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Dance classes where toddlers, kids, teens, and adults grow with confidence.
Creative movement and early imagination take center stage.
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Build confidence, coordination, and a love of dance.
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Develop skills, artistry, and friendships that last.
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Keep growing, moving, and finding your rhythm.
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Performance is an important part of dance training. It builds self-esteem, self-assurance, and the life skill of feeling comfortable in front of an audience, confidence that can carry into classroom presentations, social situations, and future college or job interviews.
DMSD presents two showcases each year, one around the holidays and one in the spring or summer. Classes prepare routines for both, but participation is always optional.
Registered families will receive details about dates, costumes, tickets, and other costs as each showcase approaches.
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The DMSD difference
When after-school time becomes more screen time than movement, friends, and fun, it is easy to feel frustrated.
At Deborah Messinger School of Dance, beginning dancers through pre-professional students find instruction that meets them where they are. From toddlers to teens, our classes build fitness, friendship, joy, and confident kids, one amazing child at a time.
Performing is never mandatory. It is an optional opportunity for dancers to show their families what they have been learning and build the confidence to be in front of an audience, a valuable skill for dance and for life beyond the studio.
A family-oriented, loving, and fun environment, with highly qualified professional teaching.
Teachers give personal attention to every student while building strength, activity, and self-confidence.
Many studios start beginners in a single-style class. DMSD takes a different approach: our combo classes give students a thoughtful sampling of ballet, tap, jazz, and basic tumbling, so they can discover the forms of dance that inspire them.
DMSD keeps a low student-teacher ratio. You will not find classes of 20 or more students with one instructor, because every child deserves meaningful personal attention.
Meet the studio
Founder & studio owner
Deborah has danced since age four and brings more than five decades of professional dance and teaching experience. As a performer, her most notable accomplishments include dancing with the Bolshoi Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. Her experience also includes ballet, jazz, tap, variety shows, dinner theater, television commercials, and generations of DMSD dancers.
Studio manager & head instructor
Tara has studied under Deborah and a range of other instructors for 45 years, and has taught for 35 years. She has competed in local and regional dance competitions, earning high scores as both a dancer and instructor for many student numbers. In 1999, Tara was the lead dancer and a chaperone for DMSD’s performing group when it was invited to perform at the World Expo in Korea.
“It’s like our second home with amazing dance instructors. My children built confidence and many friendships along the way.”
Staci Sheehan, DMSD parent
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