Not Just Dance offers excellent inclusive classes in dance, advanced theatre, music and musical theatre taught by area experts in a family and community friendly environment. So, whether you are a young child just starting out, a student with some experience or an adult working in community theatre, Not Just Dance has unique classes aimed at helping you to advance or learn your craft. We recognize that your instruction needs to complement your activities. Therefore, Not Just Dance offers flexible options for attending classes, in order to work around busy theatrical schedules.
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Tina Ro

As parents, we know that childhood is a short but critical time for development and growth. It is also an opportunity to discover your passion and find a group of friends that give you a sense of belonging and accomplishment. We are so grateful that our boys have found a community of talented, caring, and fun teachers and kids, and a program that is designed to build not only their skills as actors but as confident and compassionate human beings, all while having a great time. We look forward to many more years of being in the NJD family and watching our boys continue to learn and grow!
Mark Botros
NJD has everything a high-quality parent like yourself would want for your child. The leadership and staff is phenomenal. They are highly skilled, seasoned professionals that are trained and educated in the broad range of musical theatre functions from acting, voice, and dancing to costumes, set design, and even marketing. Yet, they create an incredibly fun, loving, and supportive family environment where children cannot help but learn and grow. The staff at NJD can take students at any skill level and help progress them forward. They offer a variety of shows, learning experiences, and opportunities that rival or even dwarf traditional, school- based theatre programs by comparison. A typical theatre program may produce 2-3 major productions in a given school year, NJD does more than that in any a given month. There is also community of engaged, like-minded parents who have similar values as we do. They want to raise high-quality children that are not given to cliques, bullying, and gossip. NJD is a safe space where children can truly be themselves and are encouraged to do so – the best actors are.
What children gain through the NJD are lessons, memories, and experiences that last a lifetime. They not only learn and get experience in singing, dancing, and performing well, they are learning life skills, character traits, life and leadership lessons that mold and shape them to become great human beings. They learn things like risk and reward, trial and error, overcoming failure, self-forgiveness, perseverance, hard work, commitment, how to take constructive feedback, the balance of teamwork and individual contribution, and even how to overcome fear on a consistent basis. They are not only producing better performers, they are creating children who will become poised and confident adults. The best part is that the kids don’t even know they are learning all this. They are too busy having a blast.
Our girls absolutely love it, and have created so many incredible relationships with the staff and with their peers, that this is the only extracurricular activity that they actually look forward to. The highlight of my girls’ week is NJD. NJD is simply magic!
Let’s talk about COVID19. Theatre is an inherently in-person thing, and in an environment where being in-person carries significant risks these days, my wife and I had basically planned to shut down all in-person activities for the foreseeable future. When COVID19 happened, NJD was determined to make theatre work in the “new normal” and did they ever deliver. Our girls were in “The Reluctant Dragon” at the time, and they did their rehearsals almost entirely over Zoom! And with only 3 in-person rehearsals, the cast pulled off an incredible performance given the challenge of having to rehearse remotely. But not only that, the staff has put safety guidelines in place that go above and beyond the standard for staff, students, and parents such that everyone’s health and safety is the number one priority. Mama Bear and I are extremely protective when it comes to our girls, and we feel that the staff at NJD really look after our children as if they are their own with the same love, care, attention. On show nights, even the parents get a temperature check at the door. We trust the staff at NJD with our children, and we don’t give out that trust lightly. As a neurotic, overly concerned, overly committed, overly protective, “nothing-is-too-good-for- my-child” type of parent, I can say without hesitation that NJD provides the best alternative to a traditional school-based theatre experience that I have ever seen. It is one of the best educational investments we’ve made in our children.
My only regret about NJD is this — I wish I found them sooner.
Heather Ellison
It has almost been a year since they first auditioned for this show, and boy what a year! When quarantine hit the wonderful ladies of their theater quickly switched to an online format, so they could keep rehearsing and be ready for the day they could put on Willy Wonka. And that day is TODAY (three months later)!! It won’t be a normal show and Lord knows I wish our family could be here. But we are so proud of these two and all their friends in the cast and crew. For both Ty and Emmy, NJD is a second home, and I’m sure many of you feel the sameRead more “Heather Ellison”
Kristi Latham

Thank you for another wonderful show! Maddy had so much fun working on Aladdin Jr and we loved seeing her the happiest she’s been since the beginning of this pandemic. As always, it’s amazing to see what can be accomplished in just 2 weeks. The casting, set and choreography were all so well done. I know it’s been such a challenging time for your business and just want you to know that you make a difference in theRead more “Kristi Latham”
Courtney Marsh
Shout out to Not Just Dance, the children’s/teen performing arts studio that has nurtured all three of our kids since 2016. They were 11 days away from opening weekend for A Chorus Line (high school edition) when the pandemic closures started. Meeting virtually for weeks, then outside for a few rehearsals, they pulled off a weekend of great performances, **reblocking about half the show in the last week** to make sure the actors could be as socially distanced as possible. Students were singing and dancing with masks when rehearsing and the staff got permission for a virtual ticketing option from the licensing group to keep in-person audiences small, separated and safe. It was glorious to see Molly on stage one more time before she heads to college, and all the middle and high schoolers on that stage powered through a challenging situation and made sweet musical lemonade from sour-virus lemons. The staff at NJD is one-of-a-kind for making this work! “What I Did For Love”Read more “Courtney Marsh”
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