Where dance begins.
For children from 3 to 6. One or two hours a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. No audition: you enrol, and the class begins.
The programme
Pre Ballet is where a child meets dance for the first time — not as a performance to be perfected, but as a language: rhythm, space, listening, and the pleasure of moving with other children. It is the entrance to the school, and the ground everything after it is built on.
The first positions in their simplest form, how to hold a shape, how to find the beat in a piece of music, how to cross a room without bumping into anyone — and how a ballet class works: where to stand, when to listen, how to greet the teacher.
Through games, images and stories. At this age a plié can be a lift closing its doors and a jump can be a rabbit. The technique underneath is real and it is classical; the way in is play. Groups stay small, so every child is seen in every class.
At seven, children move up to Elementary, where work at the barre begins in earnest. Pre Ballet is not a waiting room: the coordination, the musicality and the habits of the studio built here are what make that step possible.
One hour
Every class follows the same four parts, in the same order. Children this age learn through repetition, and knowing what comes next is what lets them relax into it.
The class begins sitting down: names, shoes, hair, and the first listening exercise. Five minutes that turn a group of children into a class.
Stretch and strength sitting and lying down — feet, back, the first sense of turnout. This is where a body learns to hold a straight line.
Skipping, galloping, marching and jumping from corner to corner, in time with the music: direction, coordination, and the courage to cross a room alone.
The last part is danced — a character, a story, a piece of music. The class closes with the reverence, the bow every ballet class in the world ends with.
Ages 3 – 6
Between three and six a child is building the things everything else will stand on: a sense of space, control of their own body, the patience to wait, and the first idea of doing something together. A ballet class is one of the few places where all of that is trained at the same time — and where it feels like playing.
At this age a child is still drawing the map: where their body ends, where the wall is, which way is front, where everyone else is standing. It is the age of bumping into things and of not knowing which way to turn.
In the studioA ballet class is a room with directions — corners, lines, circles, front and back. Children learn to place themselves in it, and to keep their place while everything around them moves.
Arms doing one thing while the legs do another. One side crossing over to the other. A movement that has to land on a particular beat. Coordination is not automatic at three: it is learned, and it is learned by doing it.
In the studioEvery exercise is arms, legs and music together. Skipping, galloping and the first port de bras train exactly that — and a child reads all of it as a game.
Attention is short at three and grows slowly. Listening to a whole instruction, staying still, waiting while another child crosses the room: these are skills, and every classroom they ever sit in will ask for them.
In the studioThe class always has the same shape, so a small child knows what comes next — and knowing is what makes waiting possible. It becomes easy long before anyone calls it discipline.
This is the age when a child stops playing beside other children and starts playing with them: sharing a space, taking a hand, agreeing on a rule and keeping it.
In the studioNothing in a ballet class happens alone — circles, lines, pairs, the whole group finishing on the same count. The rules come from the dance itself, not from an adult repeating them.
A dance only works if everyone arrives at the same moment. That is a child's first real experience of a team: not competing against anyone, but being depended on.
In the studioOne child rushing changes the picture for all of them. They learn to look, to listen and to adjust — and to be proud of something that belongs to the whole group.
Music is arithmetic you can hear: counts of eight, halves, repetition, symmetry, patterns that come back. It is the same reasoning that mathematics will ask for a few years later.
In the studioChildren count a phrase, split it, repeat it, mirror it left and right. Pattern recognition, well before anyone gives it that name.
None of it is taught as a subject. It is taught as a ballet class.
Times and fees
The same class, the same teachers and the same group. What changes is how often your child dances each week.
One hour a week is the usual way in for children starting at three.
Two hours give the repetition that fixes what is learned, and it is the rhythm of Elementary.
Fees for the 2026/2027 season. The registration fee is paid once and is not refundable. Ask the school office about the discounts: they are applied at enrolment.
Before enrolling
The surest way to know whether Pre Ballet suits your child is to let them dance one class with the group they would join.
For a trial class, contact us. Tell us your child's age and which day suits you — Tuesday or Thursday — and we will place them in a class that same week. The trial class costs 12.75 €, paid by card when you book it. Online booking is on its way; for now the school office arranges every trial by phone, WhatsApp or email.
The season
Classes run from September to June, following the school calendar. These are the dates families need in the diary.
Families meet the teachers, the year is laid out and questions are answered before the first class.
The first Pre Ballet class of the season.
Families come into the studio and watch a class from inside.
Auditori de Terrassa. Every group in the school takes part. Dates to be confirmed by the theatre.
A second class open to families, near the end of the year.
The last regular class of the season.
The big one: the whole school on stage at the Auditori de Terrassa. Dates still to be confirmed.
Practical
Small things, but they are what makes a class run — and what a three-year-old needs in order to feel safe in it.
The supplier of the school uniform for Pre Ballet, Elementary and the pre-professional programmes is being confirmed for this season. We will tell you which one it is, and where to buy it, before classes begin.
Four things in the bag, every class.
The studio has few rules, and they are the same for every group in the school.
Nobody is marked down for missing a class. But dance is built on repetition, and the stage has its own requirements.
Constant communication with families is one of the school's stated values, and this is what it looks like in practice.
Who teaches
She takes the youngest groups of the school, and also teaches Pre-Professional 2 Intermediate and the advanced adult class. The same teacher follows the children from their first class through to Elementary.
Questions
No. Pre Ballet is the beginning: most children arrive with no experience at all, and the class is built on that assumption.
No. Pre Ballet has no audition and no entry test. You enrol, and the class begins.
No — three is where the group starts. What we ask of a three-year-old is different from what we ask of a six-year-old, and the class is planned for both.
Elementary, for ages 7 to 10. If you are on the line between the two, call the school and we will place them after seeing a class.
Often, yes — it depends on how full the group is. Ask the school office and we will tell you what is free right now.
No. The 65 € registration fee is paid once per season and is not refundable.
Pre Ballet runs on Tuesdays, with the second hour on Thursdays. Those are the days for this group; other programmes in the school run on other days.
School office
Generalitat de Catalunya Escola Ballet de Catalunya is a private education centre registered with the Departament d'Educació i Formació Professional of the Generalitat de Catalunya, centre code 08079584, for non-regulated dance education. Resolució EDF/4452/2025 of 20 November 2025 (DOGC) · Serveis Territorials del Vallès Occidental · Titular: Fundació Ballet de Catalunya, NIF G66776212.
