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Our beautiful studio in Needham!
Our mission is to build positive self-esteem and confidence through developing Creativity, Technical and Performing skills in our students.

New Needham Location!

Dance Classes include Creative Movement, Ballet, Tap, Jazz and Combo Classes for boys and girls ages 3 – 17.

What is different about our dance classes?

  • No expensive costume fees. Simple costumes for the shows can be made by students. Children have fun using their own ideas.
  • No excessive focus on a year-end recital with the same routines week after week.
  • Focus on educational progress. Minimum destruction for a show preparation.
  • Small classes sizes with lots of individual attention.
  • We use stories to build the routines. We use images to encourage expressive movement.
  • Promoting health and fitness and a great self-image.
  • Discourage any competitiveness & obsession with a low body weight. Children look up to their dance teachers as mentors and we take that very seriously.
  • Students from music department bring live music into our dance shows. We believe that dance is a learning experience on many levels and a great complement to musical studies.
  • Focus on developing discipline, coordination, memory, flexibility, grace and stamina. Students will learn a better sense of control and coordination over their bodies, and learn to express themselves through the language of creative movement.

Our dance faculty works in close collaboration with our music department. Some of our common goals are to improve sense of rhythm and to teach appreciation and interpretation of music through the physical motion, sharpening listening skill of our students and more.

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