Ballet Academy & Movement is Coming to RSM

For Competitive & High School Dancers

If your dancer is on a competition team, a high school dance team, or in musical theater, they are getting plenty of reps. What most of them are not getting is the classical foundation that decides how far they can actually go.

Turnout, alignment, extension, control, clean lines — all of it comes from ballet, and all of it transfers to every other style. Judges see line and control before they see choreography. So do college programs and casting directors.

We are not asking anyone to leave their team. Some of our strongest dancers train with us for technique and compete somewhere else entirely. Supplemental ballet is one of the fastest ways to watch a dancer jump a level, and it is the single most common thing serious teen dancers tell us they wish they had started sooner.

When we open in Fall 2026, we’ll be serving dancers from Rancho Santa Margarita, Coto de Caza, Ladera Ranch, Mission Viejo, Trabuco Canyon, Dove Canyon, Las Flores, and Rancho Mission Viejo — communities that have never had a dedicated classical ballet academy of this caliber within an easy drive.

Every member of our faculty has danced professionally. That matters more than it might sound: technique taught by someone who has performed it at a professional level is taught differently, and it holds up as a dancer advances.

We keep class sizes small. Every dancer gets corrections by name, every week. Our curriculum is built on a classical ballet foundation and extends into jazz, tap, hip hop, contemporary, musical theater, and cheer — so a student can explore widely without losing technical ground.

We are also, deliberately, a kind place. Our students describe the studio as a second home, and parents consistently tell us their dancers grew in confidence before they grew in technique. That culture is the thing we are most careful to carry with us to Rancho Santa Margarita.

Our RSM location will offer dance classes for ages 3 through adult, from first-time recreational dancers to pre-professional students preparing for company auditions and summer intensives. Dancers ready for a serious commitment can audition for our Company and competitive program, and every student takes part in our annual performances, including our Nutcracker and spring productions.

We are actively shaping the RSM class schedule around the families who join our Early Access list. If you tell us which programs, days, and times work for you, we will build around it.