The Pointe Performing Arts Academy is designed to train dancers and performers in a positive structured environment. The central philosophy of The Pointe is to offer the best training available to each and every student, whether he or she desires to pursue a professional career or not. Our goal is to have each student understand the powerful impact and influence the performing arts can have in their lives by teaching them coordination, technique, artistry, self-expression, self-esteem, and responsibility.  The Pointe offers performing companies for all abilities and a choice in your level of time commitment.

The Pointe also sponsors a pre-professional jr. company of Odyssey Dance Theatre called 02.  This company is scholarshiped and has the opportunity to train under and perform in professional shows along with Odyssey.

Our Creative Movement class for children with special needs is a free class that is fully sponsored by The Pointe.   These children have the opportunity to learn and grow in an artistic outlet not only in class but also performing in our benefit concerts and spring recital.

What Makes the Pointe Different?

• Online registration and current info for each individual child
• Yearly rotating curriculum to maximize training in all genres (including acting, voice, ballroom, and audition courses) allows for more time outside of the studio.
• Companies focus mainly on choreography, mentoring, and non-competitive performances
• Our upper levels rotate teachers on a monthly basis, giving students optimum training in a variety of styles.

The Pointe is organized into several divisions to allow parents and students to choose their educational focus and track:

Ballet Division

• Curriculum based on the best of the Russian, French, Italian, Danish, and English syllabi.
• Designed for the serious ballet student and those students with diversified interests alike.

Performing Company Division

• Companies train in variety of dance forms
• Dancers work with many different choreographers & styles. Schedule designed to allow time for outside activities
• Participate in non-competitive community and benefit performances
• Minimum competition participation
• Summer workshops and non-competitive tours

Children’s Division

• Introduces ages 3-8 to creative movement, imagination, gross motor skills, and musicality
• Focuses on fundamentals of technique for the development of strength, flexibility, control, and balance
• Prepares students for more intense training in all genres of dance

Teen/Adult Division

• Designed for dancers in all levels who desire to enjoy the physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of dance without the full commitment of intense training found in the other tracks

Open Division

• Designed for those who wish to create their own emphasis of study.
• All classes are available for open enrollment
• Placement classes still required