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Here for Free Fall Ballet Classes?
- Referencing class descriptions and the schedule below, find the class that is most likely to meet your child's needs.
- Click the Register HERE button and complete the registration process for THAT class.
- Bring your child to ANY class Aug 30-Sept 1 for FREE.
- If you love the classes you took, complete your registration by paying for the semester! (If you'd like to change your registration, please text your dancer's name and desired and dropped classes to 435.633.1225.) If you would not like to complete registration by paying for classes, you don't need to do anything else!
2023-24 Class Schedule - Subject to Change
2023-24 Classes Include:
Age 2-5: Mommy and Me Movement and Story Time
For the smallest dancers, this story-based, 30 min dance class will teach elements common to ALL dance forms, integrating imagination and movement to build physical skills, AND show parents how to use movement to help children with hyperactivity, coordination, focus, expressing emotions or feelings, building confidence, and MORE! There is no dress code required for this class. Parents ARE required to attend and participate with their child(ren). No non-participating siblings or children under 2yo allowed in the class. This class can be taken for a year or full semester for a discount, OR just 4 weeks at a time. (This class does not participate in performances.)
Age 3-6: Mini Session Classes
For new dancers ages 3-6, this 45 minute class builds on dancers' natural abilities, gently introducing them to ballet class structure, themes, and technique by engaging their movement and imagination, all to the music and themes of classical ballets. This year dancers will learn and imagine to Peter and the Wolf, Firebird, Swan Lake, and others! There is no dress code. Parents are invited to watch for the last 10 min of every 4-week session. This class can be taken for a year or a full semester for a discount, OR just 4 weeks at a time.
Age 5-7: Ballet Beginnings
For new and progressing students, this 45 min class moves a curious and energetic dancer down a path to better “dancing,” introducing concepts like musicality and movement dynamics while building body coordination and utilizing the dancer's imagination! The curriculum is based in creative movement (which is the foundational concepts of all dance forms), with some ballet steps and terminology.
Age 6-8: Ballet Basics
For the new and progressing ballet dancers, this 60 min class begins to establish positions, name the names of the movements, and instruct more comprehensively on correct execution of ballet technique. There is still space for the flow of imagination, using lots of creative imagery and encouraging the dancers in their free expression. There is a dress code requirement for all students.
Age 7-10: Ballet Basics II
For new and progressing young ballet dancers, this 60 min class is similar to Basics I in content, with with accelerated pacing, as Basics II can be taken once OR twice a week for faster progression both through ballet terminology and in body strength, flexibility, and coordination. There is a dress code requirement for all students. (Dancers age 9+ are strongly encouraged to take twice a week. Dancers under age 11 will not be advanced to Foundations Prep until they have taken Ballet Basics II twice a week.)
Age 8-11: Foundations Prep
This 1.5 hr class is taken twice a week to help dancers establish a sense of personal responsibility for their progression in ballet technique, and it begins to develop strength and placement through the dancer's core and ankles in preparation for the Foundations classes and work en pointe. The last 15 min of each class is optional and used to rehearse roles for our ballet performances. There is a dress code requirement for all students with specific colors required for those who will perform.
Cost: 40.5 hrs of instruction - $492.50 (No performance: 33.75 hrs of instruction - $425)
Age 11+: Foundations w/ Pointe/Pointe Prep/Beginning Pointe
For new and progressing dancers, this class utilizes an approach to training developed by Steffanie Casperson in her professional career and refined over a decade teaching. The 2 hour class is designed to lay a solid foundation of focus, alignment and core placement that will strengthen and clarify classical technique, as well as introduce dancers to work en pointe and/or increase their pointe work proficiency. The last 30 min of one class each week is only for those dancers intending to participate in the BA performances. There is a dress code requirement for all students with specific colors required for those who will perform.
Cost: 56 hours of instruction - $628 (No performance: 49 hours of instruction - $544)
Performance Class - By Placement Only
This class (2x/wk minimum for a total of 5 hours/wk of class and rehearsals) is for intermediate to advanced students with 2 years of experience on pointe AND who are attending other approved ballet classes an additional 2x/week minimum. In addition to strengthening technique, dancers are expected to perform in Ballet Aligned productions and Education and Outreach opportunities. They are also prepared for Summer Intensive auditions and encouraged to attend these and the annual YAGP competition (though both are optional).
Cost: 65 hours of instruction - $622
Teen/Adult Beginning/Intermediate Ballet Class
This 1.5hr, once a week class is for dancers ages 12+. Come try ballet, get a great work out, or add the class to your Ballet Aligned training to refine your skills! There is no dress code, and this class is not part of the Ballet Aligned productions.
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