A gentle ballet class designed to rekindle your love of dance with a focus on posture, musicality, and coordination.
A gentle ballet class designed to rekindle your love of dance with a focus on posture, musicality, and coordination.
Ballet Basics is a gentle class designed to rekindle your love of ballet from an earlier life. An uplifting effect on your well being, aesthetic expression, posture and maturing with elegance and style.
Ballet Basics is a class designed to rekindle your love of ballet from an earlier life. An uplifting effect on your well being, aesthetic expression, posture and maturing with elegance and style
The class is the basic ballet structure - with barre-work, centre, then travelling...all being offered with reminders about posture, turnout etc, with a focus on musicality, coordination and appreciation of ballet as a form which can bring uplifting pleasure to the participant
"Mary-Jane’s patience and skill at sharing her knowledge as well as her tremendous enthusiasm for this beautiful dance form, has made every class so enjoyable. As an added bonus, I feel longer and leaner and, possibly for the first time in my life, am learning how to stand up straight! I would highly recommend Mary-Jane’s class."
"The best ever class! It's great to learn from someone who knows what they're doing ... it's taught me a love of dance."
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Free trials are available for this class. To book a free trial, click “Book now”. If you are under 18, you may need to email bookings@tapac.org.nz to complete your enrolment.
For more information, contact Mary-Jane at: maryjaneoreilly@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/Balletwithmaryjane or https://www.maryjaneoreillydance.nz/
Teaching artist
Mary-Jane O'Reilly QSM ARAD
Mary-Jane started learning ballet at 4 and became a professional ballet dancer in her late teens. She gained her Solo Seal at the National Ballet School in Wellington and won a highly coveted Royal Academy of Dance scholarship, so after a year with the New Zealand Ballet she attended the Royal Ballet School in the UK. After performing in Europe, Mary Jane returned to New Zealand to co-found the acclaimed Limbs Dance Company, for which she danced, choreographed and directed.
Currently, she continues to be an active producer and choreographer and recently presented a successful season of her contemporary ballet (as a love letter to Giselle Act 2) Ballet Noir - which was on at Q theatre in October 2023
The Royal Academy of Dance recently invited her to be the ambassador for their Silver Swans older learner ballet classes.
“My passion in teaching ballet is to be very specific in the technique, the aesthetic, the musicality of ballet. I also aim to celebrate the beauty of it and make it an enjoyable experience to learn or revisit this beautiful art form. ”
Contact: maryjaneoreilly@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/Balletwithmaryjane
You can view Mary-Jane's website here: maryjaneoreillydance.nz
