What You'll Get
Before people learned to tiptoe around, everybody always knew exactly who was sneaking the pizza from the fridge at night. Appreciate even more skills of the pointed foot with today's Groupon to BalletNova Center for Dance in Falls Church. Choose between the following options:
- For $35, you get any adult introductory workshop (up to an $85 value). The last workshop begins January 4, 2012.
- For $45, you get a punch card good for any five adult drop-in classes and a 10% discount toward the purchase of a second class card (a $90 value). The first class must be redeemed by October 31, 2011.
Helmed by a venerated staff, including esteemed ballerina and artistic director Nancie Woods, BalletNova trains students to move gracefully with an extensive array of limb-limbering adult classes. With courses that cater to beginner and intermediate pupils, adults of any skill level can undergo nurturing, yet rigorous training inside six dance studios. Learn how to seductively saunter across a stage while evading walnut shells thrown by hostile nutcrackers in beginner ballet, a course that focuses on fundamentals such as alignment, posture, position, and terminology. Modern dance classes teach novice toe twinklers to break down traditional ballet conventions with expressionistic techniques that spawn from the spastic metronome of inner feelings. Drop-in dancers should arrive 15 minutes prior to class so they have ample time to check in and ensure that they don't miss out on learning advanced techniques, such as fish diving into the arms of fellow dancers or toe spinning rapidly enough to achieve tutu-propelled flight.
Spread out across four one-hour classes, adult workshops teach beginning dancers the ropes of hip-hop, modern, jazz, or ballet. Workshops run four to five weeks, and the last workshop this Groupon is valid for begins January 4, 2012. More-experienced feet can work themselves into a frenzy in ballroom workshops taught by world-ranking dancer Dimitar Petrov. Attendees can partner up for a foxtrot or tango session to become better versed in both fancy footwork and the military alphabet.
The Fine Print
Expiration varies. Amount paid never expires. Limit 1 per person per option, may buy multiple as gifts. Limit 1 per visit. First class of 5-class card must be redeemed by 10/31/11. Card expires 6/30/12. Must register for workshop; last workshop begins 1/4/12. Valid only for option purchased. New clients only for 5-class option. Classes are non-transferable. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.
About BalletNova Center for Dance
BalletNova's instructors jeté, pirouette, and shuffle into their teaching studios from backgrounds that include well known national and international training programs and performance companies. Held seven days a week, their friendly but challenging classes placed second in Washington City Paper's Best Dance Class 2010 Readers' Poll. Sessions span a wide range of terpsichorean territory, from classic ballet to hip-hop and tap to conditioning classes that grab techniques from Pilates, yoga, and aerobics. More than 650 casual and preprofessional movement enthusiasts build their skills in a 20,800-square-foot facility with two 864-square-foot studios, four larger studios, and a 20-cubic-foot studio for hiding out when the rhythm is going to get you.