Supplemental dance training for serious dancers
A training program for serious dancers ages 9–18, designed to be added on top of a primary studio, not instead of it. One teacher. One Program. One-year plan per dancer.
Not a school.
Parallel coaching.
The Dance Lab is an audition-only training program designed to be added on top of your dancer’s primary studio.
We don’t replace the studio your dancer already loves. We complement it. The dancer keeps their recital, their competition team, and their studio friends. They come here for the technical depth, the conditioning, and the audition-cycle coaching that a multi-genre studio doesn’t have the schedule to deliver.
Twenty dancers across two leveled tracks. Saturdays, mornings, and a small set of varying private lesson windows, designed to fit around what she’s already doing, never against it.
Two tracks. Same monthly investment. Different developmental focus.
Foundation
- 2 Saturday Company Classes per month
- 2 included private coaching sessions per month
- Unlimited Conditioning Barre access
- Pre-pointe and pointe preparation
- Foundational technique, musicality, performance quality
- 4 Open Intensives per year included
Acceleration
- 2 Saturday Company Classes per month
- 2 included private coaching sessions per month
- Unlimited Conditioning Barre access
- Pointe, variations, audition preparation
- Advanced technique and artistry
- 4 Open Intensives per year included
Age ranges are estimates. Dancers may enter or move between Tracks based on ability and progress at the discretion of the coach. Three payment options: pay annually, pay monthly across the program year, or spread payments across all twelve months. Same total either way.
How auditions work.
Applications for the inaugural cohort open and close on dates to be announced. Acceptances and waitlist offers follow shortly after.
Apply
Submit the application form with parent and dancer responses.
Audition / Interview
A 30-minute placement audition and a short interview. Black leotard, pink tights, pointe shoes if applicable.
Decision
Acceptances and waitlist offers go out ahead of the program start. Programming begins the second week of August.
Two intensives this summer. Open enrollment.
Long enough to actually work. Small enough to actually be coached. The best way to meet Jessica and see how the room works before applying for the fall cohort.
2.5 hour class including barre, center technique, and choreography. Capped at 30 dancers.
Same structure as the first class. New material, new combinations. If you can’t make the first date or want to come to both, this one fills second.
Jessica Turner
Jessica Turner trained in classical ballet on a pre-professional track, studying with Auburn Ballet School, Alabama Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, and Joffrey Ballet. She began teaching while still in college and has spent more than 20 years working with dancers as a studio owner, ballet teacher, and producer of multiple Nutcracker productions.
Over the years, she has learned that no two dancers are the same. What Jessica does best is see the individual dancer, their strengths, their artistry, and the potential that may not have fully surfaced yet. She doesn’t teach dancers as a group; she teaches the dancer standing in front of her.
Questions parents are asking.
No. The program is designed specifically to fit alongside primary studio commitments. We will not accept a dancer whose primary studio relationship is in poor standing.
Because we cap enrollment at 20 and we want every dancer in the room to be ready for the work. The audition is a placement check, not a competition.
Because that’s the primary studio’s territory. We run an annual Studio Showing instead, informal, in-studio, no costumes, families welcome.
Annual commitment language lives in the handbook. We expect attendance at all required Saturday Company classes and scheduled privates.
Yes. Conditioning Barre is open to public.
Three: pay the full annual at enrollment ($3,950), pay monthly across the program year ($395 / mo, August–May), or spread evenly across all twelve months ($329 / mo, year-round). Same annual total in every case.
Twenty dancers. One teacher. Year-round.
Applications for the inaugural cohort open soon. Join the list and you’ll be the first to know.
Start your application