Dance Conservatory

Break Dancing (breaking) at PopRock Academy for ages 8-13. Covers foundational breaking elements — toprock, footwork, freezes, and beginner power moves — building strength, coordination, musicality, and stage confidence. Curriculum: students work the elements of breaking — toprock, footwork, freezes — while continuously building strength and power over time. Safety is the first priority: no dangerous stunts.

Adult Hip Hop Level 1 is an entry-level hip hop class for adults, building foundational technique, grooves, and choreography.

The Hip Hop Competition Team (2026-2027) is a competitive dance team for ages 7 to 17, by audition only, with group and solo/duo/trio options. Auditions are held every year in June and in August for the coming school year; for 2026-27 the entry audition is June 13 and placement is August 29, 2026. The season runs September 2026 through June 2027. Summer training is required, and a strict no-withdrawal policy applies once a dancer is accepted. The team attends the KAR convention in Anaheim; the season's competition schedule is announced each year.

Hip Hop classes at PopRock Academy are technique-based and progressive. Hip Hop 1 introduces basic elements, stretching, and weekly choreography with no prior experience required. Hip Hop 2 and 3 cover advanced techniques and complex choreography; students must start at Level 1 and be moved up or pass a paid placement audition. Annual recital participation included.

Jazz Funk Technique at PopRock Academy is a technique class for students ages 8 to 17, designed to strengthen and condition a dancer's technical foundation through classical dance technique. No prior jazz training is required — the class is built to help hip hop students strengthen their dance technique with classical dance. There is no recital for this class. Curriculum: a strength and conditioning class structurally grounded in classical ballet training as commonly found in jazz class, adjusted for the hip hop dancer — ballet-derived across-the-floor and core work, with no (or very minimal) barre work.

KPop Dance at PopRock Academy includes a dedicated KPop class for ages 5-7 learning choreography to popular K-pop songs in a fun, high-energy format. KPop choreography is also integrated into the Hip Hop classes for older students. Curriculum: in essence the same as hip hop, but with the specific moves more common in K-pop and exclusively K-pop music.

Musical Theatre combines acting, singing, and movement to build well-rounded performers through songs and scenes from the stage. Beginning August 2026 it runs as a triple-threat class — singing, dancing, and acting together — in a single 1 hour 25 minute session, for students ages 8 and up.

PopStar trains dance and singing together. Students learn to move and sing at the same time — the skill a pop performance actually asks for, and the one that is hardest to build in isolation.

Private one-on-one dance lessons at PopRock Academy with a Dance Director or Dance Instructor — tailored to technique, audition and competition preparation, and special performances. Structure: a first-dance-class private follows the group class structure with more guided, personalized teaching before the student joins a group class. Beyond that, private dance is a pro-level offering, fully customized to the student's need — audition, a specific show/film/TV production, college, or competition. Advanced private students should still be enrolled in ongoing group classes; privates are not meant to replace group.