Summer is here. It’s the perfect time to try something new—like dancing—to relax and forget the hot temperatures.

Manila Bulletin listed several dance classes now being offered in Metro Manila for anyone who has the time and interest to learn a new groove.

Hip-hop dance

The G-Force Dance Center offers various hip-hop dance classes for all ages, from eight years old. Classes teach hip-hop dancing from the basics to more complicated moves. Classes are for 60 minutes to 90 minutes.

According to its website, there will be a G-Force Project 2023 dance workshop from May to July. The workshops will culminate in a dance concert in June and July.

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Enrolment is being processed on its website. It has branches at Tomas Morato Avenue in Quezon City and Filinvest City in Alabang, Muntinlupa City.

Kids aged 12 and below can enroll in the Hip-hop Kids class of The Addlib’s The Lab Summer 2023: Supernova workshop. Students will be taught the latest hip-hop dance moves in nine weeks, starting April 15. They will perform in a recital on June 10. Classes will be every Saturday at 11 a.m. Enroll at The Addlib at Gen. Malvar Avenue in Quezon City.

Krump

A Krump dance class is available at The Groove Central Dance Studio in Cubao, Quezon City. According to its Facebook post, instructors will teach students techniques and choreography of Krump, a style of hip-hop dancing.

K-pop dance cover

K-Pop, or South Korean popular music, is now so popular in the Philippines. Zero Studio PH at Scout Borromeo Street in Quezon City offers special dance lessons based on original choreography of popular songs of K-Pop bands.

According to Zero Studio, in an online interview with Manila Bulletin, instructors will teach a part of the requested K-pop song in a 90-minute class.

Schedule of classes are 10 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday, 4 p.m. on Saturday, and 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Sunday.

Pole Dancing

Ever tried swinging on the pole? First-timers can learn basic pole dancing at Stardanz Fitness Studio on Mother Ignacia Avenue, Quezon City, and Polecats Manila in Pasig City.

SWINGING ON THE POLE – Stardanz Fitness Studio and Polecats Manila offer pole dancing classes for beginners. (Pexels photo)

Stardanz Fitness Studio said beginners and first-time students can learn the “basic pole tricks, spins, and combinations” in its Pole Fitness class.

Schedules of Pole Fitness class for April are posted on its Facebook page.

According to Polecats Manila’s website, first-timers will learn the “basic spins, transitions, and climbs” in its Pole Beginners 1 class and “more inverts and combinations of tricks on the pole” and “new spins and climb variations” in Pole Beginners 2 class. Schedules of Pole Beginners 1 and Pole Beginners 2 classes are posted on its Facebook page.

Ballet

Children from three to 18 years old and with special needs are welcome to join the ballet class of Kinections Dance School. It will hold a two-cycle summer workshop in May and June in Quezon City.

BALLET CLASS FOR THE YOUNG – The Kinections Dance School will offer ballet classes for three to six years old, seven to 12 years old, and 13 to 18 years old at its summer workshop in May and June. (Pexels photo)

The summer workshop will offer three ballet classes for three to six years old, seven to 12 years old, and 13-18 years old. According to owner Camille Castro, Kreative Dance will teach kids aged three to six basic dance or movement concepts like space, time, direction or pathway, and speed.

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A class for children aged seven to 12 will teach the basics of ballet. Formal ballet lessons are open to 13-18-year-olds.

Tap Dance

Tap dancing classes are open to adults at Sunshine Place Senior Recreation Center in Makati City.

Tap dancing, as defined by the recreation center on its website, “is a type of dance that relies on the sounds and rhythms made using the dancer's heel and toe taps." According to Sunshine Place, it offers "the basics of dance footwork through a mix of modern, classical, rhythmic and Broadway song sequences.”

The class is scheduled every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 12 noon.