Eastside Summer Dance

Students ages 4–7 participate in a week-long workshop session meeting daily for three hours (Creative Movement students may register for more than one session). Week-long sessions focus on different ballets (Cinderella, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker^®, The Sleeping Beauty, etc.). Each day includes an hour-long dance class, music class, story, craft project and a break for a snack. Sessions culminate with an informal mini-performance featuring choreography relating to that week’s theme and scenery and props created by the students.

Dance Class

Dance classes provide students with an imaginative introduction to dance, rhythm and music. Beginning ballet vocabulary is introduced while encouraging confidence, creativity, the flexibility of movement and self-expression. Class structure and content is age-appropriate and focused on the ballet theme of the week.

Arts, Crafts, and Stories

Students spend an hour of each day creating unique and fun projects (magic wands, sock puppets) relating to the ballet theme of the week and developing the scenery and props for the mini-performance. The ballet is further explored through story time.

Creative Movement, Ages 4-6

(Students may register for more than one session)
Cost: Cost $268 per session
Time: Mornings: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Monday-Friday
Afternoons: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., Monday-Friday

Each daily session includes a one-hour dance class, a music class, arts and crafts, and a snack break.

Session 1: Cinderella, July 6 – 10
Session 2: Nutcracker, July 13 – 17
Session 3: Sleeping Beauty, July 20 – 24
Session 4: Swan Lake, July 27 – July 31
Session 5: Nutcracker, August 3 – 7
Session 6: Cinderella, August 10 – 14 (Morning only)

Pre-Ballet, Age 7

Cost: $268 per session
Time: Mornings: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Monday-Friday
Afternoons: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., Monday-Friday

Pre-Ballet Session 1: Nutcracker, July 13 – 17
Pre-Ballet Session 2: Swan Lake, July 27 – 31 (Afternoon only)

Pacific Northwest Ballet School student class levels, for ages 8 – 13, are designed to challenge the physical and technical abilities of each student. Children enrolled in the Student Division learn progressive levels of ballet technique in a nurturing and professional environment.

Audition necessary for new-to-PNBS students at the Francia Russell Center.

Audition Dates:

Tacoma
Saturday, February 8
1:30 p.m.
Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center
705 Opera Alley
Tacoma, WA 98402

Bellevue
Saturday, February 29
Time TBA
Pacific Northwest Ballet Francia Russell Center
1611 136th Pl NE
Bellevue, WA 98005

Level I

Level I students meet three days a week for three weeks. Each day offers dance classes in classical ballet, music, hip hop, and/or character dance.

Program Dates: July 6 – July 24
Cost: $636

Level II

Level II students meet three days a week for three weeks. Each day offers dance classes in classical ballet, music, hip-hop, and/or character dance.

Program Dates: July 6 – July 24
Cost: $636

Level III

Level III students meet four days a week for five weeks. Each day includes ballet technique, followed by classes in pre-pointe, jazz, modern, character dance, music, or musical theatre.

Program Dates: July 6 – August 8
Cost: $1,405

Level IV

Level IV students meet six days a week for five weeks. Students have a daily ballet technique class, followed by classes in pointe, jazz, modern, character dance, music, or musical theatre, plus one Pilates-based class per week.

Program Dates: July 6 – August 8
Cost: $2,198

Level V

Level V students meet six days a week for five weeks. Students have a daily ballet technique class, followed by classes in pointe, jazz, modern, character dance, music, or musical theatre, plus one Pilates-based class per week.

Program Dates: July 6 – August 8
Cost: $2,198

Classes are subject to change and may vary from week to week.

For More Information

For more information about the Student Division Summer Course at The Francia Russell Center, please contact PNB at either of our two locations: 206.441.2435 or 425.451.1241.