Year-Round Classes
Students can join at anytime.
At NCB we strive to develop a love of dance, accurate technique, and, should a student wish to do so, all of the foundation skills and knowledge necessary to pursue a professional career in dance. At the same time, we take care to provide a healthy environment for growth, nurturing an attitude of team work and cooperation as a path to the confidence, grace and strength required for success throughout all of life’s adventures. In this, dance is a model of life.
Classes are offered for ages 4 to adult.
Classes for beginning students are offered Tuesdays from 4-5pm.
Classes for experienced students are offered on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Classical Ballet dress code is required.
Black leotard, pink tights, pink ballet shoes. Hair in a bun.
OR
White t-shirt, black tights, white shoes with white socks.
Our teaching staff
Trudi Angel is the Artistic Director for Northern California Ballet. She danced with the Munich State Opera-Ballet Company (now the Bavarian National Ballet) and the Los Angeles Ballet. For the last twenty years she has been continuously growing and improving Northern California Ballet. During that time she has choreographed numerous full length classical ballets and has brought them to several northern California communities.
Leslie DeWitt is NCB’s instructor for Pre-Ballet. Ms. DeWitt holds a California Teaching Credential and specializes as an instructor for the very young in musical and rhythmic movement.
Trisha Young is the director for NCB’s Oroville Studio. Upon finding Northern California Ballet, Trisha was inspired to come out of peaceful retirement, dust off knowledge and experience, and take a part in nurturing upcoming dancers. Her own formative years were under the tutelage of Hanna Fischer Hauser (from the Nationale Opera, Munich, Germany) who imparted classical ballet, character, modern and choreographic techniques. Though remembering classes with Gail Grant, George Zoritch, etc., she meticulously chose instructors whom she thought could teach her the most while she enjoyed a wonderful dance career. It was a natural progression from dancer to soloist to choreographer with the Toledo Opera and soloist with the Dayton Opera, prima ballerina with the International Ballet Company, soloist with Byrne Miller (modern) Dance Theater while expanding into television and musicals. Later, while director of her own ballet school, she choreographed for a university dance team, was instrumental in developing a community wide dance program to enhance dance education (Discover Dance) and created dance experiences for elementary school enrichment courses. In more recent years Trisha choreographed “South Pacific,” “Kismet” and “The Music Man” for performances at Oroville’s beautiful State Theater. Though performing was always rewarding, Trisha found assisting others to grow through dance was an even greater joy.