Today’s Dance Center
Today's Dance Center is a family oriented school of dance, celebrating 42 years this dance season educating dancers. The studio's atmosphere is based on a fun, safe, & nurturing environment with a strong focus on instilling self-esteem, discipline, and integrity while emphasizing correct technique for enhanced learning and personal growth. Individual attention is offered to each student. TDC offers the very finest programs for students in all art forms of dance & theater arts. From recreational to the pre-professional level, artistic director Kim O'Connor-Sparks and her staff have the necessary education and professional performance background benefitting all students.
Today’s Dance Center offers an opportunity to our student’s who represent technical & performance excellence as well as commitment and discipline. These students should be very serious about their training and commitment. Our Performance Groups offer vast opportunities for these students to prepare to move on to a professional career in dance or successful career in any profession they may choose. The TDC Company is for the serious, more advanced student who would like to have the opportunity of performing on a regular basis. A student must audition for a spot on the Company. These students are very dedicated and study many hours each week, having a similar experience to train as members of a professional dance company. Our mission is to participate in community outreach through performing at senior homes, medical centers, schools and other facilities that house individuals who would not otherwise be exposed to the art of dance. The company has performed in NYC with the Project Dance annual event; Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines; Nassau Bahamas, Disney World, Fl; Disneyland, CA; Six Flags-Great Adventure, NJ; Hershey Park, PA; Philly Fringe Festival, PA; The International Dance Festival in LA where they were selected to represent the state of New Jersey and the USA as well as numerous charitable events, Malls, concerts, and dance festivals. The Company also participates in dance competitions and has won many outstanding and special awards for their performances and choreography.
Student's of Today's Dance Center have employed by New York City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, River North Dance Company, Broadway Theater, Charleston Ballet, Las Vegas, Disney World, Sesame Place, Hershey Park, Disney Land, to mention a few and have been accepted on scholarship to the University of the Arts, George Washington University, The Rock School, Rock West, American Academy of Ballet, Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Virginia School of the Arts, the Joffrey Ballet, the Boston Ballet, Ballet Met, the Nutmeg Ballet, the Charleston Ballet, the Harid Conservatory, the Atlantic City Ballet, and the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. Students are now performing professionally in dance companies, theme parks and on cruise ships all over the world. Many Graduates of Today's Dance Center are outstanding students and graduates of Colleges and Universities throughout the country.