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The ODC Theater Youth & Teen Program is part of ODC, which includes a school where students train in dance styles such as Hip Hop, Contemporary, Ballet, Tap, Afro-Haitian, Pilates, and Bellydance. Through the ODC School and Rhythm & Motion Dance Program, participants have access to a wide range of dance classes offered throughout the year. The broader ODC School serves ages 8 months to 98 years and includes training in styles ranging from ballet to hip-hop to salsa to hula.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
Founded in 1971, ODC is led by Artistic Director Brenda Way, who trained under George Balanchine. ODC describes itself as a professional dance company (ODC/Dance), a school, a theater, and a health initiative focused on supporting an informed, robust, and responsive physical lifestyle for all ages and abilities. Its mission states that through its company, school, and theater, ODC aims to inspire audiences, cultivate artists, engage community, and foster diversity and inclusion through dance. ODC is known nationally for entrepreneurial work and was the first modern dance company in the United States to own its home facility, the ODC Theater, which was built in 1979 and expanded in 2010. In 2005, ODC opened the ODC Dance Commons to house ODC/Dance, ODC School, administrative offices, and the Healthy Dancers' Clinic, and in 2022 it acquired a 14,400 square foot building adjacent to ODC Theater to expand capacity to house, nurture, and promote artists and art making. The organization also states that it advocates for the performing arts as an essential component of the economic and cultural development of its community. A testimonial from The New Yorker notes, “The dancing is always excellent: full-bodied and expansive, without being showy or brawny.”
Last updated May 11, 2026.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
Founded in 1971, ODC is led by Artistic Director Brenda Way, who trained under George Balanchine. ODC describes itself as a professional dance company (ODC/Dance), a school, a theater, and a health initiative focused on supporting an informed, robust, and responsive physical lifestyle for all ages and abilities. Its mission states that through its company, school, and theater, ODC aims to inspire audiences, cultivate artists, engage community, and foster diversity and inclusion through dance. ODC is known nationally for entrepreneurial work and was the first modern dance company in the United States to own its home facility, the ODC Theater, which was built in 1979 and expanded in 2010. In 2005, ODC opened the ODC Dance Commons to house ODC/Dance, ODC School, administrative offices, and the Healthy Dancers' Clinic, and in 2022 it acquired a 14,400 square foot building adjacent to ODC Theater to expand capacity to house, nurture, and promote artists and art making. The organization also states that it advocates for the performing arts as an essential component of the economic and cultural development of its community. A testimonial from The New Yorker notes, “The dancing is always excellent: full-bodied and expansive, without being showy or brawny.”
Last updated May 11, 2026.
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