Classical ballet is one of the oldest forms of staged dance that exists since approximately the year 1650.
It has been a beautiful way of expression for many centuries.
To practice ballet and consistently take classes where you progress and make a connection with your body is
such an empowering, graceful, and freeing feeling.
Focus is put to the posture and correct application of classical ballet technique, while also having
fun and experiencing the freeing, empowering feeling of dance.
These lessons will boost the development of children and the young dancer will have a quicker outcome,
while also offering a wide range of training for adults, from beginner to advanced levels.
The beauty of these classes is that it is accessible to everyone no matter what age or experience.
These ballet classes are for children until 4 years.
Wouldn’t it be amazing to see your young child’s first steps in a ballet studio? During these classes we playfully work on the development, creativity, and motor skills of the young child together with a parent / caregiver / sibling.
These classes are fun, playful and informal in the way of teaching that children get to be in a dance studio with their parents / caregiver / siblings.
They learn to listen, improvise, and move to the music.
In a playful manner they will become aware of their body and develop motoric skills.
These classes are a strong up builder and boost of the Pre-school child’s concentration, self -confidence and expression. All of these while also learning how to use the space around them and to collaborate with others.
“Between 3-5 years of age, children’s motor skills become refined. Children can throw and catch a ball, skip, and hop, learn to dress themselves
and draw proper structures such as a flower. They can speak a complete, long sentence and even 2-3 sentences in a stretch easily.
With toilet training, they begin to go to the toilet in the bathroom and use the facility all by themselves by the age of 4 years old.”
(Dr. Jasmine Shaikh MD, Divya Jacob Pharm. D., 3/11/2022)
These ballet classes are for children aged 4-5. During these classes we playfully work on the development, creativity, and motoric skills of the young child. At this age they will be introduced to classical ballet and classes in a very informal manner.
They learn to listen, improvise, and move to the music.
In a playful manner they will become aware of their body and develop motoric skills. These classes are a strong up builder and boost of the Pre-school child’s concentration, self -confidence and expression. All of these while also learning how to use the space around them and to collaborate with others.
“Between 3-5 years of age, children’s motor skills become refined. Children can throw and catch a ball, skip, and hop, learn to dress themselves and draw proper structures such as a flower. They can speak a complete, long sentence and even 2-3 sentences in a stretch easily. With toilet training, they begin to go to the toilet in the bathroom and use the facility all by themselves by the age of 4 years old.” (Dr. Jasmine Shaikh MD, Divya Jacob Pharm. D., 3/11/2022)
These classes will boost this development stage and the young dancer will have a quicker outcome.
These ballet classes are for children aged 6-8. During these classes the students will increase their knowledge and understanding of their motoric skills,
creativity, and expression. At this age they start to learn the very basics of Classical Ballet technique, they are introduced to more structured ballet
classes in a playful / informal manner.
During these classes we will focus on holding and maintaining correct posture, strengthening the body and control, listening &
dancing to the music counts. At this age, it is important to have a lot of improvisation and playful exercises where the child can develop
their creativity and expression further.
These ballet classes are for children aged 8+ and young adults.
These classes will be divided into the different RAD Grades according to the age and experience of the student.
These classes are structured classical ballet classes with different sets of learning outcomes. If the students would like to get more out of their classical ballet classes and work towards a goal. These classes offer the possibility to attend an exam and obtain a real diploma/ assessment/ a medal from the Royal Academy of Dance. This method from the United Kingdom is used in more than 70 countries to train children and adults in ballet.
During these classes the students will develop their classical ballet technique step by step, like building blocks or treading a needle. Learning each step one at a time and building up and progressing once this step has been established with correct classical ballet technique.
It is very important for us that the students’ progress in their classical ballet technique during these classes in a focused but playful manner.
Ballet Fitness training has become very popular in a short while.
This is probably because most of the Victoria's Secret models swear by this training. They claim that this way of exercise helps them walk more elegant and move more flowingly.
Ballet Fitness is a hybrid training class that combines ballet inspired movements with elements from Pilates, dance, yoga, and power training.
This workout has been developed to shape your posture muscles, build up core-power and become more agile whilst you practice the movements pertaining to the technics of the elegant and swan-like classical ballet.
It is an excellent supplementary training next to your ballet classes or also very suitable as a training by itself.
” Progressing Ballet Technique is an innovative body-conditioning and strengthening program that has been designed to enhance students'
technique by focussing on training the muscle memory required in each exercise in all forms of dance. It is a unique
training system using ballet-technique specific exercises to train skill acquisition in a graded and progressive manner from
junior through to advanced levels. PBT helps teachers around the world prepare their students to receive the strength they need to
achieve their personal best.
The program helps with injury prevention and rehabilitation and enhances the ability of athletes to perform at their best.
It can be difficult for students to feel which muscles initiate the correct alignment in training. However, with the use of
an exercise ball, the students gain a great sense of posture and weight-placement whilst feeling each correct muscle group working
throughout each exercise, which then stays with them when whilst performing in dance or their chosen field of sport.
PBT focuses on core strength, weight placement and alignment of the body with a gradual approach of carefully
designed exercises and repetitions of these exercises that trigger their muscle memory. The program is designed with safe dance
methodology to promote a long, healthy career and is now being taught by over 4000+ certified teachers worldwide and over 3500 schools
globally have added PBT classes in their curriculum for students.
PBT is not only a program to improve technique in ballet dancers, it is now being appreciated and incorporated in training by all forms of dancers, athletes, physiotherapists and even footballers!”(PBT, n.d.)
These classes are for Adults & Seniors.
A fusion of Barre, Ballet-fitness and Stretching classes where you get to work on an intensive core strengthening full body workout while elongating the body
to take moments to relax and stretch.
These classes will vary in exercises each class according to the body part(s) that will be trained that week. This could also be requested by the students.
A class where you get to exercise on accompanied Jazz, Lounge, Swinging, “Buddha-Bar” like music.
Dr. Jasmine Shaikh MD, Divya Jacob Pharm. D. (3/11/2022). What Are the 5 Stages of Child Development? Signs of Delays, Medicinenet,
https://www.medicinenet.com/what_are_the_5_stages_of_child_development/article.htm
Progressing Ballet Technique (n.d.) What Is PBT / What is Progressing Ballet
Technique,
https://www.pbt.dance/en/about