The Laetitia Steyn School of Ballet

05/28/2026

Ballet auditions
June 2.
4:00-5:00, 5-9 year olds
5:00-6:00, 10-13 year olds

05/14/2026

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05/08/2026

Victoria Day
No Ballet lessons

05/04/2026

Professor Elizabeth Triegaard. She was one of my favorite teachers at UCT ballet school. She examined my Grade 12 Studens for their Final practical ballet exam at Worcester Secondary School for the Arts. 🎭

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Today, Sunday 3 May, we celebrate 30 years of Elizabeth Triegaardt presenting "An Invitation to the Dance" on Fine Music Radio. Listen to the show from 5 to 6 pm, followed by Rodney Trudgeon interviewing Elizabeth on "People of Note".
Wishing Elizabeth congratulations on this milestone, and thank you for all you have given Fine Music Radio.

05/03/2026

🩰 My ballet teacher at the University of Cape Town Ballet school 1974- 1985

04/06/2026

Reminder
No Ballet 🩰 Easter Monday

03/11/2026

Elleniece Standaar, one of my inaugural students since starting my teaching career in 1986.

02/23/2026

Beginnings in Canada, 🇨🇦 1999 under the direction of Karen Brittian. 🩰

02/03/2026

In the forthcoming period, some of my students will share insights into how our paths have intersected over the last four decades.

02/03/2026

Paul Calderone

Laetitia Steyn came into my life when I was about seven or eight years old. She had just arrived in Canada and began teaching at O’Briens Dance Center in Ajax, where I was training. Around that time, she created a piece about the Itsy Bitsy Spider and his experience of arriving in a new place. It was the first time I had ever performed a role like that.

With Laetitia’s guidance, I had so much fun dancing it and learned an incredible amount. What I didn’t know then was how deeply that story would resonate with my own life later on. Years afterward, I would leave Canada myself to move to Germany and join a ballet company — stepping into the scary, wonderful, and disorienting experience of being a foreigner in a new place.

In a way, the story of the Itsy Bitsy Spider that she created feels like a projection of what was to come in my own journey.

Thank you,Laetitia