Ballet for Figure Skaters’ Online Mini Courses
About the Approach
Based on the Vaganova teaching method, Ballet for Figure Skaters is a series of intensive courses for figure skating coaches and ballet teachers who wish to gain a strong, working knowledge of ballet training at its finest and understand how it applies to figure skaters.
These coach’s courses are true pedagogical courses of study based on the Russian teaching methodology of classical ballet training. Ballet for Figure Skaters teaches coaches how to effectively train their skaters through slow, progressive work to improve both technically and artistically, without injury, “from the inside out.”
Ballet for Figure Skaters is taught by Annette Thomas; she has additional information for her programming on the Ballet for Figure Skaters website.
Custom Online Mini-Courses
This course offers a select variety of private, individually specialized, Mini-Courses (3 – 90 minute lessons) guaranteed to take your coaching/teaching abilities to the next level. As with my 16-week Certification Course, these mini-courses will be conducted LIVE one on one instruction through video chat.
Available Mini Courses:
This level is the culmination of the Preliminary Level and gives you a Certification of Completion to teach the full Beginning Level Ballet for Figure Skaters Program, which includes:
- Dance Based Stretching and Strengthening for injury prevention
- Introduction to Music Theory
- Pedagogy Basics for Coaches
- Fundamentals of Vaganova Based Floor-Barre and Injury Prevention Basics
- How to teach a “skates-on” off-ice class
- Classical Choreography Basics
- Introduction to Classical Ballet Pedagogy
ALL options includea digital copy of Annette’s “Fundamentals of Alignment and Classical Movement for Figure Skaters” book
Questions? Email us at info@americanicetheatre.org.