Private Ballet Lessons with Kat Wildish

Introduction: Kat Wildish is a multi-level ballet and pointe technique teacher, mentor, and coach for professionals and students of all ages and levels, including YAGP onsite coaching based in New York City. She has performed with New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, and numerous major international ballet companies . She has trained teachers for the Dance Educators of America and Faculty of Education Royal Academy of Dance , UK She is an ABT® Certified Teacher, in Primary through Level 7, including Parterning and Pointe of the ABT® National Training Curriculum .A two-time recipient of the prestigious Ford Foundation Scholarship, she did her early training at the School of American Ballet. As if January 2014 Adjunct Professor Pace University NYC /Commercial Dance Currently, also a resident faculty member and Master Teacher at the Alvin Ailey Extension Program, one of the country's top education centers for dance, she produces and directs 9 sold out theatrical student dance showcase performances each year, staging classical repertoire for her adult ballet students while inviting popular dance companies and groups from all over the world to perform. She also teaches privately and coaches young dancers competing in the Youth America Grand Prix Finals held in NYC and throughout the country. Kat’s teaching has been featured in The New York Times and she has appeared in issues of Dance Teacher Magazine and Pointe Magazine. As a popular guest instructor, she has taught nationally across the US (most recently Lexington,Chicago, Phoenix,NJ,PA) and all around the world including Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Reunion Island, Brazil and each summer in Italy. Her classes are very danceable, with a classic sense of line, musicality, placement, and style. The barre exercises are not just a warm-up series, but are anatomically sound and designed to prevent injuries, improve, and heal the body. All parts of the dancer are exercised to promote harmony of movement according to each individual's level of training and ability in a non-competitive atmosphere. Sept 2014 Kat Celebrates 40yrs of her teaching passion