2026 - 27 Class Descriptions

- Students must be given age by September 1, 2026.

Consecutive Quarterly Seasonal Offerings: Although not required for advancement into Elementary or Enrichment Division. Intensive Track requires full participation.

ALTER-Nut and Season Finale Performance Participation: Assumed including all rehearsals, but not mandatory for enrollment.

Early Childhood

Please choose one class per week minimum. A shared beginning through movement.

Plumbline Partners (New Class!)

Introduces young children to ballet through connection, exploration, and guided movement with a caregiver. Rather than the typical Parent + Me class, this experience builds a shared language of movement that supports both participants - for ages 18 month to 2 years with their Caregiver.

Children develop:

• Coordination and balance

• Rhythm and musical awareness

• Spatial understanding

• Confidence through guided exploration

Movement is introduced through imagination, structure, and play. Caregivers engage in parallel movement practice that supports:

• Postural awareness

• Spatial orientation

• Functional body usage

• Mindful physical participation

Adults are not observers; they are active partners in the learning process. Together in Movement throughout the class, partners separate and reunite, exploring movement both independently and together.

This rhythm builds:

• Trust

• Communication through movement

• Shared awareness of space and timing

  Tuesday and Thursday, (location TBA) 9:30 - 10am

Joy Of Movement

Exploring! Discovering! Achieving! A creative and educational dance class specifically designed for ages 3-4 years, this class introduces the child to movement that is creative, educational, dance foundational and musical. 

Monday - Thursday 3:30pm - 4pm

‍ ‍Saturday 9:30 - 10am

Elementary

One class per week minimum.

This primary division introduces students to Classical Ballet: grace, posture, placement, poise, musicality, technique, strength, and flexibility taught in these 5 - 7-year-old, age-appropriate classes. Students discover that striving for excellence is joyful work. The faculty will focus on technique and nurture the artistic development of each individual. Optimize the development by adding a 2nd Class attending twice weekly (including choreography - performance preparation for auditions, rehearsals, and group stage presence). Improvisational Exploration and Acrobatics are built into the creative movement fundamentals, instilled throughout the curriculum.

Primary Dance

Please choose one or two days per week -

• ‍ ‍*Monday - Thursday 4 :05 - 4:50pm, PreBallet Technique

Enrichment - Two classes per week minimum

Enrichment is designed for students in 1st grade - adult, who want to expand and enhance their knowledge of ballet as well as other dance forms. Although ballet training remains the core of this track, it is the goal of this division to expose dancers to a variety of dance genres, not limiting them by the strict physical requirements that classical pointe work demands. 

Although they will be exposed to pre-pointe work, they may discover that their strength and ability as a dancer is found in other styles of dance. Modern Dance Techniques, Jazz, Pilates, Character, and Neoclassical Ballet are now offered as electives, after the commitment to ballet foundations.

Enrichment needs two days per week of ballet technique. This is mandatory for all levels I, II and III. Modern technique class is recommended as an elective, and a third day of ballet required to pursue dancing en pointe in the Intensive Track.

Youth Ensemble Repertoire is now offered for those committed to both ballet and modern classes in Level III committed to Saturday’s company class and rehearsals 9:30am - 1pm.

Students are placed in these classes by faculty recommendation.

Level I

This level needs 2 years to complete at least *two days weekly.

1st and 2nd graders 

• *Monday and *Thursday 5 - 6pm, Ballet Technique + ALTER-Nut Rehearsal

• *Saturday 10 - 11am, Ballet Technique + Nutcracker.com Rehearsal

Level  II

This level takes 1 or 2 years to complete at *two to three days weekly.

Building the technical curriculum by adding conditioning with Progressing Ballet Technique implemented into the schedule, providing a strong foundation to build mindful, committed dancers.

