The New York School of Classical Dance was founded in 1992 and is dedicated to the training of students in the art of classical dance. Here we embrace a formal, methodical, approach to ballet training. Our goal is to help our students master both the technical and artistic aspects of the art of classical dance. The curriculum offered at The New York School of Classical Dance is ideally suited to the developing young dancer. Every step in the vocabulary is taught with forethought to more advanced applications.
Every rudimentary form is practiced with an eye towards more complex movements.
The program is geared to build the strength and understanding necessary for a genuine mastery of classical dance. Here, talented students may benefit from the proper study of this most demanding and rewarding art form. In the spring of 1990, a handful of disheartened ballet students looked to a dance instructor named Janet Springer . They were frustrated by the lack of rigor, consistency and technical precision they had encountered in lessons that often three relative beginners and more experienced dancers together and offered little in the way of progressive instruction. They sought from Ms.