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SUMMER AT LAFAYETTE BALLET IN 2025

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JUNE DANCE IN THE BALLROOM

June 2 - June 13, 2025 - Beginning2/
ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE
/ADVANCED

2 WEEKS AVAILABLE

The freedom of summer schedules allows for exploration and growth.

Our summer session is designed to engage the physical training of ballet while discovering the excitement of different movements, different uses of the ballet vocabulary and different ways to state those elements. Learning that ballet is more than steps and provides a platform for new ideas is a refreshing change for an art form steeped in discipline and tradition. In other words - we have a lot of fun.

ELEMENTARY/ADVANCED

The summer is your gift to enjoy. Long days, challenging work, new ideas. Monday through Friday 3:00PM-8:30PM. Our Repertory Focus is Paquita _ a famous early 19th C ballet reset in the late century by Petipa for the Maryinsky in Saint Petersburg. Our contemporary focus is movements off the center and exploration of choreographic principles. Tuition Cost: $250 per week. In the Elementary level we will have a new group of Beginning Pointe students!

BEGINNING

For students in the Beginning levels currently or with permission to enter that level. Age 8 minimum. Tuition Cost: $250 per week. This is not an ideal time for a new beginning student for the entire program unless there is previous experience_ rather current students who are intrigued with the application of the technique to performance, music, and drama. Exposure in the pre-pointe work with the upper level will develop strength and awareness of important and sustaining muscles. Students not able to enroll in the intensive may come to individual classes at $19 per class or information session.

YOUNGER DANCERS

We do not have the staff to run "dance camps" with activities for younger dancers. This is not the ideal program for a new Ballet Discovery dancer. Our fall session will be underway in August. Meanwhile enjoy the freedom of summer, and definitely dance in the sunlight.

ADULTS

Are welcomed. This is a serious training program, and caution and courtesy are advised if the content is too demanding. We suggest that you register for single classes as you are able and interested. Any adult is welcome but the classes are run at the elementary/intermediate level. We will earmark a few adult appropriate classes as the schedule develops.