Becoming a dancer, a lifetime quest, involves more than talent, desire and discipline. These are the stones for the building of a house. They remain only that unless there is a structure, and that cannot be accomplished without design.   You want to take your child to ballet class. Where do you go? Because dancers [...]

    The dress code for boys at Geiger includes the following: ”Black tights or running pants with a white, tucked in T-shirt and a dance belt. White ballet shoes with white socks.” There is no dress code for men in the Open Level classes. However, we ask that you wear traditional dance attire. Generally in ballet, men [...]

  According to Perry Silvey, the production stage manager of the New York City Ballet, this flooring is injury free and predictable. Rather than slipping, the Marley enables the dancers to concentrate solely on performing well. Concrete floors can create many physical problems for they allow no “give”. A properly sprung floor absorbs energy, preventing overuse injuries. The added [...]

As a convenience to our dancers, we now sell the dancewear that comprises our school uniform. If however, you would prefer to purchase elsewhere, please contact our office for recommendations of store(s) and what our uniform consists of.

    Key to phonetic pronunciation (all sounds in English): zh = s as in measure, leisure. oo = oo as in shoot, zoo. ew = u as in cupid. ahn = on as in concert. eh = ai as in pair. ohn = on as in long. oh = o as in role. ohm [...]

[ah-gree-PEE-nah   vah-GAH-naw-vah]   As a dancer with the imperial Ballet, Vaganova was known as the “queen of variations”, renowned for her jumps and batterie, although her lack of beauty meant that she did not receive the title of “ballerina” until 1915, the year before she retired. She is most remembered as a great teacher of [...]