Pacific Ballet Academy

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Pacific Ballet Academy offers a full range of graded classes, from pre-ballet to pre-professional training. We provide a unique opportunity for students of all ages and abilities to study the traditions and discipline of Russian Ballet. Whether a student's goal is a career in dance or purely recreational exercise, our dedicated faculty offers personal attention and professional training to match each student's interests.

Our 20th Nutcracker season is almost here! The Performance Week schedule (which covers classes, rehearsals and performances scheduled for November 22 through November 28) is now available below and at the school. Remember, it is very important that students attend their remaining rehearsals, especially the Theater Dress Rehearsals!

Fall Term Information
Our 2010-2011 term class schedules and faculty roster are now online! You may also download any of the following documents:

Photographs of our Student Showcase 2010 performances are now available for online viewing and purchase by members of our school. The photographs are on a password-protected site; students and their families may pick up the password at our school.

Photographs from the following earlier performances are also available; ask for the passwords at school.

We remind you to drive slowly and carefully in our parking lots, and to park only in our lots on Wright Street (by Studio 1) and the strip alongside our building next to Studios 2 and 3. We ask parents and friends to enter our parking lots with great care and vigilance for the sake of our precious children. We also ask that you be considerate of our neighbors; we bring a lot of children and cars into their space. Finally, we ask that children, especially siblings of students, not play or go near the rocks in the front of our Studio 1 entrance. Our neighbors have had a window broken and we will have to pick up damages if this happens again. No playing in rocks, no rock throwing! Parents and friends, please help with this!
Adult and Teen Classes
We offer classes for adult and teen beginning and intermediate ballet students, and for adult and teen jazz students. For more information, please contact the school at (650) 969-4614.

We follow the philosophy of Danilova and Balanchine, who believed that the quality of ballet instruction was more important than the quantity. This philosophy is followed by some of the most selective schools in the United States, including the School of American Ballet in New York City. We encourage our students to have other interests in addition to ballet, knowing that not everyone plans a career in dance. We also provide daily classes for intermediate and advanced students who are very serious about their studies.

The syllabus used at our school is based on the Russian system of dance training, which is taught at most major professional schools. We also incorporate other styles of ballet into our classes to ensure that our students are able to adapt to different dance and choreographic techniques. Please visit our Curriculum page for details.

Approximately 250 students attend our school during the academic year. During the summer we offer an intensive ballet program to approximately 100 students.

Families new to our school should call or visit our ballet campus to obtain registration forms. These forms must be completed and returned to the school prior to admission. Pacific Ballet Academy reserves the right to determine the proper class level of all entering students, regardless of their prior training.

Ballet is a performing art, and we feel that participation in performances is an important part of our students' training. We provide two opportunities for performance experience each year at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts: in the late Fall we stage The Nutcracker and in the late Spring we stage our school recital, the Summer Showcase. For more information, please visit our Performances page.

As a special service to our students, we offer a monthly Wellness Clinic, where our students can meet with Chiropractor Dr. Rick Chaeff to discuss injuries, strengthening and stretching exercises, and proper nutrition. There is no charge for this service, and parents are encouraged to accompany their dancer to the clinic.