Upcoming Classes
Gradient Dance strives to make dance accessible to all. One of the ways we do this is by removing the economic barrier that can exclude dancers from the studio. Your support gives the gift of dance education and training to many in our community. Thank you for your gift!
Help us keep our classes accessible!
Upcoming Classes and Events
Join us for our weekly class offerings and ‘Dance Bite’ micro-series. Keep and eye on our social media for the most up to date information about health or weather cancelations.
Questions about what to wear for class? Be sure to check the class description or feel free contact us!
Pilates Mat with Grace
Join Grace Kurosaka for a Pilates Mat class. Limited mats are available, please consider bringing your own.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!
Open Level Ballet
Join us for an open level ballet class. Some dance experience is encouraged but not required. Ballet slippers, socks, and pointe shoes are all welcome. Dancers can wear close fitting athletic attire, or their favorite tights and leotard. This class is perfect for dancers looking to get back into ballet.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!
Return to Pointe
Join us for ‘Return to Pointe.’ This class is perfect for dancers hoping to return to pointe, regain strength, and perfect the basics. Dancers should expect to stay at the barre for most of class.
Requirements:
- prior pointe experience if dancing in pointe shoes, on flat if no prior experience.
- attendance of the ballet class immediately preceding this class
- Gradient teachers reserve the right to advise dancers to take this class on flat
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Mid-Day Flow
Join us for a gentle but challenging contemporary class dancers are given a mix of explorative improv and a building combination. Dancers should wear comfortable clothes that allow them to move freely, footwear should be socks or barefoot.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!
Pilates Mat with Grace
Join Grace Kurosaka for a Pilates Mat class. Limited mats are available, please consider bringing your own.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!
Pilates Mat with Grace
Join Grace Kurosaka for a Pilates Mat class. Limited mats are available, please consider bringing your own.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Mid-Day Flow
Join us for a gentle but challenging contemporary class dancers are given a mix of explorative improv and a building combination. Dancers should wear comfortable clothes that allow them to move freely, footwear should be socks or barefoot.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!
Pilates Mat with Grace
Join Grace Kurosaka for a Pilates Mat class. Limited mats are available, please consider bringing your own.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Workshop with Babatunji Johnson
Join us for a two day workshop with Babatunji Johnson! This workshop will include ballet, breaking, floorwork, and contemporary movement.
Friday 5/23 4pm-8:30pm
Saturday 5/24 10:30am-4:30pm
At Encore Performance Company studios in Vestavia Hills Alabama.
About the Artist:
Babatunji is a dance artist, choreographer, and creative innovator based out of Oakland. Though never formally trained as a child, Babatunji was always moving his body to the beat. At the age of 15, he discovered the art of hip hop. Following this epiphany of love, he grew up through his teens breaking and popping on street corners in Hilo, Hawai’i. After being “discovered” by a local dance instructor, he began his formal training in various styles of dance, including ballet. This would inevitably lead him to Lines Ballet’s Training Program, and from there into the company.
For over a decade he has worked with one of the greatest American choreographers, Alonzo King. As a freelance dancer, Babatunji has worked with companies Post:ballet, Ishida Dance Company, SFDanceworks, tinypistol, Ballare Carmel; as well as performed works by choreographers and artist such as Adji Cissoko, Yue Yin, Danielle Rowe, Brett Conway, Rich and Tone Talauega, David Harvey, Mike Tyus, Vân-Ánh Võ. Additionally, his work for film includes features in Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs’ Blindspotting on Starz, as well as Misty Copeland’s short art film Flower. In 2015 Babatunji was given a Princess Grace Award, as well as a Chris Hellman Award for his outstanding achievements and promise in the world of dance.
Over the past 8 years, Babatunji has developed a unique movement language, blending his background in ballet, contemporary, breaking, and hip hop. He has choreographed for Berkeley Ballet Theater, Boston Dance Theater, Post:ballet, Trolley Dance, SFDanceworks, ZiRu Dance, among other Bay Area companies. As a solo artist, Babatunji has performed internationally, collaborating with visual, sound, and technical artists of countless genres. His work has been seen at Museum of Dance, Lion’s Jaw performance + dance festival, København Danser, and SFJazz in collaboration with Terri Lyne Carrington.
He is immensely grateful to his mom for providing him with every opportunity and the guidance of her wisdom along the way.

