This workshop is for curious people interested in unpacking their relationship to RIGOR within ballet, whether they are actively dancing, not dancing, mostly teaching, primarily practicing a different dance form, or anything in between. What does a “good”, “successful”, or “productive” ballet class look like and feel like? Where do we source our energy to train and how can we adjust the dials of our motivation as needed due to our circumstance, schedule, or physical health? The workshop will consist of facilitated discussion, guided reflection, some journaling, a warm up movement designed to make the body feel warm, loose, and joyful, and standing center ballet movement with a focus on expanding our curiosity and sensitivity within familiar steps.

This workshop is for you...

If you’ve ever felt guilty for not going to “enough” ballet class

If you remember physically or emotionally feeling a particular way about ballet and are chasing that feeling

If you like thinking about the way social factors affect your ballet class experience

If you teach ballet to students, and sometimes feel conflicted about how to pass on the form positively, effectively, and responsibly