The dancer learns to participate.

At this preliminary level, children explore their environment and become aware of the use of their listening skills in the performance of their dance movements.

Nursery rhymes cleverly disguise the foundational beginnings of classical ballet technique and serve to entice beginning ballerinas as they become one with the music and activities.

Through the child’s imagination, they learn how to;

• Access their expressive natural movement with purpose and form
• Respond to verbal cues
• Use their body as an instrument to represent their understanding of the ideas suggested