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Ballet Classes for Teens & Juniors
About Our Teen/Junior Ballet Classes
All of our ballet lessons include barre, center, stretching, adagio, and allegro work. We focus on the physical and intellectual understanding of how and why each movement is executed. Strength, flexibility, grace, balance, poise, and musicality will be developed along with an understanding of the principles of ballet technique. With our structured teaching methods, your teen will progress further, quickly and safely. Whether you are experimenting to see where your teens interests lie are or have an aspiring dancer, our ballet classes will be non intimidating.
Ballet Class levels
Ballet I: Starts at the very beginning. It is designed for students who have never had ballet before or have studied ballet so long ago that they want a complete refresher course.
Ballet I.5 : For student who have had 4 -6 months of recent lessons
Ballet II : For student who have had at least on year of recent lessons
Ballet III: For student who have had at least two years of recent lessons
Pointe: Dancing on toe shoes is for the accomplished dancer only, and requires a minimum of two technique classes weekly in addition to the pointe class.
Ballet Dance Attire
Girls pink tights and black leotard or dance leggings and form fitting top
Boys wear dance belt, black tights, white t-shirt and black or white Ballet slippers.
All long hair should be secured in a bun. Shorter hair should be pulled back off the face and in a ponytail if it fits.
Class Schedules
Spring Session Classes
Session Dates: March 31- June 19, 2025
Junior/Teen Classes
Children's/Junior Classes
Winter/Spring Session Classes
Session Dates: February 10- June 19, 2025
Junior/Teen Classes
Children's/Junior Classes
Meet Your Jr./Teen Ballet Teachers
Grace Smith
Administrative Assistant, Mommy & Me, Creative Dance, & Ballet
Dakota Crist
Assistant Director & office manager
BALLET, MOMMY & ME & CREATIVE DANCE
Dakota Crist had her earlier, training in Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, and Modern Dance at Diane’s Dance Works in Helena, Montana, then went on to study at Creative Arts Center in Helena, Ballet Montana Academy and Sacramento Ballet. Dakota relocated to Seattle in 2013 and holds a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts.
As a young dancer, she attended Joffrey South, American Academy of Ballet, and Ballet West's summer intensives. Her love of dance drove her train pre-professionally with Ballet Montana and as a company trainee with Sacramento Ballet.
After graduating from Cornish, Dakota shifted her focus to dance education. She has been teaching dance since 2009 and has taught for ADI since 2018.
Ainsleigh Orwin
Ballet, Modern, jazz, mommy & me & creative Dance
Ainsleigh Orwin began dancing at the age of 5 at Village Dance Arts in Claremont, CA where she was trained in Royal Academy of Dance curriculum ballet, as well as modern, jazz, hip-hop, and tap. In 2017, Ainsleigh moved to Seattle to continue her education at the University of Washington. She holds a B.A. in Dance and B.S. in Biology (Physiology) and is currently pursuing her Masters in Education at the UW.
Ainsleigh has been teaching dance since she was 17, starting at her home studio and branching out to teach summer camps and outreach classes in elementary schools. Her passion for teaching and dance led her to American Dance Institute after graduating from UW in 2021.
What Are Jr./Teen Ballet Classes Like at American Dance Institute?
A ballet pointe class dance class performance from the American Dance Institute's 33 Annual Spring Recital 2022 Performed by Seattle's Greenwood Point Class I & II
A performance from the American Dance Institute's 33 Annual Spring Recital 2022 By Seattle's Greenwood Jr & Teen Ballet Class 1.5 2022 Choreography: Victoria Gutierrez
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