2024-2025 Classes Now Registering
September 9, 2024 - May 31, 2025
KIDS CLASS ATTIRE
Level assigned color leotard/skirt. Pink or flesh color tights with matching ballet Slippers. Boys can wear black leggings, white fitted T-shirt and black ballet slippers.
Creative Core
Ages 6mo-4yrs
Toddler Time
An introduction to movement and music with a caregiver. Dance games and music to help build independence and body awareness.
Ages 3-5
Creative Core Ballet 1
Combines core building exercises, basic ballet principles with music, imagination and spatial awareness. Students learn dance patterns, ideas of rotation and basic ballet terms, while building an understanding of class structure. Ballet uniform required.
Ages 3-6
Creative Core Ballet 2
A more advanced class that focuses on the deeper disciplines of using the ballet vocabulary to build on longer phrases and to enhance memory. Ballet uniform required. Recommended after 1 or 2 years of CC1.
Ages 4-8
Pre-Ballet 1 & 2
A deeper delve into ballet fundamentals for children who have completed creative core levels 1 and 2. Rotation and turn out specific balances with more advanced ballet concepts will be taught.
Foundations
Ages 6-8
Foundations Ballet 1
This 60 min class will build Ballet Foundations with adding in contemporary ballet basics. Students will develop their ballet skills, stretching and flexibility and moving their entire bodies through space with small jumps, mid level jumps and traveling movements. Designed to be incorporated with two other weekly classes. Ballet uniform required. Need to have completed Creative Core and Pre-Ballet Programs to join class.
Ages 7-10
Foundations Ballet 2
Successful completion of Foundations 1. Foundations 2 students will increase strength and awareness of turnout, petite allegro, extensions and begin pirouettes. Must be enrolled in at least 2 ballet classes.
Ages 9-13
Foundations Ballet 3
Successful completion of foundations 2. Foundations 3 students will build more arm coordination, increase vocabulary with petite allegro and grand allegro for gaining more leg and core strength. Must be enrolled in 2 Ballet classes and one elective class.
Age 7+
Performance Team
Audition Required
Must be enrolled in 2 ballet classes, 1 elective Dance class (Tap, Contemporary or KPop), and rehearsal class. This team will be the leads for Nutcracker and Spring Showcase. This team will have several group dances they will rehearse Tuesdays during the year to perform at community events. Must take at least 2 Ballet classes, 1 elective class and 1 performance team class.
Tap / Jazz / Contemporary
Ages 4-7
Kids Tap/Jazz
Class will focus on moving and isolating hips, ribs cage and head to stay on beat with the music. A focus will be on stretching, big leg movements and jumping. The last half of class will be with tap shoes for students to learn rhythm and timing.
Ages 6-8
Contemporary Jazz
Fun movement based class exploring various planes and heights with dance. Students will learn to make round shapes and circular movements with their bodies while holding their balance. Isolating different body parts while staying on beat with the music will be a skill they learn.
Ages 6-12
Kids Tap
Rhythm tap will focus on musicality and staying to the beat with your feet. This class will engage the mind to control the feet to make organized sound with music. No uniform required.
Children/Teen 2024-25 Schedule
September 9, 2024 - May 31, 2025
*Foundations 1 - Must have completed Creative Core and/or Pre-Ballet
**Foundations 2 & 3 - Two classes per week required. Must have completed Foundations 1 and/or invited. Foundations 3 must also take a Dance elective.
*** Pre-Ballet 1 & 2 - Must have completed Creative Core
For questions about your child's level placement for 2024-2025 classes, please email SunMi at sunmi@balletsunmi.com
**Trial Classes are offered at $25 per class rate, maximum 2 trial classes in a 1 month period.
Please send an email to hello@balletsunmi.com to set up!
2024 - 2025 Fall/Spring Pricing*
You may choose to pay tuition monthly, bi-annually or yearly.
CC payments have a processing fee that the Ballet SUNMI absorbs for our families and students.
4.5+ hours weekly gives you unlimited class access.
* To determine your price, add up the total hours of the classes you wish to sign up for and find the corresponding price in the table above.
A one-time registration fee of $95 will be be added, which includes class uniform.
Each additional child will have a registration fee of $70.
We believe that everyone should have access to the arts, so if the cost is of concern, please contact us at info@balletsunmi.com to work something out. We can create alternative payment plans or discuss need-based tuition assistance