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Registration for the 2025-2026 season open April 8th @ 10am

The Virginia Tanner Dance Studio is our classroom-style program that boasts multiple styles of dance offerings: Adaptive Needs Dance, Ballet, Creative Dance, Hip-Hop, and Music/Visual. Beyond our Tanner Dance home on the U of U campus, we also collaborate to host satellite classes throughout Northern Utah. Through directed exploration and giving the dancer a rich, imaginative space to explore, every child’s own thoughtfulness and inherent creative abilities will encourage an expressive, driven, compassionate and resilient adult to emerge.

Our studio catalog can be found below. You can also click the links in the navigation bar above to learn more about each of our dance classes. Adaptive Needs Dance classes can be found here.

CREATE YOUR NEW SAWYER ACCOUNT HERE

We have switched registration providers this year so your old account will no longer work for registration. Our new provider is called Sawyer. Here is a user guide on how to set up your account. (Great news, with this switch, you won't need to fill out new forms each year!!)

Important note about communication contacts:

With Sawyer, when you create your account, you will be the 'Primary Contact' responsible for the dancer and will automatically be assigned as the person to receive emails. If you are purchasing a class but are not the primary caregiver, we strongly suggest they make the account instead. Primary and Secondary contacts are responsible for all communications between Tanner Dance and the dancer and we cannot switch ownership on our backend.

University of Utah staff

Even if you have previously set up your staff discount, you will need to re-verify your uNID.  If you have not yet set up your University of Utah staff discount, please contact the office to set that up before registering.  You will need a valid uNID ready when you call. We encourage you to set this up prior to registration opening as some classes can sell out fast.

Tips for Registration

  • Learn if you qualify for a scholarship here.
  • We know parking can be difficult on campus. Read through some of our tips and insights.
  • Our registration system has been updated. Sawyer's user guide can answer many of your questions.

As we all adjust to our new registration system - Sawyer - we would like to offer dedicated office hours to help you set up accounts and answer your questions. You can also always reach us at tannerdance@utah.edu or 801-581-7374.

Tuesday 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Thursday 4:00PM - 6:00PM

To read more detailed information about the classes offered in our Virginia Tanner Dance Studio, click here.

Click here for class dress requirements

Full Studio Catalog for 2025-2026

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Individual Registration Links & Class Details

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Parent/Tot & Preschool Classes

~ Semester Begins August 18th 2025 ~

To view our full listing catalog, click here.

Parent/Tot Classes

The innovative Tanner Dance Parent-Tot classes are designed to cultivate the joy of dancing and movement while encouraging exploration through creative ideas and springboards. Each class incorporates age-appropriate technique and experiences that promote whole body development. Children are introduced to various movement concepts such as galloping, skipping, sliding, running, leaping, jumping, and hopping, fostering a sense of spatial awareness and coordination. Throughout the classes, dancers engage with shape, space, rhythm, songs, and literary elements, enhancing their expressive capabilities. Live accompaniment by experienced musicians further enriches the experience, fostering a natural connection between music and movement. In Parent Tot I and Parent Tot II, children participate alongside a parent or caregiver, while in Parent Tot III, dancers independently explore the class under the guidance of the teacher while parents wait in the lobby outside the classroom.

Preschool Classes

Creative Dance Classes focus on the joy of moving and the exploration of creative ideas through movement.  The class includes age-appropriate technique or exercises for the whole body.  It introduces the preschool child to ways to move through space like galloping, skipping, sliding, running, leaping, jumping and hopping.  Dancers explore shape and space, rhythm and songs, qualities of moving, and many forms of literature.  Teachers use preschool curriculum springboards that they creatively weave into the dance class.  All classes have live accompaniment by experienced and engaging musicians.  Children learn to be independent and to interact with a teacher and their peers.

Dance and Art Classes

The Dance and Art class is a two hour class with time dedicated to both dance and visual art. There is also the option to add on a third hour of music class. Teachers may use dance and visual art concepts such as shape, line, color, texture, or pattern as springboards for exploration and creation, and then culminate with visual art and dance compositions.  Children will dance in the dance studio, have a short break and snack, then move to the visual art studio.

Please see music add-on class options and descriptions below. Tuition includes a $15 materials fee.

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Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Classes

~ Semester Begins August 18th 2025 ~

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Creative Dance classes focus on training the body as an instrument, the introduction of the elements of dance:  space, time and energy, and self-expression through the exploration of creative ideas through movement.  The class includes age-appropriate technique or exercises for the whole body. The class introduces the young dancer to ways to move through space like galloping, skipping, sliding, running, leaping, jumping and hopping.  Dancers explore shape and space, rhythm, both metric and breath, and qualities of movement.  Teachers use literature and other elementary curriculum springboards that they creatively weave into the class.  All classes have live accompaniment by experienced and engaging musicians.  Children attend classes alone but parents are invited to watch on the first day of class, during parent participation and observation at the end of the semester.  All students kindergarten and above perform at Kingsbury Hall in a year-end performance.

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3rd - 6th Grade Classes

~ Semester Begins August 18th 2025 ~

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Creative Dance classes focus on training the body as an instrument, the introduction of the elements of dance:  space, time and energy, and self-expression through the exploration of creative ideas through movement.  The class includes age-appropriate technique or exercises for the whole body. The class introduces the young dancer to ways to move through space like galloping, skipping, sliding, running, leaping, jumping and hopping.  Dancers explore shape and space, rhythm, both metric and breath, and qualities of movement.  Teachers use literature and other elementary curriculum springboards that they creatively weave into the class.  All classes have live accompaniment by experienced and engaging musicians.  Children attend classes alone but parents are invited to watch on the first day of class, during parent participation and observation at the end of the semester.  All students kindergarten and above perform at Kingsbury Hall in a year-end performance.

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Jr. High - High School Classes

~ Semester Begins August 18th 2025 ~

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Junior High and High School Dance is an exciting and sophisticated adventure.  Teachers strive to make these young dancers as versatile as possible in all genres of dance with a sound focus on training the body as an instrument, the introduction of the elements of dance and self-expression and confidence through movement. The class includes technique that builds strength, flexibility, endurance, agility, balance and grace.  Dancers work at the barre and learn basic ballet and modern dance vocabulary throughout the class.  Dancers learn to do jumps, leaps and turns and explore shape and space, rhythm, both metric and breath, and qualities of movement as they improvise and create dances.  Teachers are aware that some dancers are preparing to audition for dance companies and will work to prepare dancers for the audition process.  All classes have live accompaniment by experienced and engaging musicians.  Parents are invited to watch on the first day of class, during parent participation and observation at the end of the semester.  All students perform at Kingsbury Hall in a year-end performance.

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Adult Classes

~ Semester Begins August 18th 2025 ~

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Adult Modern Class

Adult Ballet Class

Adult OSHER Class

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Children's Ballet Classes

~ Semester Begins August 18th 2025 ~

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The Tanner Dance Ballet Program creates dancers with strong technical training while maintaining a love of dance.  The program is age and skill appropriate and dancers advance according to their skill level and teacher recommendation.  The foundations of the most complex ballet steps are taught in the beginning classes and dancers progress sequentially from the basics to the advanced repertoire.

Pre-Primary Ballet

Primary Ballet

Ballet I - IV

Teen Ballet

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Other Types of Classes Offered at Tanner Dance

~ Semester Begins August 18th 2025 ~

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Hip Hop Fusion

Dance, Art, and Music Classes

Art Classes

Art FUNdamentals

Music Class

 

Interested in our other programs? 

Adults with Disabilities

Children's Dance Theatre

Contemporary Companies

Elevate Theater Co.