Dance Magic School
Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Unit J-6, Palo Alto, CA
About
Dance Magic School offers classes in dance, ballet, creative movement, tap, jazz, character, and musical theater. Children take part in ballet warm ups, bending and stretching, posture and balancing work, and practice skipping, running, marching, leaping, and jumping. Classes also include creative movement and improvisation, as well as learning ballet stories and the music that goes with them. Dance Magic specializes in teaching dance to the young child, with a class focus on ballet and creative movement.
• Ages: 3–10 years old
• Schedule: Spring term classes started on January 12 and are ongoing.
Dance Magic School was founded by Ms. Karen (Karen Dycaico) in 2016. Karen specializes in teaching dance to young children and teaches ballet, tap, jazz, character, and musical theater. She co-founded Westlake School for the Performing Arts (WSPA) in Daly City in 1991 and taught ballet for 20 years in Mountain View.
Karen’s mission is that every child must be given the opportunity to discover their world and themselves in an encouraging and positive learning environment, with a teacher who facilitates and guides the child to try new things and learn at their own pace. Her mission also states that each child is different with their own skills and talents, that learning is best absorbed when the child is immersed and interested in what they are learning, and that it is the process of learning that is essential more than the end product. She describes a teacher’s job as requiring hard work, innovation, flexibility, perseverance, and passion.
Ms. Karen also teaches dance at children’s centers in several South Bay locations, including Happy Days Cupertino, Happy Days Santa Clara, Imagination Lab School, Google, and the Palo Alto JCC. She teaches dance enrichment programs at various schools and centers in the South Bay, including Resurrection School Sunnyvale, Cisco, Google Children’s Centers, Happy Days - Cupertino, Happy Days - Santa Clara, and Club J at JCC Palo Alto.
Last updated March 22, 2026.
• Ages: 3–10 years old
• Schedule: Spring term classes started on January 12 and are ongoing.
Dance Magic School was founded by Ms. Karen (Karen Dycaico) in 2016. Karen specializes in teaching dance to young children and teaches ballet, tap, jazz, character, and musical theater. She co-founded Westlake School for the Performing Arts (WSPA) in Daly City in 1991 and taught ballet for 20 years in Mountain View.
Karen’s mission is that every child must be given the opportunity to discover their world and themselves in an encouraging and positive learning environment, with a teacher who facilitates and guides the child to try new things and learn at their own pace. Her mission also states that each child is different with their own skills and talents, that learning is best absorbed when the child is immersed and interested in what they are learning, and that it is the process of learning that is essential more than the end product. She describes a teacher’s job as requiring hard work, innovation, flexibility, perseverance, and passion.
Ms. Karen also teaches dance at children’s centers in several South Bay locations, including Happy Days Cupertino, Happy Days Santa Clara, Imagination Lab School, Google, and the Palo Alto JCC. She teaches dance enrichment programs at various schools and centers in the South Bay, including Resurrection School Sunnyvale, Cisco, Google Children’s Centers, Happy Days - Cupertino, Happy Days - Santa Clara, and Club J at JCC Palo Alto.
Last updated March 22, 2026.
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