Your first plié. Or your first in years.
Starting from zero or coming back after a break —
every step you master lands on your progress map. Like a game, except it's real.
Ballet for women — the ones starting from zero, and the ones coming back after years.
You start where you are
Your first plié ever, or your first in years. Everyone on the floor walks the same board — each from her own square.
Barre, then choreography
Half the hour is precise classical technique. The other half is a contemporary phrase, so the technique has somewhere to go.
Women only, a full room
A full room rather than a handful of people — it is livelier that way, and far easier to start when you are not the only beginner. Private lessons if you would rather begin alone.
Your record, kept
Every cleared skill, correction and recording lives in your student login. Progress you can re-read.
The second half of the hour is choreography. And choreography ends in front of a camera.
You learn it in class over a few weeks, then we shoot it like a film — on location or in a studio. These are frames from our sessions with Antonina.
One room in Warsaw, with a real ballet floor.
A real ballet floor, a full-length barre and window light. Classes at the weekend, alternating Saturdays and Sundays, with a weekday evening on the way.
See the schedule→Antonina
Classically trained, teaching contemporary. She corrects the ankle before the arabesque, works slowly and out loud, and has never once asked a student to apologise for her body.
Volak
An American choreographer and filmmaker. Volak teaches the second half of the hour — the contemporary phrase — and directs the films our students dance in. He believes a phrase you can feel beats an exercise you can count.