How Do You Teach Beginning Ballet Classes?
Teaching beginning ballet is a fascinating experience. Most beginning ballet classes start with children ages 3-5. During this initial training, their sporadic play and uninhibited movements start to take shape in to the beautiful art form of ballet. This is a guide to a beginning ballet class. Start with the students seated in a circle on the floor. Warm up their toes by pointing them up and down. While still seated, have students reach out and touch their toes, lay all the way back stretched out then sit back up with their arms over their heads. Finish the warm up with each student skipping around the circle. Arrange students at the barre. Do basic barre exercises in first and second position. Have students demi plie twice and grande plie once. Repeat twice then switch sides. Do with tendus, two tendus with a grand battement. Assign students a special place in the center of the floor. Stars or other painted symbols in two staggered rows work well. To help them remember their places,
