Youth Program Online Classes
Important Information
During this time of California’s shelter in place, Western Ballet will be conducting online classes using Zoom. We’ve been working the past few days to set this up and will begin these online classes this week so that your students can continue taking class from home. You just need to make sure that you have a good space, usable floor, and a (makeshift) barre. Classes will consist of barre exercises (if eligible), stretch, and center exercises that can be adapted to do at home in a limited space. For safety reasons, pirouettes and jumps other than small jumps will not be given.
Tips for a successful class
- Please make sure to mute your audio! If you don’t, any background noise will be heard by all stop the audio of the teacher and the music.
- Make sure you have sufficient space, a usable floor (ie, wood or short carpet is preferable over tile) , and a makeshift barre (for Pre-ballet 4 – Ballet 7)
- Usual dance attire is preferred
- We suggest using a laptop computer or hooking your laptop to a tv for a better view
- When using zoom you have two viewing options – one to view all videos as a grid, and the other to view the “speaker” (teacher).
- During our test class today, Zoom crashed probably because there has been such an overuse of Zoom from all over to do work remotely – if that happens during your class please rejoin the class using the same link provided
- Speaker view will allow you to see the teacher larger (it will fill the screen), gallery view will allow you to see everyone in the meeting. Speaker view is a better option in order to see the teacher clearer & to follow along with the class.
More details below the class schedule about using Zoom
Online Schedule
Online Schedule
Mondays
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- 4:00 – 5:30pm: Ballet 2 with Ms. Amy
- 4:00 – 5:00pm: Ballet 1 with Ms. Carolina
Tuesdays
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- 4:00 – 5:30pm: Ballet 4b, 5 -7 with Mr Alejandro
- 4:00 – 4:45am: Pre Ballet 1 & 2, Intro to Ballet with Ms. Amy
- 4:00 – 5:30pm: Ballet 3 Ms. Eileen
- 5:15 – 6:16pm: Ballet 1 with Ms. Alison
Wednesdays
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- 4:00 – 5:30pm: Ballet 4b, 5 -7 with Ms. Alison
- 4:00 – 5:30pm: Ballet 2 with Ms. Amy
- 4:00 – 5:30pm: Ballet 3 & 4a with Ms. Eileen
Thursdays
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- 4:00 – 5:00pm: Pre – Ballet 3 with Ms. Alison
- 5:15 – 6:15pm: Pre – Ballet 4 (Ballet I & II invited) with Ms. Alison
- 4:00 – 5:30pm: Ballet 4a/4b (Ballet 3 invited) with Ms. Eileen
- 4:00 – 5:30pm: Ballet 5 -7 with TBD
Friday
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- 4:00 – 5:30pm: Ballet 4b, 5 -7 with Ms. Alison
- 4:00 – 5:30pm: Ballet 2 with Ms. Amy
- 4:00 – 5:30pm: Ballet 3 & 4a with Ms. Eileen
- 5:30 – 6:30pm: Ballet 1 with Ms. Amy
Saturday
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- 10:00 – 10:45am: Pre Ballet 1 & 2, Intro to Ballet with Ms. Alison
- 11:00 – 12:00pm: Pre Ballet 3 with Ms. Alison
- 11:15 – 12:15pm: Pre Ballet 4 with Ms. Amy
- 12:15 – 1:15pm: Ballet 1 & Ballet 2 with Ms. Alison
- 12:00 – 1:30pm: Ballet 4a – 7 (Ballet 3 invited) with Mr. Alexi
Sunday
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- 10:00 – 10:45am: Pre Ballet 1 & 2, Intro to Ballet with Ms. Sophiya
- 11:00 – 12:00pm: Pre Ballet 3 (Pre Ballet 4 & Ballet I invited) with Ms. Sophiya
Getting Started
Using Zoom
- All students must have a Zoom account. If you do not have one yet, it is quick, easy, and free to register. Just go to Zoom.com to sign up (make sure you use the email address that is registered on MindBody)
- Go to https://zoom.us/to get started
- Download the application to your computer and you will be emailed with a link to “Join a Meeting”
- We suggest using a laptop computer or hooking your laptop to a tv for a better view
- When using zoom you have two viewing options – one to view all videos as a grid, and the other to view the “speaker” (teacher).