacing appropriately for various experience levels in the room.
Find a class that matches your experience level and we can help you identify them in our schedule.

For The Beginning Dancer

Beginners will receive a lot of personal attention and they will progress quickly as a result.
Beginners will learn in beginning classes that move at a slower pace.

You and your fellow classmates will all share in the dance class experience. It's an opportunity to make new friends or spend quality time with existing friends.
No need to be intimidated. Students who have never had any dance training will be carefully and patiently guided from the ground up.

Find a class that matches your experience level and we can help you find that.

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Move, workout and dance in any of our invigorating dance classes!

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"Life is hard, but you will find our dance studios to be an oasis of love, respect and fun."

Our dance studios are in Seattle's Greenwood and Magnolia neighborhoods.

Excellent ballet classes are near you!

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Adult intermediate Ballet students at the portable barre, in American Dance Institute's sunlit Ballet Studio #1.

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Giving everyone necessary corrections while maintaining a fun pace is what great dance teachers do in class. Here ADI Founder, Director Elizabeth Chayer corrects the alignment of a beginning Ballet student in Studio #2.

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American Dance Institute's adult contemporary dance students have performed in many of the Greenwood-Phinney or Phinneywood Art Walk events.

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Tap dancing for the ArtWalk crowd.

Encarnacion, a Flamenco dance teacher at Seattle's American Dance Institute. Encarnación was born in Barcelona to a family of exiles from the Spanish Civil war and lived between Barcelona and Mexico City most of her life. Still, her family kept her immersed in flamenco music.

Encarnacion is Seattle's only Spanish born Flamenco teacher.

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How is a non-competitive class environment better?

To learn to dance requires a lot of concentration. It's distracting to be in a classroom with advanced dancers, who feel that it is their class time and that you are slowing them down. If you feel unwelcome it'll distract you. It'll require more time and effort to learn. Your dance class will not be as enjoyable.

In a non-competitive room full of friendly classmates, you can relax and be yourself. You'll feel accepted, open up, take risks. You'll actually learn more in a shorter period of time. This is what ADI's non-competitive classroom environment does for you and it will make an amazing difference in your learning experience.

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Greenwood Studios Location

8001 Greenwood Ave North, Seattle WA 98103

Ballet-Tap Combination Class

Winter/Spring 2018 Kid's Tap Dance Class schedule.

Greenwood and Magnolia Winter/Spring sessions run February 5 - June 15, 2018.

Shoreline session run March 12th- June 15, 2018.

Ballet & Tap Combo Classes in Greenwood

Pre-Ballet / Tap Dance Combination Class Level I

Ages 5-7

Please note age cutoff date is August 31.

Ballet & Tap Combo Classes in Magnolia

There are currently no Pre-Ballet/Tap classes running at our Magnolia location. We do offer Pre-Ballet classes in Magnolia here.

Ballet & Tap Combo Classes in Shoreline

Pre-Ballet / Tap Combination Class

Class Attire

"Just as in any great school, the quality of your child's dance instructor makes all the difference."

Ines Andrade

Amy Beck

Dakota Crist

Julia Hart

Parent Class Ratings

Instructor Ines Andrade

Classes Ines Teaches

Testimonials

Ines's Bio

Instructor Amy Beck

Classes Amy Teaches

Testimonials /Comments

Amy's Bio

Dakota Crist

Julia Hart

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Why We Do In-Studio Performances

Young children love to perform but don’t need to be paraded across a big stage to get that thrill. And three minutes on a stage cannot possibly convey how much they’ve learned all year.

Young children love to perform but don’t need to be paraded across a big stage to get that thrill. And three minutes on a stage cannot possibly convey how much they’ve learned all year.

Additional performance opportunities abound for our older, upper-level students including Greenwood Art Walk, Phinney Winter Festival, Seattle Summer Streets, Greenwood Seafair Parade and more.

Our Children's Program Dance Classes

Our Children's dance classes teach to the whole child to dance, think, create and work well with others.

Our Children's Program Dance Classes Incorporate Intellect, Creativity & Discipline.

Children's Dance Classes In A Noncompetitive Learning Environment

Kid's Dance Classes In Safe Dance Studios

Pre-Ballet / Tap Combo Dance Classes

Children's Dance Classes and Neural Connectivity

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Mommy & Me Parent Toddler Dance

Children's Tap Dancing Classes

Children's Hip Hop Dance Classes

Children's Creative Dance

ADI is movement, physicality, and progress, not tutus, costumes & makeup.

American Dance Institute's Children's Ballet Students

Pre-Ballet Dance Classes

"Enroll your children in ADI and relax."

Teen Ballet

Children's Irish Dancing Classes

Shop For Dance Classes By Age Group

Shop For Dance Classes By Day of Week

More info

Read about Dr. Peter Lovatt and John J. Ratty's work on the relationship between learning and movement.

No matter the intelligence level of your child today, their awareness and intelligence will be improved with ADI's dance curriculum which incorporates the student's curiosity, creativity, and emotions with dance movement and instruction. In some students the difference may be quite dramatic.

Stanford Professor Richard Powers: Dance, Brain Function and Neural Connectivity

Sir Ken Robinson's Famous TED Talk on how we are failing to appreciate the importance of a child's curiosity and creativity.

Ontario Arts Council Video: Why I Dance

Why will your children love dance? For all of the reasons shared in this lovely, emotionally moving video produced by Canada's Ontario Arts Council, entitled, Why I Dance: HERE

Read about scientific evidence that suggests that big dance movements create new brain synapse connections.

Adult Dance Classes

Teen Class Links

Older Children's Classes

Young Children's Dance Classes

(3.5 - 7 years)

About Our Adult Dance Program

Excellence in dance instruction without the pretense.

We offer noncompetitive, invigorating and fun dance classes.

Choose From Ballet, Hip-Hop, Contemporary/Modern, Tap, Jazz, Flamenco, and Irish dance classes for adults.

For The Experienced Dancer

For The Beginning Dancer

Spacious, wide-open dance studios.

Our dance studios are in Seattle's Greenwood and Magnolia neighborhoods.

Excellent ballet classes are near you!

School Location Maps

Shop For Adult Dance Classes By Age Group

Shop For Adult Dance Classes By Day of Week