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Why Dance With Us?


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Over the past twelve years, we have become a part of
the lives of nearly 2000 young dancers in Central Florida, most from
the Maitland-Winter Park-College Park-Baldwin Park area. We specialize
in young dancers ages 3-6 and offer classes combining Ballet, Tap,
and Jazz in the morning, afternoon, evening, and even Saturday for
these dancers. We also have classes in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop,
and Acrobatics for dancers age 7 and up. Although our classes and
rehearsals are often informal, usually noisy, and ALWAYS FUN, we are
very serious about helping each child become the very best dancer
they can and want to be. Every child at the studio will learn that
hard work produces achievement and will experience the genuine self-esteem
that comes with accomplishment of difficult and challenging skills
under the direction of a positive and encouraging teacher. We limit
class sizes to emphasize personal attention to all students.
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Few Things We're Especially Proud Of:
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- Our convenient Maitland
school is located in a private building at 540 South Maitland Avenue
in the city’s Cultural Corridor just across the street from
the Maitland Civic Center, Lake Lily Park, and the Maitland Public
Library. There is parking in front and back of the building.
- Our dance school has three
dance rooms (the largest is 30' by 40') with appropriate flooring
and the latest sound equipment plus a lobby, offices, workroom etc.
Observation through glass doors is available for parents of our youngest
dancers.
- We emphasize age-appropriate
curriculum, costumes, and choreography taught by a trained and experienced
staff.
- We don’t just teach
one type of dance, we are strong in all forms of dance from Ballet
to Tap, Jazz, Acrobatics, and Hip Hop. Our advanced dancers in the
intensive/JCD program are also introduced to Modern, Lyrical, Contemporary, Stretch & Strength, Pilates-based Training, Musical Theatre and Pointe. Each subject is taught by a syllabus (regardless of instructor) developed by the Studio Director based on years of training, experience and travel to other schools in the United States and Canada. This ensures consistent terminology and class structure for every student at our school.
- Our Studio Director qualified
by examination for membership in both Dance Masters of America and
Dance Educators of America in 1998, and travels several
times a year to teach, judge or choreograph for other dance studios,
national organizations, or professional shows.
- We are not just another
neighborhood dance school. Our nearly six dozen member Jennifer Colby
Dancers and Junior Jennifer Colby Dancers have been to Atlanta, Baton
Rouge, Boston, Houston, Las Vegas, Raleigh-Durham, St. Louis, New
Orleans, New York, Toronto, and Washington D.C. as well as all over Florida
winning more awards than we can list. And, they have been recognized
just as much for their sportmanship, team spirit, and professionalism!
Graduates of the JCDs are teaching dance, performing on college dance
teams/companies, pursuing college degrees in the arts, and dancing
professionally on cruise ships, for Disney in Florida and Japan, and
in Las Vegas. In 2004, we were named one of America’s Top 50
Dance Schools by the two leading national publications in our field,
Dance Teacher and Dance Spirit. We were very honored to be the first
school selected from the hundreds in Central Florida and have been
on the Dance Teacher / Dance Spirit honor roll ever since.
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We
value the opportunity to be part of each of our student's lives. Along
with providing the best possible dance training for each student, we
encourage positive traits such as high morale, high self esteem, self-pride,
responsibility, self discipline, teamwork, concentration, perseverance,
and most importantly, the realization that if they work hard, they can
achieve. We believe that children are our future and our most precious
resource. They should be exposed to high quality and excellence in all
that they do, they need to understand that success in anything lies
in not always being the best, but in doing your best! We pride ourselves
in bringing out the "very best" in each dancer.
We
happily contribute to the development of not just good dancers, but
of good citizens and caring people. We believe that when given the choice
between excellence and mediocrity, students will choose excellence more
times than not. We hope you will join us & become a part of our Dance Family!
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