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ABOUT
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September
2, 2008 - May 28, 2009
Schedule and Tuition
Registration,
with prepaid 10% discounted tuition shown following the class time, is
for the entire academic season payable in full in advance by August 30,
2008. Alternative
12-week trimester payments (shown in parentheses) are due on August 23,
November 8 and February 7.
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(pm's) |
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Homeschoolers
Health Programs: 1:00-2:00 = $360 ($132)
Kinderdance: 2:00-2:30 = $288 ($108)
Preballet: 2:30-3:00 = $288 ($108) |
| TUESDAYS |
(pm's) |
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Youth
I: 4:00-4:45 = $324 ($120)
Youth II: 4:45-5:45 = $360 ($132)
Teacher Training: 5:45-6:30 = $360 ($132)
Advanced Ballet: 6:30-8:00 = $648 ($225)*
Above class with pointe: 8:00-8:30 = $792 ($298) |
| THURSDAYS |
(pm's) |
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Kinderdance:
5:30-6:00 = $288 ($108)
Preballet: 6:00-6:30 = $288 ($108)
Advanced Ballet: 6:30-8:00 = $648 ($225) |
| SATURDAYS |
(am's) |
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Musical
Theatre Dance: 8:30-9:15 = (term/price vary)
Advanced Ballet: 9:30-11:00 = $648 ($225)
Above Class with pointe: 11:00-11:30 = $792 ($298) |
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Multiple Class Prices:
Advanced Ballet w/ Pointe, 2x/wk = $1440 ($528)
2x/wk, w/out P = $1080 ($370)
Advanced w/P, 3x/wk = $1944 ($720)
3x/wk, w/out P = $1296 ($450) |
Class
Descriptions
A = approximate age
X = years experience
First
class serves as student's placement audition.
Kinderballet |
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Pre-Ballet |
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Youth I |
(A:
3-5 X: 0-1)
Free movement exploration, story and dress-up time. |
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(A:
6-8 X: 0-2)
Creative movement, rhythmic and spatial exercises. |
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(A:
8-10 X: 0-2)
Ballet fundamentals, choreography and music studies. |
Youth II |
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Family
Fitness |
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Advanced
Ballet |
(A:10-12
X: 2-4)
Intermediate skills with prepointe training. |
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In-home
programs adapting to healthy lifestyles through improved nutrition
and simple exercise routines. |
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(A:12+,
X:5+)
A challenging but safety minded class for students with an established
vocabulary. |
| Pointe |
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Homeschoolers
Health |
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Verona
Youth Ballet |
(A:11+,
X:4+)
Semiweekly technique classes required; includes barre, center and
variations. |
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(Grades
1-4)
Anatomy, physiology and nutrition of sports/dance; movement coaching
for injury prevention. |
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Meets
some Saturday pm's, ALL ballet students welcome. Perform in "Nutcracker"
at Hometown Holidays ($80/season).
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Schedule
Classes meet
Monday and Tuesday afternoons/evenings and Saturday mornings.
Private lessons,
coaching and choreography available by appointment.
Exact times
and tuition prices vary, so please email balletu@tds.net
for current information
Academic
Season: September-May, 36 weeks; 3-12 week trimesters
Summer
Session: June-August, 8 weeks
Summer
Dance Camps: July, One week or four weeks
School
Policies
- Students
enter through Laundromat, wait in lobby until called. Come dressed for
class covered in warm up clothing wearing street shoes. Students must
be on time and consistent in attendance.
- Youth
ballet students (ages 3-18) wear black leotard, pink tights, and pink
ballet slippers. Adults may choose colors. Comfortable exercise clothing
is needed for fitness and ballroom classes.
- All ballet
dancers' hair should be secured tightly off face with headband/clips,
and long hair attached to back of head. Please: NO PONYTAILS or unsecured
scrunchies.
- No jewelry,
including watches. All students should bring water bottle, tissues,
band-aids, hair styling and personal hygiene items.
- No food/drink
or coats, shoes/boots on studio floors.
- Class
observation is welcome during posted visitations and by appointment.
- Youth
ballet students (ages 3-18) perform in-class in loaned Ballet University
costumes during the last week of the academic season and with Verona
Youth Ballet's "Nutcracker."
- $25 NSF
Fee on unreturned checks.
- Classes
with insufficient enrollment are subject to cancellation.
Directions:
Westbound
- Exit Business 18-151 West (Verona Ave.), drive past three stoplights,
continue three blocks, then turn left into Verona Laundromat parking lot,
(three buildings west of Michael's Custard);
Eastbound
- Exit Business 18-151 east, continue until central boulevard ends, 2nd
driveway on the right. |
Alumni/Professional
Recruitment Students
Genevieve Custer, Principal Dancer, Oakland and Madison Ballets
Molly Daly, Principal Dancer, American Repertory Ballet;
Mark Grothman, 13 years with ABT under Baryshnikov
Holly Weiner, Soloist, Waves/Philadelphia
Leigh Zimmerman, Boston Ballet II, Guinness World Book Fouette Record
Holder, Principal Broadway
star roles, Calvin Klein and Jeep model and actress in Home Alone 2
Elizabeth
Pischel, 11. Summer scholarship to Switzerland dance camp
Becca
Shulla, 16. School of Pacific Northwest Ballet
All
photos depict Ms. Ristow's students and company
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