3rd and 4th grade

• *Monday and *Wednesday 5 - 6pm, Ballet Technique

• *Saturday 12:30 - 2pm, Ballet Technique + Rehearsal

• added optional electives are

  - PBT Conditioning + Rehearsal: Wednesday 6 - 7:15pm

  - Modern Technique: Mondays 6 - 7pm

  Level  III

This level needs 3 or 4 years to complete at *three - four days weekly.

This level includes pre pointe, modern and progressive ballet technique.

Fifth grade and up

• *Monday, Ballet Technique 7 - 8:15pm

• *Tuesday and *Thursday, Ballet Technique 6 - 7:15pm

• added optional electives are

  - PrePointe + Rehearsal: Tuesdays + Thursdays 7:15 - 8:15pm

  - Modern: Mondays 6 - 7pm (Beginning) or Thursdays 7:15 - 8:15pm (Intermediate)

  - Pilates: Mondays 6:15 - 7pm

  - PBT Conditioning + Rehearsal: Wednesday 6 - 7:15pm

  - Ballet Technique + Rehearsal: Saturdays 11 - 12:30pm

Enrichment Exchange Program

Minimum of three days of ballet classes per week including another approved educational institution or instructor along with our Enrichment III offerings

Intensive

This Track requires year-round enrollment and attendance to complete the level..

Electives are highly recommended.

The Intensive Division training can be rigorous and is geared towards those who exhibit the physical attributes and serious work ethic that would allow them to excel in both classical ballet technique and pointe work. Students are placed in these classes by faculty recommendation. 

Our intensive division is designed for students 3rd through twelfth grade building upon the Enrichment Division’s technical foundations to prepare them for the pre-professional experience.

While the immersive, rigorous training is continually challenged week to week throughout the year, the program’s monthly integrations of contemporary electives are meant to enhance the development of muscle memory through cross conditioning and intuitive movement in the well-rounded dancer.

Level I‍ ‍

This level needs 1 or 2 years to complete at *three days of classes weekly

Minimum 2nd grade

• *Monday, *Wednesday + *Fridays 5 - 6pm, Ballet Technique

• added optional electives are

  - Beginning Modern Technique: Mondays 6 - 7pm

  - PBT Conditioning + Rehearsal: Wednesday 6 - 7:15pm

  - PrePointe + Rehearsal: Friday 6 - 6:45pm

  - Nutcracker.comRehearsal: Saturday 1 - 2pm

Level II

This level takes 1 or 2 years to complete at *four to five classes weekly

Minimum 4th grade

• *Tuesday + *Thursday 6 - 7:15pm: Ballet Technique

• *Friday 5 - 6:45pm: Ballet Technique + Pre/Beginning Pointe

• - added optional electives are

  - Pilates: Mondays 6:15pm - 7pm

  - Beginning Modern: Mondays 6 - 7pm

  - Pre/Beginning Pointe + Rehearsal: Tuesdays 7:15 - 8:15pm

  - PBT Conditioning + Rehearsal: Wednesday 6 - 7:15pm

  - Intermediate Modern + Rehearsal: Thursdays 7:15 - 8:15pm

  - Nutcracker.com Rehearsal: Saturdays 1 - 2pm

Level III

This level takes 1 or 2 years to complete at *four to five classes weekly

• Monday, 7 - 8:15pm, Tuesday + Thursdays 6 - 7:15pm, and Fridays 6 - 7:45pm, Ballet Technique - added electives include daily Pointework within technique class and

  - Pilates: Mondays 6:15 - 7pm

  - Contemporary: Mondays 8:15 - 9pm

  - Pointe + Rehearsal: Tuesdays 7:15 - 8:15pm

  - Modern or Beginning Pointe + Rehearsal: Thursdays 7:15 - 8:15pm

  - Jazz: Fridays 5 - 6pm

  - Ballet Technique with Partnering: 6 - 7:45pm

  -Neoclassical Ballet + Rehearsal: Saturdays 9:30 - 1pm

Preprofessional Track

Minimum four to five ballet classes per week including another approved institution, organization, or coach along with our Intensive III offerings including Guest Performances, Competition, and Auditions.