3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Creative movement
Mariyah Embry · Front studio
Dance classes in Athens, Ohio
Dance classes for every way of moving
Three children and their teacher stretch their arms out wide in a movement class at Jete, a neighborhood studio on North Court Street. We teach creative movement, ballet and tap, and jazz and hip hop, and we run an adaptive class for dancers who use wheelchairs, walkers or other ways of moving.
Classes
Four classes, one studio
Choose by age. Every class starts with a trial, and the adaptive class sits on the same schedule as the rest.
Ages 3 to 5Creative movement
Scarves, hoops and songs, with a grown-up waiting in the family room. Forty-five minutes of marching, skipping and taking turns.
Creative movement
Ages 6 to 12Ballet and tap
A first barre and a first pair of tap shoes, with one short combination to learn each month.
Ballet and tap
Ages 6 to 12Jazz and hip hop
Music with a beat, a warm-up that moves, and a short routine the class shares at the end.
Jazz and hip hop
Ages 6 to 14Adaptive dance
A class planned around dancers who use wheelchairs, walkers or other ways of moving, with two teachers on the floor.
Adaptive dance
Adaptive dance
A class built around the dancers in it
Dancers use wheelchairs, walkers or other ways of moving, and every step has more than one way to be danced.
Adaptive dance has its own place on the schedule and its own teachers. The class opens in a circle, moves through a warm-up and a floor combination, and ends with a dance the group shares. Tell us about your child at the trial class, in person or by phone.
Ages 6 to 14, in two groups
Classes of up to 8
A ramp, wide doors and one level floor
Fall session schedule
Choose a day, then a class by age or by style.
Fall session
Showing 10 of 10
Monday
4:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Ballet and tap
Willem Bakker · Front studio
Tuesday
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Adaptive dance
Mariyah Embry and Shalini Nambiar · Front studio
5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Ballet and tap
Willem Bakker · Front studio
Wednesday
3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Creative movement
Mariyah Embry · Front studio
3 to 5Full4:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Jazz and hip hop
Shalini Nambiar · Back studio
Thursday
4:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Jazz and hip hop
Shalini Nambiar · Back studio
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Adaptive dance
Mariyah Embry and Shalini Nambiar · Front studio
Saturday
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Creative movement
Mariyah Embry · Front studio
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Ballet and tap
Willem Bakker · Front studio
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Sample classes.
Times shift a little from one session to the next.
Who is in the room
Adults to children
1 adult to 5 children
Ages 3 to 5
Class size: 10
1 adult to 6 children
Ages 6 to 8
Class size: 12
1 adult to 8 children
Ages 9 to 12
Class size: 12
1 adult to 4 children
Adaptive class, ages 6 to 14
Class size: 8
Class size
Up to 12 children
Ages 3 to 14
Staff checks and training
- Background checks
- CPR and first aid
Safety routines
Grown-ups of dancers ages 3 to 5
A parent or guardian stays in the building for every creative movement class, and the teacher hands each child back to a named grown-up at the door.
A floor for every way of moving
Both studios are on one level. The entrance has a ramp, and the doors are wide enough for a wheelchair or a walker.
Telling us what helps
Tell us what would help your dancer at the trial class, in person or by phone. We ask privately, never on the website form.
Sample details.
The teachers
Three teachers share the week at Jete, and each has a background check and CPR and first aid training.
Mariyah Embry
Director, creative movement and adaptive dance
Mariyah founded Jete and directs the studio. She teaches creative movement, leads the adaptive class, and is the teacher you meet at the door of a trial class.
Shalini Nambiar
Jazz and hip hop, adaptive class assistant
Shalini teaches the jazz and hip hop classes. In the adaptive class she works on the floor beside Mariyah, so every dancer has a teacher close by.
Willem Bakker
Ballet and tap
Willem teaches the ballet and tap classes. He keeps the barre at child height and teaches one new combination a month.
What families write
“My daughter likes the Monday ballet class because the barre is low and the combination is short. She practices it on the stairs at home.”
Naina P.Parent of a seven-year-old
“We came to the adaptive class on a Tuesday. Mariyah asked my son how he likes to move before she asked anything else, and he has asked about Thursday ever since.”
Kyndall B.Parent of a ten-year-old
“I waited in the family room with a book and heard the music through the door. She came out humming it and asked what day it was.”
Hayeon L.Parent of a five-year-old
Sample reviews.
Try a class
Pick a class from the schedule and book a trial on our registration page. Wear something you can move in; socks are fine.
Phone(740) 555-0100
Hours
- Monday to ThursdayToday
- 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- SaturdayToday
- 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Friday and SundayToday
- Closed