This ballet class addresses and respects the complexities of the body as we change with age, injury and workload. The body’s natural intuition is encouraged through careful attention to alignment and energy flow.

Clare enjoys the classical aesthetic values of simplicity, purity and balance in ballet. She is the owner and teacher at The Clare Novaes Ballet School established 1998 and director of Ballet Retreats. Her first job after graduating from The Royal Academy of Dance in London was at Crystal Palace London, teaching the Olympic high board diving squad a continuous body conditioning ballet barre created by John O’Brien. At RAD Clare worked with Dr Ann Hutchinson Guest, the director of the Language of Dance Centre, London on Laban notation and used this research when teaching dance in Brazil, South America. Returning from Brazil Clare was inspired by John Blacking at QUB to study Anthropology with Ethnomusicology. Clare worked with the highly skilled multidisciplinary team at Blackstone Physiotherapy and Sports injury clinic to develop a Barre Tone class. She also worked with Clare Guss-West at the RAD developing dance and lifelong wellbeing.

Clare was a dancer in Boots, real woman 40+, as they unveiled the New Global Brand Direction with Alessandra Ferri as headliner.

“I continue to develop my own relationship with dance and explore movement with the aging body” Clare Novaes