St Croix Academy for The Arts

Welcome to one of the top ballet studios in the Twin Cities metropolis – where we’re training excellent dancers and having fun doing it! We understand that even though very few people will become professional dancers, all of us have the potential to become very good dancers, have a great time learning the art, and receive the many benefits studying ballet can bestow.

Because of the many hours of training that ballet requires, we make an effort to be very efficient with a dancer’s time. We’re trying to give dancers the time to “have a life” while putting in the required hours of hard work. We do this by working with a syllabus which has been carefully developed to build strength incrementally, rather than with a more hit and miss approach common to many studies. Another thing that is hugely beneficial is working with material repetitively until a body of work is mastered, which builds a careful foundation for more advanced work.

Ballet benefits everything – other types of dance such as modern, jazz, tap, Irish, and sports such as soccer, horseback riding, gymnastics, and dance lines. It also benefits general work habits because the study of ballet develops self-discipline, concentration, the awareness of how to better a skill, and confidence for other performing arts. I cannot tell you the number of mothers who have told me how well their son or daughter did in some other area of life because of his/her ballet training. Thinking of combo classes with competitions? You might want to consider this first.

Students come to us who have decided they want to become better dancers and realize they need more ballet training to accomplish that. Often they have had many years of combo classes and are dismayed to find that they must start at the beginning in ballet. It is a much better investment of time and resources to study dance the other way around. Begin with ballet, which is by far and away the best training for almost any other movement discipline. The years of study will have better prepared dancers who decide to try another type of dance or theater. So after you explore our web site, you might want to consider a visit to the studio. You’d be most welcome. Call ahead if you’d like: