Elevate Dance Academy
PDX SportsCenter, 8785 SW Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy, Portland, OR 97225
About
Elevate Dance Academy offers classes in Jazz, Musical Theater, Ballet, Contemporary, Lyrical, Hip Hop, Improv, Tap, Acro, Jazz Technique, Jazz Funk, Strength & Flex, Turns & Tricks, and Dance Team Pom. The program also includes Tiny Dancer classes that cover Ballet, Tap, Hip Hop, Creative Movement, and Jazz.
• Ages: 2.5–18 years old
• Schedule: Office hours Monday–Friday, 4–8pm; phone hours Monday–Friday, 10am–8pm
Elevate Dance Academy started in 2018. The owner and studio director is Meghan Newman, who also teaches Contemporary, Musical Theater, Jazz, Strength & Flexibility, Turns & Tricks, Improv, and serves as a Company choreographer. Teaching staff have experience from a variety of backgrounds, including performing with local organizations such as Open Space and Oregon Ballet Theater, owning previous dance studios, winning national choreography awards, and touring internationally as performers. Both in-house and guest choreographers are nationally recognized, and some teachers have won national choreography awards. Elevate Dance Academy is described as Oregon’s premier dance studio and the premier competitive and recreational Beaverton-Portland dance studio.
The studio offers a comprehensive range of classes for all skill levels for ages 2.5–18, with a recreational program that welcomes dancers from beginner to advanced levels. It also has a fully pre-professional competitive Company program for ages 6–18 that competes at prestigious dance competitions and conventions across the Northwest, with a typical year including five major events in the Pacific Northwest and optional competitions and conventions throughout the West Coast, including national competitions. Company dancers use custom-made costumes and props. The program holds two official shows each year, the Jingle & Mingle Winter Show and an End of Year Show. Free trial classes are available, with up to four classes in different styles. The studio serves the Portland-Beaverton regional area as a local dance studio. The mission of Elevate Dance Academy is to help each dancer reach their highest potential through a deep focus on excellent dance technique and developing artistry, to help dancers grow and learn alongside their peers, to use the training offered to become the best version of themselves, and to show that if they believe, they can become.
Last updated March 30, 2026.
• Ages: 2.5–18 years old
• Schedule: Office hours Monday–Friday, 4–8pm; phone hours Monday–Friday, 10am–8pm
Elevate Dance Academy started in 2018. The owner and studio director is Meghan Newman, who also teaches Contemporary, Musical Theater, Jazz, Strength & Flexibility, Turns & Tricks, Improv, and serves as a Company choreographer. Teaching staff have experience from a variety of backgrounds, including performing with local organizations such as Open Space and Oregon Ballet Theater, owning previous dance studios, winning national choreography awards, and touring internationally as performers. Both in-house and guest choreographers are nationally recognized, and some teachers have won national choreography awards. Elevate Dance Academy is described as Oregon’s premier dance studio and the premier competitive and recreational Beaverton-Portland dance studio.
The studio offers a comprehensive range of classes for all skill levels for ages 2.5–18, with a recreational program that welcomes dancers from beginner to advanced levels. It also has a fully pre-professional competitive Company program for ages 6–18 that competes at prestigious dance competitions and conventions across the Northwest, with a typical year including five major events in the Pacific Northwest and optional competitions and conventions throughout the West Coast, including national competitions. Company dancers use custom-made costumes and props. The program holds two official shows each year, the Jingle & Mingle Winter Show and an End of Year Show. Free trial classes are available, with up to four classes in different styles. The studio serves the Portland-Beaverton regional area as a local dance studio. The mission of Elevate Dance Academy is to help each dancer reach their highest potential through a deep focus on excellent dance technique and developing artistry, to help dancers grow and learn alongside their peers, to use the training offered to become the best version of themselves, and to show that if they believe, they can become.
Last updated March 30, 2026.
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