Ocean Ballet
Friends

Where Ballet Learning Meets Magic — an interactive adventure with technique, illustrated examples, creative challenges, storytelling and music.

Emma and her underwater ballet friends dancing together
Explore the BookMusic & Audio ♫

A Story You Can Learn From 🫧

Follow Emma through eight magical pearls while learning ballet positions, recognizing correct and incorrect technique, and completing playful activities.

Excerpt from Emma’s beach story

A Magical Beginning

It all starts on a sunny beach, with a mysterious little voice from a seashell.

Book excerpt featuring Charlie and Professor Crabby

Meet New Friends

Meet Charlie, Professor Crabby and a cast of underwater ballet friends.

Excerpt of step-by-step ballet movement instruction

Learn Ballet

Discover ballet technique through clear, step-by-step illustrated instruction.

What’s Inside the Book?

A learning adventure that combines imagination with real ballet fundamentals.

Book excerpt showing common mistakes in passé-retiré

Correct & Incorrect

Spot common mistakes and learn how to correct them through illustrated comparisons.

Book excerpt showing ballet foot positions

Real Ballet Skills

From first positions to relevé and passé, build ballet skills one step at a time.

Excerpt of Dolly’s balance maze activity

Activities & Challenges

Explore mazes, creative challenges and movement games throughout the adventure.

A peek inside the illustrated book — just selected excerpts, with more to discover in print.

🎵 Music & Storytime

Follow Emma’s ballet adventure with the original musical narration. Choose a chapter and press play.

01 · The Ocean Ballet Theatre (1)

Book pages 1–8

0:004:27
Ready to play

02 · The Butterfly Stretch (1)

Book pages 9–15

0:005:28
Ready to play

03 · Rise Like a Dolphin

Book pages 16–22

0:004:10
Ready to play

04 · Jelly’s Ballet Challenge

Book pages 23–28

0:005:30
Ready to play

05 · The Eight Magic Pearls

Book pages 29–36

0:004:53
Ready to play
The Eight Magic Pearls book cover

The Eight Magic Pearls

A Ballet Learning Adventure

More than a fairy tale: follow Emma through an underwater adventure that introduces ballet fundamentals with illustrated correct and incorrect examples, guided exercises, and creative learning activities.

Designed to combine an imaginative story with practical ballet learning, visual demonstrations, and activities.

📚 Coming Soon

Amazon purchase link will be added when the book is published.

Meet Our Ballet Friends 💖

Every friend has something special to teach Emma about dancing, creativity and courage.

A glimpse of the ballet friends

More stories, printable activities and ballet flashcards are on the way!

Videos & Movement

Animations and movement demonstrations will live here, alongside the book’s audio experience.

Video Library

Video uploads and playback will be connected when the finished files are available.

Books & Printables

Explore the book, ballet flashcards and future printable activities. Purchase links will appear here as products go live.

The Eight Magic Pearls cover

The Eight Magic Pearls

Print edition — Amazon link coming after publication.

Excerpt of illustrated ballet learning material

Ballet Flashcards

Standalone learning cards — coming soon.

Excerpt of a ballet learning activity

Activities

Printable games, exercises and coloring materials — coming soon.

About the Creator

Portrait of the creator

Olha Feshchenko is a ballet educator with a background in choreography. She created Ocean Ballet Friends to bring together storytelling, thoughtful movement instruction and playful learning. Her aim is to make ballet concepts approachable through vivid characters, clear illustrations and activities that invite readers to participate.

Contact

Questions about the books, learning materials or collaborations?

Today-best-day@ukr.net