Have fun while safely learning the terminology, posture, positions, and steps that are the building blocks of beginning classes in Modern, Ballet, or Tap. No experience necessary, just a desire to learn and grow.

Ballet and Modern dance classes are designed to increase strength and flexibility while improving posture, balance, flexibility, mobility, and memory. Modern classes also have a specific focus on level changing.

This class is for people who have always wanted to learn how to tap dance, or who took classes as a child and want a refresher course. Have fun and work on balance, coordination, and rhythm with fellow students while learning basic tap steps that will become combinations and routines.

If you can Shuffle Off to Buffalo and do Time Steps, this Intermediate tap class is for you! By learning challenging combinations and routines, students will have fun while improving balance, strength, and coordination.

A one-hour program emphasizing cardio dance and fitness routines to music that makes you want to move! Routines will be low impact, high intensity, and appeal to the dancer in you. We will alternate dance with resistance routines to build and maintain muscle and bone density. Get stronger with dance!

Fitness Dance classes are led by Penny Brichta who holds group fitness certifications in ACE (American Council on Exercise), Silver Sneakers, Jazzercise, and Barre Connect.

Required equipment: Lightweight dumbbells, or full water bottles mixed with beans, sand, or rocks, or easy-to-grip cans from your pantry.

Enjoy exercises on a mat to engage, strengthen and lengthen muscles. Pilates provides a great warm-up for Modern Basic class and excellent conditioning to complement all dance classes. This class is for everyone!

Free to cancer survivors. Advanced registration required. Dance for Joy brings peace, recovery, and a sense of community to cancer survivors. Dance for Joy classes are led by both Time to Dance Co-Founders Lynne Belsky and Lisa Gold. Read on to learn about the origins of these classes:

Many dancers instinctively know how important it is to get back to class after an injury or illness. Lynne Chervony Belsky, M.D. and Lisa Gold—a duo who are cousins, dancers, and breast cancer survivors—found that conventional dance classes were difficult during early recovery. 

A dear friend and mentor, Carol Walker, had always taught Lynne and Lisa to “dance for joy”—her personal motto. Lisa and Lynne found that they had similar shared desires to create and teach dance classes that go beyond just the steps. This inspired them to create a dance class just for cancer survivors where they could feel the comfort and compassion of being with others while enjoying the freedom and therapeutic aspects of dance.

Dance for Joy had its inaugural class in October 2016, with people of different ages and experiences in dance, who all wanted to “feel better”.  The class did just that.  Lynne and Lisa prepared a ballet-based class with modern dance influences to high spirited and heart-warming music. The results had everyone ecstatic and revitalized. One participant stated “she hadn’t felt this beautiful in years” as she broke down in tears of happiness. 

We now incorporate our Dance for Joy students in all our classes. We also have an ongoing fundraising effort to defray the cost of classes for these individuals. Join us in class to see how you can improve your life during treatment, in recovery, and beyond. For more information or if you have any questions, please contact us.

This class includes seated stretches, standing warmup, and strengthening exercises. Combinations focus on rhythm and coordination using jazz vocabulary. Each class includes choreographed routines set to music from Broadway Musicals , and often includes the use of props such as hats or canes.

This class dives into a variety of jazz styles! We kick things off with a standing warm-up, then jump into dynamic combinations and choreography that build and evolve week after week.