City Ballet Raleigh

In addition to our ballet curriculum, City Ballet offers dance lessons in pointe, variations, modern, jazz, tap, and hip hop. We are proud to include the American Ballet Theatre® National Training Curriculum in our classes, ensuring excellence in every lesson provided to our students, no matter what age.

City Ballet Raleigh is proud to teach professional hip hop to a variety of young dancers, whether they are pursuing professional goals or enjoying the benefits of a dance education. Founded in 1991, City Ballet has been offering hip hop to the dancers of North Carolina for over 30 years.

We provide dance classes for all ages, from preschoolers to adults. Our National Training Curriculum consists of a comprehensive set of age-appropriate, outcome-based guidelines to provide the highest quality ballet training to dance students of all ages and skill levels.

All tap classes focus on the development of a sharpened sense of rhythm, coordination, and clarity of sound, incorporating warm-ups, rhythm sequences, and choreography. Our curriculum is dedicated to honing your sense of rhythm and coordination and is designed to feature warm-up exercises, rhythmic sequences, and intricate choreography.

Hip hop is a relaxed, freestyle form of street dance that is set in a high-energy, fun, and fast-paced environment. Dancers will incorporate their rhythm with the latest dance moves. Here, you'll learn to embrace the rhythm within and explore the latest dance moves that make hip-hop a force of creativity and style.

Ballet classes are structured to develop technique, strength, and musicality. We offer a classical technique for all students through various structured exercises. Ballet classes are traditionally organized, including stretching, barre work, port de bras, adagio, pirouettes, petite, and grand allegro.

Classes are offered in ballet, pointe, variations, modern, jazz, tap, and hip hop. City Ballet’s philosophy encourages musicality, fosters creative expression, and teaches an appreciation of dance form and aesthetics; its goal is to enable all students to experience the joy of dance and performance while attaining professional technique and style.

Our musical theatre classes build confidence and nurture a love of movement, music, and performance while training performers to feel comfortable dancing in the spotlight.

All tap classes focus on the development of a sharpened sense of rhythm, coordination, and clarity of sounds incorporating warm-up, rhythm sequences, and choreography.

All Jazz classes combine traditional jazz with the ever changing styles of today. Each fun and challenging class consists of a group of selected dancers who will explore performance opportunities and enhance their technique.

Modern dance students are introduced to basic contemporary techniques including contractions, oppositional energy, and improvisation.

City Ballet Raleigh is proud to include the American Ballet Theatre® National Training Curriculum. Our ballet lessons are classically organized, including stretching, barre work, pirouettes, petite, and grand allegro.

Hip Hop is a relaxed, freestyle form of street dance that is set in a high-energy, fun, and fast paced environment. Dancers will incorporate their own personal rhythm with the latest dance moves.

In addition to our ballet curriculum, City Ballet offers dance lessons in pointe, variations, modern, jazz, tap, and hip hop. We are proud to include the American Ballet Theatre® National Training Curriculum in our classes, ensuring excellence in every lesson provided to our students, no matter what age.

City Ballet Raleigh is proud to teach professional tap to a variety of young dancers, whether they are pursuing professional goals or enjoying the benefits of a dance education. Founded in 1991, City Ballet has been offering tap to the dancers of North Carolina for over 30 years. We teach tap to develop technique, strength, and rhythm. We aim to provide tap for all students through various structured exercises. Our comprehensive dance classes encourage dedicated warm-up sessions and engaging choreography that unlock your full potential. Through teaching tap, our goal is to enable all students to experience the joy of dance and performance while attaining professional technique and style. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or just beginning your dance adventure, City Ballet provides the perfect environment to grow, learn, and fall in love with the art of dance.

We provide dance classes for all ages, from preschoolers to adults. Our National Training Curriculum consists of a comprehensive set of age-appropriate, outcome-based guidelines to provide the highest quality ballet training to dance students of all ages and skill levels. Classes offered include ballet, modern, jazz, tap, hip hop, music, and musical theater. We are also happy to rent space for events, photography, and rehearsals.

Whether you're looking to start your tap journey or take it to the next level, City Ballet is the place where your passion for rhythm and dance can thrive. All tap classes focus on the development of a sharpened sense of rhythm, coordination, and clarity of sound, incorporating warm-ups, rhythm sequences, and choreography. Our curriculum is dedicated to honing your sense of rhythm and coordination and is designed to feature warm-up exercises, rhythmic sequences, and intricate choreography.

City Ballet Raleigh is proud to include the American Ballet Theatre® National Training Curriculum. Ballet classes are structured to develop technique, strength, and musicality. We offer a classical technique for all students through various structured exercises. Ballet classes are traditionally organized, including stretching, barre work, port de bras, adagio, pirouettes, petite, and grand allegro.

Hip-Hop is a relaxed, freestyle form of street dance that is set in a high-energy, fun, and fast paced environment. Dancers will incorporate their own personal rhythm with the latest dance moves.

In our variations classes, students will learn and perform classical ballet variations from renowned ballets. This offers an opportunity to refine technique, artistry, and performance skills by dissecting and mastering challenging solos and pas de deux.

Pointe work is an advanced form of ballet training that requires specific strength and technique. Our pointe classes focus on safe and proper execution, building the necessary strength and artistry for dancers to perform en pointe.

Our musical theatre classes build confidence and nurture a love of movement, music, and performance while training performers to feel comfortable dancing in the spotlight. These classes blend acting, singing, and dancing to prepare students for the demands of musical theater productions.

