Beginner Cecchetti with Diana Byer

LENGTH: 78 min. LEVEL: Beginner, Youth SPACE: Large

A beginner-intermediate children’s class taught by Diana Byer as she learned from Master Teacher Margaret Craske. This class begins with stretches and corrective exercises, moves on to folk and character dance phrases, and then to barre and center work based on the Cecchetti syllabus. Miss Craske emphasized placement, line, rhythm, musicality, and gesture – Ms. Byer’s class builds on these principles in a class designed to train dancers from head to toe and from eyes to fingertips.

Music: Kai Ono

Dancers: Betsy Arias Goodwin, Emely M. Leon Rivas, and Charlotte Spalding

Category: Ballet, Youth