Beginning ballet and burlesque with Miss Dirty Martini

If you have never done ballet but have always wanted to try it, this adult beginner class will leave you feeling encouraged and able!

Miss Dirty Martini is one of the most celebrated burlesque performers in the world, and her ballet training has been a huge part of the style that has led to her success!

This class is designed for anyone who wants to take ballet as an adult in a supportive but serious environment.

Ballet is known for improving students' grace, posture, confidence, and carriage. Plus, with a passionate instructor like this, you know classes will be fun!

Classes are open to all genders and levels of performance experience.

The 60-minute classes are $20 each. Class size is strictly limited. Classes will take place at 440 Lafayette Studios, conveniently located less than a block from the Astor Place 6 train stop. The class starts at 6.30pm and finishes at 7.30pm.

Jo Weldon was recently a featured performer in Margaret Cho's variety show, the Sensuous Woman. She recently served as coach and consultant on the Victor Victrola episode of Gossip Girl. In 2007, the Village Voice named her Best Teacher in their Best of New York issue in Arts and Entertainment. In 2006 she was voted Best Burlesque Teacher and Mentor at the New York Burlesque Festival, and in 2005 she was voted Best Bump N Grinder. She is the judging co-ordinator for the Miss Exotic World Pageant and has been producing at Coney Island's Burlesque at the Beach series for five years. Going back a ways, in the early 1990s she was a feature dancer, traveling across the country with trunks full of props and costumes to headline at strip joints across the US and Canada; she performed her first fan dance in 1991. She also maintains a burlesque blog featuring backstage photos, news items, and interviews at burlesquedaily.blogspot.com.