Dance Institute offers ballet, barre, ballroom, jazz, hip-hop, jazz lyrical, boys hip-hop, tap, creative movement, ballet fit (fitness), dance fit, musical theater (musical theatre), pilates mat, pilates stick, pilates machines, and yoga classes for adults, teens, and children in Austin, Texas. Our competition dance teams compete nationally. Dance Institute is located in Austin, TX, near the intersection of 2222 and 620, just west of the Capital of Texas Highway / Loop 360, near River Place, Steiner Ranch, Four Points, Tintara, Alara, VanderGrift High School, Lakeway, Lake Travis, and Austin Christian Fellowship. We frequently offer special master classes with dance and fitness legends like choreographer Sonya Tayeh (So You Think You Can Dance), Edyta Sliwinska and Alec Mazo of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" and others. Adult Group Dance classes for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels include Ballroom, Swing, Salsa, and Latin (Cha-Cha, Rumba, Samba), and adult Fitness classes include Zumba, Hip-Hop, Ballet Fit, and Pilates Mat. To strengthen one's core and build lean muscle, we also offer one-on-one and duet Private Pilates sessions with certified instructors. Our Ballet Academy for children and teens (starting with age 3) offers not only ballet and tap, but jazz/lyrical, ballroom, hip-hop, and stretch and flexbility and drill team prep classes, as well as Glee Club and Musical Theater. For young dancers who want to advance onto the pre-professional competitive level, our award-winning Performance Academy takes instruction and showcase performance to the next level.
This is Taylor's 7th year at Dance Dreams choreographing for the competitive tap program as well as teaching in the lyrical category Taylor Sease was born and raised in Charlotte, NC. Taylor began dancing at the age of two and has danced for 24 years. She is trained in contemporary, tap, jazz and ballet. Taylor formally assisted in office management and choreographed at her mothers' dance studio, Visions Dance Academy, for 9 years. As a former top soloist, she has won many titles such as: Miss Superstar, Miss Nexstar, Miss Starquest, 1st runner up Miss Global, and 1st runner up Miss Dance USA. Taylor was an apprentice for Mark Marino's, The American Dance Company, where she danced at NYC's Duke Theater on 42nd street. Taylor was also hired from a marketing agency, The Brand Movement, to perform a tap routine at many set locations to promote their products. Dancing is her passion and teaching is her skill! She enjoys challenging her students to do their best and inspires them to be better, not only in dance but in life. Taylor teaches her students to dance from the heart and always give it their all.