- We would like to take this opportunity to commend your professional and organized communication and personal attention. It has been only a year since our daughter began pre-ballet last summer, and we could not be more pleased with her knowledge of dance performance, skills, steps, etc. Miss Libby and Miss Danielle have been warm and so professional! Kristin looks forward to ballet class each week. She is convinced (at least for now at age 5) that she wants to be a ballet teacher "like Miss. Libby" when she grows up. Thank you for providing such an excellent learning environment!

Kate & Gary Lavoie

- The Dance Academy has been a part f my life for 22 years now and has instilled in me a lifelong love of all dance forms. From the age of three and my introduction to the joy of movement, through my intensive ballet training as a teenager, to the present, in which I choose to take classes at the Academy for the pure fun of it, my experience has been extraordinary. But beyond providing an exceptional dance education, The Dance Academy taught me to approach every endeavor with discipline and commitment. The academy staff always offered positive feedback, but never allowed me to settle. I learned to celebrate my accomplishments, yet continue working toward the next goal. My Academy education shaped my work ethic and has served me well beyond the world of dance.

Rachel Stopka

- I am writing to commend you on the quality of your beautiful school. As you are aware, our daughter recently began studying at the Dance Academy with the double problems of needing to find a new ballet school that would help prepare her for college dance auditions, while respecting your need to recover from ankle surgery. Although ballet is not her primary goal as a dancer, she has studied in other pre-professional programs, and at the Boston Conservatory summer intensives. Giulia understands that ballet technique informs all other forms of dance, and has always approached her ballet study with fierce determination.

As parents, my husband and I were first impressed with you personally. You are, competent and professional, and astonishingly, knew exactly about the physical problem our daughter was enduring. You did not insist that we "sign up" right away for a full course load. In fact, you encouraged Giulia to try things out beforehand. We also did encounter the "not invented here" attitude that would have been a real blow to our daughter who needs to keep positive in the face of what she knows are demanding and rigorous days of preparation, and her own physical limitations.

As the director, you have also set the tone for your school. The Dance Academy has an open, non-competitive, yet highly professional atmosphere. From the front desk, to the moms in the halls, and then on to the teachers and into the classroom; the enthusiasm coupled with the focus and dedication of everybody we have met all encourage the wonderful results that are evident in the classroom.

Giulia cannot say enough about the quality of your students, the kindness she has experienced form her classmates, teachers and you personally. It has gone a log way to helping her heal, in body and spirit. As I watch her become stronger and more confident each day, I am grateful that she has found the Dance Academy at this stage of her journey.

Roseann Radosevich

- It always amazes me when I watch the students of The Dance Academy perform. It's not just their mastery of dancing but the shear joy they seem to feel about being up on stage performing for family, friends and strangers. There is such a wonderful balance of disipline, fun and an extraordinary self confidence in each and every dancer.

Melinda Paine-Dupont