Tap water, despite its name, only makes an effective surface for dancing when dangerously frozen. Practice safer soft shoeing with today's Groupon: for $39, you get four weeks of dance classes, including the registration fee, at Northampton Dance Studios in Newport News (up to a $95 value).

Northampton Dance Studios offers professional dance training to hopeful hoofers of all ability levels, providing education, exercise, and fun. Experienced instructors guide children and teens from 7 to 15 through the dub stepping, drum and bassing, and break-dancing rhythms of hip-hop or coach them on the heart- and spotlight-stealing basics of musical theater. Anyone 16 and up can take adult classes in hip-hop or utilize tap cardio sessions to encourage excess calories to exit stage left. No matter what the discipline, Northampton's training spaces supply the mirrors, barres, sprung hardwood floors, and extra pairs of jazz hands necessary for dance excellence. Click here to check class times on individual web pages, then contact the studio to reserve your weekly extrapedestrian extracurricular.