• Current Adult Class Schedule

    Day Class Time
    Monday Zumba® 12:10-12:50pm
    Hoop Dance 6:00-7:00pm
    Tuesday Nia™ 7:45-9:00pm
    Wednesday Studio Jam 12:10-12:50pm
    Zumba® 6:00-7:00pm
    Saturday Hoop Dance 9:00-10:00am
    Zumba® 10:00-11:00am

    Current schedule through May 26, 2010. Classes subject to change. Adult rates range from $10-$12 per class with a punch card. If you plan on attending more than one time per week you can save per class by utilizing our adult unlimited monthly rate of $48.

Ballet

Students learn Classical Ballet primarily from the Vaganova method. These classes train proper posture, technique, vocabulary, strength, balance and flexibility with increasing skill level as they progress.

2012 Class Schedule

Registration is closed for the current academic year running September 1, 2011 – May 18, 2012.

Summer 2012 Schedule

June 11 – July 26 (no class week of July 4)

Ballet    Tuesday 6:30-7:15pm, ages 6-9, students must be 6 by June 1, 2012 to participate in this class

Ballet Master Class  Thursday 6:30-7:15pm, ages 10+ with minimum 3 years experience

What to Wear

Ballet Levels 1-3

  • Leotard
  • White tights
  • Pink ballet slippers
  • Hair worn in a bun
 Ballet Levels 4-5

  • Leotard
  • Pink tights
  • Pink ballet slippers
  • Hair worn in a bun

How-To: Learn How to Make a Hair Bun

Most dance classes require that all your hair be pulled back out of your face. In ballet, a simple bun is the traditional style. Have the ladies at the Anaheim Ballet teach you how to create a bun for all hair types. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ywgUDBpnX0

Ballet Terminology

Ballet: A theatrical work or dot clear Balletentertainment in which a dot clear Balletchoreographer has expressed his dot clear Balletideas in group and solo dancing dot clear Balletto a musical accompaniment with dot clear Balletappropriate costumes, scenery dot clear Balletand dot clear Balletlighting.

Tutu: This is the short classical dot clear Balletballet skirt made of many dot clear Balletlayers of tarlatan or net. The dot clear Balletromantic tutu is the long skirt dot clear Balletreaching below the dot clear Balletcalf.

Pirouette: Whirl or spin. A complete dot clear Balletturn of the body on one foot, dot clear Balleton point or demi-pointe. dot clear BalletPirouettes are performed dot clear Balleten dedans, turning dot clear Balletinward toward dot clear Balletthe supporting leg, or dot clear Balleten dehors, turning outward in dot clear Balletthe direction of the raised dot clear Balletleg. Correct body placement dot clear Balletis essential in all kinds of dot clear Balletpirouettes. The body must be dot clear Balletwell centered over the dot clear Balletsupporting leg with the back dot clear Balletheld strongly and the hips dot clear Balletand shoulders aligned. Thedot clear Balletforce of momentum is dot clear Balletfurnished by the arms, which dot clear Balletremain immobile during the dot clear Balletturn. The head is the last to dot clear Balletmove as the body turns away dot clear Balletfrom the spectator and the dot clear Balletfirst to arrive as the body dot clear Balletcomes around to the dot clear Balletspectator, with the eyes dot clear Balletfocused at a definite point dot clear Balletwhich must be at eye level. dot clear BalletThis use of the eyes while dot clear Balletturning is called dot clear Ballet“spotting.” dot clear BalletPirouettes may be performed dot clear Balletin any given position, such dot clear Balletas sur le cou-de-pied, en dot clear Balletattitude, en arabesque, dot clear Balletà la seconde, dot clear Balletetc.

Terminology and definitions from American Ballet Theatre.