NAU Community Dance Academy

07/20/2024

We just finished up a two week today, and it was amazing! Thank you to all of our students who joined us, and we hope to see you again next summer! 🩰✨️

07/18/2024

We're getting caught up again, and we want to celebrate our rockin' Spring Performance! The students had a blast dancing to rock songs from throughout the decades, and they did amazing as always! 🎸🩰
A special thank you to local realtor and Academy dance parent for her incredibly generous donation to our Foundation account! We greatly appreciate her support, which helps us purchase everything from classroom supplies to costumes.
If you're interested in making your own donation, please visit our website at www.nau.edu/academy and visit the Scholarships and Donations page.

04/27/2024

We're a little late with this post, but we can't forget to celebrate another AMAZING year of at the Academy! 😍
Our dancers did fantastic and we're so proud of all of them for their hard work.
Now, off to the Spring Performance!

02/20/2024

Congratulations to Mr. Andrew Needhammer, Dr. Tim Westerhaus, our Academy dancers, and the Master Chorale of Flagstaff for the Viola Award Nomination in 'Excellence in Collaboration'! Our dancers were so proud to be a part of this, and we are incredibly grateful to have been asked to join such a fun and fantastic production. 🎭🩰

Congratulations and best of luck to all of the Viola Award Finalists! We're looking forward to this awesome community celebration 🎉

02/19/2024

We're so elated to see a review like this 🌟

Congratulations to all of the amazing and creative groups involved in this production! We are still so honored to have been asked to participate. Thank you to Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra and Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival for bringing this together! Our dancers learned so much and had fantastic time working on this.

Here's to many more collaborations!

This kind of audience feedback warms our hearts, and it has been pouring in since Saturday's co-production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. FSO is looking forward to the next chance to partner with Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival, NAU Community Music and Dance Academy, and NAU Kitt School of Music's Vox Astra choir and soloists. Many thanks again to our concert sponsors, Northern Arizona Healthcare Flagstaff and Gust Rosenfeld, P.L.C. Photo by .gallery

02/12/2024

Seven of our students competed at the 25th Annual competition this weekend, and they were amazing! We're so proud of all them for their hard work 💪🩰

➡Swipe to see some of our favorite photos from the event 📷

Photo credit to the live stream.

02/12/2024

Join us this Saturday for another amazing collaboration! We're honored to join the wonderful Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra once again for another fantastic production, and we hope to see everyone there!

Come see "A Midsummer Night's Dream" this Saturday the 17th in Ardrey Auditorium! This play by Shakespeare is about four young Athenians in a romantic love tangle and is in two worlds – the court of Athens and a mystical forest that lies beyond the city’s walls. This is a co-production with Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival and will also include dancers from the NAU Community Music and Dance Academy and singers from the NAU treble choir. The FSO will be performing the music that composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote to be played alongside the play.

Get your tickets today!
https://nautickets.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1815&r=f35f747ae65c4572add0aa84ab64b9f4&fbclid=IwAR2dyKVG9oq464kyUZeFMda8heiD2O1CkaE234JezhZG4Ayaeh_hdOvYugw

Photos by: Chandler Carlisle

02/05/2024

The next concert this season (February 17th!) is a very special co-production of Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" performed by Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival, with Mendelssohn's music composed to accompany the play performed by the FSO.

Shakespeare’s text will be displayed live, and there will be ballet dancers from NAU Community Music and Dance Academy and singers from NAU's treble choirs. This is one-night-only collaborative community production not to be missed!

Learn more and get tickets:
https://nautickets.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1815&r=f35f747ae65c4572add0aa84ab64b9f4

Photos by: Chandler Carlisle

12/18/2023

What an amazing semester! 👏

Our Nutcracker collaboration with was spectacular as always, and our students did amazing! It was a jam-packed end of the year, but we already can't wait for the Spring:

With , another collaboration with FSO, and our Spring Performance, it is certainly going to be a busy couple of months!

11/29/2023

We're just two days away from our performance weekend! 🎄🩰

We can't wait to see everyone at the shows. Our students have been working incredibly hard, and we know is going to be amazing as always 🎻

If you still need tickets, please visit nau.edu/cto today - tickets are selling fast!