Ballet Beans (at Pure Yoga West)

Ballet Beans (also known as Ballet with Maegan) are dance classes for children ages 2 to 6, held in the Pure Yoga West studios in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The ballet instructor, Maegan Woodin, is a professional dancer and teacher at Juliette and Ella's Playdate—another parent-favorite children's class—and is passionate about teaching your kids basic ballet vocabulary, posture, and alignment. In Ballet with Maegan, dancers explore circle stretches, story dances, rhythm exercises, traveling steps, and some free-form improvisation. Children practice moving as a group, cooperating, and following directions (as well as body part/spacial awareness and following directions) as they perform story dances and express themselves creatively with a variety of music.