Deborah Mason Performing Arts Center
About
Deborah Mason Performing Arts Center is a dance school serving Cambridge and Somerville, offering classes for children, teens and adults in ballet, en pointe, modern, tap, jazz, musical theater and hip hop. Youth programs cover ages 3 to 18, with intensive training in all genres for intermediate and advanced dancers. The school is directed by Deborah Mason Dudley and emphasizes what is current and innovative in dance, taught by its faculty and visiting artists.
Students get performance opportunities, including an annual May recital at John Hancock Hall in Boston. Advanced dancers can audition for City Youth Dance Ensemble, the school’s pre-professional youth performance company, which follows an intensive curriculum tailored to each dancer. The center says it is well regarded by casting agents and choreographers on both coasts for producing dancers, and the United States Senate has cited it for providing high-quality arts education for decades.
What to Know
- Summer programs are offered for students ages 5 to 25.
- Master classes run throughout the year for adult and advanced young adult dancers.
- Ongoing adult classes are also available.
- Classes run throughout the academic year.
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