WHEN Gelsey Kirkland is not teaching a ballet class, you get the feeling that a gust of wind could scoop her up and blow her away.
DelaCerna allowed Copeland to go to the club after school until the workday ended and Bradley, a former working dancer with companies in San Diego, Virginia and Kentucky, taught a free ballet class there once a week.
When teaching an introductory ballet class, cover the basic ballet positions and other fundamental movements, such as plie, tendu, jete, releve and retire.
She performed with the Houston Ballet in her home state from 1983 to 2006, and now teaches at a ballet academy.
It may not be your favorite dance style, but ballet teaches a body discipline that will serve you well throughout your life.
She also teaches a fitness class that incorporates ballet techniques at Flywheel Sports, and she teaches dance at Cambridge International Preschool, both in Atlanta.
She would grow a beautiful garden on the ashes of the factory, teach cardio ballet in more and more places, build a modest cardio-ballet empire.
Nearly 50 years later, after dancing in Lar Lubovitch's beautiful work in the 1970s, I'm associate artistic director at Berkeley Ballet Theater, sometimes assist Mark Morris at San Francisco Ballet and teach ballet at University of California, Berkeley.
In a studio next door, Valentina Kozlova, a former principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and New York City Ballet, taught a class of older children.
She later became a massage therapist but continued to study and teach ballet at Pizazz, a studio in Glen Cove, until about two years ago.
