Class Types

CULTURE SHOCK DANCE CENTER offers training and fitness classes in a variety of dance types and styles. Ability levels range from beginner to advanced, and master classes are available. Classes are typically open for drop-ins unless otherwise specified on the schedule.

CLASS TYPES

Cardio Classes focus on providing a workout while having fun dancing to a specific style such as Hip Hop. Although these classes are for all levels of dancers and fitness enthusiasts, they are a great place to start for the novice dancer.
Choreography & Technique Classes focus on detailed choreography and technique. These classes typically involve more precise and challenging movements than the cardio classes.
Youth and Teen classes provide a great way for kids to learn and master different techniques and styles. Youth and teen classes are grouped by age ranges, and offered in multi-week sessions as specified in the schedule of classes.

LEVELS

Level 1: Classes for students just starting out. Level 1 classes are recommended as an introduction to the basic steps and dance combinations. This is also a good place for dancers returning to dance class after a long absence.
Level 2: A step up from Level 1, these classes are for the dancer who is ready for more of a challenge after mastering Level 1.
Beginning: will focus on more detailed choreography in a particular style of dance. While this is still a beginning level, it will more challenging and have a longer dance combination than the Level 1&2 Cardio Hip Hop classes.
Intermediate: More challenging class for students with proficiency of the Beginning level.
Advanced: Even more challenging class for students with proficiency of the Intermediate level
Master Classes : Intermediate/Advanced level of class, Master Classes are taught by guest instructors, many from out of the area who bring their own unique style to whatever discipline they are teaching.

