Compact Dance Records offers unique CD's for teaching young children. The Preballet Class serie is composed and played by Menno Dekker. Menno is an experienced pianist for ballet classes.
In collaboration with Thérèse Oswald he produced the following volumes.

Preballet Class, volume 1 is a compilation of short exercises, diagonal steps and mime for children from the age of 3 years old. Very useful for the preparation of Primary examinations.

Preballet Class, volume 2 contains a large selection of pieces for improvisation, including seasons, animals, circus, etc., very useful for toddlers.

Preballet Class, volume 3 contains exercises, diagonal steps and mime, many with sound effects. The children love it, especially the train, witches, dynosaurs and many more.

Preballet Class, volume 4 deals with many exercises for Primary, Standard 1 level and has a variety of mime pieces varying from haunted castles to fairies and lots of other ideas, all superbly played with added sound effects.

Children's Ballet Class contains barre exercises for the young children, diagonal steps, mime and short dances, some with sound effects.

All CD's have been produced in collaboration with Thérèse Oswald. She studied ballet in Zurich with Harjis Plucis and Denis Carey. Later she also took classes with Rosella Hightower in France and spent some time in London with Anna Northcote; it was there that she became acquainted with the Cecchetti Method which she was to use in her teaching.

After her dancing career in France she settled in Amsterdam where she still teaches in her own ballet school.
Her school is an Approved Dance Centre of the ISTD and she is a Fellow and vocational Examiner of the Cecchetti Society.

She spends a lot of time in England and got in touch with Marion Porter-Walsh, with whom she produced the unique CD Ballet Class for all Levels. The musique on this CD helps every teacher to construct an inspiring class for more advanced students, even if the poor teacher is not in the mood to give a class. It has a large number of allegro pieces, suitable for petit, medium and grand allegro. And, there are special pieces for point work.