Ballet Tiburon owner aims to promote positivity through dance at Cove studio

Ryan Camou says ballet was his “go-to safe haven” growing up. Coming from a self-described broken home, he says dancing was his opportunity to “forget about the outside world and focus on myself” — and now he’s aiming to create the same atmosphere for his students at his new studio, Ballet Tiburon at The Cove shopping center.

“As I got older, I wanted to give back to the younger kids,” says Camou, 38. “Not that everyone’s from a broken home, but to give them a safe space to learn their body and push themselves as hard as they can and not be embarrassed and work on themselves and forget the outside world for an hour or an hour and a half, how long the ballet class is.”

Camou, a Tiburon resident since 2020, opened Ballet Tiburon July 8 in Suite 7 at The Cove, in the space once occupied by the cafe side of floral shop Hearts and Flowers, which closed in 2018.

He’s says he’s already got some students enrolled, and he expects to build to at least 30-40 students as the new school year ramps up in August.

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