Primary

30-60 MINUTES  once per week

Wiggles and Giggles: (2+)

Meets for 30 minutes, once a week, for six weeks, with adult participation. This class gives parents/caregivers time to connect with their child through music and movement and is an introduction to the classroom environment, listening skills, and positive social interactions. Currently available at the Kokomo studio only.

Dress Code: Comfortable clothing for movement, socks or ballet shoes.

Creative Movement: (3+)

Meets for 30 minutes, once a week. We use age appropriate curriculum for preschool children which teaches coordination, listening skills, musical and spacial awareness, and development of imagination through music, stretching exercises, and ballet games.

Dress Code: Girls: Pink Leotard, Pink Tights, Pink Ballet Shoes. Boys: T-Shirt, Shorts or Stretch Pants, Black Ballet Shoes.

Primary 1-2, Amethyst, Jasper Classes: (4+)

Meets for 1 hour (20 minutes of tap and 40 minutes of ballet), once a week. Uses age appropriate curriculum for preschool children which teaches coordination, listening skills, musical and spatial awareness, and development of imagination through music, stretching exercises, and ballet games. Students will learn basic ballet technique and tap steps.

Dress Code: Girls: Pink Leotard, Pink Tights, Pink Ballet Shoes, Black Tap Shoes. Boys: T-Shirt, Shorts or Stretch Pants, Black Ballet Shoes, Black Tie Tap Shoes

Primary 3 and Aquamarine Classes: (6+)

Meets for 1 hour (20 minutes of tap and 40 minutes of ballet), once a week. These students should have previous experience and are introduced to a structured tap and ballet curriculum which includes more advanced tap and ballet technique than the Primary 1 and 2 curriculum.  

Dress Code: Girls: Pink Leotard, Pink Tights, Pink Ballet Shoes, Black Tap Shoes. Boys: T-Shirt, Shorts or Stretch Pants, Black Ballet Shoes, Black Tie Tap Shoes.


Beginner Program

Aster, Pearl, Ruby Classes (7-12)

Meets for 1.5 hours (20 minutes of tap, 40 minutes of ballet, and 30 minutes of jazz). Once a week. Former Primary 3 or Aquamarine (by teacher recommendation). These classes are also open for new students, with no experience, that are 7-12 years old.

Dress Code: Girls: Black Leotard, Pink Tights, Pink Ballet Shoes, Black Tap Shoes, Tan Jazz Shoes. (May wear shorts over leotard for jazz and tap.) Boys: T-Shirt, Shorts or Stretch Pants, Black Ballet Shoes, Black Tie Tap Shoes, Black Jazz Shoes.

Intermediate Program

1.5-5 HOURS per week

Students in the intermediate levels are expected to have more experience. These classes meet for a total of 1.5 - 5 hours per week. Teachers will determine the appropriate level for each student. All students must be enrolled in a ballet class. They also have the option of the appropriate tap, jazz, lyrical, and Progressing Ballet Technique classes.

Dress Code: Girls: Black Leotard, Pink Tights (For Ballet), Tan Tights (For Tap, Jazz and Lyrical), Pink Ballet Shoes, Black Tap Shoes, Tan Jazz Shoes. (May wear shorts over leotard for jazz, tap, and Lyrical.) Boys: T-Shirt, Shorts or Stretch Pants, Black Ballet Shoes, Black Tie Tap Shoes, Black Jazz Shoes.

 

Advanced Program

4-8 HOURS per week

Students at this level should be accomplished and serious about dance. These classes meet for a total of 4 - 8 hours per week. Teachers will determine the appropriate level for each student. All students must be enrolled in a ballet class. They also have the option of the appropriate tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, and Progressing Ballet Technique classes.

Dress Code: Girls: Black Leotard, Pink Tights (For Ballet), Tan Tights (For Tap, Jazz and Lyrical), Pink Ballet Shoes, Black Tap Shoes, Tan Jazz Shoes. Pointe Shoes (if Applicable). (May wear shorts over leotard for jazz, tap, and Lyrical.) Boys: T-Shirt, Shorts or Stretch Pants, Black Ballet Shoes, Black Tie Tap Shoes, Black Jazz Shoes.

 

 

What is…

Ballet

Ballet is a solid foundation for all dance forms and will maximize technique and longevity in a career in dance of any kind. Ballet classes will help dancers with posture, flexibility, fitness, balance, self-discipline, and self-confidence. Students will learn classical ballet techniques and terminology through barre exercises, center floor work, and across-the-floor combinations.

Jazz

Jazz dance is set to popular or jazz music and requires ballet technique for control of the body. It develops agility, strength in turns and leaps and a sense of modern rhythms. Jazz releases the dancer to express, through movement, in a more unconventional way than ballet.

Tap

Tap develops a sense of rhythm, style, and sound in the dancer. Exercises focus on building flexibility of the knee and ankles, coordination, and speed of movement, set to many different genres of music.

Lyrical

Strong ballet-based movement incorporating the freedom, fluidity, and expressiveness of jazz and/or contemporary and modern dance—expressive, simultaneously subtle and dynamic, focused on conveying musicality and emotion through movement.

Progressing Ballet Technique

Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) is an innovative body-conditioning and strengthening program that has been designed to enhance students' technique by focusing 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!