Workshop with Babatunji Johnson
Join us for a two day workshop with Babatunji Johnson! This workshop will include ballet, breaking, floorwork, and contemporary movement.
Friday 5/23 4pm-8:30pm
Saturday 5/24 10:30am-4:30pm
At Encore Performance Company studios in Vestavia Hills Alabama.
About the Artist:
Babatunji is a dance artist, choreographer, and creative innovator based out of Oakland. Though never formally trained as a child, Babatunji was always moving his body to the beat. At the age of 15, he discovered the art of hip hop. Following this epiphany of love, he grew up through his teens breaking and popping on street corners in Hilo, Hawai’i. After being “discovered” by a local dance instructor, he began his formal training in various styles of dance, including ballet. This would inevitably lead him to Lines Ballet’s Training Program, and from there into the company.
For over a decade he has worked with one of the greatest American choreographers, Alonzo King. As a freelance dancer, Babatunji has worked with companies Post:ballet, Ishida Dance Company, SFDanceworks, tinypistol, Ballare Carmel; as well as performed works by choreographers and artist such as Adji Cissoko, Yue Yin, Danielle Rowe, Brett Conway, Rich and Tone Talauega, David Harvey, Mike Tyus, Vân-Ánh Võ. Additionally, his work for film includes features in Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs’ Blindspotting on Starz, as well as Misty Copeland’s short art film Flower. In 2015 Babatunji was given a Princess Grace Award, as well as a Chris Hellman Award for his outstanding achievements and promise in the world of dance.
Over the past 8 years, Babatunji has developed a unique movement language, blending his background in ballet, contemporary, breaking, and hip hop. He has choreographed for Berkeley Ballet Theater, Boston Dance Theater, Post:ballet, Trolley Dance, SFDanceworks, ZiRu Dance, among other Bay Area companies. As a solo artist, Babatunji has performed internationally, collaborating with visual, sound, and technical artists of countless genres. His work has been seen at Museum of Dance, Lion’s Jaw performance + dance festival, København Danser, and SFJazz in collaboration with Terri Lyne Carrington.
He is immensely grateful to his mom for providing him with every opportunity and the guidance of her wisdom along the way.

Mid-Day Flow
Join us for a gentle but challenging contemporary class dancers are given a mix of explorative improv and a building combination. Dancers should wear comfortable clothes that allow them to move freely, footwear should be socks or barefoot.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!
Pilates Mat with Grace
Join Grace Kurosaka for a Pilates Mat class. Limited mats are available, please consider bringing your own.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Mid-Day Flow
Join us for a gentle but challenging contemporary class dancers are given a mix of explorative improv and a building combination. Dancers should wear comfortable clothes that allow them to move freely, footwear should be socks or barefoot.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Contemporary
Join us for contemporary class. This class usually has floor work, so full length pants are encouraged!
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Intermediate Ballet
Join us for a fun beginner to intermediate level ballet class. Often paired with fun music, this class will help stretch your foundational ballet vocabulary and give you new skills to chew on. We recommend close fitting athletic attire for this class so that we can assist in proper alignment. Socks are welcome but ballet shoes are preferred.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Jock Jamz Jazz
Join Haley Hoppe for this energetic ‘Dance Bite!” This class will focus on fun movements that pump up the jam! Dancers should wear comfortable clothes they can freely move in. Foot wear can be sock, bare, ballet, or jazz shoes.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!
Return to Pointe
Join us for ‘Return to Pointe.’ This class is perfect for dancers hoping to return to pointe, regain strength, and perfect the basics. Dancers should expect to stay at the barre for most of class.
Requirements:
- prior pointe experience if dancing in pointe shoes, on flat if no prior experience.
- attendance of the ballet class immediately preceding this class
- Gradient teachers reserve the right to advise dancers to take this class on flat
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!
Open Level Ballet
Join us for an open level ballet class. Some dance experience is encouraged but not required. Ballet slippers, socks, and pointe shoes are all welcome. Dancers can wear close fitting athletic attire, or their favorite tights and leotard. This class is perfect for dancers looking to get back into ballet.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Mid-Day Flow
Join us for a gentle but challenging contemporary class dancers are given a mix of explorative improv and a building combination. Dancers should wear comfortable clothes that allow them to move freely, footwear should be socks or barefoot.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Contemporary
Join us for contemporary class. This class usually has floor work, so full length pants are encouraged!
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Intermediate Ballet
Join us for a fun beginner to intermediate level ballet class. Often paired with fun music, this class will help stretch your foundational ballet vocabulary and give you new skills to chew on. We recommend close fitting athletic attire for this class so that we can assist in proper alignment. Socks are welcome but ballet shoes are preferred.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Jazz
Join Rosalie Anthony for a two week ‘Dance Bite’ series. Dancers can wear close fitting athletic attire as well as jazz shoes, jazz heels, and socks. This class is perfect for dancers who have some jazz knowledge and are looking to deepen it.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This series is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try one class before they join!
Return to Pointe
Join us for ‘Return to Pointe.’ This class is perfect for dancers hoping to return to pointe, regain strength, and perfect the basics. Dancers should expect to stay at the barre for most of class.
Requirements:
- prior pointe experience if dancing in pointe shoes, on flat if no prior experience.
- attendance of the ballet class immediately preceding this class
- Gradient teachers reserve the right to advise dancers to take this class on flat
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!
Open Level Ballet
Join us for an open level ballet class. Some dance experience is encouraged but not required. Ballet slippers, socks, and pointe shoes are all welcome. Dancers can wear close fitting athletic attire, or their favorite tights and leotard. This class is perfect for dancers looking to get back into ballet.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!
Pilates Mat with Grace
Join Grace Kurosaka for a Pilates Mat class. Limited mats are available, please consider bringing your own.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Mid-Day Flow
Join us for a gentle but challenging contemporary class dancers are given a mix of explorative improv and a building combination. Dancers should wear comfortable clothes that allow them to move freely, footwear should be socks or barefoot.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Contemporary
Join us for contemporary class. This class usually has floor work, so full length pants are encouraged!
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Intermediate Ballet
Join us for a fun beginner to intermediate level ballet class. Often paired with fun music, this class will help stretch your foundational ballet vocabulary and give you new skills to chew on. We recommend close fitting athletic attire for this class so that we can assist in proper alignment. Socks are welcome but ballet shoes are preferred.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Floor Play
Join guest choreographer Erin for Floor Play! Floor play melds together creative movement, dance, yoga to offer student an embodied and somatic experience. This class will utilize the power of breath connection and simple and repetitive movement to help you drop out of the mind and into your body.
No dance experience is necessary, come with an open mind and heart! Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat or blanket if you have one.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Joyful Joints
Joyful Joints is a 60 min GYROKINESIS® class focused on unfurling locked energy in your joints. Classes utilize stools, yoga mats and other accessories in order to gain greater fluidity.
These classes can be adapted to fit anyone's ability. People from all walks of life use methods found in Joyful Joints, including accomplished athletes, fitness enthusiasts, senior citizens and people recovering from an injury or dealing with a disability. By the end of this movement session, one's entire system is awakened and brought into greater balance. Focusing on the breath stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system resulting in a sense of calm, well-being and mental clarity.
Walking away from this class you will feel reawakened for the work day or wherever your day leads you.

