OPEN CLASSES
Adult Open Classes
Ballet Theatre of Phoenix offers wide array of dance classes each week to improve fitness, strength and poise. All classes are open to the public YEAR-ROUND, drop in only with no registration required. No prior dance experience necessary.
Please arrive 10 minutes early to pay before class.
Know Before You Go
Ballet
- $18 - Full Class
- $160 - 10 Class Card
- $10 - 10 Barre Portion
- $90 - Barre Portion Class Card
Dance For All
- $12 - PBT, Contemporary, Theatre Jazz, & Tap
- $100 - 10 Dance for All Class Card (cannot be used for ballet classes)
Introductory Ballet: For students who are interested in learning ballet movement and vocabulary, but have no prior ballet experience.
Beginner/Intermediate Ballet: For students who have knowledge of ballet vocabulary and movement.
Advanced Ballet: For students with a comprehensive ballet vocabulary and understanding of movement. Perfect for advanced levels of study, professional or retired professional dancers.
Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT): For students who want to build strength and stamina. This class helps to understand weight-placement, core control, and how to break down movement and unfold the layers to understand what muscles assist each movement.
Contemporary: For students to focus on fluid movement, while becoming friends with the floor. Our contemporary dance class fuses multiple dance genres including modern, jazz, and classical ballet to create an entirely new expression.
Theatre Jazz: For students to understand musicality and technique at a performance caliber. Digging deep to ground oneself in the roots of jazz, utilizing the whole body to tell a story in a safe and encouraging environment.
Tap: For students to learn the fundamentals of tap, technical basic steps, and how to progress them with speed. While also using the elements of musicality and body percussion to dance different styles.
See below as each class may have different shoes or clothes to wear:
Ballet: Comfortable athletic clothing, leotard and tights, ballet slippers or socks
Theatre Jazz: Comfortable athletic clothing, jazz shoes, character heels, or socks
Contemporary: Comfortable athletic clothing, socks or bare feet
PBT: Comfortable athletic clothing, bare feet
Tap: Comfortable athletic clothing, tap shoes
Schedule
Mondays
9:00 - 10:00am -
PBT | Lainie Seretis
10:00 - 11:30am -
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet | Jennifer Cafarella Betts
Tuesdays
10:30 - 12pm
Intermediate/Advance Ballet | Paola Hartley - ONLY JUNE 12th - 29th
6:30 - 8:00pm -
Intermediate Ballet | Lainie Seretis
Thursdays
9:00 - 10:15am -
Intro/Beginner Ballet | Jennifer Cafarella Betts
10:30 - 12:00pm -
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet | Ilir Shtylla
Fridays
10:00 - 11:30am -
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet | Lainie Seretis
12:00 - 12:45pm -
Sit or Stand Senior Ballet*
5:30 - 6:30pm -
Intermediate Theatre Jazz | Lainie Seretis
6:30 - 7:30pm -
All Level Contemporary | Ellen Sickenberger
6:30 - 7:45pm -
Beginner Teen/Adult Ballet | Lainie Seretis**
Saturdays
9:15 - 10:15am -
PBT | Lainie Seretis
10:30 - 12:00pm -
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet | Lainie Seretis
*Sit or Stand Ballet for Senior Classes are FREE to attend. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link. Please contact Jennifer Brauner at: seniorcenter@jfcsaz.org or 602-343-0192
**Ages 12 - 17 are welcome to attend this class as registered students.