Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Understand the composition of a dancer's line and form and apply correct body alignment and posture to ballet technique.
• Begin to develop muscle strength, joint flexibility, balance and coordination by using fundamental ballet conditioning exercises.
• Know the French terminology used in basic ballet vocabulary.
• Understand how a system of practice exercises at the barre prepare dancers for proper ballet technique.
• Analyze the way in which acquired skills developed at the barre coordinate with movements in center and across the floor.
• Develop an awareness of musical phrasing and how it is used in ballet.
• Improve physical fitness and cultivate self-expression.
• Understand how the mechanics of ballet technique can be used to progress toward a mastery of other dance styles.