Brass City Ballet

Adult Ballet is currently offered once a week. Students of all experience and levels are invited and welcome, though the class is taught at a beginner/intermediate level. Our teachers are experienced in working with all level adult dancers and cater the class level to the dancers in the room.

Ballet 2 gradually incorporates ballet technique, terminology and performance readiness while still maintaining elements of creative movement appropriate to the student’s age. Ballet 3 meets two times per week and is geared for the beginner level student in preparation for the pre-professional certificate program.

This class focuses on basic jazz and hip hop forms. The curriculum builds upon consecutive class technique, developing fun, yet age appropriate, movement and dance skills.

Ballet One focuses primarily on the joy of ballet and its technique. This is where students will being to be introduced to basic ballet concepts.

Dance Basics includes a very similar curriculum as Discovery-(warmup, stretch, center floor, across the floor, learning of choreography), their Ballet and Jazz dance vocabulary of movements will grow as well as their ability to remember choreography and feel confident performing. This level also now includes tap! This age has the opportunity to audition for Nutcracker as well as an additional role in Season Finale.

Students will build upon their learnings of Butterfly Ballet which includes a more structured dance class (warmup, center floor, free dance, across the floor, and the learning of choreography). Ballet and Jazz steps and terminology will be taught in an age-appropriate way which will encourage each child to develop their knowledge of dance and build confidence in these dance genres.

Through creative dance, students will explore various ways to move their bodies through space; they will begin to learn personal and general space awareness, beginner ballet dance terms and movements as well as locomotor and non locomotor movements which will encourage each child to creatively express themselves through space and in a safe and friendly environment.

Students who are part of the Brass City Ballet Company, are given additional opportunities to perform throughout the year. Brass City Ballet Company’s main event is the Gala when student dancers have the privilege of working with guest artists and performing new and original works with resident and visiting choreographers. Brass City Ballet Company dancers pay an additional fee to participate in the company as the hours of rehearsal and performance are considered an extension of their existing dance education. BCB Company dancers are not required to audition for The Nutcracker or Gala and are exempt from fees for both productions. In addition to their regular class schedule, BCB Company members attend their own company class separate from the other levels. BCB Company members receive a progress report at the end of the year.

The Concentrated Studies program is for the dancer who is ready and interested in a more rigorous training schedule. This program includes added performance opportunities, as well as commitments. Dancers in this program are given the privilege of advancing through levels A – E as their technique progresses, as well as taking part in our Buddy Program which is a mentorship-style connection between our youngest and oldest students. Concentrated Studies dancers make the commitment of dancing with us for a required number of days per week, which corresponds to their level, and to being a helpful, respectful, and kind member of our Brass City Ballet community. Concentrated Studies dancers are also given the opportunity to apply for our Margery Hall Fisk Scholarship Fund to help cover the cost of classes.

Our Recreational Program is designed to suit the young dancers who is looking for an after school activity without the long-term commitment. The recreational program has the same teachers, classes, and level of superior training without the pressure of every-day classes and performance requirements. These classes typically are offered as a once-per-week option, with the opportunity to level up and join the concentrated studies program when the student is both age appropriate and their technique has advanced enough.

Students age 8 & up who show talent and a desire for concentrated dance training are invited into the Ballet Certificate Program where instruction is based on the Vaganova Syllabus for Classical Ballet, an internationally renowned Russian method of ballet training, which progresses from the beginner A through advanced E-levels.