CK Dance Academy in Lincoln is a Christian dance student catering to both children and adults, featuring a family-friendly, non-competitive environment with a modest dress code and clean music and moves. Classes start for children as young as age 2 and include ballet, tap, hip hop, jazz, acrobatics, leaps and turns, and lyrical styles. Special programs include courses for Girl Scouts, a spring recital, a winter concert, and a dance company.
Based in Lincoln, Dowds Irish Dance Academy is owned by an award-winning Irish dancer, Marty Dowds, a Commission Certified Irish Dance Teacher. Dowds has 24 years of professional Irish dance experience, including 13 years touring internationally with Riverdance. This location offers four levels of classes, from beginners to those training to compete, as well as adult classes for fun and private instruction.
Greater Impact provides dance classes in a professional yet family-friendly atmosphere with caring, experienced instructors. They have two studios: a professional-style room with 1,143 of space for teen and adult classes, and a smaller studio space with windows where parents can observe classes for toddlers and preschoolers. Greater Impact also has a lobby with comfortable seating, a stocked snack bar, locker rooms, restrooms, and retail merchandise (both new and used).
Located in Lincoln, Hart Dance Academy celebrates the love of the art form of dance, with classes including ballet, pointe, jazz, contemporary, cheer, hip-hop, acrodance, tap, combinations, and many more. Classes begin as young as 3.5 and are available for all ages. Serious dancers with superior talent and dedication can opt to take company classes in ballet/pointe technique, contemporary, tap, and jazz.
Lincoln's Hilary Johnson Dance Studio is founded by a professional dancer who has toured with Ballet Omaha and Charleston Ballet Theatre as well as coached the two-time National Champion Bengal Dancers at Idaho State University. A range of classes, including ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, lyrical, and more, are available in a beautifully remodeled studio.
Founded in 2001, Intermix Dance Company in Lincoln is a boutique studio that provides both competitive and non-competitive instruction in classical ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, lyrical, hip-hop, and dance team prep. In fall 2016, this dance company moved to a brand-new studio with a professional quality sound system and sprung Harlequin dance floors. Intermix Dance Company has an overall five-star customer rating on Facebook.
Located in Lincoln, Jessica Dodd Dance offers fun, non-competitive dance classes for all ages and abilities in ballet/tap combination, hip-hop, ballet/tap/jazz combination, ballet/tap/jazz/pointe combination, and technique, including special workshops for students with special needs. Dodd is a former student at Nancy Standley School of Dance who took over the school in 2011 when Standley retired.
Motions Dance Academy is a Lincoln studio offering beginner, intermediate, and advanced dance classes starting as young as age 2. They offer developmental and age-appropriate instruction in disciplines such as mommy and me, ballet, tap, pointe, jazz, lyrical, hip-hop, and combinations thereof. Motions Dance Academy has been in business for more than 12 years.
Located in Lincoln, Nebraska Ballet Theater and School provides professional dance education and training in a fun, nurturing atmosphere. Students can receive a classic dance studio experience at their level in ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, modern, musical theater, and hip-hop. Those studying in the conservatory are prepared to pursue a dance career at the university or professional level.
Located in Lincoln, Pas de Deux School of Dance provides instruction for all ages in classic dance styles such as ballet, tap, and pointe as well as jazz, hip hop, lyrical, Irish dance, and leaps, turns, and other techniques. Each session lasts eight weeks and includes an annual performance opportunity. Fun birthday parties are also available.
Based in Lincoln, Piccolo Dance Theater provides a range of programs, including pre-professional, theatrical, competitive, and community classes for all ages and skill levels. Options include ballet and tap combo, tumbling, ballet, tap, jazz, jazz and hip hip combo, lyrical, teen classes, pre-point, men's ballet, college continuing education, and classes for seniors. Piccolo Dance Theater boasts a brand-new studio space with a comfortable lobby featuring wireless internet.
Simply Ballroom is a Lincoln dance studio specializing in ballroom, Latin, swing, and salsa dance lessons for all ages and skill levels. Options include wedding dance lessons, youth ballroom camp, birthday parties, Zumba classes, private instruction, and more. This business has served the entire Omaha area for more than 18 years and has an appealing vintage ballroom style as well as the largest hardwood dance floors in the region.
Starstruck Dance Academy in Lincoln was established in 2003 and has classes for ages 2 through adult. They offer a family-friendly learning environment, sprung floors for dancer safety, limited class sizes, parent observation windows, secure wireless internet, certified instructors, and professional yet affordable recitals. Options for all skill levels include ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, performing team, lyrical, creative movement, pointe, and more.
The Universal Dance Academy in Lincoln, Nebraska, has been teaching dance to children and adults for more than two decades. Classes are taught in dance styles that include ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, lyrical, and contemporary in addition to repertory, hip hop, musical theater, and tumbling. The directors of Universal Dance Academy hold BFA degrees in dance education, and all faculty are trained and experienced in performance and teaching. Students begin as young as 2, with classes available for all ages up to and including adults.
