A joyful, tailgate-style outdoor reunion for PPI alumni, families, faculty, staff, and community members. With performances, food trucks, music, and a celebratory “Taste of PPI,” this homecoming event honors our village and reignites old connections while looking toward the future. It’s a celebration of legacy, family, and the shared love that has sustained PPI over the last 15 years.
LEVELS:
BEGINNING | INTERMEDIATE | ADVANCED
AGE: 3-17 YEARS
Typically Scheduled June/July
Students take over 15 activities in performing arts on a rotating, blocked schedule. Professional instructors and artists teach classes. These curriculum-based classes are both educational and fun. Camp lasts 4 – 6 weeks and runs Monday-Friday. Students are served breakfast, lunch, and snacks, and all supplies are included. Each camp concludes with a showcase, where students perform and display their acquired skills for family and friends! Check Back in Spring for Summer Registration Information
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LEVELS:
BEGINNING | INTERMEDIATE | ADVANCED
AGE: 5 & Up
This class infuses Horton and Graham techniques with contemporary African styles. Modern Fusion helps students increase their strength and placement in dance. Movement is rhythmically complex, while challenging students to move through the full extent of their lines.
Each level increases in skill/technique/movement as students progress from beginning to intermediate, and advanced.
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LEVELS:
BEGINNING | INTERMEDIATE | ADVANCED
AGE: 5 & Up
Tap is a percussive dance that is uniquely American. The roots of tap dance trace back to 19th century America, with primary influences from African and Irish dances and rhythms. Tap dancers strike the ground, using their feet and the flooring surface as a percussive instrument.
Beginning tap students explore their instrument while learning basic steps, exercises, combinations, and music theory. Higher levels will learn additional techniques and more complex exercises and combinations.
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LEVELS:
BEGINNING
AGE: Up to 7
Beginning combination class allows dancers to grow their understanding of rhythm and motion through the use of playful imagery, while learning both ballet and tap vocabulary/technique. Students will learn skills that will help provide movement and musical awareness that may assist in training in other styles of dance.
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LEVELS:
BEGINNING | INTERMEDIATE | ADVANCED
AGE: 5 & Up
Contemporary combines modern and classical ballet styles. This class helps students to connect the mind and body through fluid movement with changes in rhythm, speed, and direction.
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LEVELS:
BEGINNING | INTERMEDIATE | ADVANCED
AGE: 5 & Up
This class infuses both acrobatics and tumbling. It focuses on strength, flexibility, limbering, balancing and tumbling. This uniquely designed class makes tumbling practical for dancers. Each progression allows the students to progress through various difficulty levels.
PPI is a certified Acrobatic Arts School, which provides the highest standard in Acrobatic training.
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LEVELS:
BEGINNING | INTERMEDIATE | ADVANCED
AGE: 5 & Up
This upbeat and fun class helps students to learn rhythm, while learning urban dance styles with a focus on hip-hop music and culture. In this class, hip-hop is fused with majorette dancing, which has a deep history in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Students learn the latest hip-hop dances and trends from music videos and social media, while conditioning their bodies.
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LEVELS:
BEGINNING | INTERMEDIATE | ADVANCED
AGE: 5 & Up
PPI’s unique urban jazz, infuses the flavor and spunk of hip-hop, while teaching the fundamentals and technique of traditional jazz dance. Students engage in this high energy class that is sure to keep their bodies conditioned and moving to upbeat rhythms and grooves.
Each level increases in skill/technique/movement as students progress from beginning to intermediate, and advanced.
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LEVELS:
BEGINNING | INTERMEDIATE | ADVANCED
AGE: 5 & Up
Students learn classical ballet technique that emphasizes correct placement and movement, along with a powerful command of the fundamentals from which elaborate works are built.
Each level increases in skill/technique/movement as students progress from beginning to intermediate, and advanced.
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LEVELS:
INTERMEDIATE | ADVANCED
AGE: Pre-teen - Teen
Ballet Pointe/Pre Pointe is the art of dancing on the tips of the toes, showcasing grace, strength, and precision. This advanced ballet technique builds upon a solid foundation of classical training and requires strong ankles, a strong core, and proper alignment. Students work in pointe shoes to develop balance, control, and elegance while performing intricate movements and choreography with fluidity and poise. This class is offered for advanced students who have demonstrated the necessary strength, technique, and readiness for pointe work.
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