Absolute Beginner Ballet Series I with Amelia Ehrhardt
This 8-week course is designed for dancers who have a basic understanding of ballet vocabulary and are ready to begin expanding their practice in a structured, supportive environment.
Series I focuses on laying essential technical foundations while moving at a slower, accessible pace that prioritizes clarity, alignment, and body awareness. This series emphasizes repetition and thoughtful progression, allowing dancers to build strength, coordination, and confidence while developing a strong relationship to classical ballet technique.
Course Details:
Duration: 8 weeks
Level: Beginner
Course Content:
Alignment: Establish proper posture and body placement, fundamental to ballet technique
Stretching & Strengthening: Improve flexibility by building the foundational strength that comes from understanding the proper muscles needed to activate and safely prepare the body for movement
Balance: Develop stability and control through introductory balance exercises
Full barre: Learn and practice fundamental barre exercises at a steady, approachable pace
Across the floor & supporting exercises: Enhance body awareness and technique through floor-based movement
Center work: Introduction to center exercises with a focus on coordination and confidence. Explore basic ballet combinations to support musicality and movement quality
Basic terminology: Learn and reinforce essential ballet vocabulary used in class
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 rest of the Series.
When: Sundays, September 12th - November 8th
Where: Main Studio at 366 Adelaide | Unit 120
Time: 12:15PM - 1:30PM
Full Series: $165+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