Ballettstudio Ost, Ballettschule Frankfurt

Ballettstudio Ost is a ballet school on Hanauer Landstrasse in Frankfurt am Main, founded in November 2019 by Olga Leibrandt. Teaching is classical ballet in the Vaganova tradition, structured as an age-graded progression: separate classes for children aged 6-8 and 9-11, and a teenagers' class for 12-14 where the technical demands step up and pointe work is introduced.

Adults are taught too, in both classical and contemporary classes. The younger classes work on the things ballet training gives beyond the steps - posture, coordination, balance, musicality and concentration - while keeping the pleasure of dancing at the center. A separate pointe course exists but is not in the current program.

Classes are age-graded rather than mixed, so a child joins the group for their years and progresses with it. The youngest groups begin at the barre with basic exercises and ballet terminology, then short choreographies. From 9-11 the barre and center work get harder and turns and larger jumps appear; at 12-14 the work becomes more precise and pointe is introduced. Adult classes run separately, classical and contemporary. The studio is on the first floor of the rear building at Hanauer Landstrasse 138.

Olga Leibrandt founded the studio in 2019 and teaches the children's and youth ballet classes; she trained at the State Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow and at the Ballet Academy in Chisinau, and holds a German state certification as a ballet instructor. Olga Stoehr teaches the adult contemporary and classical classes on Thursdays and Fridays. Antonia Philipps-Kruschel teaches selected children's and adult classes on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.