2025/26 LAD

Youth Ballet Company

Mandatory Parent Meeting will be held May 8th at 7pm at the Cate St Studio

Families interested in pre-pointe, pointe, Technique Company, Performance Company, or Competition Company should attend the Mandatory Parent Meeting. Auditions for the 2025/26 season will be during the main LAD Company Audition. All dancers accepted into Youth Ballet must attend a ballet summer session.

Summer Sessions are an opportunity for dancers to enhance their technique in a small class setting by focusing on more advanced skills and learning ballet repertoire similar to what we will compete. This gives the dancers a chance to see if they enjoy the type of movement that we compete and allows the instructor to determine if your dancer is at the skill level necessary to perform or compete these dances.

Benefits of Competing Ballet:

• Ballet dances require a large amount of technique, heavy movement. Weekly rehearsals that work to improve and expand upon these techniques will lead to an overall increase of the dancer’s skill levels in all other aspects of dance.
• Dancers receive more individualized attention while working on the technique during their rehearsal and the teacher is able to help guide them to their goals with a more individualized approach due to the limited number of dancers in each rehearsal.
• Competing these dances allows the dancers to perform a style that they usually only get to perform once a year (at recital). This additional opportunity allows those dancers to explore the complexities of ballet in a new setting and further enjoy the style.

Commitment

Technique Company

Students will focus on advancing their technique through an exclusive 90 min ballet class. Small class sizes allow for more individualized attention for the students. The commitment for this program is attending the exclusive ballet technique class.

Performance Company

students will focus on both advancing their technique through the exclusive YBC class and receive coaching on ballet performance pieces. The Performance Company will participate in community outreach events that are designed to boost onstage confidence. These performances are of no extra charge, within driving distances, single day events, and count towards service hours. Examples of these events includes visiting local nursing homes, museums, and festivals.

Competitive Company

Students will continue to focus on both advancing their technique through the exclusive YBC class and coaching on ballet performance pieces. This group will compete at the Universal Ballet Competition (Houston) and have the opportunity to compete at additional events along with the option to perform at community outreach events.

Each dance will be a similar time commitment to other comp dances at LAD

• (1) 30 min rehearsal every week for each dance that they are participating in for Ballet Team
• (1) 90 min Ballet Technique Class on Saturday mornings
•  Compete at one ballet specific competition Dates: Universal Ballet Competition April 25-27th (Houston)
• Dancers competing on pointe must be enrolled in the "Pointe" Class.

Due to normal competition/convention policies, we can not guarantee that all/any of these dances will be able to register at normal competition/convention due to category performing limits. To guarantee we are able to compete at least once, we will be attending a ballet specific competition.

Ballet competitions are vastly different from normal competitions/conventions and are a highly recommended addition for dancers who really enjoy ballet and a smaller, more mentorship based convention. 

We make an effort to schedule around pre-scheduled commitments that the dancers may have for both school and main LAD Company. Saturday morning classes and rehearsals may be moved to the afternoon, available Fridays or made-up over holidays to accommodate schedules at the discretion of the coach. For specific questions, please email Ms. Sara.

If your dancer is interested in joining the Ballet Competition Team, please talk with Ms. Sara. Any individual questions can be sent to Ms. Sara directly at sara@ladyouthballetco.com