Pre-Ballet K-1 (Friday - Session II)

Pre-Ballet K-1 (Friday - Session II)

Children & Teens | This class is completed

Grades Kindergarten & 1st

11/6/2020-12/18/2020

4:00 PM-5:00 PM PDT on Fri

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$108.00 USD

A fun and creative introduction to ballet class. Students explore developmentally appropriate ballet vocabulary and movement skills through the dance concepts. Musicality, improvisation, skill development, and the fundamentals of choreography are taught with an emphasis on nurturing the creative voice of each student.

  • Dress for comfort and ease of movement. Dance clothes such as leotards, footless tights, sweatpants/shorts, leggings, t-shirts, dance skirts, etc. Hair should be pulled back from the face. Ballet shoes optional for Kindergarten, recommended for 1st Grade.
Sugawara, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Sugawara (she/her) is a creative dance educator supporting art communities that celebrate and value diversity and inclusion. She has a BA in Art History and Dance from UC Santa Cruz, advocating cross- disciplinary art studies in elementary and higher education. Elizabeth continued to study dance improvisation and performance at Copenhagen Contemporary School of Dance and then relocated to the PNW as a teaching artist in Early Childhood Education and Seattle Public Schools, joining the CDC faculty in 2019. As a Seattle-based dance maker and movement artist, Elizabeth continues to perform and support works that value community and the stories of women of color, working with Veronica Lee-Baik (The Three Yells), Maya Soto and Nico Tower (SOTO+TOWER), Alicia Mullikin, Au Collective and many others.