Free Class of the Month | September 10th

Our Free Class of the Month returns this September! Please join us for adult beginning ballet with Stoney Cook on Thursday, Sept. 10th from 7-8:15pm.

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Ballet classes are designed to expose the student to the grace and beauty of classical dance. Each class will start with a warm up and stretch at the barre before progressing to center floor work. Emphasis will be on the basic positions of the feet and arms as they relate to proper body alignment and balance. Ballet training gives a dancer the strength and control to execute any style of dance well.

Stoney Cook continues to be a student of Nanette Charisse whom he first met while working on his MFA degree at New York University/School of Arts. He also has had the pleasure of learning from such wonderful teachers as Finis Jhung, Larry Rhodes, Bobby Blankshine, Sam Kurkjian, Stuart Hodes, Andre Bernard, Lucas Hoving, Maggie Black, Phoebe Neville, Linda Tarney, Roxanne Rigoloso and Linda Miele among others. At Casco Bay Movers Studio he continues to have the pleasure of training under many of the fine instructors teaching here. Stoney’s choreographic works have been produced by organizations such as Dance Theater Workshop, American Dance Festival and locally by the Oxygen Debt and Ram Island Dance Company. In the realm of dance light design he has created works for Ballet Theater of Boston, Ballet New England, Ballet Theater Workshop, Festival Ballet along with many modern/jazz companies such as Casco Bay Movers and Rhythm Factor.