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BEGINNER BALLET

Ballet beginner is a group for people who want to start learning, but also for those who have already taken their first steps in classical dance technique. If you want to consolidate and acquire new knowledge, improve your technique, build strength and stamina, you are more than welcome to join our classes.

What will we do during these activities?

We will start with bar exercises. After the bar exercises, we will go out in the middle and try our hand at dancing Adagio, spinning pirouettes and jumping in the Allegro section of the lesson.

This level is dedicated to those who want to learn ballet. How to do it and what each step in ballet is called. We will mainly stay with the bar, repeating combinations, with an emphasis on learning how to perform the next ballet steps correctly, teaching our bodies correct posture.

INTERMEDIATE BALLET

Have you been practising ballet for 2/3 years or more?

Do you know all the exercises at the bar? This is the group for you. We would like to invite people aged 14 + and adults to join.

We will work on bar exercises, endurance -stabilisation of joints during movements, especially in the centre, working on our own range of movement to control our body and each step. We will place great emphasis on the coordination and musicality of each exercise, We will learn to control the body during pirouettes, large pirouettes, waltz using space and adagio. Jumping will be one of the most important parts of this class, taking into account speed, strength and transferring our weight between the legs and in space.

MASTERCLASS

Every Sunday we have a Masterclass level ballet class for you. During these classes we go through a full ballet lesson from bar exercises to big jumps. The whole lesson is accompanied by wonderful live music. The lesson lasts 1h 45 min and is one of the most demanding in our schedule.

However, there’s no need to be scared if you don’t yet feel like a master at ballet. Attending a lesson like this can give you a lot of information about what you still need to polish, what you are doing great with or what is not going at all. The accompanying atmosphere is full of work but also support and kindness. Remember that the ballet room is a rehearsal room, don’t be afraid to make mistakes! They often teach us the most!!!

PRO ARCH /POINTY

These are 30-minute lessons specifically designed for those just starting out or wishing to return to pointe dancing after a long break.

At the beginning of training, we want to gradually get the feet used to working harder, without fear of overloading the ankle joints and the whole foot, which are not used to such loads.

Proarch/PointsI, II take place after the ballet lesson for the level. So if we have beginner ballet, after this lesson there is Proarch/Points I dedicated to beginners, similarly for intermediate ballet.

What will we be doing during these activities?

We free our feet! from shoes and from stiffness and contracted, pinched toes. This is our first stage, to get to know our feet and learn to work with them. To find our strengths and weaknesses ( because they are the ones that can hold us back from progress later on).

The footwork in pointe is very intense and deliberate, skipping this element of training and jumping straight into the deep end can result in not getting where you are going.

POINTY I

Smooth transition between proarch and pointe II. Most of it at the bar, but the whole class in pointe!

POINTY II

It is designed for dancers who already know the strength of their feet, and have had at least 2 years of dancing on pointe. In this lesson we mainly focus on centre work. We work with balance, dynamics and coordination without the aid of a ballet bar. The beginning /warm-up will be at the bar to prepare the ankle joints for proper alignment and centre work. If you would like to take this class, please remember to attend a ballet class beforehand, or to come early enough to prepare your body on your own.

CONTEMPORARY BALLET

A combination of two dance techniques. In the dance world, this concept has been around for a long time, but the rules are not quite clear.

The premise is to retain what is best about these two techniques. However, the notion of best is subjective, hence the lessons taught using this technique will vary according to the personal preferences of the teacher-in-charge.

We would certainly like the classical dance technique to be the base in our classes to use the physical possibilities of our bodies.

But we will also take from here long balletic lines, coordination and precision. The Contemporary technique will allow us more freedom to interpret movement, to have more flow and to follow movement and weight. We will gain greater fluidity and moments of suspension. The group is designed for people who already have experience in both classical and contemporary dance. However, classical will be the base from which we will start. We will also perform short dance forms here. Open group.

STRETCHING & CONDITIONING

The first part of the name is stretching, but we don’t think of it in the typical sense of the word, as a few people have found out (‘hey it was supposed to be stretching’) often associated with passive maximal positions in our ranges, this is unfortunately not what we propose. And it is also not what your body needs to increase the range of movement in your joints and muscles. Therefore, a very important and perhaps even more important word in the name is CONDITIONING.

For a long time now, most active practitioners have known that it is the strengthening, the activation, the seeking of conscious movement pacing that helps train the dancer’s body. Building balance in the muscles, whether between right and left or back and front, makes the body strong and the movement fluid.

A range of movement without being able to use it actively is not something our body / muscles will perceive as a healthy and correct movement, so we are likely to end up with an injury in the short term or a rapid regression / loss of the effect achieved.

Therefore, during our classes, you will first and foremost tire yourself out solidly, strengthen the muscles responsible for the active ranges, get to know your own body and be able to use a greater amplitude of movement while dancing.

Each exercise is explained in detail, we want you to feel what is supposed to work in your body, what to focus on, the visual effect will come later, we promise, but the most important thing for us is that you understand what is happening in your body.

Strengthening the body, and working on the mobilisation and activation of the pelvic muscles is and will continue to be one of the most important elements.

These classes are specially structured so that you can later train safely in ballet class, or so that you can move in everyday life without feeling stiff and sore.