About Adult Ballet
Experience traditional barre and center exercises with movements and positions of the arms, feet and body designed to enable you to move with the greatest possible agility, control, speed and grace. It is also a great workout for mind.
Through repetitions you may expect to find a better core balance while strengthening your whole body. Turns and jumps might be included.
The class is intended for adults aged 18+ and designed for those either getting started, revisiting ballet as an adult or looking to maintain and improve their technique.
Structure of the class
- Warm up and barre exercises
- Gentle stretch
- Center exercises
- Across the floor exercises
- Port de bras (carriage of the arms) and cool down
Benefits of BALLET class
- Improving your BALANCE and POSTURE alignment
- STRENGTHENING most of the muscles particularly abdominal, back, gluteus, legs, arms an feet
- Improving FLEXIBILITY and increasing range of movement
- MOBILITY as it is important to be able to move and exercise
- MENTAL WELL-BEING as workout reduces stress and anxiety and brings more joy and happiness
- COGNITIVE FUNCTION as we move into a music using different steps and therefore train and maintain our brain
- JOY, simply connection of the body and rhythm of the music is elemental and exhilarating
Important information
WHAT TO WEAR: Soft canvas ballet shoes and any comfortable clothes that can stretch and will not restrict you from movement.
!!! If you do not have ballet shoes you may come with socks for your first class.
Please prebook for your class and complete below form before attending the class. You may bring the form with you however it would be preferred to send in advance.