Classes | Karilena Pointe - Ballet and Movement

Open Ballet Levels

Beginner Ballet (pointe shoes optional)

This inclusive, beginner-friendly class is designed for students who are ready to transition to pointe work but prefer a manageable pace without high-level technical pressure. Following a standard beginner curriculum, the session happily mingles students in both flat shoes and pointe shoes, offering a supportive environment to build foundational strength and confidence at your own comfort level.

Beginner to Intermediate Ballet

This level is designed for adults who have completed at least one year of foundational ballet training and are comfortable with basic ballet terminology. Students should be able to follow fundamental barre work and simple centre combinations with confidence. The focus is to build strength, reinforce technical precision, deepen musicality, and prepare for the next level.

Intermediate Ballet

Intermediate Ballet is designed for dancers who have moved beyond the fundamentals and are ready to refine their technique while increasing physical complexity. At this stage, the focus shifts from learning what the steps are to mastering how they are executed, prioritising fluidity, precision, and musicality.

Intermediate to Advanced Ballet

This level continues the Beginner to Intermediate pathway for dancers with a solid technical foundation and experience in complex barre and centre work, including turns, adagio, and allegro. Training emphasises longer connected sequences, directional changes, musical nuance, dynamic contrast, and expressive performance quality.

Advanced Ballet (Level 3)

This professional-track course is designed for elite dancers with at least five years of rigorous ballet experience and a comprehensive command of classical technique. The class moves at a high-intensity pace, focusing on complex combinations, advanced musicality, professional stamina, intricate centre work, multi-rotation turns, and grand allegro.

Gentle & Beginner

60 minsBeginner

Introductory Ballet

Our Introduction to Ballet course is designed specifically for absolute beginners, creating a welcoming, non-judgmental environment where you can explore the art of dance at your own pace. Featuring the Senior Swans syllabus, this thoughtful and progressive curriculum makes foundational technique accessible, gentle on the body, and rewarding at any age or experience level.

60 minsBeginner

Introductory to Absolute Beginner Ballet

This class is designed for those with zero experience or within their first year of training who want to solidify the basics. It establishes alignment and posture from day one, creating a roadmap toward beginner and intermediate levels in a warm, non-judgmental environment where every question is welcomed.

60 minsBeginner

Ballet Initiation Course

This course is designed for absolute beginners who want a calm, accessible beginning to ballet. The Senior Swans syllabus supports foundational technique with a progressive approach that is gentle on the body and rewarding regardless of age or previous experience.

60 minsOver 50s

Senior Swans

Senior Swans is designed for the over-50s community and proves it is never too late to embrace the beauty of dance. This joint-friendly classical ballet approach focuses on the Cecchetti method, modifying movement for mature bodies while building functional strength, balance, flexibility, and artistic expression.

Sterling Ballet

Sterling Ballet is a sanctuary for those who believe movement grows more beautiful with time. Designed for the 60+ community, it focuses on gentle, soothing movement for joint health, balance, and postural alignment, with each class celebrating what your body can achieve today.

Pointe Pathway

Pre-Pointe Strengthening

This one-hour class is designed for adult students preparing to explore pointe work, offering the essential conditioning needed before stepping into pointe shoes. It focuses on targeted exercises for feet, ankles, legs, core, and posture, guiding dancers toward the readiness, strength, and clean alignment required for safe progression.

Absolute Beginner Pointe

This class is designed for dancers beginning pointe or revisiting the basics in a supportive, low-pressure environment. The focus is foundational strength, correct alignment, ankle stability, and foot articulation, with most work at the barre and simple centre exercises to build balance and confidence.

45-60 minsPointe

Pointe Technique Open

This open-level pointe class supports both beginners and more advanced dancers. Barre exercises build strength, stability, and confidence, while centre work progresses to more challenging combinations with safe adjustments for newer dancers. A Pre-Pointe Assessment Certificate is mandatory for all attendees.

Pointe Work Lab

The Ballet Movement Lab unpacks the hidden mechanics of ballet technique: posture, alignment, foot articulation, and coordination. The class turns uncertainty into clarity and effort into fluidity, helping adult dancers feel informed, capable, and connected to their movement.

60 minsRAD Pointe

RAD Pointe Work Foundation and Technique

This class is designed for adult dancers at Advanced Foundation level and above who want to align pointe proficiency with syllabus goals. Focused on Advanced 1 and Advanced 2 demands, it builds the strength, stability, precision, and artistry required for RAD exam work.

