Absolute Beginner Ballet Series II with Amelia Ehrhardt
Absolute Beginner Ballet Series II is a continuation of Series I and is designed for dancers who are ready to build on their initial introduction to ballet. This series maintains a supportive and accessible environment while moving at a slightly faster pace, allowing dancers to gain confidence in the vocabulary, structure, and concepts they have already learned.
Series II focuses on reinforcing foundational skills while encouraging greater independence within the class format. Dancers will work with more continuity between exercises, develop improved coordination and musical awareness, and begin to feel more at home in a ballet class setting. The goal of this series is to strengthen confidence and preparedness for a smooth transition into Beginner Ballet Series I.
Course Details:
Duration: 6 weeks
Level: Absolute Beginner
Completion of Absolute Beginner Ballet Series I or equivalent experience is recommended
Course Content:
Alignment: Reinforce basic alignment concepts with greater consistency and flow
Stretching & Strengthening: Build on foundational strength and flexibility to support longer and more connected movement sequences
Balance: Develop increased stability through slightly more challenging balance exercises
Full barre: Practice familiar barre exercises with improved continuity and a modest increase in pace
Across the floor & supporting exercises: Expand movement confidence and coordination through repeated patterns and simple progressions
Center work: Explore slightly longer and more connected center exercises to build confidence and spatial awareness
Basic terminology: Reinforce and revisit ballet vocabulary to support fluency, confidence, and readiness for the Beginner level
Please note that teachers of all series classes are encouraged to run their classes as progressive courses, regardless of the number of students dropping in.
All Series courses will be open for drop-ins during the first half of the course only. Please contact info@thefifthdance.com to commit to the remainder of the Series.
When: Sundays, November 15th - December 20th
Where: Main Studio at 366 Adelaide | Unit 120
Time: 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Full Series: $130+HST
About Amelia
Amelia Ehrhardt is a dancer, astrologer, and multidisciplinary artist in and from Toronto. Their work manifests as solo improvisation, group choreography, drawing, painting, and writing. Amelia's work is often concerned with deep dives into the western concert dance canon. Their work has been supported across Canada and internationally, including OFFTA (Montréal), SEAD (Austria), Mile Zero Dance (Edmonton), and local residencies at Harbourfront Centre and Toronto Dance Theatre. A dancer with two decades of performance experience, Amelia has appeared in works by Susie Burpee, Willi Dorner, Syrus Marcus Ware, Deanna Peters, Julia Sasso, Menaka Thakkar, and Suzy Lake, among others. Amelia was the Curator of Dancemakers Centre for Creation from 2015-2019. They were a 2017 danceWEB recipient and a 2016 Toronto Arts Council Leadership Lab fellow. Amelia holds a Masters in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto where they were an SSHRC recipient. Currently Amelia is preoccupied with teaching ballet and can be found at @weird_ballet / @amelia.np.e