*Lockport school will perform Friday 18th at 7pm

*Classical Ballet will perform Saturday 19th at 7pm

*Orchard Park location will perform Friday 18th at 7pm

*Costume fee is due Saturday, May 29th.

* Tickets on sale Monday, May 3rd - only at the studios, not at the Riviera Theater

WHAT IS CREATIVE MOVEMENT

* Creative Movement , for 3 year olds, is dance in early elementary education. It is designed to introduce children to:

* Non-locomotive skills, Rhythmic skills, Locomotive skills
Gross Motor skills
These skills are explored through the use of several musical styles, imagery, stories, and songs.

*Gentle flexibility and strengthening exercises are done sitting on the floor, and are made fun and enjoyable by imagery.
Children are helped to perform these movements in the most natural and correct fashion.

*Good listening skills, manners, and following directions are emphasized in each class in an atmosphere that is informal, flexible, playful, and satisfying to the children.

WHAT IS PRE-BALLET

Pre-Ballet, for four year olds, incorporates all of the skills and activities from Creative Movement, but on a higher, age-appropriate level. Children will also begin to learn the most basic ballet positions and steps and their French terms.

Creative Movement and Pre-Ballet students will perform their end of the year performance in the studio.

GUEST ARTIST

GUEST TEACHER FOR SUMMER WORKSHOP

International prima ballerina and dancewear designer: YUMIKO dancewear and the YumiGirl Network.

YUMIKO TAKESHIMA.

YUMIKO TAKESHIMA was born in Asahikawa, Japan to parents who owned a small Kimono business, Takeshima began dancing at the age of four in Sapporo, Japan. At the age of 14 she left home to study with the San Francisco Ballet school, soon after receiving her first professional dance contract.
In 1993, Yumiko Takeshima moved from New York City to join the Dutch National Ballet, where she continued to develop her passion for designing dancewear and costumes. In early 2002 she launched YUMIKO dancewear and the YumiGirl Network.
Since 2002, Takeshima has continued to develop her made-to-order line, as well as a ready-to-wear line, of high quality, great fitting, and beautifully designed dance and fitness wear for women and men. In addition, since moving to Amsterdam, Netherlands, Takeshima has designed costumes for numerous choreographers, most notably David Dawson and William Forsythe and has been praised in the press not only as a dancer, but also for designing some of the most elegant, simple, and esthetically beautiful dance costumes in the European dance world.
Yumiko Takeshima is currently a principle dancer with Dresden's SemperOper Ballett in Germany and continues to devote much of her time to her YUMIKO business and her costume design projects.