Best Ballet Classes in Boise

Artistic Dance Company is a Boise business that serves kids up to adults. The classes the business offers include ballet, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, tap, creative movement, and contemporary. Artistic Dance Company gives students the chance to perform in recitals and offers summer classes and camps. Adult classes include hip hop, Zumba, and high fitness. Owner and Director Jaime L. Moore-McLean teaches jazz at Boise State University and has a lot of choreography and modeling experience.

Backstage Dance Center is a Meridian business that has been serving students three years of age up to adults for over 25 years. Classes include ballet, lyrical, hip hop, jazz, contemporary, tap, acrobatic, and combo classes. Backstage Dance Center also has dance teams. Anne Sakolsky-Basquill is the owner and director and she has over 38 years of teaching experience. The business offers free trial classes and discounts for multiple family members. Parents remark on the positive environment and the quality of instruction.

Becky’s Dance Co. is a Middleton business that has been providing classes for children two years of age up to adults for over 15 years. The business provides beginner, intermediate, and advanced instruction. Classes include ballet, hip hop, clogging, lyrical, tap, competition clogging, adult clogging, solos, duets, and trios, and gymnastics. Becky’s Dance Co. also offers summer camps and different payment options. Parents remark on their knowledge, variety of classes, attentiveness, encouragement, and patience.

Boise Dance Alliance is a business that has been serving pre-kindergarten students to adults for over five years. Classes include pre-ballet, ballet, tap, contemporary jazz, hip hop, creative movement, and ballet/tap combo. Owner and instructor Jenn Smart has over nine years of dance coaching and teaching experience. Owner and instructor Ashley Maggard has over eight years of choreography and teaching experience. Parents remark on their talent, work ethic, and the environment. Parents appreciate their organization and the fun and welcoming environment.

Canyon Dance Academy is a Caldwell business that serves students of all levels and ages. Classes for students three to five years of age include kinderdance and creative. Classes for students six years of age and up include ballet, pointe, hip hop, tap, and jazz at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. Canyon Dance Academy also offers summershops and performing companies. The business provides discounts including for the enrollment of multiple family members.

Capital City Ballet Center is a Boise business that has been serving children up to adults for over 17 years. Classes include ballet, pointe, kinderdance, and boys ballet. Levels are beginner to advanced. Capital City Ballet Center offers private lessons. Owner and director Melissa Strader has over 24 years of combined dancing and teaching experience. She is the director and choreographer for the Capital City Youth Ballet pre-professional company.

Dance Arts Academy is a Meridian business that has been serving students for over 40 years. Classes include ballet, tap, lyrical, jazz, pointe, ballet and tap combo, and hip hop. Dance Arts Academy also offers summer camps for students three to eight years of age as well as performance teams. The business offers studio space rentals for meetings, parties, classes, receptions, workshops, and other events.

Dance Unlimited is a Boise business that has been serving students two to 18 years of age for over 32 years. Classes for boys and girls include ballet, hip hop, tap, jazz, acrobatics, and contemporary. Dance Unlimited has eight competition teams and classes for them. The business also offers birthday parties. Director Christina Shell has won several awards for her choreography. Director Tamra Nefzger is a member of Dance Unlimited and has many years of choreography and teaching experience.

Eagle Performing Arts Center is a business that has been serving students for over 12 years. The business offers classes for children and adults. Eagle Performing Arts Center offers a pre-ballet program, a ballet program that has different levels, and tap and Broadway. Adult classes include ballroom, Scottish country dancing, and Zumba. The business offers a discount for full payment. Eagle Performing Arts Center offers hourly studio rentals. Co-directors Cathy Giese and Jeff Giese have over 49 years of combined teaching experience.

ECHO School of Dance is a Boise business that has been serving students for over five years. The business offers classes for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students. ECHO School of Dance’s classes include ballet, jazz, hip hop, pointe, tap, breakdancing, parent and tot, combo classes, and stretch and condition. Adult classes are ballet, ballroom/swing, hip hop, tap, and stretch and condition. Founder and Director Echo Waldron-Noble has performed and worked with Ballet Idaho, Off Center Dance Project, Dance Theatre, Drop Dance Collective, and Ballet West. ECHO School of Dance offers a free trial class. Parents appreciate Echo’s way with children, professionalism, and knowledge.

Elevated Dance Project is an Eagle business that serves children and adults. The business offers beginner, intermediate, and advanced classes which include ballet, modern, tap, Mommy and Me, hip hop, lyrical, jazz, tumble, and combo classes. Elevated Dance Project also has a competitive dance team. The business offers family rates and discounts for multiple classes.

Inspired Dance is a Meridian business that teaches dancers three years of age and up. They offer classes including ballet, jazz/lyrical, hip-hop, and dance therapy, with new classes added regularly. Inspired Dance's mission is to provide a curriculum that trains the body, educates the mind, and enlarges the soul in a way that only dance can. Their program emphasizes the importance of modesty in music, movement, costumes, and pricing. Inspired Dance is focused on the art of dance and performance rather than the competition of dance. Inspired Dance provides community outreach and hosts recitals for its students. Founder and director Amy Merrill has a BA in Dance Education and is certified as a Barre Biz instructor.

Kennedy School of Dance is a Nampa business that has been serving students in Meridian, Caldwell, Treasure Valley, Boise, and Nampa for over 42 years. The business serves pre-school age students up to adults. Kennedy School of Dance provides classes in pre-ballet, classical ballet, jazz, pointe, and tap. The business also has dance teams. Anne Kennedy Calhoun is part owner and has choreographed several Music Theatre of Idaho productions. Lisa Kennedy Cowman is the President of the Boise Dance Teachers Association.

The Dance Academy is a Star business that has been serving students for over 10 years. Classes include core ballet, ballet, jazz, pointe prep, pointe, tumbling, tap, and combo. The Dance Academy offers sibling discounts. Owner and instructor Amber D. Barnes has more than 33 years of experience in dance and has studied with top choreographers. She is the Eugene Ballet Company’s children’s rehearsal director.

Treasure Valley Ballet Academy is a Meridian business that serves students in West Boise, Eagle, and Meridian. The business offers small class sizes and multiple levels of pre-ballet, primary ballet, ballet, variation, and pointe. Treasure Valley Ballet Academy provides students with performance opportunities including the winter showcase. The business offers a family discount and a discount for advance payment. Parents appreciate the instructors’ friendliness, quality of instruction, knowledge, and prices.

Xpressions Dance Academy is a Nampa business that teaches students two years of age and up. Classes include Mommy/Daddy and Me, ballet/pointe, ballet/jazz, tap, hip hop, musical theatre, jazz, and tumbling. Xpressions Dance Academy offers discounts for the enrollment of two or more family members. The business is a member of the Boise Valley Dance Teachers Association.