AbunDance Academy of the Arts

I. Love. This. School. We enrolled my 4 year old there in April. It’s a few blocks away from home so it’s convenient and we wanted her to be involved in some form of Dance. We enrolled her just in time for her to be a part of their summer production of The Wiz. The school is packed with beautiful faces from every walk of life and ages from 3 to 60… dancing and loving dance. All under the tutelage of Karisma Jay who we affectionately call «Ms. Karisma» (even the parents). She is the reincarnation of Angela Simms but only here in real life. She’s tough but loving and nurturing… she instills a sense of discipline in even the smallest little ones and they love dance as a beautiful by product.
The summer «dance concert» was this past Sunday at the time of this review and I am floored by how professional, bold, confident, improvisational and unafraid these young dancers were. We all expected some version of stage fright from someone… ANYONE??? NOT. ONE. STUDENT. They knew that if they stumbled or forgot or messed up… the show must go on and to rely on their dance family. My daughter practiced endlessly — every night before we went to sleep she’d practice a little piece of the performance and tell me the names of the movements and everything. I am so ABUNDANTLY grateful for the presence of this school in my daughter’s life. She has a little dance family in AbunDance that I pray she’ll grow with and foster amazing friendships within.
WORTH. EVERY. PENNY.
(ok… enough with the staccato sentences… I love this place. if you’re near by and you love dance for yourself or your kids — GO HERE. I mean it.)