Columbia Dance excels in offering a positive, rigorous and nurturing environment where young artists are inspired to fully embrace their creative potential. Standards of excellence in teaching and performance create an atmosphere for life enrichment through developing every dancer’s unique artistic voice. We offer a complete curriculum for the pre-professional dancer as well as for the serious student of dance. Our ultimate goal is to provide a learning atmosphere in which our students can transfer their passions and dance training skills into other life pursuits so as to fully embrace their own, unique life potential.
Our curriculum is designed to provide an increasing variety of classes and to make greater demands on the student with each year of study. Our syllabus is based upon the best elements of the three most accepted schools of classical ballet technique: Cecchetti, R.A.D. and Russian/Vaganova. This syllabus is enhanced by the 21st century dance forms and ideas thereby fully preparing our graduates for the demands of today’s dance world.