Welcome to Dance Today! Here is this week's Dance Today to give you a glimpse of what our dancers are working on in class. You can even ask them to show you at home!

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me directly at [email protected] or on my cell at 612-267-1766.

It's a great day for dancing at YWCA!

 

Sincerely,
Ann Williams
Ballare Teatro Performing Arts Center

 

Dance Today

Creative Movement 

Dear Dancers and Families,

Each week the dancers have "spots to sit" in a circle. 

These are blue, foam rectangles. Today we used them as

a prop to help us with our brain dance!

This week's dance concept: over/under.

We used the boat in the large muscle room as a platform to 

climb "over" and we made a tent shape with the floor mats to crawl

"under". We moved "over" in one segment of music and "under" on a 

contrasting music segment.

We did a rhyming dance, but next week we will learn a dance

to music from the nutcracker.

We ended our class by practicing bowing and then clapping.

In ballet classes this is called "reverence."

Happy December!

-Miss Siri

Meet your instructor - 

Siri Drontle

Siri Drontle began dancing as a teenager at the Saint Anthony Park School of Dance. She began  training in the Russian method of ballet, as well as jazz , character and sacred dance under the instruction of Wilor Bluege and Gabriela Komleva. She holds a bachelors degree in Biblical Studies from the Lutheran Bible Institute of Seattle and a Master's of Education from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Siri has performed with the Saint Paul City Ballet, the Continental Ballet and the Omaha Dance Project. Siri has taught the joy of dance to toddlers through adults since 1995, with an emphasis on preschool teaching and beginning levels.  She currently teaches at several Twin Cities dance schools. She lives in St. Paul with her husband and daughter. This is her first year with Ballare Teatro.