This transformative 4-week series is designed to help you command the center floor with poise and assurance. Each session strategically unpacks the transitional elements that connect dance phrases and builds technical proficiency across ballet, jazz, and contemporary styles. Weekly focus areas include dynamic movement progressions, spatial awareness, and precision timing—featuring specialized training in leaps, jumps, and turns. This series bridges the gap between barre work and expressive center floor performance, empowering you to move with intention and artistry. Former dance training in some capacity is required.
Why This Class Will Enhance Your Dance Journey:
Practice with expert guidance:
- Accelerates your muscle memory development through immediate feedback
- Identifies and corrects habits that may impede your progress
- Provides personalized adaptation strategies for your body
- Creates accountability and motivation for consistent improvement
- Offers a safe space for taking risks with professional support
Benefits to Your Movement Goals:
Regular participation helps you:
- Develop body awareness and control specific to each dance style
- Build stamina for sustained movement sequences
- Gain confidence for performance opportunities
- Achieve faster progress through targeted correction
- Experience the joy of visible improvement and achievement
Ready to Transform Your Dance Practice?
Register now to secure your spot in our “Beyond the Barre: Center Stage Confidence” series! Space is limited to ensure personalized attention. Click the link to enroll today.
Revolutionize Your Ballet Training Through Innovative Conditioning
Transform your ballet technique with Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT), a groundbreaking conditioning program that uses exercise balls and resistance bands to strengthen, stabilize, and refine your classical training. This specialized class targets the specific muscle groups and movement patterns essential for ballet excellence.
Why PBT Elevates Adult Dancers
- Injury Prevention: Strengthen supporting muscles and improve alignment to reduce strain on joints
- Enhanced Stability: Develop deep core strength and proprioception for better balance and control
- Improved Technique: Target specific muscle memory patterns that directly translate to barre and center work
- Accelerated Progress: Achieve technical breakthroughs by addressing underlying strength and coordination gaps
Perfect for Adult Bodies
PBT is especially beneficial for adult dancers because it:
- Accommodates varying flexibility levels while building strength safely
- Addresses common adult challenges like tight hip flexors and weak turnout muscles
- Provides low-impact conditioning that protects mature joints
- Offers modifications for different experience levels and physical limitations
What You'll Experience
Using exercise balls and resistance equipment, you'll work through exercises specifically designed to:
- Strengthen turnout muscles and hip stability
- Develop core control for better port de bras and extensions
- Improve balance and proprioception for turns and balances
- Enhance coordination between upper and lower body
- Build the stamina needed for longer combinations
Immediate Results You'll Notice
- Stronger, more controlled movements in regular ballet classes
- Improved balance and stability in challenging positions
- Better understanding of proper muscle engagement
- Reduced fatigue during extended ballet training
What to Bring:
- Form-fitting workout attire
- Grip socks or bare feet
- Water bottle
- Willingness to discover new strength you didn't know you had
Equipment provided. All levels welcome—your body will thank you!
Unlock Your Natural Dance Intuition
Step into the liberating world of spontaneous movement with our Movement Discovery class—a supportive exploration designed to awaken your innate creativity and expand your artistic voice. This isn't about “getting it right” or having prior improvisation experience; it's about discovering the dancer you already are beneath the structure.
Why Movement Discovery Transforms Dancers
- Build Confidence: Develop trust in your body's natural intelligence through guided explorations
- Enhance Artistry: Discover personal movement qualities that make your dancing uniquely yours
- Improve Technique: Strengthen your understanding of how movement originates and flows through your body
- Expand Creativity: Access new pathways of expression that enrich all your other dance training
A Safe Space for Exploration
Our approach removes intimidation through:
- Progressive exercises that build comfort gradually
- Partner and group activities that create community support
- Structured prompts that give direction while allowing personal interpretation
- Celebration of individual discoveries rather than “right” or “wrong” responses
What You'll Experience
Each class combines movement fundamentals with creative exploration—from sensing weight and momentum to responding to music, textures, and emotions. You'll leave with practical tools for accessing your creativity and a deeper connection to your authentic movement voice.
Perfect for dancers who want to:
- Break free from perfectionism and embrace creative risk-taking
- Develop stronger stage presence and performance quality
- Access new movement possibilities within familiar techniques
- Connect more deeply with music and personal expression
What to Bring:
- Comfortable clothing that allows free movement
- An open mind and a willingness to play
- No previous improvisation experience necessary—just curiosity!
Come discover the joy of movement without limits.
This dynamic 4-week series is designed to elevate your ballet technique through focused jump training that builds both power and precision. Each session systematically breaks down the mechanics of classical ballet jumps while developing the momentum and confidence needed to travel boldly across the floor. From échappés sautés to grand jetés, you'll master the takeoff, suspension, and landing techniques that create the illusion of effortless flight.
Why Jump Training Transforms Your Dance:
Focused jump work provides you with:
- Explosive power that enhances your performance quality across all movement
- Improved spatial awareness for confident traveling combinations
- Enhanced timing and rhythm that elevates your musicality
- Stronger landings that protect your joints and create seamless sequences
- Increased stamina for demanding center floor work
What You'll Master:
This progressive series covers:
- Proper takeoff mechanics for maximum height and distance
- Core engagement techniques for controlled landings
- Traveling jump combinations that build floor confidence
- Breath coordination for sustained jumping sequences
- Quick directional changes that develop agility and control
Benefits Beyond Jumps:
Regular jump training helps you:
- Develop explosive strength that improves all dynamic movement
- Build bone density and functional fitness for daily activities
- Increase confidence in taking up space and moving with intention
- Create better proprioception and body awareness
- Experience the pure joy and freedom of defying gravity
Ready to Take Flight?
Join “Beyond the Barre: Flight Academy” and discover the exhilaration of dancing through the air with confidence and control! Limited enrollment ensures personalized attention for safe progression.
Elevate Your Technique with Adult Ballet Series II
If you've completed our introductory Adult Ballet Series I or have prior dance experience but want a refresher, Adult Ballet Series II is the perfect next step. Over eight weeks, take your technique to the next level by focusing on center floor and across-the-floor progressions.
After establishing core competencies like proper turnout, poised arms, and balance at the barre, it’s time to keep momentum moving through dancing combinations. Improve stability and confidence through increasingly complex center practice. Master petite and grand allegro jumps requiring control and precision. Progress across-the-floor patterns that keep you on your toes, literally, with quick direction changes and spirals.
You’ll also elevate artistry and versatility by dancing to varied musical styles and tempos. Build your dance IQ by learning new vocabulary for step nuances. And most of all, have fun feeling that satisfying full-body burn that only ballet provides!
Whether you completed Ballet Series I or are returning after a hiatus, this series allows you to brush up on fundamentals while being appropriately challenged. Reconnect with your technique around encouraging community free of judgement. Continually progress at your level by registering for Adult Ballet Series II today!