Classes
Minimum age: 16
Tuesday : Floor Barre
- Level: General
- Time: 10:00-11.30
- Fee: £12
Floor Barre with Alice Crawford
Biography
Alice Crawford began her ballet training with Janie Harris before gaining a place at the Royal Ballet School. Whilst a student she received the Markova-Bagrit award and performed the role of The Young Girl in The Two Pigeons at The Royal Opera House.
Upon graduating Alice joined English National Ballet where she rose through the ranks to senior soloist. She danced a large and diverse number of roles, most notably creating the role of Alice in Derek Deane’s Alice in Wonderland. Also performing the role of Clara, to critical acclaim, in numerous productions of The Nutcracker.
During her years as a dancer Alice had the great fortune to be coached and mentored by the world renowned teacher and author, Maria Fay. Over the course of many years working with professional dancers around the world, Maria devised her unique floor barre technique. It is this work that Alice now teaches, in conjunction with classical ballet, in both dance companies and vocational schools.
Alice also works extensively in rehabilitation for dancers returning from injury, private mentoring and coaching, master classes and adult ballet.
It is a joy for Alice to share her extreme love for ballet and wealth of experiences with all those, both young and old, who have a desire and passion to dance.
Class Description
Alice’s floor barre was developed and taught to her by the world renowned ballet teacher, Madame Maria Fay. It is a system based on and complimenting a classical ballet technique. Contrary to other conditioning and workout programmes the floor barre is designed particularly to serve the needs of a dancer. Vital in helping to correct postural faults, shaping and strengthening the physique, enhancing the flexibility of the body as well as aiding and supporting dancer’s’ technique and stamina. It is extremely satisfying for dancers and students, helping raise confidence in their body awareness and ability.
