Ready to level up?
Ballet Lab with Sarahí was made for you. In a focused three-hour workshop, you'll work on the specific skills and details that turn an Absolute Beginner into a Beginner, and a Beginner into an Intermediate.
Unlike a regular drop-in class, Ballet Lab keeps class size small, so you get more personalized corrections and focused attention.
Drawing on years of teaching experience, studio director Sarahí has distilled the elements that take your dancing to the next level, and she's excited to share them in this new format.
Feel free to bring a notebook or whatever you’d like to take notes on; sections of the workshop will be delivered in a lecture style.
Ballet Lab I: Absolute Beginner → Beginner
Friday, August 21 | 6:00-9:00pm | $50
We'll dive deep into coordinating arms, head, and legs, and build your retention and ability to pick up more complex center combinations. Then we'll take the jumps you already know and start stringing them into combinations.
Ballet Lab II: Beginner → Intermediate
Friday, August 28 | 6:00-9:00pm | $50
This session tackles a crucial, often overlooked skill: transitions. Finding fluidity and clarity in your in-between steps is what turns shapes into dancing. We'll also work on more complex turn combinations, get you moving across the floor, and expand your allegro vocabulary.
Sarahí Cardenas
Originally from Saltillo, México. Sarahí started her dance training at the age of eleven. She learned the foundations of ballet at Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey. She also completed a year at The Rock School of Dance Education in Philadelphia, PA (USA) before graduating from high school. Since 2007, both the Ballet Metropolitano de Monterrey and Ballet de Monterrey included Sarahí in their corps de ballet. She gained professional experience dancing in many classical ballets like Swan Lake, Giselle, La Bayadere, Don Quixote and The Nutcracker, to name a few. Neoclassical works like Diving into the Lilacs by Yuri Possokhov, Bruch Violin Concerto by Clark Tippet and Symphony in C and Western Symphony by George Balanchine. Modern dance works include Desdemona in José Limon’s The Moors Pavane. She was fortunate to train with renowned teachers and perform both as a soloist and principal dancer. Sarahí joined Canada’s Ballet Jörgen for the 2015-2016 season where she further enriched her artistic repertoire and learned firsthand the importance of outreach and accessibility in dance. In September 2019, Sarahi had the opportunity to join The Canadian Opera Company’s ensemble as a dancer in their production of Rusalka, La Traviata in 2022 and Don Giovanni in 2024. Sarahi completed her 200hr yoga teacher training in 2020 and Progressing Ballet Technique Certificate in 2021. Sarahí is currently a part of the Faculty at George Brown College, York University and InStudio. Sarahí co-founded The Fifth Dance, a drop-in dance studio in Toronto in 2019. After founding The Fifth, she took on the responsibility of organizing and producing the summer intensive and its respective showings for the last 3 years. Notably, she orchestrated and managed all logistics for TISI, a summer intensive program that brings together over 30 youth dancers from Monterrey, Mexico, fostering cross-cultural exchange and artistic growth.