Ascending Star Dance Directory
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Madison Ballet is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit, professional performing arts organization which holds as its mission to promote appreciation and access to ballet by providing training and performing opportunities through professionally produced productions and educational initiatives.Originally founded in 1981 as The Wisconsin Dance Ensemble, the organization’s primary purpose was the production The Nutcracker, an annual community event. In 1999, the organization changed its name to Madison Ballet and embarked on an ambitious plan to become a professional performing arts organization, offering quality arts experiences for youth throughout South Central Wisconsin.
The School of Madison Ballet opened its doors in the fall of 2005 and has since welcomed over 1000 dancers into its studios to experience the benefits of comprehensive, classical ballet training. Under the leadership of Artistic Director, W. Earle Smith, SMB focuses on providing students with a unique experience in a professional atmosphere that allows each student to develop to his or her highest possible level of individual achievement. Classes are available for dancers from birth to adults. Whether you dream of a career in dance, seek an outlet for personal growth, or just want to have fun, we have the class for you!
Our true goal is to offer a wonderful, professional dance experience to all! Madison Dance Academy offers dance instruction for students age 3 through adult. Our classes in ballet, jazz, hip-hop and tap are professional and fun. Our dance teams have received high rankings in several competition events. At our studio, students learn the art of dance in an encouraging atmosphere that promotes age appropriate teamwork, competition and self-discipline.
Want to meet new people? Get some exercise? Learn a new skill? The Madison West Coast Swing Club offers all these opportunities and much more. Our nonprofit club provides a chance to socialize while enjoying new dance moves to a variety of music, ranging from rhythm and blues to pop and country. We offer weekly and monthly dances, plus an e-mail list to keep you informed of West Coast Swing dance opportunities locally and in the region. We offer drop-in lessons before weekly dances and an intro for beginners during our monthly dances, plus a variety of lesson series (click on the Dance Lessons tab above) to take you all the way from beginning to advanced.
MamLuft&Co. Dance’s dance classes for adults, teens, and kids are about more than learning movement and healthy, active practices: they’re also about problem solving, etiquette, physical awareness, and confidence. We promote gender-inclusive and age-appropriate dance. We focus on growing character without participating in costly dance competitions. We are community-based.
The company approaches movement as a process of investigation, rather than thinking of dance as a vocabulary of actions. While MamLuft&Co. Dance works to make Modern Dance accessible to the general population, ML&Co. also challenges pre-conceived notions of what dance is by searching for authentic, organic, and original movement. MamLuft&Co. Dance’s explorations are led by director Jeanne Sopanha Mam-Luft, whose personal history informs the company processes, as an immigrant and refugee of the Khmer Rouge genocide, as well as an interdisciplinarian of design, architecture, photography, and video.
The State of Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA) serves to encourage, initiate and facilitate an enriched environment of artistic, cultural and creative environment in Michigan.
This Mission Statement has never been more important. It clearly frames the purposes of the Council as part of the broader environment in Michigan that strives to reinvent the State. This Mission Statement recognizes the need for a strong creative sector in our State that is fully engaged with many of Michigan's other key sectors including industry, healthcare, education and tourism.
As State government's lead agency charged with developing arts and culture policy and grant-making, MCACA recognizes the need for, and seeks out, a wide variety of public and private sector partners to help fulfill this mission. Our partners provide needed services to the field through collective knowledge, expertise and genuine care for the mission of the Council and the fulfillment of our collective goals.
Furthermore, the Council works to fulfill its mission by serving as champions, advocates and a point of connection and coordination for the field with legislative, corporate and other leaders with an interest in seeing the mission of MCACA fulfilled. The Council also seeks out those other champions, inside and outside the halls of government, in order to give voice to all concerned and to better achieve the Council's mandate and mission. Lastly, the Council serves to advise the Governor concerning the various ways that the arts and support for the arts can integrate with gubernatorial policies and goals, especially in connection with economic development, place-making and education initiatives.
McDonald Dance Academy offers classes in ballet, jazz, hip hop, musical theater, modern and tap, plus special classes, including Yoga and Pilates. Because a dancer needs a strong foundation, Linda McDonald and her staff, all of whom have degrees in dance or have danced professionally, stress proficient use of dance terminology and an understanding of theory, as well as encouraging participation in workshops and public performances. As a result, many McDonald Dance Academy students have won scholarships from Chicago National Association of Dance Masters, and performed in both Joffrey Ballet and Schaumburg’s productions of the “Nutcracker.”
Believing it is important for students to be exposed to many different styles of teaching, Linda McDonald invites many guest teachers and choreographers from several prestigious companies in the Chicago area.
Midwest Dance Center is one of the premier dance studios in the Midwest. We specialize in cultivating talent in our dancers and allowing them to develop a unique passion for dance. We offer a wide variety of studio classes including Hip Hop, Jazz, Contemporary, Lyrical, and Tap. MDC offers both a recreational dance program for ages 3 to adults, and a competitive dance program for ages 8 to 18. At MDC we bring in talent from the professional world to continue to grow our dancers and to offer unique dance experiences. We love building confidence and instilling hard work into our dancers from young to old!
MEDC is Amelia’s premier dance studio where kids and teens experience dance in an outrageously fun and non-competitive atmosphere. The philosophy of Midwest Elite Dance Center is to enhance the development of each student’s dance knowledge and artistic ability. Our mission is to motivate, educate, and inspire in an energetic and positive atmosphere. Midwest Elite Dance Center offers personalized attention to every individual to help them succeed with their own personal goals. Our dedication to your children will foster their love and desire for the art of dance! Midwest Elite Dance Center offers group classes and private lessons in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip-hop, gymnastics, and leaps/turns. Classes are offered to children ages 2-18 from beginner to advanced. Each child is placed into a class based upon age, ability, and previous training