With its intrinsic beauty and disciplined technique, pointe dance continues to thrill spectators with stunning displays of balletic grace and strength. If you have yet to experience the wonder of ballet for yourself, beginner pointe dance classes present an amazing chance for you to do so! Beyond the principal techniques featured in pointe, you'll also learn how to conduct yourself with the class and character of a fully-fledged dancer.
By introducing highly targeted techniques into a range of simple training exercises, you will gradually learn how to increase your sensitivity to basic pointe dance choreographies. You should expect to fail the first few times you try these out on your own. However, with additional research and/or classes on pointe dance, you might start to feel more at home with some of the steps.
Why Choose Beginner Pointe Dance Classes?
Starting ballet pointe at a young age has a profound effect on your physical abilities as a dancer. You'll need to strengthen your feet and ankles a lot, which is good for general stability and balance. Plus, many dance movements require a high degree of bodily flexibility. The types of training you do to be a good dancer promote foot and ankle strength and flexibility, which are prerequisites for pointe work. It helps to be strong and flexible: strong dancers can bear the load; flexible dancers can spread it. This is a very simple explanation of how you can avoid injuring yourself and have a long career.
Personal injury aside, there is an artistic element to dance. The point of dancing is to convey an image or an emotion, or to tell a story: you need to move. Through physical movement, dancers can express their feelings about the music or narrative of a performance, and those feelings become an identifying style. Like a musician who works out or a writer who reads a lot, you'll do most of your moving in a controlled or scholarly environment (e.g., a dance/fitness/yoga studio or private lesson). In effect, your personal combination of time moving and time spent with others interacting with others is what teaches you how to be a better artist.
What is Pointe Dance?
Dancing on the tips of your toes: that�s what a lot of people think of when they think about ballet. And indeed pointe work�the technique of training a dancer to dance on the very tips of their toes, supported by specially designed pointe shoes�is a core part of classical ballet. The aesthetics of ballet take advantage of the look to help create an image of the dancer as nearly a creature of air and the dramatically poised positions the dancer can take, creating or enhancing moves to evoke a narrative or emotion.
As a technique, pointe appears to have begun in the early part of the 19th century, marking an evolution from earlier ballet techniques, part of a generally continuing trend to a lighter, more �ethereal,� and in any event more elevated, or up-in-the-air, look.
When can we attend?
2025 Timetable - Beginner Point classes begin on Mondays - 7:30-8:00pm
Reach out to the team today to enrol your child.