Ballet & Creative Movement for Kids

Each semester runs for 10 weeks

To set up your registration, call Access Ballroom Dance Studio at (514) 569-5087 (for both locations) Laval and Dollard-Des-Ormeaux. You can also e-mail us at info@studioaccessballroom.com

DESCRIPTION OF CLASSES

Saturdays at 11am

Expressercise – (Children must be 3-4 years old) Expressercise is an introduction to ballet for three to four year olds. Through rhythm, games, music and imagination students learn basic ballet positions, coordination and musicality. Students must be potty trained and be able to communicate with others. Students will attend one, 45 minute class per week.
• Girls – pink ballet shoes (No bedroom slippers) leotard, skirts and tights are optional
• Boys – Blacks shorts or jazz pants & black ballet slippers
• Pack of tissues

Saturdays 12pm

Pre-Ballet I – (Children must be 5-7 years old) Pre-Ballet is designed to introduce students to the foundations of ballet. Students learn basic technique, basic vocabulary, rhythm, and musicality center floor work. Students will learn discipline that better prepares them for the more structured training of Ballet 1.
• Girls – pink ballet shoes (No bedroom slippers) leotard, skirts and tights necessary
• Boys – Blacks shorts or jazz tights/pants & black ballet slippers
• Pack of tissues

Explanation Of Benefits

Creative dance in early childhood education corresponds to the fundamental phase of movement development that occurs between the ages of two to seven. During this time, loco-motor (e.g. creeping, walking, running, jumping, leaping and galloping), non-loco-motor (e.g., stretching, bending, twisting, turning, shaking and swinging), and stability and balance skills are able to flourish when children are provided with sufficient practice opportunities.

Creative Movement provides children with opportunities for noncompetitive, success-oriented and creative experiences.
Through movement, children learn about their bodies, the space around them, and each other. Creative movement activities should encourage all children to participate. Both boys and girls enjoy these classes. All children can benefit, including children with communication, sensory, developmental or physical challenges.

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand!

Great care is taken in the class placement process. Each level contains students within a particular range of development so there will naturally be an upper and lower ability in each level. Students are placed according to their current stage of ability, physical and psychological development and age. Students progress faster by spending the length of time necessary to master these fundamentals, rather than rushing ahead to the complex and faster paced steps of a more advanced level. Therefore:
- Class placement is solely at the discretion of the teachers and the studio director.
- Parents are kindly reminded not to stay in the class as it is distracting for the children. There will be an in class demonstration at the end of the 8 week session to present material learned.