Studio David
School of Dance
Ballet, Modern, and Conditioning classes for all ages- Fridays at the Chumstick Grange
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612 front st Leavenworth
509-217-5669
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CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
Ballet Foundations
3:30-4:30 pm - ages 5-10
This class is geared at creating a foundational understanding of the basic knowledge required for a young and beginning ballet dancer. This class will offer structured time for the dancer to get comfortable within their bodies mechanics, as well as start to find familiarity within the positions of ballet.
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Ballet 101
4:30-5:30 pm - ages 10-18
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Ballet 101 is a class geared and aimed for preteens and teens working to build foundations that they may have not been able to have access to earlier in their lives. Ballet 101 will create a comfort of musicality, as well as an understanding of the main elements within ballet, as well as the foundational positions and understandings of the technique. As the year progresses ballet 101 will also instill ballet history on various days in the dance year.
Ballet 202
5:30-6:30pm - for ages 10-18
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Ballet 202 is a class geared and aimed for preteens and teens looking to build upon the foundations that they have been working on in ballet 101. Ballet 202 will focus on special skills like turning and jumping, as well as petite and Grande Allegro. Ballet 202 requires students to be enrolled in ballet 101 and take both classes fully each week.
Powwow Ballet
6:30-7:30pm - open to all adults
Powwow ballet is a fusion class that combines cultural teachings of powwow dancing into the structure of a traditional ballet class. Powwow ballet offers for a variety of skill sets to dance within the room together and find expression in two extremely powerful modalities of dance.
Dance Church Guided Improv
7:30-9pm - open to community members of all ages; anyone under 18 must be accompanied by an adult or guardian
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Dance church is a guided improv and space to cultivate a sense of home within the body. As our world continues to create confides for humans it is important that we try to seek freeness within our minds and bodies, and it is important for us to cultivate that space within our communities. This guided improv is an hour long space where dancers of all technique levels are encouraged to find rhythm in ways that expresses themselves personally and creates a sense of confidence within the ways that they move both as a dancer, but more importantly as a human.
$50 per class
Payment is due on arrival
via Venmo or Check
About Me
Reid Rayfield
Long before I ever made by way to Seattle to pursue a career in dance I was lucky to be trained by Briar Hoper of Edelweiss Dance Academie where I was instilled with a deep passion for the preforming arts and ballet specifically. Pursuing my path of dance I was lucky to train in Wenatchee with various instructors as well as train in Edmonds with The Olympic Ballet School under the eyes of Vera and Oleg Gourbelev.
In 2017 I left Leavenworth Washington and found myself not that far from home at Cornish College of The Arts in Seattle, Wa.
I graduated from Cornish College of the arts in Seattle Washington in 2021 with a bachelor of fine arts degree with a focus in dance. While in my training at Cornish, I had the pleasure of learning under Patricia Hon, Laura Anne Smythe, Alana Isiguen, amongst the long list of teachers that moved through the school during my time as a student.
While in my studies I had the pleasure of preforming works of both Patricia Hon and Wade Madsen in the Cornish Dance Theaters annual concerts. I also found myself participating in extensive student works while in my studies. At the height of my training I was often dancing 9 hours a day atleast 6 days a week; and it was the absolute most wonderful time of my life.
Post graduation I was awarded the ARC fellowship in Seattle which allowed for numerous dance projects to be created within King County. Every year I look forward to participating with the Seattle Friends of The Waterfront Indigiqueer festival where I preform new works each summer. I have a passion for putting dance in accessible places for communities to both enjoy the act of spectating as well as partaking in the acts dancing!
I look forward to offering my skill sets to our valley and to the shaping of this current generation of dancers moving through the local streams!
See you Fridays at the Grange!
Reid Rayfield
(Owner and founder of Studio David)