We offer a fun, safe, positive environment for students 3 to adult. Dancers creatively explore healthy living through the art of dance. FootNotes offers quality dance classes based on a nationally recognized standard syllabus. We emphasize technique, safety, creativity, and expression to reach ones full potential. We also offer our students the opportunity to further their performance experience by audition to join the FDA Dance Team. As a member of the dance team, students represent FootNotes Dance Academy at various local dance competitions. We offer a range of dance styles including ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, acro, hip hop, musical theatre, African Caribbean and boys hip hop. Our dance year runs from September to June and ends with our annual recital.more...See more text
When speaking to Nicole Cyrus, owner of and instructor at FootNotes Dance Academy, it becomes clear that, for her, dance is not just a way to keep fit. She trained in dance from a very early age and remembers that certain instructors had a huge influence on her, encouraging her to find her true self. “Around age 13, I found a studio that I really liked,” she recalls, “and where I clearly felt at home and I thrived. I started taking all the classes they offered ― the teachers were great; I felt welcomed and encouraged.”
Nicole’s dance instructors understood just how important it was to offer positive reinforcement to their students; they knew how crucial it was for a blossoming teenager to get the support she needed. “At other schools, sometimes you feel a little ignored or lost,” she confesses, “but at that school, I felt very welcome. And I think I adopt this teaching style, too ― every kid is unique and every kid is special, and they each need to be encouraged in their own way.”
