ONLINE CLASSES & SEMINARS
Every seminar and class streams live, straight from the studio to wherever you are — real corrections, real-time feedback, no pre-recorded routines standing in for the real thing. And if you can't make a session live, nothing is lost: every class is recorded and stays available to rewatch for at least a month afterwards.
This is bigger than one teacher, too. Throughout the year, guest specialists join the programme — Pilates coaches, strength and conditioning coaches, and other movement professionals — bringing expertise from outside the studio and building a genuinely global training community for dancers who'd otherwise be training alone.
Accessibility is built in, not an afterthought. Whether your camera is on or off is entirely your choice — nobody gets left behind because of a bad connection, a busy household, or a moment of nerves. Martin believes the lessons learned through lockdown, and everything he's put in place since, make this a genuinely unique way to teach ballet online. It's already helped so many people find their way back to training, and what's coming next is going to take online ballet training through the roof.
This is more than a course — it's a process. Not a revolution, but an evolution: four seminars and four classes, each one building on the last, turning small, steady habits into a body that truly understands classical ballet. This is the most complete online guide there is to bringing your dancing out of your living room and into the studio.
Yes, ballet is a hugely physical form of movement, and this course is thorough about that — real technique, real parameters, real safety. But just as important is the artistry, the musicality, the expression. No one comes on this course to become a professional dancer. What matters most is your own connection to the movement — the joy of it, your interpretation of it, how it makes you feel. That's what we want to nurture above everything else.
Every seminar is also built on real physical development, with specialist consultants explaining the origins of each movement — not just what to do, but why your body does it. Affordable, thorough, and fully recorded, so you can revisit and practise every session as often as you like for a full month afterwards.
Each class that follows is a real ballet class, set by Martin, that puts those exact skills straight to work. We recommend booking the entire course — it's the most thorough way to make sure nothing gets missed.
Every great dancer is built from the ground up. A blend of barre and centre work laying down the structures of classical technique — positions, placement, and the quiet control everything else depends on. Martin leads the classical technique, joined by a Pilates coach who helps set the dancer up properly, explaining the anatomy behind that alignment and turning it into home practice — building the core strength and body awareness that carries you through the whole series.
Straight off the back of Seminar 1, a real class built entirely around those foundations — posture and placement stop being ideas and start becoming instinct. Home practice exercises bed everything in, building the strength and confidence to hold it, ready for whatever comes next.
A seminar dedicated almost entirely to the barre, digging into the real vocabulary classical ballet has to offer — the steps themselves, studied and practised until they're fluent. Martin builds directly on Seminar 1, joined by a Strength & Conditioning coach who breaks down the mechanics behind each step, building the physical resilience to execute them with control, not just effort.
Fresh from Seminar 2, this class takes that barre vocabulary and puts it to work. Targeted home practice exercises train your body to link steps with confidence and control — the fluency you'll need before things open up in Seminar 3.
Off the barre and into the centre — where movement starts to breathe. Working from the vocabulary built in Seminar 2, this seminar gets more elaborate, more creative, more musical: musicality, artistry, balance and flow, and the first real taste of dancing without the barre to hold onto. The Strength & Conditioning coach continues alongside, explaining exactly what the body needs to hold that freedom safely.
Off the back of Seminar 3, a class built around musicality and movement in the centre — balance work and artistry practised until it feels natural, not effortful. This is where confidence in your own movement really starts to take shape.
The one everyone's been waiting for. This final seminar brings it all together — jumping, turning, pirouettes, and the artistry and light risk-taking that make ballet feel truly rewarding to perform. Lightness built on strength, with the Strength & Conditioning coach explaining the physical origins of every jump and turn along the way.
The series finale. A class built around jumps, turns and expression — takeoff, landing, timing, and the confidence to actually perform it, not just attempt it. You finish this series retreat-ready, technique-ready, you-ready.
Complete all four seminars and classes, and you'll have everything you need to step confidently into an hour-and-a-quarter class — including, if you choose, the Adult Ballet Retreat.