In this class, young dancers will explore the foundation of ballet technique. This class will include developmentally appropriate stretching, ballet positions, and movement exploration with a focus on the joy in moving with others. 

Ballet and Contemporary Ages 6-8 is for young dancers wanting to explore the basics of ballet and contemporary dance. This class will focus on spatial awareness, musicality, and joy in movement.

Ballet and Contemporary Ages 9-12 is for dancers wanting to explore the basics of ballet and contemporary dance. This class will focus on spatial awareness, weigh placement, musicality, and joy in movement.

Ballet 9-12 class aims to equally challenge and excite dancers with the opportunity to refine and build upon basic ballet curriculum at the barre, in the center, and across the floor. This class will focus on strengthening the body, exploring artistry within ballet technique, and will strive to encourage dancers to set personal goals and aim for individual growth, all while remembering what it is like to move our bodies and dance with other people in-person again – with much fun and learning to come!

Contemporary 9-12 is an exploratory class that will introduce and build on a variety of modern/contemporary movement practices to encourage students’ understanding of their bodies and the relationship to how and why they move.

This class will focus on a working knowledge of the basic vocabulary and basic concepts of contemporary dance technique. 

prior experience necessary 

Adult Ballet II takes beginning ballet steps and interprets them in more advanced ways. Warming up with the use of one hand on the barre, students will train rigorously, mastering the plié, quickly memorizing complicated battement tendu, battement degagé, rond de jambe à terre, and battement frappé patterns, and performing développés and grand battements in proper alignment. In the center, students use ballet body positions to perform battement tendu and complicated adagio combinations. Students will dance pirouette combinations with consecutive turns across the floor. Allegro work will challenge students with basic petit and grand allegro combinations. Adult Ballet II is a challenge for dance novices and any level of dancer wishing to perfect basics and build strength.

Contemporary Level I is Keshet’s beginning contemporary class, which includes an in-depth examination of the fundamentals of contemporary. This class will be structured with a center warmup and floorwork, followed by technique exercises and traveling exercises. The focus of this course is introducing the fundamentals and vocabulary of contemporary while building body memory, alignment, and strength. Contemporary Level 1 is perfect for novices or people wanting to focus on perfecting their technique.

This multigenerational class is a series of movement workshops in which dancers get to learn a new topic each week. This class ranges from Contemporary technique to Mindfulness to Site Specific dance as students explore the expertise of a variety of Keshet instructors. All levels of experience are welcome.

prior experience necessary 

This class is for intermediate-advanced dancers. With an emphasis on a fusion of Graham and release technique, this class will push dancers to explore their physical limitations while searching for joy in their own movement. Areas of focus will be on weight shifting, floor work, dynamic shifts in quality of movement and musicality. The first half of class will be spent warming up and reviewing technique, and the second half will be spent experimenting with choreography.

This series is inspired by the dance terminology of Contact Improvisation. CI is an open-ended exploration of the kinesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Sometimes wild and athletic, sometimes quiet and meditative, it is a form open to all bodies and enquiring minds. It is a dance of intimacy (Physical closeness) and expression that involves exploration from one’s body to the next by using fundamentals of sharing weight, consent, touch, being kinetically aware, and finding a point of contact between you and your partner(s).

Each week will begin with a short guided class warm-up with the intention to bring people into their bodies and the dance, and then begin exploring the dance terminology of Contact Improv. It is free play with balance! All levels of experience are welcome!