Free Dance Classes
@ 1912 Center

​Free Classes
1912 Center
Reception Room
June 17-19
4 - 5:30 PM
Instructor: Academy Director Rachel Winchester

In this 3-day experience for dancers ages 6-10 participants will collaborate, create, and improvise to tell a unique story through movement and music with their fellow classmates.
  
Come for 1, 2 or all 3 Classes!

Register Today for FREE!

Why ​Festival
Dance Academy?

The Festival Dance Academy, in residence at the University of Idaho, has provided quality dance education to the Palouse since 1972! Students come to DREAM, LEARN, GROW, LEAD and INSPIRE.

Students have opportunities to audition to dance alongside professional companies like Ballet Victoria, Ballet Fantastique, push/FOLD and Repertory Dance Theatre. Advanced students may audition for the Motion Fever Performance Troupe (MOFE).
 
We believe that every student matters, and we are dedicated to helping each reach their full potential.

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YEARS OF
​DANCE EDUCATION

All Styles, Stages, and Ages!

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Ballet

• Creative Dance
• Ballet 1
• Ballet 2/3
• Ballet 4
• Ballet 5/6
• Ballet 6
• Ballet 5/6 Conditioning
• Pre-Pointe/Beginning Pointe
• Intermediate Pointe
• ​Intermediate/Advanced Pointe Techniques

Tap, Jazz, ​Contemporary

• Beginning/Intermediate Tap
• Teen/Adult Tap
• Beginning Intermediate Jazz
• Intermediate/Advanced Jazz​​​
• Beginning/Intermediate Contemporary
• Intermediate/Advanced Contemporary​
• Intermediate/Advanced Lyrical

Hip Hop & More

• Beginning Hip Hop
• Beginning/Intermediate Hip Hop
• Intermediate/Advanced Hip Hop​
• Motion Fever Performance Troupe (MOFE)​
• Intermediate Musical Theatre
• Intermediate Acrobatics

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The academy's youngest performers took the
stage and performed to an adaptation by
Rousseau of Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee 
in our Spring recital, Dancing Through Time 
(May 2023)

Upper Level Ballet Students perform to
Camille Saint-Saens' La Danse Macabre in the
​Spring recital Dancing Through Time
​(May 2023)