Sovereign Ballet

Discover the transformative power of dance in your life! Enroll you or your child in our exceptional dance program and witness growth and development firsthand. With our expert instructors and beautiful facilities, we guarantee an enriching experience that will ignite you or your child’s passion for dance. Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to nurture their creativity, discipline, and self-expression. Join us now and watch your child blossom into a confident and skilled dancer!

Adult Ballet drop-in class designed for adults interested in learning or maintaining ballet technique, offering flexibility for participation.

Partnering class offered by invitation only, focusing on the intricacies of dancing with a partner, essential for specific choreographic elements and styles.

An elective option allowing students to regularly attend a dance class at a level below their current placement, potentially for technique refinement or exploration. Details on pricing are available under elective rates.

A program where students assist teachers in classes, gaining leadership experience and a deeper understanding of teaching methodologies. Available as an elective.

One-on-one dance training sessions tailored to an individual dancer's specific needs, goals, and progress, offering personalized instruction and feedback.

Hip Hop dance class featuring urban dance styles, rhythm, and improvisation, drawing inspiration from street culture and music. Available as an elective.

Jazz dance class focusing on high-energy movements, intricate footwork, and expressive choreography, often incorporating popular music styles. Offered as an elective.

A conditioning class designed to build strength, stamina, and flexibility essential for dancers across all disciplines. Available as an elective.

Acrobatic dance class combining elements of gymnastics and dance, focusing on strength, flexibility, and tumbling skills. Available as an elective.

Contemporary dance class that blends elements of ballet, jazz, and modern dance, encouraging innovative and fluid movement. Offered as an elective.

Modern dance class exploring expressive movement, improvisation, and a wide range of contemporary techniques. Available as an elective.

Tap dance class focusing on rhythmic footwork and musicality, enhancing coordination and percussive skills. Offered as an elective choice.

Ballet 5 mandates four ballet classes and three elective classes. Students at this advanced level have the flexibility to take more classes without any additional charges.

Ballet 4 requires three ballet classes and two elective classes. Students at this level can take additional classes without incurring any extra fees beyond the standard monthly tuition.

Ballet 3 requires three ballet classes and one elective class. Similar to lower levels, there are no additional charges for any extra classes taken beyond the specified requirements.

Ballet 2 requires two ballet classes and one elective class. Students enrolled in Ballet 2 can take additional classes without incurring any extra charges beyond the monthly tuition.

Ballet 1 requires one ballet class and one elective class, with no additional charge for any extra classes taken beyond the requirement. This level focuses on developing core ballet technique and flexibility.

This introductory dance class combines Ballet and Tap techniques, offering a foundational experience in both styles for young dancers. It is designed to build coordination, rhythm, and musicality.

An intensive, advanced study emphasizing self-motivation, artistic expression, and musicality. Incorporating elements from major ballet training styles, this level prepares talented dancers to potentially join Lake Erie Ballet Company, pursue college or university dance programs, or continue into professional companies.

This advanced level focuses on refining technique and artistry, with continued pointe work to build strength and precision. Students are encouraged to explore additional elective dance styles, supporting their growth as versatile, well-rounded performers.

Students advance their technique with more challenging barre and center combinations, focusing on increased strength, stamina, and control. This level introduces beginning pointe work, emphasizing safe preparation and foundational strength. Dancers continue refining alignment, balance, and musicality while deepening their performance quality.

Students build a beginner-level ballet vocabulary while learning safe, effective stretching and strengthening techniques. Classes begin at the barre and eventually move to center work, focusing on alignment, balance, musicality, and creating clean ballet lines. Dancers also develop memory, self-awareness, and a sense of personal responsibility.

In this engaging one-hour class, children are introduced to movement through music and creative exploration while learning the fundamentals of both ballet and tap. Students build strength, coordination, and a love for dance while developing basic vocabulary and an early sense of artistry and performance. Using classical ballet and traditional tap terminology, this class lays a strong technical foundation and sparks a lifelong interest in dance.

Adult men and women are introduced to the fundamentals of ballet and tap movement. These classes are designed to strengthen muscles and introduce a basic vocabulary to the art of dance. Classes have more of a relaxed atmosphere, although a formal approach to traditional ballet and tap movements will be utilized.

Tap dancing consists of learning rhythm patterns. Learning and memorizing patterns are a great workout for your brain. And it’s all math. Repeating, reversing and counting the rhythm patterns reinforces math concepts. Knowing where the body’s weight should be and when to shift the weight from one foot to the other is essential for proper tap technique. Training the muscle memory in this way improves balance, coordination and control. And the benefits of a strong core are numerous, including less back pain and risk of falling. Tap increases picking up combinations quicker, musicality, and stage presence, all beneficial for any dance genre.

Modern Dance focuses on the freedom of movement and expression. It consists of distinctively American movement styles and vocabularies with clearly defined and recognizable dance training systems including the Graham and Horton techniques. Students will focus on these techniques this year as well as supplemental contemporary dance practices to strengthen their technical dance skills and performance qualities.

Builds on technique while developing style, confidence, and musicality. Inspired by Luigi and Giordano, dancers strengthen precision, control, and dynamic movement. Includes warm-up, center work, and progressions (turns, jumps, kicks), exploring styles from lyrical to Broadway with a focus on expression and performance quality.

For intermediate dancers, this class builds strength, confidence, and versatility through groove-focused choreography. Students explore styles like Old School, House, Popping, Locking, and Commercial, while learning the cultural roots behind each. Class includes a groove-based warm-up, foundational drills, musicality exercises, and challenging choreography to develop control, flow, and expressive style.

Contemporary dance incorporates ballet, modern, jazz and lyrical genres. It combines the strong and controlled legwork of Ballet, with elements of Modern dance focusing on unpredictable changes of rhythm, speed and direction. Focusing heavily on choreography for self-expression in creating new techniques and styles. The movement emphasizes the use of gravity, momentum, moving on and off balance, and suspension.

Conditioning presents all the principles for quicker improvement for the serious dancer: core and joint stability, muscular and joint flexibility, streamlined action, and a strong midline. Conditioning will help provide the stability or the flexibility or even the efficient strength and ease 21 st -century dancing requires. It is designed to tune anybody to be efficient, strong and fluid.

Otherwise known as Acro, is a beautiful fusion of classic dance technique and the precision and athleticism of acrobatic elements. Often defined by unique choreography, Acro dancers seamlessly blend musicality, emotional expression, line and extension with acrobatic movements in a dance context.

4 months, February 2026 – June 2026

3 months, September 2025 – November 2025