Ballet 2 - Guest instructor

This one-off class gives you an opportunity to try one Ballet 2 class before you register for the whole series that follows.

Ballet 2 Information:
Improve your fitness, strength, and flexibility with adult ballet in a fun, supportive, and community-focused setting—no tutu required! Whether you're brand new, returning after a break, or looking for a local alternative to city studios with city parking, we have a class for you! With multiple levels and schedules, our professionally trained instructors help you build technique, prevent injury, and enjoy the many physical and mental benefits of ballet. You will also get the opportunity to build community and friendships in a healthy and welcoming environment.
Ballet 2 Specifics:
This intermediate-level class is perfect for dancers with experience in both barre and basic center work (such as balancé, pas de bourrée, piqué, basic pirouettes, and small jumps). You will have completed Ballet 1 to take this class. Build on your foundation with more complex steps, varied arm positions, and challenging combinations designed to improve strength, coordination, and artistry. Receive personal corrections to help you improve your technique and prevent injury. Ideal for adults and teens returning to ballet or looking to refine skills in a supportive, noncompetitive environment. Join in person, online via Zoom, or mix and match! Questions? Contact the instructor at kabirkner2020@gmail.com.
Why take ballet? Here are some of our favorite benefits:
• Increased balance, strength, mobility, coordination, and flexibility
• Improve cardio, core strength and posture/alignment
• Reduce risk of Alzheimer's and dementia
• Stress reduction
• Injury and pain prevention
• “Putting your hand on the barre makes the rest of the world melt away”, also known as escape and you time!
• Perfect for helping you keep an active (and social) lifestyle!

Meet our guest instructor, Hannah Johnson:
I’m Hannah. Though primarily a runner these days, I started as a professional ballet dancer and have dabbled in all forms of activity from yoga to kickboxing. Teaching dance will always hold a special place in my heart - I'm grateful to be able to continue sharing my first love (ballet) with students of all ages! I have a strong passion for mental health, physical health & fitness, and overall wellness in addition to helping others. I am also a huge animal lover and am particularly obsessed with cats!

Kaethe Birkner

Instructor

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Kaethe is a professional ballet dancer and is certified in Pilates through Balanced Body. She has been teaching ballet, Pilates and stretching group classes for ten years has been doing personal training for eight years. Kaethe’s love of ballet came first, when she was only two years old, and her love of Pilates followed when she was still a ballet student. Now, she uses both her ballet and Pilates knowledge in all her teaching. Having personally suffered a number of injuries and spent many hours in physical therapy over the years, Kaethe also incorporates her knowledge of physical therapy into her teaching style. Her specialties included a focus on proper technique, injury prevention, and alignment. Every class is built around the people in her class that day and their individual and group needs. She believes that individual corrections are key to making sure each student gets the most out of every workout and every exercise. In addition, when ok with the student, she uses hands-on corrections to help them learn how to engage not only the big muscles of their bodies but also the little, harder to activate muscles. Kaethe’s teaching goals are to provide her students with a fun class and full-body workouts that focus on proper technique, alignment, and injury prevention.