
Ambo Dance Theatre
Drop-In Classes
Ambo Dance Theatre offers Drop-In classes on an ongoing basis throughout the year! All Drop-In classes are geared toward Adult and Teen dancers, and we provide class options that cater to all levels and abilities.
Scroll through our class options below and join us on the dance floor!
Class card and different pricing options are listed at the bottom of the page and offer flexible ways to participate!
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If you are interested in classes for Children, please check out the Ambo Dance Theatre School program and the Creative Movement program!
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New Weekly Drop-In Class Schedule as of 9/7/2025!

Flexibility and Strengthening​​
For Adults and Teens
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Saturdays @ 9am -
All experience levels welcome!
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This class promotes functional strength, fitness, and wellness for all bodies, but especially catered to the dancing body. Exercises focus on proper alignment and kinesthetic awareness to create balance throughout the body and reduce the risk of injury, ultimately providing the necessary tools to increase endurance, range of motion, and overall physical performance.
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All equipment provided!​​​
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Tap Dance
For Adults and Teens
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Wednesdays @ 5:30pm Beginner Tap - All experience levels welcome!
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Thursdays @ 6:30pm Intermediate Tap - Prior tap experience required.​
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Building off of fundamental tap movement vocabulary, this class integrates more complex steps such as pullbacks, wings, and riffs in order to introduce more complex musicality, syncopation, and rhythmic understanding. This class also explores improvisation techniques and layered rhythms to introduce more nuanced choreographic structures.
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Tap shoes required.

Modern
Technique​
For Adults and Teens
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Sundays @ 1pm
Advanced Modern - Significant prior movement recommended.
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Mondays @ 6pm
Beginning Modern - All experience levels welcome!
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Wednesdays @ 6:30pm Intermediate Modern - Some experience recommended.
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Explore modern dance elements, such as contraction and release, fall and recovery, initiation points and kinetic chains through the body, and use of the spine in movement.
These classes typically start on the floor with Laban/Bartenieff-based exercises and gradually build to standing, moving across the floor, and ending with some phrase work or collaborative choreography.

Belly Dance
For Adults and Teens
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Thursdays @ 5:30pm - Beginning Belly Dance - All experience levels welcome!
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Belly dance is a captivating and empowering art form that celebrates fluidity, strength, and self-expression. Rooted in Middle Eastern traditions, this class focuses on isolations, undulations, and rhythmic movements of the torso and hips, enhancing core strength and body awareness. With an emphasis on musicality and graceful technique, students will learn fundamental movements, intricate combinations, and the cultural significance behind this mesmerizing dance style.

Jazz
Dance​
For Adults and Teens
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Tuesdays @ 5pm
Intermediate Jazz - Some movement experience recommended.
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Tuesdays @ 6pm
Beginner Jazz - All experience levels welcome!
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Jazz dance is a high-energy and expressive style that combines sharp, dynamic movements with smooth, fluid transitions. Rooted in rhythm and musicality, jazz incorporates elements of traditional technique alongside modern influences, making it versatile and ever-evolving. Classes typically focus on building strength, flexibility, coordination, and performance skills through exercises, across-the-floor sequences, and vibrant choreography.​
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Dance
Partnering
For Adults and Teens
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Fridays @ 5pm - Some prior movement experience recommended.
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This class will explore different strategies and partnering techniques rooted in contact improvisation and gender-neutral non-traditional partnering. Participants will learn to use their body weight and skeletal structure strategically to build lifts and partnered weight sharing that they can then apply broadly through structured improvisational exercises and movement phrases.
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Come solo or bring a partner!

Acro & Floorwork
For Adults and Teens
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Tuesdays @ 6pm
Advanced Beginner Acro & Floorwork - Some acro experience recommended.
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Acro and Floor Work is designed to specifically build your strength and acrobatic skills through a Dance lens. This class incorporates movements and skills from yoga, gymnastics, contemporary dance, and much more in order help build safe and functional use of flexibility, as well as the strength and control necessary to reduce and prevent injury.
Bare feet required.
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Dance Improvisation
For Adults and Teens
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Fridays @ 6pm - All experience levels welcome!
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Much like actors can improvise a scene together, so can dancers collectively improvise a dance that looks choreographed right on the spot! This class places an emphasis on group compositional improvisation. Through games, activities, and scores, we'll learn strategies for connecting as an ensemble, building and structuring dance extemporaneously, and treating improvisation as performance. ​