Toledo Ballet

Adaptive Dance

Dance is for everyBODY!

Toledo Ballet Adaptive Dance offers differently-abled individuals specialized adaptive dance instruction. Students with neurodivergent learning styles, such as Down syndrome and autism, can experience the sheer joy of dance and music. Students reap many other important benefits, including improvement in coordination, fitness, balance, focus, listening, self-esteem, self-expression, positive social connections, rhythm, and musicality. Adaptive Dance Director and Toledo Ballet faculty member, Ann Heckler, is dedicated to creating a positive learning environment and helping each student develop his/her own self-confidence and freedom of expression. Toledo Ballet is excited to offer more progressive levels. 

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Inclusion Dance

The Inclusion Dance program is open to all dancers, including students with physical, intellectual, or developmental disabilities. Small class size and trained, skilled support staff will allow each dancer to thrive and express themselves through movement. This class will focus on the fundamentals of dance to teach students dance steps, rhythm, and dancing together as a group. 

Choreography Skills

For dancers with physical, intellectual, or developmental disabilities who can follow choreography independently without support staff. Musicality, memorization and sequencing of steps into more complex combinations, & balance and coordination of arm and leg movements are progressive skills covered in this class. This class is by placement only and is geared towards students who have had some dance experience.  New students will need to take a trial Inclusion Dance class to be evaluated for placement in Choreography Skills.  A performance opportunity is available for enrolled students at the end of the school year.

 

Adaptive Dance Scholarship

Due to generous funding from community partners, Toledo Ballet is pleased to present these classes at a low cost to the student. Students pay a $10 registration fee per session for the Inclusion Classes and a $30 registration fee per session for the Choreography Class. Once you enroll in a class, your current tuition will be discounted to reflect the tuition listed below:
 
Choreography Class Tuition: $32 for the fall session (15 weeks), $40 for the spring session (22 weeks) 
Inclusion Class Tuition: $16/session (8 weeks) 
Once you enroll, your tuition will be discounted to reflect the prices listed above. 
For new students, a $10 placement fee will be assessed. 
 
If you have any questions about the scholarship form or the Adaptive Dance Program, please contact Toledo Ballet at 419.471.0049.    

Register for Adaptive Dance

Spaces are limited and placement is required. Call the Toledo Ballet for more info or to set up a placement.
Please note that the tuition prices listed below reflect the cost of this class without funding: not what you will pay. Your tuition will be adjusted to reflect the tuition prices listed above post-registration!

Dress Code

  • Females: Black pants with a burgundy leotard or burgundy shirt of any kind.
  • Males: Black pants with plain white T-shirt
  • All Dancers: Please wear black shoes that are only worn to Adaptive Dance (no outside or street shoes)
  • All clothing should be comfortable for the dancer