Workshops & Master Classes
Turnout Presentation | Houston Ballet Academy Faculty Development Week | Aug '24
"Exploring Turnout with the GYROTONIC® Method" | bodySpan Studio, Arvada CO | June '24
Turnout Presentation | Houston Ballet Academy Faculty Development Week | Aug '24
"Creating Space for Turnout" | Houston Ballet Academy Adult Program | Aug '24
"Creating Space for Turnout" | Houston Ballet Academy Adult Program | Aug '24
"Activating Turnout with the Pilates Reformer" | Houston Ballet Academy | Nov '23
Turnout Master Class | Classical Training Program @ The Dallas Conservatory | Nov '23
IADMS Preparation Workshop | Aug '18
Turnout Workshop | Salt Creek Ballet | June '23
"Getting Up on Your Standing Leg" | Adult Ballet Workshop | Nov '23
Company Class | Lines Ballet | Jan '24
"Hyperextension - Dynamic Cueing Ideas for Dancers and Teachers" | Colorado Movement Lab | June '24
Turnout Master Class | Salt Creek Ballet | June '23
Turnout Master Class | Salt Creek Ballet | June '23
For booking information, please email me at: theinnerlifeofballet@gmail.com
I teach workshops, master classes and faculty in-services for ballet schools and companies. These offerings are a wonderful way for students and teachers to get more information about a topic that can't always be explored within the traditional time frame of a ballet class. Also, more of an interactive approach to learning can be utilized, which encourages individual engagement with the material.
Current workshops and master classes include:
Getting Up on the Standing Leg
Activating Turnout on the Pilates Reformer
Hyperextension - Dynamic Cueing Ideas for Dancers and Teachers
Exploring Turnout with the GYROTONIC® Method
Creating Space for Turnout
Faculty in-services are a wonderful way to take a fresh look at an existing curriculum and refine teaching skills. Topics can be customized for your needs and previous topics have included:
Teaching Turnout
Pointe Work Readiness
Breathing, Core Activation, and Alignment
Port de Bras
The Psoas
Arabesque
“It is critical that the dance world become more scientific and thoughtful about how we train young dancers. The demands on their physical structures as performers far surpass anything that has been seen to date, with the expectation that every dancer does every kind of dance… often even in one week or one day! Alicia Head is a guiding force for smart, methodical training that prepares dancers for today’s work. She is an inspiration to dance teachers across the globe, and she makes professional development for pedagogues and students accessible, friendly, and fun.”
Julia Wilkinson Manley
Co-Artistic Director
Colorado Movement Lab | New Paradigm Dance Theater
“Alicia Head’s ‘The Inner Life of Ballet’ workshops are artful and enthusiastic in presentation. The depth and precision of knowledge on the biomechanics of movement, is spot on and extremely effective in physically manifesting movement that considers skeletal limitations and the health of a dancer’s body. I highly recommend Alicia’s workshops as a tool for dancers and teachers to help dancers achieve genuine and anatomically correct movement as they aspire to greater physical prowess as artists and athletes.”