10 Things our Families love about KP Ballet

From the start, we’ve been a ballet-oriented academy, staffed with true professionals who know how to teach proper (and safe!) ballet technique, with magical performing opportunities in front of big, enthusiastic audiences.  Yes, that’s important, but we knew our families wanted more — a studio where everyone from the littlest to high school dancers is inspired; where they learn and grow in confidence in a place that’s fun and safe, where they have strong friendships; a place where respect, kindness, inclusiveness, and encouragement are both expected and found. A place where dreams come true and cups are filled.​

KP Ballet has two different dance companies, providing our dancers magical performing opportunities. Delaware Valley Ballet Theater (DVBT) is our classical ballet dance company. Every dancer  — from youngest to our graduating seniors – is invited to perform in our DVBT classical ballet productions, like the Nutcracker and Swan Lake. Our contemporary company is called Delaware Valley Ballet Contemporary (DVBC). Dancers starting at age eight can join DVBC and be trained in modern, jazz and contemporary technique so they can perform in our wide repertoire of DVBC productions.

We’re passionate about our culture of kindness. At KP Ballet the dancers are kind and encouraging to one another, there’s no bullying, and our dancers are passionate about keeping our culture of kindness. We require that everyone treat one another with respect, kindness and inclusiveness, and we talk about how dancers can be kind and inclusive with one another.

We believe in connections, relationship-building and community. So, we create lots of opportunities in and outside of ballet classes to build friendships – we host social events at the studio such as dessert parties, stage make-up parties, movie nights, and much more. There’s also opportunities for dancers to give back and support worthy causes such as the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.

Our graduates take many different paths.  Some dancers going on to college love ballet so much that they keep it in their lives by majoring or minoring in dance.  A few love it so much they go on to dance in a professional ballet company.  However, we know that most of our graduates will choose to take different paths not associated with ballet, and we design our program so that while they’re at KP Ballet, their dreams can come true and they can graduate feeling like they’ve experienced being in a real ballet company dancing leading roles.  And after that, they’re off to conquer the world!

Many other programs require elementary aged dancers to take two classes per week and to rehearse for productions all day Saturday and/or Sunday.  We don’t do that because specialization at such a young age isn’t healthy and we know that dancers need other activities and experiences to enrich their lives, AND because we know how to mount an amazing quasi-professional ballet without asking dancers to spend every weekend in the studios!