East Tennessee Ballet Academy
A Classical Ballet program for the child new to ballet through the pre-professional.
Modern, Contemporary, Creative Movement, Tap, Hip Hop
Due to Covid-19 all class sizes are limited.
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CREATIVE MOVEMENT
Brad Parquette, Instructor
Thursdays 4:00-5:00 Elizabethton
Creative Movement/ Intro to Modern focuses on using the body as a means of expression. Students will explore the use of tempo, level. shape, weight, pathways of travel and energy while developing spatial awareness, musicality and abstract movement through vivid imagery and games.
CONTEMPORARY/MODERN
Brad Parquette, Instructor
Thursday's 7:00-8:00 Johnson City Studio
Students will focus on breath, skeletal alignment, joint articulation. muscle relaxation, and the use of gravity and momentum to facilitate efficient movement.
Girls - Leotard with solid colored long sleeve shirt, black footless tights or leggings. bare feet
Boys - Black sleeve solid colored shirt, black leggings or sweatpants, bare feet
Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT)
Cynthia Bernshausen, Instructor
Progressing Ballet Technique is a program developed by Marie Walton-Mahon to help students advance in all dance forms by training muscle memory. PBT focuses on core stability, weight placement and alignment. Progressing Ballet Technique classes are available to ages 7 years through Adult.
TAP in Tempo
Grace Roberts, Instructor
Tap in Tempo classes are designed to develop rhythm, good listening skills, proper posture and coordination, students will love hearing their feet sing and dancing to familiar songs.
TAP students will be introduced to solid basic level of techniques (shuffles. flaps, cramp rolls, Irish, shuffle ball change, etc.) and basic fundamental music skills are introduced as well. Students will learn unique combinations using these tap fundamentals progressing into intermediate and advanced tap.