Body Conditioning Through Ballet

Catalog description

This course is structured to enhance and nurture previous and new dance students in their vocabulary and technique with relation to Classical Ballet and its impact with regard to strengthening and toning the body, its impact and relation to other dance forms (commonly referred to as the foundation of all dance forms), and the relations/differences in training the body and its muscles compared to various athletcis training. The class will be comprised of "barre" exercises, "centre" exercises, core work and develop and educated the students in the areas of healthy alignment/placement and carriage, strengthening of muscles, breathing with regard to exercises, stretch & toning, core work, technical aspects, which related to other dance forms, across the florr progressions/combinations, and including petite/medium and grande allegro exercises for cardio vascular development. Various musical selections including classical and contemporary, will be utilized in the class accompanying all exercises.