Mid-Day Flow
Join us for a gentle but challenging contemporary class dancers are given a mix of explorative improv and a building combination. Dancers should wear comfortable clothes that allow them to move freely, footwear should be socks or barefoot.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Contemporary
Join us for contemporary class. This class usually has floor work, so full length pants are encouraged!
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Intermediate Ballet
Join us for a fun beginner to intermediate level ballet class. Often paired with fun music, this class will help stretch your foundational ballet vocabulary and give you new skills to chew on. We recommend close fitting athletic attire for this class so that we can assist in proper alignment. Socks are welcome but ballet shoes are preferred.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Floor Play
Join guest choreographer Erin for Floor Play! Floor play melds together creative movement, dance, yoga to offer student an embodied and somatic experience. This class will utilize the power of breath connection and simple and repetitive movement to help you drop out of the mind and into your body.
No dance experience is necessary, come with an open mind and heart! Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat or blanket if you have one.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!
Return to Pointe
Join us for ‘Return to Pointe.’ This class is perfect for dancers hoping to return to pointe, regain strength, and perfect the basics. Dancers should expect to stay at the barre for most of class.
Requirements:
- prior pointe experience if dancing in pointe shoes, on flat if no prior experience.
- attendance of the ballet class immediately preceding this class
- Gradient teachers reserve the right to advise dancers to take this class on flat
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!
Open Level Ballet
Join us for an open level ballet class. Some dance experience is encouraged but not required. Ballet slippers, socks, and pointe shoes are all welcome. Dancers can wear close fitting athletic attire, or their favorite tights and leotard. This class is perfect for dancers looking to get back into ballet.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Joyful Joints
Joyful Joints is a 60 min GYROKINESIS® class focused on unfurling locked energy in your joints. Classes utilize stools, yoga mats and other accessories in order to gain greater fluidity.
These classes can be adapted to fit anyone's ability. People from all walks of life use methods found in Joyful Joints, including accomplished athletes, fitness enthusiasts, senior citizens and people recovering from an injury or dealing with a disability. By the end of this movement session, one's entire system is awakened and brought into greater balance. Focusing on the breath stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system resulting in a sense of calm, well-being and mental clarity.
Walking away from this class you will feel reawakened for the work day or wherever your day leads you.

Mid-Day Flow
Join us for a gentle but challenging contemporary class dancers are given a mix of explorative improv and a building combination. Dancers should wear comfortable clothes that allow them to move freely, footwear should be socks or barefoot.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

HipHop Technique
Join Casey Pippen for this three week “Dance Bite!” Walking through some of the fundamental textures, moves, and skills of hiphop dancers can expect to spend time drilling the basics to some fun tunes. Dancers should wear comfortable clothes that allow them to freely move, all shoes should have non-marking soles.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Contemporary
Join us for contemporary class. This class usually has floor work, so full length pants are encouraged!
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Intermediate Ballet
Join us for a fun beginner to intermediate level ballet class. Often paired with fun music, this class will help stretch your foundational ballet vocabulary and give you new skills to chew on. We recommend close fitting athletic attire for this class so that we can assist in proper alignment. Socks are welcome but ballet shoes are preferred.
Gradient teachers aim to create an atmosphere for healing, learning, and working by striking a balance between accommodation and challenge.
This class is offered as a part of our monthly “All you can Dance” membership! New community members can try a class before they join!

Spring Break
We will not be holding classes March 24 - March 30, 2025. Enjoy a restful break!