Corvallis Academy of Ballet

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CORVALLIS ACADEMY OF BALLET - STUDIO INFORMATION
Styles: Ballet Youngest Age: 3	Also Offers: Group Classes Private Classes

About CORVALLIS ACADEMY OF BALLET

Corvallis Academy of Ballet began as the Corvallis Arts Center School of Ballet, founded by Jutta Hardison in 1984-1985. Located in the basement of the Corvallis Arts Center, Jutta Hardison taught ALL of the Creative Movement, Preballet, and beginner and intermediate ballet classes by herself (sometimes hiring middle school and high school age ballet students to help her with the larger classes) until about 1990, when she met Catherine Levi. Before they met, the Corvallis Arts Center School of Ballet did not offer higher levels of ballet technique beyond the Ballet III/IV level (prepointe and beginner pointe). Catherine Levi began teaching advanced ballet technique and pointe work classes in a large studio at OddFellows Hall in downtown Corvallis. Students in these classes used a roll-out marley dance floor, which had to be rolled-out at the start of classes each day and rolled up again at the end of classes each day! These new advanced-level classes offered by the Corvallis Arts Center School of Ballet eventually led to the creation of Willamette Apprentice Ballet, a pre-professional student company that eventually became the performing branch of the Corvallis Academy of Ballet in 1995, and then achieved its 501(c)3 non-profit arts/education status in 2007. The Corvallis Arts Center School of Ballet became the Corvallis Academy of Ballet when Jutta Hardison and Catherine Levi moved all of their classes into our beautiful studios at 108 NW Second Street in downtown Corvallis.