Following the Royal Academy of Dance Syllabi (RAD), our program offers classes from Primary to Advanced Levels.
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The classes are kept small to ensure that adequate attention can be given to each child. Establishing the foundation of classical ballet through proper alignment is an important part of the class but equal attention and time are also given allowing students to move across the floor through sets of jumping combinations. This builds up stamina, strengthens the bones and keeps the passion for dancing alive. Creative expression is highly encouraged as ballet is an art form that requires both technique and artistry.
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In addition to developing a strong technique and musicality, students will also gain self-confidence and self-esteem through performance opportunities. Presentation skills are ones that develop over time.
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While learning self-discipline and commitment, ballet students understand the satisfaction of reaching long-term goals. Those personal and group presentation skills that ballet students acquire over time follow them later on in life and become great assets to any profession.
Founder & Director
Laetitia Clément
Originally from France, Ms. Laetitia Clément graduated with Honours from l’École Supérieure de Danse du Québec in Canada. She began her professional career at age 18 with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and later danced for 10 years as a soloist with the Alberta Ballet, Canada. Throughout her career, she performed and toured internationally in France, China, Japan, the United States, and Canada, including the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
Following her performing career, Ms. Clément started teaching in the professional division of the Alberta Ballet School.
A Royal Academy of Dance Registered Teacher for the past 14 years, she founded L’Arabesque Ballet in 2012 and has since prepared hundreds of students of all ages for successful RAD examinations.
Ms. Clément is also a certified Silver Swans Licensee and is passionate about teaching adults and seniors. She takes great pride in seeing her adult dancers continue to share the joy of performing on stage year after year.
In 2023, Ms. Clément became a certified Dance for Parkinson’s instructor and introduced a program at L’Arabesque Ballet dedicated to students living with Parkinson’s disease and other movement challenges.
Every Tuesday, the little ballerinas in pointe shoes are replaced by a wonderful group of dancers living with Parkinson’s who never miss their weekly in-person rendez-vous. It is about much more than dancing — people come together to find community, connection, joy, and confidence through music and movement.
Laetitia Clément
Founder & Director
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Ms. Clément is known for bringing out the best in her students, no matter their age or background, through a joyful, inspiring, and positive approach to teaching. With her strong eye for technical and artistic detail, she understands the physicality of ballet deeply and explains it in a clear and accessible way. Her passion for dance and performance is truly contagious, and she looks forward to sharing that passion with students of all ages.
Chloe Bruce
Ballet Teacher
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Chloe Bruce began her dance education at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts (MCPA). At the MCPA Chloe completed her Advanced 1 Cecchetti, Advanced 2 Royal Academy of Dance, and Canadian Dance Teachers Association Jazz exams. Chloe was the recipient of the Janice Merritt Flemming Scholarship, and in her graduating year at the MCPA, Chloe was awarded the Benedict Wong Cup, for best-shown love and dedication to learning all aspects of dance. Alongside her dance training, Chloe participated in multiple Quick as a Wink Theatre Company productions. Chloe graduated from George Brown College’s Dance Performance Program, where she won the Ballet Award. After graduation, Chloe participated in Canada’s Ballet Jorgen’s Mentorship Program and toured throughout Canada and the United States in the world premiere of Anne of Green Gables - the Ballet. Chloe is now teaching and sharing her love of ballet with dancers around the globe.
Sierra Goldak
Ballet Teacher
Sierra discovered her love for art and movement in her hometown of Saskatoon and has since followed that passion across Canada and internationally. She has trained with the Goh Ballet in Vancouver, Joffrey Ballet Chicago, Trisha Brown Dance Company, and Canada's Ballet Jörgen. After completing her post-secondary dance studies at George Brown College, Sierra spent a season performing and touring with Canada's Ballet Jörgen in their mentorship program. Sierra later performed with Frog in Hand, a Mississaugua-based contemporary & dance theatre company, as part of their Summer Company in 2021 and 2022. Throughout her performance career, Sierra has enjoyed teaching students across the GTA, and she is excited to bring her love for dance and performing to her students at L'Arabesque Ballet.
Amélie Clément
Ballet Teacher
Amélie has been dancing ballet since childhood and has successfully completed all Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) examinations up to Advanced 1, achieved with Distinction. She believes in building a strong technical foundation while encouraging creativity and joy in every class. Amélie has been the recipient of several Choreography Awards as well as Awards of excellence in both contemporary and ballet work, and brings with her years of performance experience. With training in a variety of dance styles, she brings versatility to her teaching and loves creating choreography that inspires students to grow both as dancers and as individuals. Amélie brings joy and an incredible energy in the classroom and she is loved by all of her students. We are thrilled to count her as part of the L'Arabesque Ballet Faculty.
Momoko Imaizumi
Ballet Teacher
​Momoko is from Japan. She studied ballet at the Sachiko Ogura Ballet School andTachibana Ballet School, Tokyo, Japan and the Central School of Ballet, London, UK. She had a 9 year career as a professional dancer with the Asami Maki Ballet Company in Tokyo, Japan. As a member of the corps de ballet she performed in such works as: The Nutcracker (Jack Carter) Coppelia (Alexandra Danilova) Giselle (Asami Maki) Don Quixote (Azari Plisetski) Namouna (Jack Carter) Sleeping Beauty (Terry Westmoreland) Swan Lake (Terry Westmoreland) Raymonda (Terry Westmoreland) La Sylphide (August Bournonville) Les Sylphides (Alexandra Danilova)
Before coming to Canada, she had decades of experience as a teacher of
classical ballet to all ages and abilities, at the Sachiko Ogura Ballet Studio in Fujisawa, Japan as well as the Yomiuri Bunka Center in Yokosuka & Yokohama, Japan. After coming to Toronto, she graduated from the Teacher Training Diploma Program for Former Professional Dancers at Canada’s National Ballet School, and is a holder of credentials in Ballet such as the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Level 3, and the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) National Dance, Level 4. She is also a certified Power Pilates instructor.
Momoko is passionate about sharing her love of ballet with her students.
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