The Lotte Berk Method: Teacher Training

Welcome to Barre Teachers Training!

Often people mistake Barre for the apparatus and practice performed in the ballet class. However, Barre is not ballet!  Barre is a unique and comprehensive dance-fitness-physiotherapy program innovated by Lotte Berk in London, 1959. As such, Berk called her original program Rehabilitative Exercises.

Today Barre is a popular dance-fitness modality that fuses exercises and theory from Yoga, Pilates and ballet. You do not need to be an expert in these, as Barre has a language that is abundant in options for tailoring classes for applications in dance, sports, and/or healthcare.

This Barre Teachers Training (BTT) will focus on Berk’s original program. Trainees will receive a manual & video-manual + the book Doctor Barre which spotlights Barre history and the science behind it.

All levels welcome, however, the training is for those with a teaching practice and/or are serious about having one. Upon completion of BTT, fulfilling all requirements, trainees will receive certification to teach Barre and the Lotte Berk Method. 

I look forward to meeting You at Barre! 

About the tutor

Dr Jill Rose Jacobs has a passion for and life-long relationship with Dance as a professional ballet and musical theatre dancer, choreographer, dance-fitness instructor, professor of Dance at New York University (17 years) and doctoral researcher, Queen’s University, Belfast.

Jill has been training and teaching Barre for 30 years.  Doctor Barre is Jill’s doctoral thesis (2021) and Barre methodology is at the essence of her teaching practice and postdoctoral study. Currently, Jill is a Visiting Researcher at the Advance Wellbeing Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, active in research that explores the effects of movement+music on the ageing brain.