Pre-Ballet


Mondays 5:30-6:15 pm*


*No class on Indigenous Peoples’ Day (October 12). Makeup class Monday, November 16.


Pre-Ballet focuses on the fundamentals of ballet technique. The class emphasizes proper placement, vocabulary, etiquette, and may include ballet-based storytelling through movement.

Kelly McCarty

Kelly McCarty

About the Instsructor

Kelly McCarty is a multi-hyphenate artist. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Western Carolina University and is currently getting their masters in Mental Health Counseling specializing in Child & Adolescence at Northwestern University. They began training in dance during high school and eventually went on to choreograph featured performances with her peers in undergrad. She has served as a dance captain, dance tutor, and choreographer throughout the years in her musical theater career. They have trained in Movement to Music, a therapeutic movement style, with Dustin Whitehead at WCU. Kelly spent the last 5 years in NYC as a youth running coach for children with trauma, a rock climbing coach for ages 5-18 at The Cliffs in Harlem and Movement Climbing Gym Harlem, and as a choreographer, director, and music director with Brooklyn Acting Lab’s youth programs.

Dance is a pure form of freedom and is meant to be experienced with pure joy and flow of emotions. Mental health is extremely important in movement teaching, especially with youth.

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Questions? Please email [email protected].