The Rock School

The Best Dance Training in the Region since 1963. 

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Dancer - @emthedancer Location - Los Angeles, California. #BalletZaida #EmilyCairns

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Rock Dancer - Emily Cairns 💛 💙 💜 💚 💖

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A patriotic take on a holiday classic, Nutcracker 1776 tells the story of a brave young girl, Abby, and her magical Christmas Eve adventure. 

Filled with Founding Fathers, mischievous mice, and decadent delights, don’t miss your opportunity for the talented dancers of the Rock School to take you on a holiday journey that you and your family will never forget.

Buy your tickets now and…

Link to tickets here: http://bit.ly/1776treat

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Misty Copeland feature for Vanity Fair, July 2015 issue. Photos by Patrick Fraser.

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Birds fly only because they cannot dance.

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Dancer - @stephaniekim5 #Balletzaida #StephanieKim

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Good morning to 3-week Session Summer Intensive students and guest teacher Aaron Orza who danced @sfballet for 11 years. Welcome to Philly everyone! (at The Rock School)

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Here's a video of Rock Alum, ABT Corps member, Gabe Stone Shayer rehearsing Bluebird variation for ABT's "Sleeping Beauty" with Misty Copeland, who was named one of Time Magazine‘s 100 Most Influential People of 2015.

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Rock Academics student, Jenna Turner photographed by Jordan Matter. www.dancersamongus.com

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Congrats to current Rock Student, Sarah Lapointe, who performed in The Washington Ballet's production Swan Lake alongside Rock Alumna, Claire Rathbun. The Washington Ballet presented a ground-breaking, beautiful performance of Swan Lake starring Misty Copeland & Brooklyn Mack as Odette/Odile.

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The 2015 Youth America Grand Prix Finals are underway this week in New York City. We sat down with some Rock School participants for a Q&A preceding this week’s Finals. Our first interview is Jinchang Gu, Senior Grand Prix winner from the Philadelphia Regional Semi-final. ‪#‎rockschoollife

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Rock Student, YAGP Finalist, Zachary Downer Photo by Vikki Sloviter

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Don't miss this program of must-see contemporary works, featuring dancers from the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company; Australian Ballet; Bolshoi Ballet; Mariinsky Ballet and the Tokyo Ballet in its US Debut! Tickets on sale now at the David H. Koch Theater: http://tickets.davidhkochtheater.com/sing…/eventDetail.aspx…

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http://bit.ly/1BpmGcm Congratulations to Rock School alumna Michaela DePrince whose memoirs are being adapted into a feature length film! (via Entertainment Weekly)

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Congrats to the Rock School students who competed in the recent YAGP Semifinals in Austin and Denver! Here's a list of the winners photographed above. From the top, in order: Taylor Ciampi - Grand Prix winner in Austin Ashleigh Richardson - 1st place Women's Senior Classical Division in Denver Abby Fletcher - Top 12 Women's Junior Classical Division in Denver Taylor Ciampi and John Rowan - 3rd place Pas de Deux in Austin Best of luck to these students as they prepare to compete in the YAGP Finals beginning April 10 in New York City!

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