Creative Movement 1 & 2 - Ages 3-4

Creative Movement dance classes combine stories, music, games, and activities in a child-friendly setting, which helps students develop body awareness, rhythm, flexibility, coordination, and confidence while learning basic ballet vocabulary. These classes also incorporate tap for musicality and rhythm.

Pre-Ballet 1 & 2 - Ages 5-6

Pre-Ballet classes teach students beginning ballet steps, terminology, and the basics of dance, while continuing to foster creativity. These classes also incorporate tap for musicality and rhythm.

Level A*

Level A dance classes are for students age 7 and older and are designed around a structured classical ballet class. Level A builds basic ballet technique using the ballet barre and introduces a repertoire of ballet steps to provide the foundation of a solid dance education. These levels also include tap for musicality and rhythm.

Level B*

Level B dance classes are designed to develop students' technique, vocabulary, flexibility, and coordination to provide strong classical technique, proper body alignment, and overall strength and stamina.

Level C*

Level C dance classes continue to develop the students' mastery of the fundamental movement methods. Pointe work and Men's Technique are introduced and maintained in this level.

Level D*

Level D dance classes are geared toward developing individual progress in acquiring technique, strength and artistry.

Level E*

Level E dance classes are for advanced students, creating versatile dancers with the necessary technique, artistry and physical strength to continue their dance journey after high school.

*Placement in these levels is determined by ability and maturity of the dancers.

*Depending on enrollment in any given year we may break a letter level into numbered sub-levels as needed, i.e. A1, A2, etc,.")

PRE-POINTE

A full level-appropriate ballet technique schedule at Nittany Ballet is required in order to add a pre-pointe class. Students may advance to pre-pointe with instructor's recommendation only.

POINTE

A full level-appropriate ballet technique schedule at Nittany Ballet is required in order to add a pointe class. Students may advance to pointe with instructor's recommendation only.

Other Incorporated Disciplines

Nittany Ballet offers classes to student in various disciplines including jazz, modern, and contemporary dance. For younger dancers, we offer a “styles” class that will touch upon all of the disciplines listed above. For our more advanced and older dancers, we will explore and practice proper jazz technique, the exploration of multiple modern dance techniques, as well as a deep dive into contemporary dance.