The RAD is one of the world’s most influential dance education and training organisations. With its global headquarters in London, the RAD works locally and around the world to bring dance to diverse communities, widen access to dance and share the benefits and wellbeing that dance brings.
With a strong global membership presence in over 85 countries, each year around 250,000 dancers learn the RAD syllabus and take exams. Over 1,000 students are enrolled in in-person and distance-learning dance teacher training programmes.
The RAD empowers people through dance education and enjoyment and believes that ‘every body’ should have the opportunity to learn to dance.
Stage Door Dance Productions is reinventing the dance education and youth extracurricular model in Raleigh, NC. With a strong belief in age appropriate instruction and choreography, the studio uses technique, performance, community, and character to encourage dancers to "Be More At Stage Door!"
Under the leadership of Founder/CEO, Chasta Hamilton, the studio features two locations, in Brier Creek and at Lake Boone Trail, as well as their unique Intensive Training Program and affiliated non-profit, Girls Geared For Greatness.