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The Davidson Academy Dance Program is a unique opportunity for your child to learn dance in a Christian environment. We strive to offer your child the best instruction available in ballet, tap, and jazz. Excellence in technique is stressed. Performance opportunities are provided. Your child will have a strong background in dance training should a professional opportunity arise. For those students for whom dance is not a lifetime goal, the classes offer discipline, poise, grace, and a chance to use dance as a part of the child's spiritual growth.
Amanda Smith is from Clarksville, TN, where she was the director of her own school for 18 years. She began training with her mother before continuing on to study classical ballet with Albertine Maxwell. Mrs. Smith had pedagogy studies years one through five of the Vaganova method of teaching ballet with John White, Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet Society. Each spring her school presented a spring production which built and sustained a continuing education scholarship through the Speech, Communication, and Theatre Department at Austin Peay State University. In 1989 Mrs. Smith won the National Tap Dance Challenge award associated with the movie "Tap", starring Gregory Hines. For the past four years she has been a judge with the International Dance Challenge, a national competition organization.
She has intensive teaching experience working with children of all ages.
Mission Statement: Quality Dance Training with a Spiritual Approach