Level 1
Suitable for 3-5 year olds Thursdays 2:15-3:15
This class will introduce the concept of using movement to glorify God. We will learn:
Stretching and strengthening our bodies.
Moving with music
Using movement to tell stories about God
Elementary ballet steps
Scripture memory
Mothers are invited and encouraged to participate with their children. If you elect to watch, we ask that you still stay to watch your child dance. If you cannot stay at the building with your child, then we ask that you delay your child’s participation in the program.
Level 2
Suitable for 6-9 year olds Thursdays 2:15-3:15*
*We realize that the early start time may pose a problem for some children just getting off school. We apologize for the necessity of this time this year. We will spend the first 15 minutes on our scripture memory and stretching. If your child will be arriving at 2:30 instead of 2:15, please work on the scripture memory in the car so that this essential part of the curriculum is accomplished. Also, if your child’s energy level is sufficient (especially for the older children in this group), please consider allowing them to stay until 5:15 for choreography application of technique. As with Level 1, this is not a drop off program. Please stay on campus with your child.
This class will builds upon the concept of using movement to glorify God. We will learn:
Stretching and strengthening our bodies.
Scripture memory and scripture expression through our body
Counting and recognizing patterns in music
Understand and apply dance language
Dance as worship
Level 3A & 3B
Suitable for 8-10 year olds dependant on energy level, and suitable for age 10 through adult. Thursdays 3:15-5:00
As with Levels 1 and 2, this is not a drop off program. Please stay on campus with your child. If you will not be on campus, please make arrangements with another adult to be on campus with your child. Miss Josie and Miss Olivia must leave OHC promptly by 5:10 to keep their training commitments.
Level 3A will be taught by Miss Olivia and level 3B will be taught by Miss Josie. Students will be placed in the appropriate class based on teachers’ discretion. Teachers will take into account energy level, age, and placement with friends or family members. The two classes will both be at a beginning/intermediate level; students will not be moved up or down based on comparative progression or regression within their class. Students will be evaluated based only on their own potential, and only for their own safety; we cannot allow competition or comparison within the classes.
3:15-4:15
This will be a ballet technique class designed to give students the knowledge base of ballet steps needed to thrive with confidence in the choreography class. We will do extensive barre work to warm-up and avoid injury, center work which will prepare students for choreography, and Scripture memory to prepare ourselves to do God’s will. If you cannot make it to this class, please arrive 10 minutes early for the choreography class to warm up. If you do not, you will be much more prone to injury—a cold muscle is a very fragile muscle. Also, please work on your Scripture memory beforehand; this is the most important part of Ballet Gloria.
4:15-5:00
This class is dance applied in active choreography for the glory of God. We will learn:
Dance as worship
Dance as communication
Dance as prayer
Improvisational Choreography
Lyrical, Ballet, and Modern styles
3-4 complete dances over the course of the 7 month class
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Our Ministry Goal
This dance ministry is, obviously, about glory. But it is not our glory in dance, but the glory of God seen when young women offer their heart, mind, soul, and strength in worship to Him. It has been said that God’s glory is revealed in us, only when we are fully alive, awakened by the knowledge that ‘surely God is in this place.’ We dedicate the 07-08 year to celebrating the presence of Living God. The ground that we stand on is holy, and so we dance in discipline, and honor, knowing that we dance to the music which the Father of our Master Jesus sings over us all.
Welcome Ballet Gloria 07/08!
Hello Ballet Gloria Dancers and Parents,
Welcome back! I'm so sorry for the delay in postings. We are into our third week of the new season and it's been wonderful to see/work with you all again! Below are some reminders regarding guidelines, schedule, memory work, etc.
Thank you so much
God bless
Miss Josie
Welcome back! I'm so sorry for the delay in postings. We are into our third week of the new season and it's been wonderful to see/work with you all again! Below are some reminders regarding guidelines, schedule, memory work, etc.
Thank you so much
God bless
Miss Josie
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
More on Summer Workshop
Hello Ballet Gloria Dancers and Families,
I hope you are all enjoying your summers. I am really looking forward to seeing you all at the summer workshop. For those of you who did not receive or need extra copies of the registration/info sheets, it is copied below. If you are planning on attending the workshop, please bring a simple black leotard (no spaghetti straps, low cut neck lines, or open backs) for the costume class. Miss Glenda will be helping you work on double double-layer wrap skirts made out of watercolor silk. The silk material will be sheer, so you might want to invest in some black stretch pants to go underneath (fairly form fitting to avoid bulges under the skirt). Please remember to bring pink tights, ballet shoes, skirts or dance pants/shorts, class leotard, and sack lunches. I will look forward to seeing you all soon!
God bless
Josie
I hope you are all enjoying your summers. I am really looking forward to seeing you all at the summer workshop. For those of you who did not receive or need extra copies of the registration/info sheets, it is copied below. If you are planning on attending the workshop, please bring a simple black leotard (no spaghetti straps, low cut neck lines, or open backs) for the costume class. Miss Glenda will be helping you work on double double-layer wrap skirts made out of watercolor silk. The silk material will be sheer, so you might want to invest in some black stretch pants to go underneath (fairly form fitting to avoid bulges under the skirt). Please remember to bring pink tights, ballet shoes, skirts or dance pants/shorts, class leotard, and sack lunches. I will look forward to seeing you all soon!
