The Dance Center

The Dance Center was established in 1974 in West Chester by Donna Muzio. The main goal and purpose of the school is to provide professional training to serious students pursuing a career in dance. The entire faculty at The Dance Center is committed to providing individual attention for achievement and progress to each and every student whether they... are pursuing a professional career or dancing for pure enjoyment and good exercise. Both types of students receive excellent guidance throughout their years of training at The Dance Center. Students from our school and company have gone on to enjoy professional ballet careers as Principal dancers with companies such as Ballet Eddy Touissaint USA, The Harrisburg Ballet and The Pennsylvania Ballet; Soloist dancers with companies such as Pennsylvania Ballet, Dayton Contemporary Ballet, and Hubbard Street Dance Company; Corps de Ballet dancers with companies such as BalletX, Joffrey Ballet, Tampa Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Garden State Ballet, Ballet Metropolitan, Miami City Ballet, Ballet Theatre of Pennsylvania, and San Antonio Ballet; Apprentice dancers with companies such as Pittsburgh Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre, and Richmond Ballet. Scholarships are awarded yearly to students for prestigious summer programs such as New York City Ballet (to date, our school has had 20 students train at the School of American Ballet, 4 of which were awarded full scholarship), more than 50 students have studied at American Ballet Theatre, Washington Ballet, Boston Ballet, Ballet West, Atlanta Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet to name a few. Too numerous to mention are the colleges and universities that most of our students are accepted into with scholarships for dance education such as the prestigous New York University, Julliard School, and Indiana University to name a few. Our performing arts facility is a beautiful 11,000 square foot space which includes 3 state-of-the-art dance studios, a complete dance supply shoppe, comfortable waiting area, ...Read More