About
The Dance School offers classes in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop/Pop, Contemporary, and Partnering. It also offers dance and movement classes for youth and adults, as well as private lessons for individuals or groups. Currently enrolled students have performance opportunities, and the program also hosts birthday parties that can include optional dance instruction and offers studio rental by the hour.
• Ages: 1–18 years old
• Schedule: Office hours Monday–Friday 4:00pm–8:30pm and Saturday 9:30am–2:00pm
• Price: Awards for financial scholarships range from 50–100% off tuition.
The Dance School is a community funded 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with youth programs for ages 7–11, Young Dancer programs for ages 1.5–6, teen programs for ages 12–18, adult classes and series, and BOMA/Adaptive Dance. It provides financial assistance through talent scholarships and need-based financial scholarships, with scholarship awards ranging from 50–100% off tuition. All faculty and volunteers are background checked, staff and volunteers are background checked, staff are CPR/First Aid certified, and there is full-time administrative office staff during all classes. The main location has sprung dance floors for safety, music is always age appropriate, and the studios have scheduled cleaning and sanitizing.
In 2006, a group of committed parents and community leaders founded The Dance School in the same building where Betty Spooner’s School of the Dance had operated. Betty Spooner’s School of the Dance opened at 2821 Rockefeller Ave and Betty ran her studio for 41 years. In 1966 her son Mike Jordan took over the school, and after he passed away in 2004, the Betty Spooner Creative Arts Foundation Studio closed its doors. In 2006, The Dance School was re-created in that same building by parents and community leaders.
The Dance School states that its mission is to ensure that everyone in its community has the opportunity to learn how to dance, sing, and perform, and that creativity, individuality, and self-expression are encouraged. It describes itself as believing that dance and the arts should be accessible to everyone and that financial circumstances should never be a barrier to pursuing one’s passion. The Dance School states that it believes anyone can dance and that everyone thrives in a culture rooted in inclusion, care, and the nurturing of creative energy, with an emphasis on radical inclusion, celebrating diversity, rejecting elitism and exclusivity, and emphasizing creativity, empathy, and connection over judgment or comparison. As a community funded non-profit organization, it depends on tuition for approximately 70% of operating expenses, with the rest coming from individual, foundation, public agency, and corporate support, and it welcomes all members of the community to dance with them.
Last updated June 13, 2026.
• Ages: 1–18 years old
• Schedule: Office hours Monday–Friday 4:00pm–8:30pm and Saturday 9:30am–2:00pm
• Price: Awards for financial scholarships range from 50–100% off tuition.
The Dance School is a community funded 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with youth programs for ages 7–11, Young Dancer programs for ages 1.5–6, teen programs for ages 12–18, adult classes and series, and BOMA/Adaptive Dance. It provides financial assistance through talent scholarships and need-based financial scholarships, with scholarship awards ranging from 50–100% off tuition. All faculty and volunteers are background checked, staff and volunteers are background checked, staff are CPR/First Aid certified, and there is full-time administrative office staff during all classes. The main location has sprung dance floors for safety, music is always age appropriate, and the studios have scheduled cleaning and sanitizing.
In 2006, a group of committed parents and community leaders founded The Dance School in the same building where Betty Spooner’s School of the Dance had operated. Betty Spooner’s School of the Dance opened at 2821 Rockefeller Ave and Betty ran her studio for 41 years. In 1966 her son Mike Jordan took over the school, and after he passed away in 2004, the Betty Spooner Creative Arts Foundation Studio closed its doors. In 2006, The Dance School was re-created in that same building by parents and community leaders.
The Dance School states that its mission is to ensure that everyone in its community has the opportunity to learn how to dance, sing, and perform, and that creativity, individuality, and self-expression are encouraged. It describes itself as believing that dance and the arts should be accessible to everyone and that financial circumstances should never be a barrier to pursuing one’s passion. The Dance School states that it believes anyone can dance and that everyone thrives in a culture rooted in inclusion, care, and the nurturing of creative energy, with an emphasis on radical inclusion, celebrating diversity, rejecting elitism and exclusivity, and emphasizing creativity, empathy, and connection over judgment or comparison. As a community funded non-profit organization, it depends on tuition for approximately 70% of operating expenses, with the rest coming from individual, foundation, public agency, and corporate support, and it welcomes all members of the community to dance with them.
Last updated June 13, 2026.
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