DANCE / CLASS STYLES


Contemporary Dance	Contemporary Technique class will begin with exercises meant to bring attention to and challenge the ways in which dancers balance, are clear and efficient in their practice and performance. We will do standing phrases, stretch and learn choreography that travels across the floor to explore dynamic, quality, phrasing and how we use time and intention
Contemporary Dance Technique	Contemporary Dance Technique evolves out of modern and post-modern techniques and encourages a focus on flexibility, balance, strength, efficiency, intuitive choice making, and kinetic sensitivity as individual movers within the class ensemble. We will utilize various movement explorations that include embodied exercises, improvisation, and composition to open up the space between stillness and full-bodied movement through the progression of the class.
Contemporary Jazz
Contemporary Jazz	A Jazz dance class with a fusion of contemporary styles.
Hip Hop	Hip-hop dance refers to dance styles primarily danced to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. This includes a wide range of styles notably breaking, locking, and popping. What separates hip-hop dance from other forms of dance is that it is often freestyle (improvisational) in nature and hip-hop dancers frequently engage in battles—formal or informal freestyle dance competitions.
Michael Jackson Performance Workshop	Taught by Michal Jackson celebrity impersonator Devra Gregory. Dev has been a professional dancer and entertainer for many decades. She has traveled extensively performing as MJ and enjoys sharing her passion for dance with students and audiences of all ages. 9 Week Session Wednesdays 5:30pm-6:30pm September 14th - November 2nd Performance Sat. November 5th at Culture Shock Dance center Fall Cabaret Night at UCSD Mandeville Auditorium Open to kids 8 years and over, teens and adults. Younger students accepted with the instructors approval after attending the first class. Independent Program, 8 classes for $110
Breakin (Break Dance)	B-boying, often called "breakdancing", is a popular style of street dance that was created and developed as part of hip-hop culture in New York City. The dance consists of four primary elements: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes/suicides. It is danced to both hip-hop and other genres of music that are often remixed to prolong the musical breaks.
Breakin Top Rock Styles	Toprock is a major element of b-boying. It generally refers to any string of steps performed from a standing position, relying upon a mixture of coordination, flexibility, rhythm, and most importantly, style. It is usually the first and foremost opening display of style, and it serves as a warm-up for transitions into the more acrobatic maneuvers of downrock. Breakers may devote considerable time to developing their toprock, and the style they display is a point of pride.
Jazz	Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Jazz dancing showcases a dancer's individual style and originality. Jazz dancing is energetic and fun, consisting of unique moves, footwork, leaps and turns. Jazz dancing develops and promotes grace and balance.
Jazz Funk	Jazz Funk is a dance style based on jazz but combining elements of hip hop dance.
Burlesque	In recent decades, there has been a revival of burlesque. A new generation nostalgic for the spectacle and glamour of the classic American burlesque, developed a cult following for the art in the early 1990s. Choreography seen in the recent film Burlesque was inspired by Bob Fosse's Cabaret and European Burlesque entertainment. This class offers a fun and sensual style of dance with a sense of playfulness.
Striptease	Striptease emphasizes sensuous choreography in a safe, fun atmosphere. Not only is this an exciting style of dance and a great way to burn calories, this is a dance you can take home to share with your significant other.
House Dance	House is a group of club dance styles primarily danced to house music that have roots in the clubs of Chicago but grew and evolved in the clubs of New York. The main styles include Footwork, Jacking, and Lofting. Like hip hop dance it is often improvisational in nature. It emphasizes fast and complex foot oriented steps combined with fluid movements in the torso. House dance incorporates movements from many other sources such as Capoeira, tap, jazz, bebop, and salsa. It includes a variety of techniques and sub-styles that include skating, stomping, and shuffling.
Zumba	Zumba is an intense dance and fitness class combining merengue, foxtrot, salsa, cumbia, reggaeton, waltz, tango, and samba. It is a great cardio workout.
Salsa	Salsa is a syncretic dance form with origins from Cuba as a major original American meeting point of European and African cultures. Salsa is normally a partner dance, although there are recognized solo forms such as solo dancing "suelta" and "Rueda de Casino" where multiple couples exchange partners in a circle. Salsa can be improvised or performed with a set routine. Salsa is popular throughout Latin America as well as in North America, Europe, Australia, and some countries in Asia and the Middle East. It has become a global phenomenon.
American Tribal Style Belly Dance	Tribal Style today represents everything from Folkloric inspired dances to a fusion of ancient dance techniques from North India, the Middle East and Africa. As a general category, Tribal Style covers many flavors of American Belly Dance both the folkloric and cross over styles which explore modern, jazz, dance theatre, and hip hop with belly dance, as well as fusion with traditional classical ethnic dance forms like Bhangra, Bharata Natyam, Flamenco and now even Polynesian and West African Dance.
Musical Theater (Vocal)	If you are a young actor/singer, and considering making a career out music or acting, this class is a great way to enhance your skills and get comfortable performing in front of others. This is an independently run class. for more information please visit http://leighscarritt.com/Home_Page.php
Jazzercise	You can burn up to 600 calories in one fun and powerfully effective 60-minute total body workout. Every Jazzercise group fitness class combines dance-based cardio with strength training and stretching to sculpt, tone and lengthen muscles for maximum fat burn. This is an independent class. For more information please visit: http://jcls.jazzercise.com/facility/jazzercise-san-diego-culture-shock-d...
Body Sculpting	A great fitness class for toning and stretching. This is an independent class. For more information please visit: http://jcls.jazzercise.com/facility/jazzercise-san-diego-culture-shock-d...
Hip Hop Tantra Yoga	Hip Hop Tantra Yoga is a high-energy class that will help you lose weight, pain and stress, and gain core strength, flexibility and lean muscle while triggering an energetic shift that takes you from feeling stressed, confused and overwhelmed to being powerful, sexy and free. Tantra Yoga is India's secret science, a Chakra based technology that can be customized to yield a specific result. The Tantra Yoga postures will teach you to harness, control and direct 3rd Chakra energy of will-power, self-esteem and determination so that you can stop ignoring what you really want to do with your life, and start taking action towards getting it. Hip Hop Tantra Yoga is having fun while actually raising your vibration to your 3rd Chakra and higher, which only about 10% of the population is doing including many of the top stage performers and leaders of industry, so you too can leverage your power, achieve your desires, and stand up and lead.
Locking	Locking is a style of funk dance, also associated with hip hop. The name is based on the concept of locking movements, which basically means freezing from a fast movement and "locking" in a certain position, holding that position for a short while and then continuing in the same speed as before. It relies on fast and distinct arm and hand movements combined with more relaxed hips and legs. The movements are generally large and exaggerated, and often very rhythmic and tightly synced with the music.
Popping Styles	Popping is a dance style and one of the original funk styles of dance that is thought to have come from Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, California during the 1960s-70s. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer's body, referred to as a pop, tick or a hit. This is done continuously to the rhythm of a song in combination with various movements and poses.
Ballet