We offer a beautiful facility featuring five studios with ballet bars and full mirrored walls. Spacious waiting rooms, picture windows for viewing, and plenty of seating in waiting areas make it the perfect place for parents and kids. Other features of our studio include: dressing rooms, two handicapped accessible bathrooms, a costume loft, and a prop shop,! Our students can enjoy a snack and finish homework in our dancer’s lounge! Little brothers and sisters can watch a movie on the big screen and play with toys and read books in our large seating area!

 

All studios have microphone systems, Bluetooth capability, and state of the art speaker systems. Our largest studios (4 and 5) have big screens for dancers to review routines. Two of our studios are grand in scale to ensure the best instructional setting and enjoyment for our older dancers and larger classes as well as offering the perfect place for showcasing routines and having all academy rehearsals and team practices.

 

Our tumbling classes feature professional grade gymnastics mats, springboards, training trampolines, wedges, spotting blocks and related equipment for optimal safety and optimal growth in this discipline.

 

The Dance Academy is best known for its outstanding teachers! Teachers with professional degrees in dance and the performing arts with featured status in dance companies are what make your experience at our studio meaningful. Our teachers have achieved master teacher status and have a wealth of professional and competitive experience as dancers and performers. Whether recreational or on competitive team, students will get the best instruction from caring and experienced teachers!

 

Our studio produces outstanding dancers! Our recreational dancers find a dance home that is fun and inviting with the best instruction.

 

Our studio is also known for our nationally award-winning team! We consistently win the highest individual, group, studio and industry awards at nationally recognized competitions and conventions. Our students reach pre-professional and professional level status through our award-winning High Impact team. Dance is an art and a sport. The opportunities are endless for dancers that participate on our team. Students stay fit, stay productive, expand their skills set, win scholarships, gain pre-professional opportunities on a national level and learn from industry professionals in a safe structured environment.

 

Senior students in a pre-professional status receive exclusive job training and performance opportunities through The Dance Academy. These are paid performance opportunities! In addition, all students can learn to teach dance through our TA program. All students are given exclusive performance opportunities participating in amazing productions.

 

Our teachers are amazing, but the culture of our studio is second to none. We know your name, we answer your emails, and we keep you informed. We provide information in a timely manner and keep you apprised of important information by email and hard copy. Parents and kids are cherished, and bonds are formed because we want your kids to become great dancers, but we strive to make their experience at the dance academy meaningful. We want kids to be able to leave a tough day at school and have a special place to go to where people care and where they feel supported. Our motto is: The Dance Academy – Where fun and excellence meet! We mean it. You will have the best instruction, super communication, and a great community culture as your child grows in their dance and performing arts skills!

 

The family-like atmosphere at The Dance Academy of Puyallup is a unique and wonderful environment that allows students to feel secure and confident as they learn.

 

Visit our studio, take a tour, and take a trial class! We look forward to serving you.