Ballet Ariel School
The Ballet Ariel School offers excellence in classical ballet training for children age 5 and up. The student curriculum is based on the teachings of the Italian master Enrico Cecchetti. Cecchetti was a great teacher who lived from 1850-1928. His most famous student was Anna Pavlova, but he trained many great dancers in Russia, and later when he was the ballet master of the Ballet Russes, and in his studio in London. In London he trained Margaret Craske who became the ballet mistress for American Ballet Theatre in 1947. She was influential in preserving and teaching Cecchetti technique in the United States. Larry Boyette arrived in Denver from American Ballet Theatre in 1959 to direct the Ballet Arts Center. Mr. Boyette studied Cecchetti technique with Margaret Craske and continued the Cecchetti legacy in Denver for 45 years. The Ballet Ariel school director Ilena Norton and many of the faculty studied with Mr. Boyette and is preserving the Cecchetti legacy for new generations of students.
The faculty at the Ballet Ariel School set high standards for the quality of the training and advancement in the curriculum to the professional level. Our school encourages students of diverse backgrounds and interests to study ballet. We believe that students benefit in their physical, artistic, and intellectual development from the discipline of the ballet art. We also provide opportunities for performance so students may experience the excitement of the theatre. Students perform in the Nutcracker and the annual school recital. Advanced students may dance in the performing company. Students from our school have been accepted to the prestigious American Ballet Theatre summer program for the past 3 years.
"Thank you for all you do to make Ballet Ariel a first class operation"
— Netty Coniglio
"Ballet Ariel is much more than a ballet company and school. It is a community.
One that is full of wonderful people doing wonderful things."
— Stanford Gnagy
Faculty
To learn more about our faculty, please click here.
Ballet Ariel School Levels
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Level
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Age
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Class Description
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Price
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Level 1
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age 5-7
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one 60-minute class per week
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$50 per
4 week session |
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Level 2
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age 7-9
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two 75-minute classes per week
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$90 per
4 week session |
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Level 3
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age 9-11
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three 90-minute classes per week
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$120 per
4 week session |
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Level 3 |
age 11-12
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three classes per week and two beg./int. pointe classes per week
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$135 per
4 week session |
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Level 4
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age 13
and up |
four classes per week and two advanced pointe classes with pas de deux and variations per week
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$175 per
4 week session |
Girls are required to wear pink tights, black leotards, and pink leather ballet slippers. Beginning students aged 8-10 may enroll in Level 2. Level 4 and company classes are open to advanced adult students. Single classes are $14. One hour adult beginning ballet class is $50 for a four week session.
Ballet Ariel Company and School • 75 South Cherokee Street, Denver, CO 80223 • 303-282-9828
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