JAX CITY BALLET SCHOOL
PROLAB
MOVE DIFFERENT.
Contemporary + Jazz Training for Serious Dancers
Ages 10–14 | ProLab Youth
Ages 15–22 | ProLab Pre-Pro
Monthly Specialty Workshops • Limited Enrollment
GO BEYOND THE CHOREOGRAPHY
ProLab is designed for dancers who want to become stronger, more versatile, and more confident performers.
Each workshop combines contemporary and jazz training with conditioning, improvisation, partnering, and choreography.
Dancers don’t just learn another routine. They work on the skills that help them stand out in class, on stage, at competitions, auditions, High school dance teams, college dance teams, and future opportunities.
WHAT WE TRAIN
CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUE
Build better movement quality, coordination, floorwork, turns, jumps, transitions, musicality, and control.
CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHY
Learn challenging combinations while developing musicality, expression, dynamics, confidence, and performance quality.
JAZZ TECHNIQUE
Work on turns, leaps, kicks, flexibility, lines, coordination, strength, and technical precision.
JAZZ CHOREOGRAPHY
Develop style, musicality, speed, precision, confidence, and stage presence through challenging combinations.
STRENGTH & CONDITIONING
Dance-specific training to improve core strength, stability, flexibility, mobility, balance, power, and overall physical performance.
IMPROVISATION
Learn how to make your own movement choices, respond to music, and develop individuality and confidence as a dancer.
PARTNERING
Learn how to work safely and confidently with another dancer through weight sharing, balance, coordination, lifts, and collaborative movement.
PROLAB
AGES 10–18
Designed for serious young dancers ready to take their contemporary and jazz training to the next level.
Training focuses on:
Technique • Turns & Leaps • Choreography • Strength • Musicality • Performance • Improvisation • Partnering • Audition Preparation
The goal is to build strong technical and performance foundations while preparing dancers for competitions, conventions, summer intensives, auditions, college dance programs, college dance teams, and professional opportunities.
Dancers will be separated into appropriate training groups by age and level to ensure each dancer receives the right level of challenge, individualized attention, and the most productive training experience.
Training focuses on:
Advanced Technique • Choreography • Conditioning • Improvisation • Partnering • Performance • Audition Preparation
This division is ideal for dancers preparing for competitions, conventions, summer intensives, auditions, college dance programs, college dance teams, and professional opportunities.
WHY PROLAB?
BETTER TECHNIQUE
Develop the skills that make movement cleaner, stronger, and more controlled.
MORE VERSATILITY
Train in both contemporary and jazz so you can adapt to different styles and choreography.
GREATER STRENGTH
Build the physical strength and flexibility needed for demanding dance training.
MORE CONFIDENCE
Become more comfortable performing, improvising, and making individual artistic choices.
REAL PREPARATION
Gain skills that can help you prepare for competitions, intensives, auditions,High school dance teams, college dance teams, college programs, and professional opportunities.
THE PROLAB FORMAT
ONE SPECIALTY WORKSHOP EACH MONTH
Each workshop has its own focus and may feature different combinations of:
Contemporary • Jazz • Conditioning • Improvisation • Partnering • Choreography
Some workshops may feature guest teachers and choreographers from outside the Jacksonville area.
3–4 hours of focused training
Limited enrollment
WHAT MAKES PROLAB DIFFERENT?
ProLab isn’t designed to replace a dancer’s regular studio training.
It is designed to add to it.
Dancers from different studios can participate while continuing their regular training at their home studio.
ProLab gives them an additional environment to challenge themselves, work with new teachers and dancers, experience different choreography, and develop skills they may not get in their regular weekly schedule.
PRIVATE COACHING
- INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION. PERSONALIZED GOALS.
- For dancers who want to take their training further, ProLab Private Coaching provides individualized one-on-one instruction tailored to the dancer.
- Private sessions can focus on:
- Technique
- Turns & Leaps
- Contemporary
- Jazz
- Competition Solos
- Choreography
- Performance Quality
- Audition Preparation
- Improvisation
- Individual Strengths & Areas for Growth
- Private coaching can be used to refine existing skills, prepare for an upcoming opportunity, or work toward specific personal goals.
- PRIVATE COACHING IS AVAILABLE IN ADDITION TO PROLAB WORKSHOPS. Day and after school options.
