Make-Believe Playhouse Mornings, Ages 2–6

Children are allowed to express their creativity through dance and play while gently taught ballet. We practice locomotor skills, pre-ballet, and creative movement along with warm-ups and stretches. Each week a different fairytale is read, then danced and reenacted with wonderful costumes, headpieces and props. Everyone gets to dress up and pretend! It is the perfect complement to preschool. Make-Believe Playhouse Mornings are bookended with extra play, yoga, and exploration time for engaging activities either solo or with the teacher.

Yoga Rainbow, Ages 3–6

Students study and practice yoga poses fused seamlessly with movement and dancing. We celebrate our aliveness with songs, games and stories. Through breathing, meditation, and deep relaxation, students can wind down and relax. 

Mommies and caregivers are most welcome to join all the fun. Here’s what a couple students had to say about relaxation time, a favorite part of yoga class: “I felt like I went deeper into my mind. I found there was nothing there,” said a 4-year old boy. Another student, a 4-year old girl said, “I felt like I was laying in a hammock”.

Creative Movement/Yoga, Ages 3–6

Students express their creative side with full-bodied movement and physicality. Playfulness and movement discovery are encouraged and supported. Yoga, movement, and dancing rounds out an engaging experience for children, mommies, and caregivers too.

Private Lessons & Adult Enrichment Classes

Private Lessons

Private lessons for children, tweens, teens, and adults of all levels are offered throughout the year. Whether you’re returning to ballet from having danced in your youth, or you need to prepare for an audition, or you’d like to improve your stage presence and movement quality for your acting and/or opera career, we will gladly set up a private lesson schedule and location to suit your needs and convenience. Please inquire.

NEW! Adult Ballet & Barre

NEW! Adult Ballet & Barre classes are forming soon! Please inquire, and check back soon!

NEW! Sunrise Stretch/Adult Stretch

Adult Stretch class is presently offered in Washington Hts on Fridays at 6:00pm.

NEW! UWS Sunrise Stretch class for Spring will form soon, so please inquire, and check back soon!
 

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Choreography Circle, Ages 7–13

Students create their very own solo performance in this exciting improvisation class. Dancers draw movement from their own unique creative impulses and then structure them into an individual movement collage, independent of music, and give an informal showing for parents at the end of the process.

Dancer’s Bouquet, Ages 7–14

Building on learned ballet vocabulary, combinations, quality of movement and musicality, students are given progressive technical training supplemented with their own creative improvisation. Ballerinas also begin to learn choreography, and work up to informal showings.

Dancers on Tour, Ages 7 and up

This weekly full ballet class, comprised of barre and center, offers strong technical training within a well-developed proven curriculum and, with added rehearsal time built-in for creativity and dancing, students are very inspired to work intensively and productively. Individual progress is carefully monitored towards the goal of developing a refined, solid, and well-rounded dance student. In the creative component and rehearsal time, dancers prepare exciting repertoire of classical, neoclassical, & contemporary ballet works, and with “pretend passports” we rehearse to “go on tour” to great cities around the world to dance! Each session we present the dances to parents with informal showings. Even the parents pretend they too have traveled to the great cities to see their favorite dancers perform! St. Petersburg, Moscow, Paris, and London are some of the world's great dance centers that we will be talking about!

Handmaidens of the Ballet, Ages 9–13

This intermediate/advanced ballet class will offer strength training, stamina building, and dancing challenges which augment a continuation of careful technique and quality of movement under Miss Bailay’s watchful eye. Exploration through movement improvisation is encouraged. Students will present dances and new ballet works in a variety of choreographic styles ranging from strongly classical, to modern ballet, to neoclassical ballet, drawing from repertoire and original works by Miss Bailay.

Tween Beginning Ballet, Ages 10–12

Experience the beauty of ballet! Stretching, barre, beginning ballet steps, lyrical combinations, traveling steps, and leaps. We will work on becoming a well-rounded ballet dancer with good posture and correct alignment while increasing stamina and flexibility. Come waltz, dance gracefully, and learn a lovely dance which will inspire your Sundays week after week!

Ballet Maidens, Ages 13–16

This intermediate/advanced ballet class will offer strength training, stamina building and dancing challenges which augment a continuation of proper alignment, careful technique, and quality of movement under Miss Bailay’s watchful eye. Exploring, preserving, and releasing one’s own “ballet originality” through improvisation and imagery is very important for students even at this higher level so that they stay connected to that which feeds their imaginations. Students will present dances and new ballet works in a variety of choreographic styles ranging from strongly classical, to modern ballet, to neoclassical ballet, drawing from repertoire and original works by Miss Bailay. They will also be given the opportunity to choreograph their own solo, as well as group dances for the class ensemble.

Teen Beginning Ballet, Ages 13 and up

Experience the beauty of ballet in your own body! Stretching, barre, beginning ballet steps, lyrical combinations, traveling steps, and leaps. We will work on becoming a well-rounded ballet dancer with good posture and correct alignment while increasing stamina and flexibility. Come waltz, dance gracefully, and learn a lovely dance which will inspire your classes week after week! Now you can finally try out ballet for yourself!

Ballet for Teens and Adults, Beginning Level

Experience the beauty of ballet in your own body! Stretching, barre, beginning ballet steps, lyrical combination, traveling steps, and leaps. Come waltz, dance gracefully, and learn a lovely dance which will inspire your summer week after week! Now you can finally try out ballet for yourself!