Jazz Dance Classes
in Chicago

Our beginner jazz dance class in Chicago is designed for dancers ages 7 and up with little or no prior dance experience. Students learn foundational jazz isolations, weight shifts, and basic rhythmic patterns alongside simple across-the-floor combinations. The focus is on building body awareness, coordination, and a genuine love of moving to music in a welcoming, no-pressure environment.

Basic 2 Jazz is the next step for dancers who have completed Basic 1 or bring some prior jazz experience. Students build on foundational isolations and rhythmic work with longer combinations, cleaner technique, and a growing vocabulary of jazz movement. This class develops the coordination, musicality, and confidence dancers need before moving into intermediate-level work.

Building on a solid technical foundation, Intermediate 1 Jazz introduces more complex isolation sequences, pirouette preparation, and structured across-the-floor progressions. Students develop cleaner lines, sharper attack, and the stamina to perform longer combinations with increasing confidence and performance presence. A great next step for dancers who have completed a beginner jazz program.

Intermediate 2 Jazz expands the technical vocabulary with full pirouettes, increasingly demanding jump sequences, and extended combination work. Students refine their use of dynamics, rhythm, and personal style while developing the physical conditioning required to progress toward advanced jazz training. Instructor placement required.

A technically demanding jazz dance class for experienced dancers ready to push past intermediate-level work. Training covers complex turn sequences, high-level leaps and jumps, intricate rhythmic patterns, and full-length combination work that challenges both physical precision and artistic interpretation. One of the most rigorous jazz programs for kids and teens on Chicago's north side. Instructor placement required.

The entry point to LBP's Perfection jazz program, where technical rigor meets deep artistic development. Perfection 1 focuses on executing the full jazz vocabulary at a high standard, with close attention to performance quality, musicality, and technical consistency across demanding combinations. Instructor placement required.

Perfection 2 raises the bar on both physical and artistic demands. Students work through increasingly complex choreography, multi-directional turn sequences, and sophisticated musicality training. The goal is a dancer who executes at a high technical level while expressing a fully developed individual performance voice. Instructor placement required.

The pinnacle of LBP's Perfection jazz program, where dancers train at a pre-professional standard. Perfection 3 students command the full jazz vocabulary with consistency and ease, refining advanced turn and jump sequences, intricate rhythmic phrasing, and full-length choreography to a performance-ready polish. The emphasis shifts toward artistic autonomy and stylistic command — dancers shape movement with a mature, distinctive voice and the presence of a seasoned performer.