This class introduces students to the elements of ballet. Ballet exercises including barre work, center work, and across the floor combinations, combined with creative lessons in rhythm, coordination, balance, and musicality stimulate students’ creativity and self-expression.
This class introduces students to the elements of ballet. Ballet exercises including barre work, center work, and across-the-floor combinations, combined with creative lessons in rhythm, coordination, balance, and musicality stimulate students’ creativity and self-expression.
(Suggested attire: ballet shoes, comfortable clothes for movement or leotards and tights)
Founded in 1980, Dance Place builds a community of artists, audiences and students through high-quality performances, commissions, training and educational programs.
We are committed to enriching the field of dance locally, nationally and internationally. Our thriving arts campus serves as an anchor in our Brookland / Edgewood neighborhood in Washington, DC.
Ballet is an artistic dance form performed to music using precise and highly formalized set steps and gestures. Classical ballet, which originated in Renaissance Italy and established its present form during the 19th century, is characterized by light, graceful, and fluid movements
This class provides the artistic roadmap to grow in ballet, push past comfort zones, burn a few calories, and MOVE as the dancer you were destined to be.
We offer ballet dance classes in our spacious studios while following all the safety protocols set forth by the CDC in order to reduce the spread of coronavirus.
For true beginner students, this class is the perfect introduction to the fundamentals of ballet. Develop your skillset in traditional dance elements in a non-competitive, fun environment with live musical accompaniment.
Ballet emphasizes the development of classical ballet skills with a focus on technique as it relates to proper placement, alignment and coordination of legs ,footwork and the rest of the body.
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