SPOTLIGHT: Ballet (All Levels) with Alek & Emmanuel Hernandez
About this Event
Join Alek and Emmanuel for a special two-hour collaborative ballet intensive designed to elevate your technique, artistry, and performance quality.
The class will begin with a comprehensive barre focused on building strength, alignment, coordination, and musicality. Dancers will then progress into center work, where both instructors will guide students through exercises that challenge balance, control, and movement quality.
The second half of class will feature focused technical training across the floor. Emmanuel will lead dancers through turning exercises and combinations, emphasizing proper mechanics, spotting, control, and confidence in pirouettes and traveling turns. Alek will concentrate on jumps and allegro work, helping dancers develop power, elevation, precision, and dynamic movement quality.
This unique collaboration offers students the opportunity to benefit from two distinct teaching perspectives while refining essential ballet fundamentals and advancing their technical skills in a supportive and challenging environment.
Featured Instructors:
EMMANUEL HERNANDEZ | @emmanuelhernandezofficial
ALEK HERNANDEZ | @livinglikealek
Date: Saturday, July 11th, 2026
Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Tickets:
- $40 General Admission
- $30 Member's Discount
Registration is required for this event. Please note that all sales for specialty classes are final. No refunds will be given for missed or forfeited classes.
ALEK HERNANDEZ | @livinglikealek
Alek Hernandez has been dancing since the age of 12 and brings over a decade of experience to their teaching. With a foundation in ballet and modern, Alek also trained and competed in hip hop, jazz, and contemporary. They continued their studies at the University of South Florida, where they earned a degree with a concentration in modern dance. Alek holds a high praise for codified techniques while also enjoying the exploration of fluid, expressive movement rooted in strong technical foundations. They believe that all people are movers, and their teaching philosophy centers on making dance both enjoyable and accessible for everyone who steps into the studio.
EMMANUEL HERNANDEZ | @emmanuelhernandezofficial
Emmanuel Hernandez is a choreographer, dancer, and creative artist from Los Angeles, CA. currently residing in San Francisco. He started dancing at the age of 11 when he joined his middle school’s dance team and found his passion for choreography just one year later at the age of 12. Emmanuel has trained in various styles such as ballet, contemporary, modern, jazz, jazz funk, and hip hop. He grew up choreographing throughout high school and college at recitals, showcases, festivals, and dance productions emphasizing on ballet, contemporary, and modern choreography. Emmanuel most recently danced with the Kenneth Walker Dance Project in Los Angeles and holds an associate’s degree in dance from Long Beach City College. Emmanuel enjoys blending movements that are free in nature along with technical ability to nurture both the body/mind connection and performance expression. Emmanuel believes that dance is what you make it and should be preserved in a way that reflects modern day society.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 44.52
