
Pre-Professional Path:
Grades 2/3
Grade 2/3 Pre-Professional Path
(Acceptance by Audition or Teacher Recommendation)
Required:
* 2 Ballet classes per week
* 3 other genre classes per week
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Summer Requirements: This program requires dancers to complete 1 week of summer intensives at AABD or AABD's 6 week summer session.
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This path allows your dancer to continue focusing on classical ballet technique while introducing other genres necessary for today's dancers. Connecting with a group, dancers continue learning the regimen of a traditional classical ballet class, focus on technique and musicality as well as concentrate on proper body alignment, turn-out of the legs and hips, and strength of the feet. Class structure includes barre, center work, stretching, turning and jumping movements, increased ballet vocabulary, classroom etiquette, developmental and problem-solving skills.
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Additional genres offered include Tap, Musical Theater/jazz, Hip Hop.
Dancers may perform in 3 Performances: Christmas Show, Winter Ballet and the Year-End Recital Production with additional Saturday required rehearsals. *Additional show fee.
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Discounted Monthly Cost $240