Performance without pressure
Proudly non-competitive and non-exam, DMSD is performance-based, so students can share what they learn without the pressure of competition.
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A place to grow, move & belong.
Dance classes where toddlers, kids, teens, and adults grow with confidence.
✦55 years of dance•Toddlers to adults•Performance without pressure✦
Start with their age
Ages 1–3½
Creative movement and early imagination take center stage.
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Ages 4–7½
Build confidence, coordination, and a love of dance.
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Ages 6–11
Develop skills, artistry, and friendships that last.
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Teens & adults
Keep growing, moving, and finding your rhythm.
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You’re an outstanding parent.
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.
Professional instruction, warm welcome
A family-oriented, loving, and fun environment, with highly qualified professional teaching.
Every child known and encouraged
Teachers give personal attention to every student while building strength, activity, and self-confidence.
More than one style
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.
Small classes, real attention
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
Built for learning, moving, and belonging.
Deborah Messinger-Seamster
Founder & studio owner
Deborah has danced since age four and has spent more than five decades teaching. Her experience includes ballet, jazz, tap, variety shows, dinner theater, television commercials, and generations of DMSD dancers.
Tara Marshall
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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