· Over 50 Years Teaching Dance
Corrine Gangi has been teaching dancing continuously for most of her life (the Corrine Somann Dancing School, managed by her mother, opened when she was 14 years old). During those many years she has been responsible for teaching over 20,000 different students, the majority of them youngsters!

· Today's Child
In the last few decades we've seen that children's lifestyles have changed dramatically. They now have DVDs, computers, the Internet, CDs, video games, cell phones and more so that the attention spans of today's young children are much shorter than their mom's or their grandmom's. In recent years it has become clear that young children tire of doing any one thing for a whole hour. Even one-hour classes in which ballet and tap are taught for half an hour each bore them.

· DanceXtra, a Fresh Approach
In DanceXtra we teach 20 minutes each of ballet and tap leaving the last twenty minutes for something different - call it the dessert if you will. For the first 10 weeks dessert is baton twirling - we supply the batons (great for eye-hand coordination). The next 10 weeks brings gymnastics (very basic with emphasis on safety). For the third 10 weeks those below 2^nd grade get creative dance (they dance out their own stories to classical music), the 2^nd and 3^rd graders get jazz with hip-hop. The last 10 weeks concentrates on stage performance.

· DanceXtra, a Huge Success for 19 Years
We've been offering DanceXtra classes for the last 19 years and they have been immensely popular (well over 4,000 youngsters have taken part). The number of parents who opt for these classes for their children increases every year! Students continue taking various DanceXtra classes year after year until they get to an age where they decide to concentrate on more advanced classes. DanceXtra classes fully prepare them for the move.

· The DanceXtra Student
In our yearly recital DanceXtra students get to perform in two dances: ballet and tap. Experience has shown that these children perform every bit as well as, and often better than, students who take traditional children's classes. And the DanceXtra students come out of the experience with a broader awareness of dance having learned some creative dancing, jazz dancing, gymnastics, and baton twirling - and they had a whole lot of fun while doing it!