Hip-Hop is a relaxed, freestyle form of street dance that is set in a high-energy, fun, and fast paced environment. Dancers will incorporate their own personal rhythm with the latest dance moves. Here, you'll learn to embrace the rhythm within and explore the latest dance moves that make hip-hop a force of creativity and style.

All tap classes focus on the development of a sharpened sense of rhythm, coordination, and clarity of sounds incorporating warm-up, rhythm sequences, and choreography. Our curriculum is dedicated to honing your sense of rhythm and coordination and is designed to feature warm-up exercises, rhythmic sequences, and intricate choreography.

All Jazz classes combine traditional jazz with the ever changing styles of today. Each fun and challenging class consists of a group of selected dancers who will explore performance opportunities and enhance their technique. Our jazz program emphasizes dynamic movement, rhythm, and performance quality, integrating foundational jazz techniques with current popular styles.

Modern dance students are introduced to basic contemporary techniques including contractions, oppositional energy, and improvisation. Our modern dance classes focus on developing core strength, flexibility, and expressive movement, allowing students to explore a variety of contemporary styles and choreographic approaches.

City Ballet Raleigh is proud to include the American Ballet Theatre® National Training Curriculum. Our ballet lessons are classically organized, including stretching, barre work, pirouettes, petite, and grand allegro. Ballet classes are structured to develop technique, strength, and musicality. We offer a classical technique for all students through various structured exercises.

We provide dance classes for all ages, from preschoolers to adults. Our National Training Curriculum consists of a comprehensive set of age-appropriate, outcome-based guidelines to provide the highest quality ballet training to dance students of all ages and skill levels. Classes offered include ballet, modern, jazz, tap, hip hop, music, and musical theater. We are also happy to rent space for events, photography, and rehearsals.

Whether you're looking to start your tap journey or take it to the next level, City Ballet is the place where your passion for rhythm and dance can thrive. All tap classes focus on the development of a sharpened sense of rhythm, coordination, and clarity of sound, incorporating warm-ups, rhythm sequences, and choreography. Our curriculum is dedicated to honing your sense of rhythm and coordination and is designed to feature warm-up exercises, rhythmic sequences, and intricate choreography.

City Ballet Raleigh is proud to include the American Ballet Theatre® National Training Curriculum. Ballet classes are structured to develop technique, strength, and musicality. We offer a classical technique for all students through various structured exercises. Ballet classes are traditionally organized, including stretching, barre work, port de bras, adagio, pirouettes, petite, and grand allegro.

Make some noise with our Adult Tap Class! For those who are coming back after a few years off, or those that always wanted to try, this class will focus on fun rhythms and music.

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

Posture, tone, control - ballet has been evolving for centuries to be an incredible way to keep fit and healthy. Our adult classes are based on the latest understandings of human anatomy and strength building to work with any dancers body, in a warm and friendly environment that encourages musicality and expression - free from judgment and intimidation.

Hip-Hop is a relaxed, freestyle form of street dance that is set in a high-energy, fun, and fast paced environment. Dancers will incorporate their own personal rhythm with the latest dance moves.

All tap classes focus on the development of a sharpened sense of rhythm, coordination, and clarity of sounds incorporating warm-up, rhythm sequences, and choreography.

All tap classes focus on the development of a sharpened sense of rhythm, coordination, and clarity of sounds incorporating warm-up, rhythm sequences, and choreography.

All Jazz classes combine traditional jazz with the ever changing styles of today. Each fun and challenging class consists of a group of selected dancers who will have the ability to explore performance opportunities and enhance their jazz technique.

Students are introduced to basic contemporary techniques including contractions, oppositional energy, and improvisation. Students will explore dynamics in time and space, and build understanding of rhythm, gestures, and shapes.

Ballet classes are structured to develop technique, strength, and musicality. We offer a classical technique for all students through various structured exercises. Ballet classes are traditionally organized, including stretching, barre work, port de bras, adagio, pirouettes, petite, and grand allegro. Students are also offered the opportunity to choreograph short dances during various holiday classes. The techniques and skills begun in the fall are built on throughout the course of the year.

Children dance and stretch with an appreciation of moving with music. Ballet exercises are introduced along with other techniques. Emphasis on good posture, rhythm, and creative work lead to an informal studio recital at the end of each session.

Preschool Dance is the beginning of a lifetime of dance appreciation. It is the essence of using imagination and exploration as building blocks for a dance foundation. Students focus on gross motor skills – skipping, hopping, and jumping – through musicality and movement. City Ballet pays special attention to the needs and abilities of preschoolers by using theme-based lesson plans full of meaningful play. To encourage performance techniques, the preschool classes hold a recital complete with costumes at the studio for parents and friends. The casual setting rewards dancers for their hard work all year without the stresses of a “big” stage and rehearsals.

Imagination. Creativity. Fun. This class is designed for young children to foster their imagination and creativity through the joy and fun of movement.

Freestyle and energetic movement. This class is all about high-energy movement, expressive freestyle, and the dynamic cultural roots of hip hop dance.

Rhythm and coordination development. This class focuses on developing a strong sense of rhythm and improving coordination through intricate tap steps.

Traditional and cutting-edge styles. This class covers the foundations of jazz dance while also exploring contemporary and innovative choreography and movement.

Contemporary technique and improv. This class explores the expressive and fluid movements of contemporary dance, encouraging improvisation and creative exploration.

Technique, pointe, and variations classes. This class focuses on fundamental ballet movements, advanced pointe work, and the execution of specific ballet variations.