Dance Magic School

Dance Magic School offers classes that include dance, ballet, creative movement, ballet warm ups, bending and stretching, posture, balancing, skipping, running, marching, leaping, jumping, creative movement and improvisation, and learning ballet stories. The class focuses on ballet and creative movement, and children learn ballet stories and associate the music that accompanies the ballet. Dance Magic specializes in teaching dance to the young child, including activities that address creativity, coordination, balance, posture, musicality, rhythm, self-confidence, and appreciation for the art of dance.

• Ages: 3–10 years old

Dance Magic School was founded by Ms. Karen (Karen Dycaico) in 2016. Karen Dycaico 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.

Ms. 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 includes imparting knowledge that can be built on, leading the child to be proactive in learning, enhancing each child’s individual skills and talents, and giving them tools to learn what interests them. She states that learning is best absorbed when the child is immersed and interested, with opportunities to feel comfortable, express themselves through play, recognize strengths and weaknesses, and be guided to become confident in what they can do. She emphasizes that when a child can explore and create something they feel is their own, they take pride and confidence in their work, and that the process of learning is more essential than the end product. She describes a teacher’s job as requiring hard work, innovation, flexibility, perseverance, and passion.

Ms. Karen 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 also teaches dance enrichment programs at various schools 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 June 21, 2026.