Where everyone has a chance to dance!

Providing Dance, Music, and Fitness classes to the East Lansing, Haslett, Okemos, Williamston, Holt, Mason, Bath, and Lansing area. At KIO we desire to promote and display positive self-awareness and modesty, operating with an approach to cultivate family values through integrity, respect, diligence, and courage. We also focus on age appropriate costume and music choices.

Our instructors strive to foster positivity and confidence through hard work in each class. At Kick It Out, we celebrate ALL of our students at every level and ability!

We offer classes for all ages!

Dance

We offer Ballet, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Lyrical, Tap, Contemporary, Acro, & Hip Hop styles

Fitness

Join us for Zumba, Pound Fitness, WERQ, DanceFIT, and Yoga classes

Music

We are happy to offer private and group lessons for Piano, Saxophone, Beginning Flute, Beginning Clarinet, Trombone, Violin, Cello, Guitar, Beginning Ukulele, Drums, and Bass Guitar. We offer lessons for ages 8 thru Adult.

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SUMMER 2023

Join us for

August Dance Camp

Ages 5 through 18

August 14th – 18th

Summer classes too 2023!!

July 17th – August 10th

Summer Camp – click here

Summer Classes – click here

Wanna learn to Salsa?

JOIN US – ON THURSDAYS JUNE 2023

Click here to learn more about Salsa with Xose!

You will need to sign up for 4 lessons (Cost $60) payment must be ahead of classes or drop in for $20.

MUST HAVE AT LEAST 5 PARTICIPANTS – SIGNED UP TO RUN CLASS

Click here: Free session SALSA, BACHATA, SOCIAL DANCE

Saturday June 10th 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Make sure to register on Sign up Genius! Click here to Sign up for the June Session! – COMING SOON

Beginner to Intermediate level course – no refunds

Reach out to us via email – if you have any questions

Intermediate class schedule will be coming, reach out to us if interested!

If you are interested in private lessons with Xosé, email [email protected]

Xosé López

Xosé López is originally from Vigo (Spain), and has more than 17 years of experience in Latin dance, attending, teaching, and performing in dance congresses. His Latin dance education comprises salsa, bachata, chachachá and merengue, and notions of afrocuban dances (Orishas and Palo).

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Join our Competitive Dance Program!

We are accepting requests to schedule an evaluation for those interested in joining our Competitive Dance team. We have completed the group evaluation for the team but looking for more dancers who are dedicated and ready to compete. Join us for the 2023-2024 season. Please have a positive attitude, be a hard-working enthusiastic dancer and come grow with our dance family! All our welcome to be a part of our program, you will be put in the appropriate level for your skills, try the full team or the Introductory team. We have a NO CUT policy. Everyone has a chance to Dance. Click here for more!

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP TO EVALUATE

KIO becoming a member of Youth Protection Advocates in Dance

We are so thrilled to announce that we are in the process of in-depth courses on the best practices to protect the mental, emotional and physical health of our students, all teachers and staff members at Kick It Out Dance Studio will be YPAD (Youth Protection Advocates in Dance) Certified. As part of our certification, everyone will be CPR Trained and complete a background check.

YPAD was founded by Leslie Scott, a professional dancer, choreographer and educator, in 2012. In 2019, Leslie approached Misty Lown of More Than Just Great Dancing to take on the leadership of YPAD in order to give it the structural support it needed to take its important message to the larger dance community. Leslie remains an advisor to the curriculum and supports the YPAD mission.

Click here to learn more about YPAD.

KIO Welcomes Danielle Germaine Zumba instructor

Danielle is joining us to teach Zumba on Tuesday nights 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM. She also will be doing another special class on Saturdays and that news is coming soon!!

After years of being a student, I felt empowered to become a certified Zumba Instructor and did so in March 2023. I feel working out needs to be enjoyable to be effective which makes Zumba so ideal, every class feels like a party! As a therapist by day, I also feel working out needs to be about embracing your body

and self, enjoying the movements and letting go of stress and expectations. These are all aspects and more I hope to incorporate into my class to have you

leaving with a sense of accomplishment along with some sweat and a smile if nothing else.

Click here to sign up for Tuesday Zumba with Danielle

WERQ Fitness

with Allie & Katie!

Saturday mornings from 8:30 am to 9:30 am! WERQ is the wildly addictive cardio dance fitness class based on trending pop and hip- hop music. WERQ is a pre-choreographed workout with new routines made available weekly. With hundreds of choreography videos, WERQ Instructors have the power to create unique playlists based on routines designed by high-caliber WERQ choreographers. The routines are choreographed to the hottest pop and hip-hop music, so many of the songs are recognizable.