• Announcements: Registration Open for Holiday & New Year's Resolution Intensives, Halloween Modified Schedule, Observation Week
• Performances: Fall Feature, Coppelia Family Pre-Sale Coming Soon, First Friday Art Walks
• Healthy Dancer: Children's Hospital Articles—Supplements in Sports & Dry Needling
Registration Open for Holiday & New Year's Resolution Intensives
Colorado Ballet Academy is excited to announce the dates for our upcoming mini-intensives to help dancers stay in shape over the holiday break. Intensives are open to students in Levels 3 – Pre-Professional (or ages 9+ by placement). Students may sign up for the session or register by day.
Students outside of Colorado Ballet Academy are welcome and encouraged to register for these intensives. Please contact the Academy for placement at academy@coloradoballet.org.
Registration information & pricing is now available online!
Holiday Four-Day Intensive
December 16-19, 2019
Keep in shape for the holidays with four days of favorite classes! These concentrated classes are designed to help students maintain all they have accomplished this semester. Students will participate in Ballet Technique, Jumps and Turns, Pre-Pointe, Pointe, Variations, Modern, Jazz and Contemporary classes each day to help them relax before diving into their final exams and holiday fun!
New Years Resolution Three-Day Intensive
January 2-4, 2020
Start the New Year off on a good foot by getting back in shape with our New Year’s Resolution three-day intensive! This intensive is designed to give students a leg up on their technique for the year. Classes in Ballet Technique, Jumps and Turns, Stretch and Conditioning, Pre-Pointe, Pointe, Variations, and Contemporary will focus on building strength, stamina and proper placement for the start of a healthy and successful year.
Halloween Modified Schedule
We understand that Halloween is a holiday that is celebrated in many ways and we would like to be able to accommodate all students and families on this special day. Participation in classes this day is optional. Festive Halloween-wear is permitted, as long as one can move and dance in it! Please see the modified schedule below and contact the office if you have any questions.
Modified Class Schedule for Thursday, October 31
Students who don’t attend their regularly scheduled class on October 31 may make up this class by taking any class in their level from October 28 - November 2. Please make sure you attend your make up class during this week as students will not be permitted to make up the Halloween class after this window.
• Pre-Professional Division | Class as usual
• Pre-Ballet 1, Ballet 1, Ballet 2B | Classes will be held on Thursday, October 31
• 3/4 Jazz | 4:30-5:30 Studio 5
• 3A, 3D | 5:30-7:00 combined Technique Studio 2
• Level 4A & 4B | 5:30-7:00 combined Technique Studio 5
• Intermediate Tap | 7:30-8:30 (as usual)
• Level 6, 7 | 4:30-6:00 Character/Contemporary (as usual); 6:00-7:30 Combined Level 6/7 technique in Studio 3
• Young Men’s Class | Cancelled
Observation Week
Please join us November 18 - 23 for Observation Week! You’re invited to class to see first-hand what students are learning. We hope you’re able to make it. Please visit our website for observation times.
Please note: Photos and video recording are permitted and encouraged during observation class.
Fall Feature 2019
Colorado Ballet's Black Box Theater
October 25, 2019 | 6:00PM & 7:30PM
October 26, 2019 | 11:30AM
Our 2019 Fall Feature will showcase Colorado Ballet Academy Levels 5-7 performing excerpts from Coppelia, as well as the Pre-Professional Division performing classical repertoire staged by Colorado Ballet Mistress Maria Mosina.
Due to the intimate size of the theater, tickets are limited to four per household.
Family Pre-Sale for Coppelia Coming Soon
May 23, 2020 | 1:00PM & 6:00PM
Colorado Ballet Academy will present the full-length ballet, Coppelia this spring. All students enrolled in Levels 1 through Pre-Professional Division will perform on May 23, 2020 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Colorado Ballet Academy is thrilled to be able to teach the art of ballet to our students through this classical masterpiece and perform in Denver’s most treasured theater!
First Friday Art Walk
First Friday Art Walks are the signature event of Denver's Art District on Santa Fe. The District comes alive as thousands descend upon Santa Fe Drive year-round, rain or shine, for the First Friday Art Walks from 5:30-9:30pm.
As a part of First Fridays, Colorado Ballet Academy will host free performances at Colorado Ballet's Armstrong Center for Dance on the following dates: November 1, December 6 and February 7. Colorado Ballet Academy dancers will perform approximately three 10-15 minute programs, 20-30 minutes apart throughout the evening. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, visit the Art District on Santa Fe website.
Children's Hospital Colorado Articles
Are Supplements Safe?
It’s a billion-dollar business because it knows what its audience wants: to be stronger, better, faster, leaner. But lack of regulation makes it hard for everyone (experts included) to know if a supplement is safe for a young athlete.
What's the Deal with Dry Needling?
Trigger points in the muscles cause pain. Deep tissue massage can help relax the muscle and relieve tension. Another thing that can help: needles. It sounds unpleasant—but it works.
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