The Ballet School at Tiffany’s Dance Academy is structured to provide dancers with a solid base from which they can grow in an informed technical environment. With a focus on understanding how ballet shapes and forms the body, as well as releases tension to allow dancers to move efficiently, dancers are prepared to approach the varying range of dance styles offered at TDA and beyond. The ballet faculty draws from the Vagonova, Ceccetti, and French Ballet traditions as well as knowledge gained from years of study in the American dance world where these traditions are blended to produce dancers who are unaffected by a particular style. TDA offers several performance opportunities including the annual Nutcracker, Spring Recital, and Regional Dance Conventions and Competitions for those who join the Performing Company. Dancers trained in the TDA ballet program have been accepted to various summer and year-round programs including the San Francisco Ballet School, Joffrey Ballet School, Boston Ballet School, as well as collegiate dance programs including The University of Arizona, the University of California, Irvine and UC Santa Barbara.