Summer Classes

We have room in most of our classes for drop ins, please email studio@fidalgodanceworks.org 48 hours (M-F) in advance with your intention to join before class. This allows us to make sure there is room for everyone who wants to be there, teachers know how many students to prepare for, and so that we can quickly reach out to participants in case we need to cancel/change time or location.

Summer dance classes schedule for June and July 2025 with class names, dates, and colorful emojis including snowflake, magic wand, bear, and numbers 1, 2, 3.
Summer dance classes schedule from Fidalgo Dance Works, running June 30 to July 31, 2025, including mini camps, junior camps, ballet camps, triple threat art camp, and weekly dance classes for various age groups and skill levels.
Summer dance classes schedule for July and August 2025 with colorful icons and text.
Summer dance classes schedule for FIDALGO DANCE WORKS in July and August 2025, including mini camps, Broadway dance intensive, junior camps, triple threat art camp, and weekly classes in ballet, jazz, hip hop, and adult classes.

Our Classes

Class Placement Information

  • Level 1 classes are open to all beginner students in first grade or higher, unless otherwise noted. New students with prior dance experience must contact our office to get placement into the appropriate level before registering. Classes run from Sept to June, unless otherwise noted.

  • For our very young dancers, we offer combo classes from toddlers to Kindergarteners. See Young Children’s section below.

  • Adult classes are available in the dance styles of ballet, hip hop, and tap. Additionally, we offer adult health and wellness classes in dance fit, tai chi, and Dance for Parkinson’s.

Ballet

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Ballet

Ballet is a classical dance form demanding grace, precision, and discipline.  Our dancers, from beginner to pre-professional, combine these elements with fluid, technical movements to classical and contemporary music.  Placement for all levels is by staff approval only, with advancement based on physical and intellectual grasp of the material. Formal evaluations are held at the end of each school year. Pointe work available by instructor placement only.

Lyrical - Ballet 3 and above

Lyrical dance fuses ballet and jazz techniques and is performed to music with lyrics to inspire movements and express strong emotions.

Variations - Ballet 4 and above

Variations will learn and study from the classical ballets including Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia Swan Lake and more.  Students will study the ballet’s history and learn select pieces or “variations”  from the original works.

Hip Hop

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Hip Hop

The newest style of dance, developed in the 1970s, Hip Hop refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music.  Hip Hop includes a wide range of styles, including but not limited to, breaking, locking, popping & tutting.  Arresting isolations, percussive rhythm, and street style characterize this urban dance form. Explore this cutting-edge dance style and catch the excitement in class.

Jazz

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Jazz

Originating from African dance culture, jazz dance has changed and continued to develop through the decades.  While having its own base technique, jazz dance is a style that's physical movements embody the popular music and movement of any given time.

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Modern

Creative Modern

Expand your creative mind, physical awareness and movement vocabulary through imaginative play and teamwork.

Modern - by placement only

A gentle movement class focused on improving range of motion, strength and full body expression through dance.

Contemporary - advanced level by placement only

Building on the technical fundamentals of ballet and modern, contemporary dance explores how movement choices can be the mode for storytelling and authentic human expression. Class will include lessons on body mechanics, strengthening the mind body connection, improvisation, partnering and dance composition.

Tap

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Tap

Tap dance has its roots in the fusion of several ethnic percussive dances, primarily African tribal dances and Scottish, Irish and English clogging. Tap is an entertaining form of dance where rhythm and rhythmic variations are the highlight to any musical accompaniment.

Tumbling

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Tumbling

Tumbling 1 is for new students grades 1-3. Who are interested in learning fundamentals of tumbling. They will learn basic non apparatus skills such as for cartwheel, forward and backward rolls, bridges and more.

Tumbling 2 is for returning tumbling students who can execute a cartwheel and hold an unassisted bridge and who want to explore more advanced tumbling skills. This class is for 2-4th graders.

Health & Wellness

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Dance Conditioning

Conditioning class for all dancers in level 3 and higher of any style. This class does not perform and is a supplemental class for current students to gain strength, flexibility, and knowledge of caring for a dancer’s body.

Adult Dance Fit

A dance class for fitness and toning. You’ll get the workout you want while enjoying some dance moves. Class offered 3 times a year (Fall, Winter, Spring). See session schedule for dates and times. For adults and teens (ages 14 and up).

Tai Chi & Qi Gong

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Breathe, Move, Learn and Relax

Tai Chi & Qi Gong are mindfulness in action. We do gentle exercises with a smile on our hearts as we learn movements that may help soften tensions, increase ease of movement and bring comfort to our bodies.

Tai Chi is popular around the world: done in parks, in classrooms, at home. Qi Gong is the mindfulness part of the practice.

The Forms can be done standing or seated with big movements and/or small ones.

Come to learn, to breathe, to move in easy and perhaps unfamiliar ways, to look for ease and comfort as we explore these ancient arts together.

Class offered 3 times a year (Fall, Winter, Spring). See session schedule for dates and times.

Movement for Life / Dance for Parkinson’s

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This adult class use movement from a variety of dance forms to foster fun, inclusive, creative and social dance class experiences. Accommodating and educational for those with balance/coordination issues, discomforts and restrictions from arthritis, aging, Parkinson's, just being out of shape. Based on the acclaimed international Dance for PD(r) program. Approaching movement from a dance perspective often provides inspiration, hopefulness and simply a good time. Options for sitting or standing during class, too.

Your teacher is a retired professional dancer trained in the Dance for PD(r) method with 25+ years experience teaching dance to those with movement and neurological challenges/disorders. Wednesday classes feature live music and welcome caregivers to join in, too.

Classes are ongoing on Wednesdays. Location and time changes throughout the year so please call our studio for details. This program is funded by a grant from the Anacortes Rotary and free for all participants.

Children’s Classes

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Children’s classes!

Children’s classes are designed with the progressive young dancer in mind. With tap and classical ballet technique as the core structure, Children’s Dance teaches technique, terminology, staging and all the basic skills needed to continue on to other dance styles.