ADULT BALLET & FITNESS
Fuel your mind, body, and spirit with our adult fitness classes. We focus on overall strength, balance, and flexibility to boost your well-being in every aspect of life.
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
Barre
This total body workout combines the fundamentals of classical ballet with cardio and strength training. The ballet barre is used for support in both static and dynamic movement, which leads to long, lean, sculpted muscles. The cardio boosts your metabolic rate for increased calorie-burn, and the strength training tones and tightens. No dance experience required; all levels welcome. 60 Minutes.
Class Times: Mondays 10:00am, Thursdays 5:30pm
Adult Silver Swans® Ballet
A program licensed through the Royal Academy of Dance (United Kingdom), these ballet classes will help improve your mobility, posture, co-ordination and energy levels. Instruction includes classical ballet steps, positions and technique. Adult students learn French ballet terms and ballet exercises to increase musical awareness, balance, agility and creative movement concepts. All levels welcome! 75 minutes.
Class Times: Tuesdays 5:30pm, Thursdays 10:00am
PRICING + PACKAGES
Barre
$15 Single Class Rate
$50 Monthly (1 time slot, 4 classes)
($12.50 per class, $10 savings)
$90 Monthly (2 time slots, 8 classes)
($11.25 per class, $30 savings)
Adult Silver Swans® Ballet
$18 Single Class Rate
$62 monthly (1 time slot, 4 classes)
($15.50 per class, $10 savings)
$92 monthly (2 time slots, 8 classes)
($11.50 per class, $52 savings)
*Discounts are applied at checkout
**For all monthly class packages, first month will be prorated based on join date and regular payment will be applied with card saved on file on the 1st of each month.
Invest in Your Wellness With
PRIVATE SESSIONS
Take your strength and flexibility to the next level with personalized instruction. Available for up to four people, group rates discounted.
We are also available for retreats and parties!
CHOOSE FROM BARRE, BALLET, MAT PILATES, OR A COMBINATION OF ALL THREE!
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FAQs
What Should I Bring to Class?
Please wear something comfy and plan to be in bare feet during class. Bring a yoga mat and water.
Please wear ballet slippers to Silver Swans Adult Ballet Classes.
How Long Are Classes?
Barre classes are 60 minutes, Silver Swans Adult Ballet Classes are 75 minutes, and Floor Barre® classes are 75 minutes.
Can I Take Barre or Adult Ballet If I’m New to Dance?
Our classes can be modified for all fitness levels, no dance experience is required and all levels welcome.
Where Do Classes Take Place?
Embody Ballet & Fitness boasts the beautiful Orchard Hall as its home. Orchard Hall is a historic building in downtown Fruitland that hosts our classes as well as community events. Our address is 110 SW 3rd St.
With a focus on excellence and quality, our Certified Instructors have decades of dance and fitness experience and will help you develop technique that provides maximum results while honoring the uniqueness of your body.
OUR INSTRUCTORS
Our experienced instructors provide a safe and beautiful setting for your young dancer to grow and thrive. We believe that everything learned in our studio can also be applied to life, and we encourage our students to embody grace both on and off the dance floor.
GAYLE HOWARD
At age 5, Gayle attended a performance of Persephone, fell in love with ballet, and begged her mother to let her take ballet lessons. Her first role in a performance was as a court jester in Swan Lake. She danced ballet for 14 years with the Ballet Folk school and junior company in Moscow, Idaho under a number of gifted instructors, and for 2 years as a professional with the American Festival Ballet (now Ballet Idaho) in Boise, Idaho.
Gayle holds a number of certifications, her most recent being a Zena Rommett Floor-Barre® license. She brings to the Studio more than 16 years of ballet experience, a degree in elementary education, over 25 years of fitness instruction, and a passion for the life, growth, and well-being of everyone who she is blessed to serve. Gayle and her husband, Rick, have been married for 38 years, and take great delight in their 4 children and 9 grandchildren.
LARYSSA RICE
Laryssa started her ballet training in Eastern Oregon at age 3. She moved to Boise as a young teen to attend dance classes at BSU under the direction of Marla Hansen and Capitol City Youth Ballet under the direction of Sara Phipps.
While attending BSU, she danced with Idaho Dance Theater and many student repertory performances, where she was able to work with different choreographers and dancers. Laryssa also won scholarships to dance intensives, such as Summer Dancefest, Summer Dance Lab and CSI/IDAA camps. Laryssa danced with Sacramento Ballet for two seasons, before moving back to Idaho to teach dance.
Laryssa has taught at many studios in the Treasure Valley and is very happy to be teaching in Payette County which she now calls home!
OUR STUDIO
Our beautiful studio is located in downtown Fruitland in a remodeled historic building. Our dance space was designed with Embody Ballet & Fitness in mind, with sprung flooring, a large barre, and plenty of sunlight!