Syllabus and Method

90 minsVaganova

Vaganova Ballet Beginner

The Vaganova Method offers a rigorous approach to ballet, emphasising academic training, clean alignment, and technical precision. Rooted in the classical Russian tradition, it develops strength, control, expressive port de bras, fluid épaulement, musical interpretation, and harmonious coordination between upper and lower body.

RAD Intermediate Foundation (Beginner Level)

This RAD Intermediate Foundation class serves as a bridge to vocational training, equivalent to a Beginner to Level 1 Open Ballet level. The syllabus-based course focuses on a fixed curriculum to refine technical precision and artistry, with barre, centre work, and an optional bonus section for variations and pointe work.

RAD Intermediate Foundation (IF)

The RAD Intermediate Foundation exam offers adult students a rewarding professional benchmark through a structured, globally recognised syllabus. It is the first step into the Royal Academy of Dance Vocational Graded syllabus, building classical alignment, pointe strength, musicality, and artistic expression.

RAD Advanced Foundation

RAD Advanced Foundation is a transition between intermediate training and Advanced 1 and 2. It requires sophisticated technical precision, stamina, épaulement, intricate footwork, sustained adage, varied pirouette sequences, allegro, pointe work, and the ability to perform unseen free enchaînement with musicality.

Add Ons

Add OnRepertoire

Add-on Repertoire

A focused add-on class for dancers wanting extra time with ballet repertoire, performance detail, musicality, and coaching beyond their regular technique class.

Add-on Pointe

A pointe-focused add-on for dancers who want additional time to strengthen pointe technique, refine alignment, and build confidence alongside their regular ballet training.

Dance Classes

60 minsContemporary

Contemporary Dance & Choreography

Step beyond technique and dive into the artistry of storytelling through movement. This class is for dancers who want to go beyond learning steps and understand the how and why behind contemporary dance. Each session combines fresh original choreography with creative process work, including improvisation, weight shifting, and spatial awareness, helping dancers translate emotions and ideas into physical language.

Latin Fusion

Latin Fusion is a beginner-friendly class exploring a variety of Latin rhythms in an open and welcoming environment. The focus is on enjoying movement, connecting with music, and developing fluidity through both technique and Latin energy. Ballet and jazz elements are incorporated to condition the body and build a strong technical foundation for dynamic Latin movement.

Add OnRepertoire

Add-on Repertoire

A focused add-on class for dancers wanting extra time with repertoire, performance detail, musicality, and coaching beyond their regular technique class.

Movement Classes

60 minsFloor & Barre

Floor & Barre (On Demand)

Floor & Barre uses a two-step approach to build a smarter, safer, more resilient body. Floor work uses the ground as a tactile guide to isolate muscle groups, correct pelvic alignment, and feel the work without tension. Barre work then applies that refined awareness to traditional exercises with precision rather than habit.

45 minsConditioning

Kalirena Conditioning-Balletiks

Balletiks is a ballet fitness program designed to strengthen and tone muscles through repetitive ballet-based movements. Suitable for everyone regardless of experience or fitness level, it combines the elegance of ballet with effective fitness training to build strength, balance, and flexibility in a supportive environment.

45 minsConditioning

Kalirena Elite Conditioning-Balletiks

Balletiks strengthens and tones through ballet-based movement, with full-body sessions for strength and slower-paced mobility work for flexibility and length. It blends ballet elegance with fitness training to support strength, balance, and flexibility.

60 minsBody Care

Bio-Sculpt of Grace-- Face, Bones and Muscles

This full-body ritual is designed to build a resilient physique while softening the physical markers of stress. It combines fascial release, low-impact functional strength, targeted face yoga, and diaphragmatic breathing so students leave stronger, refreshed, and moving with greater fluidity.

Performance Classes

120 minsPerformance

Kalirena Character Dancer Performance Troupe

Five classes of choreography and rehearsal towards a performance goal on the 15th of June at Redlands School.

PerformanceBallet

Ballet Performance

A ballet performance pathway for dancers wanting to develop repertoire, presence, musicality, and rehearsal discipline for stage presentation.

PerformanceContemporary

Contemporary Dance Performance

A performance-oriented contemporary class for developing choreography, expressive movement, spatial awareness, and confidence in front of an audience.