Ketchikan Theatre Ballet

Pointe classes are for dancers with previous ballet training, who have been invited by an instructor to participate. Dancers will begin with pre-pointe as early as Elementary Ballet 3, and work in their ballet flats to strengthen the muscles in the feet and ankles.

Tap students are musicians as well as dancers because they are creating rhythm and musical sounds with their feet. Class will typically begin with basic steps (shuffles, flaps, triples, etc.) to warm and loosen the ankles. Exercises across the floor will challenge the student’s ability to combine learned steps as well as their ability to execute complex rhythms.

Deeply rooted in ballet technique, this contemporary style of dance is ever-changing along with popular culture. A jazz class will include a warm-up with isolations, pliés, tendus, stretching, strengthening, and more. Class will then progress to a series of jazz pirouettes, battements, jumps, tricks, and more.

Our Ballet Curriculum program focuses on placement, flexibility, strength, coordination, and stamina. Students will be provided a level-appropriate glossary of terminology and will be required to memorize and understand vocabulary, both physically and verbally (i.e. demonstrating a verbal command of a step).

Our youngest dance students begin in Joy of Dance, Creative Movement, Pre-Ballet and Pre-Elementary classes that have been created to develop coordination and kinetic awareness, as well as musicality and a love of the arts in our youngest dancers.

Our youngest dance students begin in Joy of Dance, Creative Movement, Pre-Ballet and Pre-Elementary classes that have been created to develop coordination and kinetic awareness, as well as musicality and a love of the arts in our youngest dancers.

Our youngest dance students begin in Joy of Dance, Creative Movement, Pre-Ballet and Pre-Elementary classes that have been created to develop coordination and kinetic awareness, as well as musicality and a love of the arts in our youngest dancers.

Our youngest dance students begin in Joy of Dance, Creative Movement, Pre-Ballet and Pre-Elementary classes that have been created to develop coordination and kinetic awareness, as well as musicality and a love of the arts in our youngest dancers.

Children's and Dance Division dancers participating in the Nutcracker production will have an additional performance fee added to their family account.

Children's and Dance Division dancers participating in the Nutcracker production will have an additional performance fee added to their family account.

Performance and costume fees are now built into tuition, with the exception of Children’s and Dance Division dancers participating in the Nutcracker.