God bless
Josie
Ballet Gloria Summer Workshop Registration and Information
Ballet Gloria Summer Workshop 2007
Hello Ballet Gloria Dancers and Parents,
Due to several inquiries regarding summer classes, we are considering hosting a summer workshop. It would require five days of intensive dance training and Bible study in July (July 9-13). Although it would be offered free of charge, we would require advance registration (in order to anticipate how many people could commit). We will host this workshop if we have at least 10 children register from either the kindergarten-9yrs. age group or the 10yrs. and up age group by June 10, 2007.
We would offer a daily ballet class with scripture memory for children in Kindergarten-9yrs. Mothers would be more than welcome to participate with their children, but would also be welcome to simply observe. This age group would meet from 10:00a.m.-11:00a.m. every morning Mon., July 9-Fri., July 13.
We would offer daily intensive training for ages 10yrs. and up from 11:00a.m.-4:00p.m. Mon., July 9-Fri., July13. Their classes could include: Bible Study, Ballet Technique, Modern, Choreography Composition, and Musical Worship Styles (this proposed syllabus is subject to change). Mothers would be welcome to participate in and/or observe all of these classes. We would ask that this age group bring sack lunches.
If you and/or your child would like to participate in this workshop, please fill out the attached registration form and return it to me (either via email, USPS, fax, or turn in to me at the end of class).
This has been a wonderful year and I thank God daily for you and for the opportunity to work with such wonderful young men and women as your children! I have been so blessed by your hard work, smiling faces, encouraging words, and sweet spirits. Thank you so much! I am really looking forward to next year!
God Bless,
Josephine S. Deahl
Josephine Deahl
25147 Flying Arrow
San Antonio, TX 78258
jsdeahl@swbell.net
Fax: (210)-481-2303
Phone: (210)-481-2203
Ballet Gloria Summer Workshop 2007
Registration Form
First Name: _____________________
Last Name: _____________________
Age: _____
Program Applying For (Circle One): July 9-13, 2007 July 9-13, 2007
10:00a.m.-11:00a.m. 11:00a.m.-4:00p.m.
Kindergarten-9yrs. 10yrs. and up
Parent/Guardian: _____________________
Home Phone Number: (_____)-______-__________
Parent’s Cell Phone 1: (_____)-______-__________
Parent’s Cell Phone 2: (_____)-______-__________
Email: ___________________
Street Address: ______________________
City, State, Zip: ____________________, ____ _____________
Emergency Contact: _________________________
Emergency Contact Phone Number: (_____)-______-______________
Hello Ballet Gloria Dancers and Parents,
Due to several inquiries regarding summer classes, we are considering hosting a summer workshop. It would require five days of intensive dance training and Bible study in July (July 9-13). Although it would be offered free of charge, we would require advance registration (in order to anticipate how many people could commit). We will host this workshop if we have at least 10 children register from either the kindergarten-9yrs. age group or the 10yrs. and up age group by June 10, 2007.
We would offer a daily ballet class with scripture memory for children in Kindergarten-9yrs. Mothers would be more than welcome to participate with their children, but would also be welcome to simply observe. This age group would meet from 10:00a.m.-11:00a.m. every morning Mon., July 9-Fri., July 13.
We would offer daily intensive training for ages 10yrs. and up from 11:00a.m.-4:00p.m. Mon., July 9-Fri., July13. Their classes could include: Bible Study, Ballet Technique, Modern, Choreography Composition, and Musical Worship Styles (this proposed syllabus is subject to change). Mothers would be welcome to participate in and/or observe all of these classes. We would ask that this age group bring sack lunches.
If you and/or your child would like to participate in this workshop, please fill out the attached registration form and return it to me (either via email, USPS, fax, or turn in to me at the end of class).
This has been a wonderful year and I thank God daily for you and for the opportunity to work with such wonderful young men and women as your children! I have been so blessed by your hard work, smiling faces, encouraging words, and sweet spirits. Thank you so much! I am really looking forward to next year!
God Bless,
Josephine S. Deahl
Josephine Deahl
25147 Flying Arrow
San Antonio, TX 78258
jsdeahl@swbell.net
Fax: (210)-481-2303
Phone: (210)-481-2203
Ballet Gloria Summer Workshop 2007
Registration Form
First Name: _____________________
Last Name: _____________________
Age: _____
Program Applying For (Circle One): July 9-13, 2007 July 9-13, 2007
10:00a.m.-11:00a.m. 11:00a.m.-4:00p.m.
Kindergarten-9yrs. 10yrs. and up
Parent/Guardian: _____________________
Home Phone Number: (_____)-______-__________
Parent’s Cell Phone 1: (_____)-______-__________
Parent’s Cell Phone 2: (_____)-______-__________
Email: ___________________
Street Address: ______________________
City, State, Zip: ____________________, ____ _____________
Emergency Contact: _________________________
Emergency Contact Phone Number: (_____)-______-______________
Friday, March 30, 2007
Ballet Gloria Cancellations
Hello Ballet Gloria Dancers and Families,
Due to weather forecasts of severe thunderstorms and hail, we are canceling all Ballet Gloria classes today 3/30/07. I am so sorry for the late notice. I hope and pray that you all stay safe, warm, and dry.
Also, we will not be having classes next Friday 4/6/07 (Good Friday). I will look forward to seeing you all the following Friday 4/13/07.
God bless you all,
Josie
Due to weather forecasts of severe thunderstorms and hail, we are canceling all Ballet Gloria classes today 3/30/07. I am so sorry for the late notice. I hope and pray that you all stay safe, warm, and dry.
Also, we will not be having classes next Friday 4/6/07 (Good Friday). I will look forward to seeing you all the following Friday 4/13/07.
God bless you all,
Josie