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Center for Creative Education Dance Programs offers classes in dance, music, fitness, theater, spoken word, computer arts technology, visual arts, and drumming. The program includes the award-winning Energy Dance Company, whose groups have received top awards at the National Spirit Dance Competition and the National Dance Awards in Albany, and first prizes at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and on BET’s dance program 106th and Park. CCE ensembles have also been featured at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, West Point, the Bardavon Opera House, and the United Nations. These classes are offered after school at the main site in midtown Kingston and in school districts throughout the Hudson Valley.
• Schedule: After-school classes
Since 1989 the Center for Creative Education has been helping students “FIND THEIR POSSIBLE.” The mission of the Center for Creative Education is to enrich the social and cultural awareness of youth and the community through arts, wellness, and education. CCE has formally adopted Ubuntu as its guiding philosophy and value system, described as an African concept meaning “I am because we are.” CCE places a strong emphasis on having a healthy mind and a healthy body and on education as a path to a better life, and uses the arts to teach basic life skills such as persistence, teamwork, discipline, focus, and mastery.
CCE provides accessible, affordable, equitable, and innovative, high-quality programs with a special emphasis on serving low income, minority, and at-risk children and youth. The Center has a long standing policy of turning no child away due to the inability to pay, and 84% of current students receive scholarship assistance. Over 90% of CCE students have graduated from high school and continued on to pursue college degrees. The staff and board are very diverse and reflect the diversity of the student body, and CCE is committed to assisting young people in becoming the citizen leaders of tomorrow. CCE also offers outreach programs that can be brought to other locations.
Maia is Co-Director and instructor of Dojo Dance Company & Hudson Valley Tango and has a dance background that includes ballet, Argentine Tango, Latin dance, Modern Jazz, Folk, Flamenco, and belly dance. She is a licensed DXF coach and Groove facilitator for kids and adults, a self-defense instructor, and a 2nd Dan Black belt in Karate. From 2019–2022, Maia was the Program Manager at CCE. She teaches and performs with world-known master teachers and orchestras in the USA and on cruises, is bilingual, and is a strong environmental advocate who educates her community in ways to minimize impact on the environment. Maia has also worked several years in Argentina with children with special needs and with senior programs for Parkinson disease and Alzheimer there and in the USA.
Last updated June 1, 2026.
• Schedule: After-school classes
Since 1989 the Center for Creative Education has been helping students “FIND THEIR POSSIBLE.” The mission of the Center for Creative Education is to enrich the social and cultural awareness of youth and the community through arts, wellness, and education. CCE has formally adopted Ubuntu as its guiding philosophy and value system, described as an African concept meaning “I am because we are.” CCE places a strong emphasis on having a healthy mind and a healthy body and on education as a path to a better life, and uses the arts to teach basic life skills such as persistence, teamwork, discipline, focus, and mastery.
CCE provides accessible, affordable, equitable, and innovative, high-quality programs with a special emphasis on serving low income, minority, and at-risk children and youth. The Center has a long standing policy of turning no child away due to the inability to pay, and 84% of current students receive scholarship assistance. Over 90% of CCE students have graduated from high school and continued on to pursue college degrees. The staff and board are very diverse and reflect the diversity of the student body, and CCE is committed to assisting young people in becoming the citizen leaders of tomorrow. CCE also offers outreach programs that can be brought to other locations.
Maia is Co-Director and instructor of Dojo Dance Company & Hudson Valley Tango and has a dance background that includes ballet, Argentine Tango, Latin dance, Modern Jazz, Folk, Flamenco, and belly dance. She is a licensed DXF coach and Groove facilitator for kids and adults, a self-defense instructor, and a 2nd Dan Black belt in Karate. From 2019–2022, Maia was the Program Manager at CCE. She teaches and performs with world-known master teachers and orchestras in the USA and on cruises, is bilingual, and is a strong environmental advocate who educates her community in ways to minimize impact on the environment. Maia has also worked several years in Argentina with children with special needs and with senior programs for Parkinson disease and Alzheimer there and in the USA.
Last updated June 1, 2026.
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