The Dance Center

General information

The entire faculty at The Dance Center is committed to providing individual attention for achievement and progress to each and every student whether they are pursuing a professional career in dance or dancing for pure enjoyment and good exercise. Both types of students receive excellent guidance throughout their years of training at The Dance Center. Students from our school and company have gone on to enjoy professional ballet careers as Principal dancers with companies such as Ballet Eddy Touissaint USA, The Harrisburg Ballet and most recently The Pennsylvania Ballet; Soloist dancers with companies such as Pennsylvania Ballet, Dayton Contemporary Ballet, and Hubbard Street Dance Company; Corps de Ballet dancers with companies such as Tampa Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Garden State Ballet, Ballet Metropolitan, Miami City Ballet, Ballet Theatre of Pennsylvania, San Antonio Ballet, and most recently The Joffrey Ballet; Apprentice dancers with companies such as Pittsburgh Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre, and Richmond Ballet. Scholarships are awarded yearly to students for prestigious summer programs such as New York City Ballet (to date, our school has had 20 students train at the School of American Ballet, 4 of which were awarded full scholarship), more than 20 students have studied at American Ballet Theatre, Washington Ballet, Boston Ballet, Ballet West, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Alvin Ailey to name a few. Too numerous to mention are all of the colleges and universities that our students are accepted into with scholarships for dance education.

Our new facility is a beautiful 11,000 square foot space which includes 3 state-of-the-art dance studios, a complete dance supply shoppe, comfortable waiting area, convenient parking, and air conditioning. Professionally constructed basket-weave dance floors with marley surface have put the final touch on our custom studio space. Our largest studio, 2,000 square feet, is constructed on 3,000 foam springs which make for an excellent, safe surface for professional dancers and students to train daily.