Ballet de la Terre: Original, Contemporary, Community Dance Classes

Ballet-Afrique has a new name! Welcome to Ballet de la Terre!
Original, Exuberantly Graceful, Contemporary, Community Dance Classes!

Basics, Intermediate & Advancing
Taught by Romy Keegan
with Live Drumming by Jefferson Voorhees, Javier Saume, or Talon VanHowten, alternating.
(See below for days, times and levels!)

new online class: $15

otherwise,
$20 +
1.58 tax/class.
$75 +
5.91 tax for 4 classes.
$140 +
11.03 tax for 8 classes - VALID FOR 3 MONTHS - COME DANCE!

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Now offering (Magickal) Ballet de la Terre ONLINE Beginning and Mixed Level Class:
Wednesdays, 3:33-4:44pm, $15 online.

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Ballet de la Terre: Original, Exuberantly Graceful, Contemporary Dance, with live drumming!

Playful, beginner friendly, community oriented dance classes, Ballet de la Terre is intended to intelligently build strength and stamina, while inspiring dancers to move and to express themselves, with grace and joy! Sunday and Tuesday classes are designed for anyone to drop in, anytime, with or without previous dance experience, and it is my goal and my JOY to provide a welcoming, fun, playful dance experience grounded in accessibility for newcomers, and layered with optional complexity for anyone more experienced. Pop in for just one class, or follow a developing progression of exuberantly graceful weekly choreographies that begin slowly, and evolve in complexity and speed over the week! For dancers with a little more experience, scroll down for Ballet de la Terre Advancing - a Thursday evening class for intermediate (+) dancers!

Ballet de la Terre, Beginning
Sundays, 3:30-4:45pm Front Door Studio
$20 + 1.58 tax Thank you!

This is a mixed level class, great for adults who have either never danced before, or have limited experience, and are ready to move! It introduces body awareness, balance, coordination, basic natural movement as well as foundational dance concepts, steps & combos, and, builds strength, balance, coordination, agility, stamina and flexibility. Oh, and it’s super fun!

Ballet de la Terre, Beg/Intermediate
Tuesdays, 5:30-7pm, Front Door Studio
$20 + 1.58 tax Thank you!

This beginning to intermediate level class is great for adult dancers with SOME dance experience, at any point and in any style, OR brand new dancers who have a natural ease with movement in general.  It builds balance, coordination, agility, stamina and flexibility, further introduces natural movement expression and general classical dance concepts, steps and combos, as well as developing body and spatial awareness, coordination, and grace.

Ballet de la Terre, Int/Advancing
Thursdays, 5:30-7pm, Front Door Studio
$20 + 1.58 tax Thank you!

This intermediate/advancing level class, building on choreography from earlier in the week - while standing on its own - is focused on expanding and developing choreography, skills, and technique. Including live drumming but not limited to it, this class is also a space for me to experiment, play, explore, and expand creatively, with a group of trusted, intermediate/advancing/advanced dancers, while continuing to develop the unique and original Ballet de la Terre specific movement vocabulary, which fosters exuberance, agility, and grace.

More about Ballet de la Terre

With a reverent bow to ALL my Teachers along the Way, Ballet de la Terre, (formerly known as Ballet-Afrique), is the original, joyful expression and continued exploration and development of my own unique, personal, dance and movement vocabulary. It is inspired by a lifetime of ballet training and over 25 years of West African dance, and intended to capture the spirit, energy, and open-accessibility of a community African dance class, (with its repetitive, organic and natural movement), while harnessing the focus, flexibility, strength, and grace, inherent in the most accessible elements of ballet technique. The original and creative utilization of both styles of movement produces a playful, dynamic, and exuberantly graceful contemporary fusion, suitable and accessible, for everyone who LOVES TO DANCE! Ballet-Afrique, now called Ballet de la Terre, was first introduced to my closest students in the autumn of 2012, and continues to blossom and grow through these on-going, supportive, playful, community dance classes. It is also the unique and magickal movement used for choreography in Dancing Our Magick: Dancing the Directions to Awaken a Magickal Life, a seven week workshop blending magickal principles with magickal movement. Curious?
www.DancingOurMagick.com

CLASS: Naturally aerobic and energizing movements are broken down and moved across the floor, both right and left sides, for initial exercise and pure joy of natural movement. Totally accessible lines, shapes & movements that flow, utilize core strength and develop inherent grace, are then woven throughout, embellishing and accenting the overall expression of the choreography and of the dancers present.

Class begins and ends with stretching and strengthening exercises and important technique designed for the whole dancer. Each class is its own full lesson, so dancers have the freedom to drop-in, building their abilities and comfort levels based entirely on their own time and inspiration!

ATTIRE: Wear anything that you can move and stretch in, and feel joyful, beautiful, handsome and free in - we tend to wear leggings or dance shorts with a dress or skirt & shirt on top.  We dance barefoot, but ballet shoes, jazz shoes, and even sneakers are welcome if needed or desired!