• To learn what jazz and hip hop dance are all about and to experience them personally.

• To understand the major modern aesthetic premises and development of jazz and hip hop dance.

• To provide as an introduction to basic modern jazz and hip hop technique, including proper warm-up, alignment work, center work, isolations, traveling sequences and improvisations.

• To improve body alignment, balance, coordination, flexibility, strength and musicality.

• To develop basic performance skills such as style, projection, focus, energy, movement quality and concentration.

• To increase awareness of the various styles of jazz and hip hop dance and its role in society, as well as its differences from other dance forms.

• To develop one's ability to recognize and become knowledgeable of various forms of jazz and hip hop dance choreography.

• To develop fundamental technique and performance skills at an elementary level.

• To develop strength, stretch, and range of mobility.

• To approach all training, practice and performance from an anatomically correct standpoint.

• To discover the dancer's expressive and qualitative range of movement and performance.

• To get hands on experience with a modern dance production.