Studio One Dance Academy

Studio One Dance Academy offers Ballet, Break, Children’s Dance Combo Classes, Contemporary, Hip Hop / Break / Tumble Hip Hop Kidz, Jazz, Tap, and Tumbling. Ballet classes include barre, center floor, musicality, and classic Russian, Ceccheecti, Balanchine, and Vaganova styles, with advanced levels that may include Pointe work and variations from ballet classics. Other classes include toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes in Break; basic ballet movement, creative movement, tumbling, animal walks, skips, hops, jumps, leaps, and tap in Children’s Dance Combo Classes; and rolls, headstands, handstands, backbends, cartwheels, walkovers, aerials, backhand springs, and partner work in Tumbling.

Programs

• Ballet — children as young as 3 years old and up, teens and adults · weekly classes · Foundation for a dancer; barre, center floor, musicality, classic Russian, Ceccheecti, Balanchine, and Vaganova styles. Advanced levels may include Pointe work and variations from ballet classics.
• Break — children as young as 3 years old and up, teens and adults · weekly classes · Also called breaking or B-Boying/B-Girling; includes toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes.
• Children's Dance Combo Classes (Ballet/Jazz, Ballet/Tap, Jazz/Tap, Jazz/Acro) — children · one hour weekly class · Includes basic ballet movement, creative movement, tumbling/animal walks, skips, hops, jumps, leaps, and the last 15-20 minutes of tap dancing. Annual performance in June.
• Contemporary — level III-up · weekly classes · Mix of modern, post modern, yoga, ballet, capoeira, hip hop, and more.
• Hip Hop / Break / Tumble Hip Hop Kidz — children as young as 3 years old and up, teens and adults · weekly classes · Warm up and groove into the downbeat; includes R&B, Hip Hop, and Old School.
• Jazz — children as young as 3 years old and up, teens and adults · weekly classes · Technique class focusing on flexibility, strength, agility, turns, leaps, kicks, and clarity of lines.
• Tap — all ages · weekly classes · Beginning through advanced classes.
• Tumbling — children as young as 3 years old and up, teens and adults · weekly classes · Focuses on rolls, headstands, handstands, backbends, cartwheels, walkovers, aeriels, backhand springs, and partner work.

At a glance

• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Current session: Season 2026-27 (Sep 14–Jun 30, 2027)
• General schedule: Season 2026-27 registration opens July 15th, 2026. Classes start September 14th, 2026 and go until June 2027 with an end of Season performance.

About the provider

Studio One Dance Academy has served the Clackamas, Milwaukie, and Portland community for 32 years. The program says it has sixty years of combined dance teaching experience and is dedicated to developing talent at both the recreational and competition level. It says it provides every student a solid foundation for dance and helps every student discover their strengths and reach their own personal potential.

Last updated October 1, 2026.