01/04/2026
See you tomorrow students!
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Ruth Balestra has dedicated her life to Dance and Fitness. Let her experience help you !! Let her experience and passion help you in your life.
Ruth Balestra has dedicated most of her life to Dance and Physical fitness. Contact us day to learn more about dance and adult fitness programs.
01/04/2026
See you tomorrow students!
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Grand Battement’s at the barre before the holiday break.
Wrapping up 2025 with some holiday cheer in our junior tap class! We love watching our students improve every week!
See you all on January 5th, 2026!
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12/14/2025
🎁 The most wonderful time of the year 🎁
We had a great time teaching our holiday class for the beginner ballet students today! We all dressed as reindeers and used little presents as props to teach about proper arm position in ballet. Thank you to all the students and parents who joined us today!
We are still accepting new students! If you have a 5-10yo dancer who would like to try ballet with us, there is one more Saturday Beginner Ballet class this year before the holidays. And don’t forget about our Creative Movement/ Pre-Ballet class for little dancers 3-5yo with Miss Claire and Ms Sarah. Contact us or visit our website for more information.
12/12/2025
We're so excited to give students a holiday class this Saturday, free for new students!!
Come by at 10:30 for some holiday fun for ages 3-10!
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12/08/2025
Have a little dancer in your life who wants to try out a ballet class? Saturday, December 13th at 10:30, we're offering a Holiday Beginner Ballet and Creative Movement class, free for new dancers.
Ages 3-5 will be in Creative Movement, learning Pre-Ballet skills and playing movement and music games! Ages 5-10 will be in Beginner Ballet, learning fundamental ballet technique and stretches.
Know a lttle dancer who'd love to dance with us? Comment below, or visit our website at Ruthsdanceandfitnessco.com
12/02/2025
✨ Meet Miss Claire! ✨
Claire grew up on and off the stage, from her first dance classes at four years old to her university's concerts and musicals. She received a minor in Dance from Georgia College & State University, where she spent four years in study of classical ballet, modern, and jazz, as well as courses in theatre and dance pedagogy. There, she danced in the yearly Bountiful Concert, Nutcracker, Spring Dance Concert, and Community Program Recital. She taught at the GC Community Dance program, traveling to elementary schools around Milledgeville to teach Ballet I and II as part of GC's after-school program, and she was the historian for the GCSU branch of Chi Tau Epsilon.
Her favorite role to date was a contemporary solo performed to The Loneliest Whale - though she loved playing Penny in *Hairspray* her senior year at Arts!Oglethorpe, even if it didn't involve much dancing.
Claire currently teaches Jr/Sr Modern and Sculpt, co-teaches Creative Movement, and assists Ruth with Jr Jazz.
✨ Some Fun Facts! ✨
- Claire holds a B.A. in Creative Writing, and a B.A. in Political Science which she earned alongside her dance minor.
- Claire has three cats who she dresses up for the holidays every year!
- Claire has lived in 6 states!
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11/25/2025
Looking to replace your turkey trot with some dance? We're running adult beginner Ballet and Tap classes tonight and tomorrow!
Come join us Tuesday at 7:15pm for Beginner ballet and Wednesday at 5pm for Beginner Tap, and celebrate all that's fall!
11/23/2025
It's Thanksgiving week, but we're still having classes!
All classes are running as normal except Thursday classes - Junior Jazz, Progressions, Thursday Strength/Stretch, Senior Tap, and Senior Jazz.
Happy Thanksgiving, students! Take this time to fuel, rest, and recharge - we're so proud of your hard work this season!
Who else loves chassées en pointe? Miss Ruth sure does!
Our students spend every Saturday refining their pointe technique at the barre and across the floor. Nice work Senior company 💪💪
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| Monday | 4:30pm - 7pm |
| Tuesday | 3:45pm - 9pm |
| Wednesday | 5pm - 6pm |
| Thursday | 4:30pm - 8:45pm |
| Saturday | 10am - 4pm |