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Top Benefits of Dance Classes for Kids in Fort Collins

By Ron Baretta | December 22, 2025 |

Dance is more than just movement — it’s a powerful way for children to build confidence, creativity, and discipline. For families in Fort Collins and across Northern Colorado, enrolling in dance classes for kids and teens is one of the best ways to support both physical and emotional development. At Mountain Kids, we’ve proudly offered…

Summer 2021 Covid Guidelines at Mountain Kids

By Ron Baretta | June 9, 2021 |

Hello Mountain Kids Families! We successfully navigated our first week of day camp, swimming, dance and gymnastics. Summer 2021 is a bit different than previous summers. Following are highlights of our policies. We kindly ask that you are 100% comfortable with our updated covid guidelines found below. Should any of our policies/information give you pause,…

Ballet Basics: The First Five Positions

By Ron Baretta | January 8, 2019 |

When your child starts taking ballet classes, they’ll learn a lot about form, style, and positions. There are several fundamentals to ballet, but the five positions are the most basic and essential for beginners. Children learn the foot placement of each position first, but they will also learn the placement of their legs, arms, and…

What Is Modern Dance?

By Ron Baretta | November 26, 2018 |

If you’re trying to decide what dance class to sign your child up for, but you don’t know much about dance yourself, it can be difficult to decide which class they will actually enjoy. Modern dance seems to be one of the more mysterious styles of dance, so today we’ll take a look at its…

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