Centre de Danse

Centre de Danse at 3254 Prospect Street NW, Suite 1 is a dance school in Georgetown’s Prospect Street residential corridor, providing the classical and contemporary dance instruction that the Georgetown residential community’s children and adult students use for the structured dance education. The dance school at this Prospect Street address serves the Georgetown residential community with the ballet, the modern dance, and the dance technique instruction that the neighborhood’s educated and culturally engaged family population seeks for the children’s arts education.

The classical ballet program that the Centre de Danse provides is organized around the progressive technique development that the Royal Academy of Dance or the Cecchetti method curricula structure: the Georgetown dance student who begins with the pre-ballet classes that introduce the basic positions and the fundamental movements progresses through the grade examinations that the structured ballet curriculum provides, developing the technical foundation that the serious ballet study requires.

The adult dance program at Centre de Danse provides the Georgetown adult who wants the dance education or the dance fitness experience with the class options appropriate to the adult beginner and the adult student with prior training. The Georgetown professional who takes the adult ballet class or the contemporary dance class for the combination of the physical training and the artistic expression that the dance form provides uses the Centre de Danse classes as the Georgetown arts and fitness resource.

The Prospect Street address at 3254 Suite 1 serves the Georgetown residential community from the neighborhood commercial position. Hours run weekday afternoons and evenings and Saturday mornings. The Centre de Danse at 3254 Prospect Street NW Suite 1 provides the Georgetown residential community with the professional dance education that develops the specific physical disciplines that the dance training provides: the turnout, the flexibility, and the musicality that the classical ballet training develops; the spatial awareness and the movement vocabulary that the contemporary and modern dance training provides; and the performance experience that the annual recital and the class performance opportunities generate for the Georgetown dance student.

The Georgetown parent who enrolls a child in the Centre de Danse ballet program is investing in the physical education that the dance training provides alongside the artistic education: the discipline of the regular class schedule, the physical training of the technique class, and the performance preparation of the recital rehearsal develop the child’s attention, discipline, and spatial awareness that the academic education complements. Hours run weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings. Centre de Danse at 3254 Prospect Street NW Suite 1 provides the Georgetown residential community with the professional dance education program from weekday afternoons through Saturday mornings. The Georgetown dance student who progresses through the Centre de Danse’s structured curriculum develops the technical dance foundation alongside the performance experience that the recital and the class performance opportunities provide through the Georgetown academic year.