Morton Street Dance Center

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Originally established in 1992, Morton Street Dance Center is one of Baltimore's best and most comprehensive dance schools. Morton Street's exceptional teaching staff offers exciting, age-appropriate, developmental instruction for professional level dancers and every member of the family age 3 to adult.

Morton Street Dance Center (MSDC) is a comprehensive, professional dance center, founded in 1992 to serve the Baltimore Metropolitan community. MSDC was most recently recognized for Baltimore’s Best Dance Instruction in 2010 for the second year in a row by the US Commerce Association. MSDC’s exceptional teaching staff offers professional, technical, and inspired instruction for dancers of all experience levels, ages 3 through adult. Students receive technical training during the school year and our summer intensive program in numerous disciplines, including classical ballet, pointe, modern, tap, jazz, hip-hop, and traditional African dance. Our students are housed in a warm, family-oriented environment, catered to meet their individual needs. MSDC is supported, in part, by the Morton Street Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Morton Street Dance Center is home to student repertory ensembles and our resident professional dance company, Full Circle Dance Company. The repertory ensembles and company have performed throughout the region and beyond for the Morris Mechanic Theatre (for DanceBaltimore!), the Artscape Festival, the Dorothy P. Stanley Dance Festival at Morgan State University, Theatre Project, the Maryland Council for Dance, the Broadway Dance Center, NY, the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, NY, the Ohio and Wesleyan Universities, and the Music City Arts Festival in Nashville, TN.

Morton Street Dance Center students have earned regional and national scholarships from the Maryland Council for Dance, Dance Educators of America, Alvin Ailey, Gus Giordano, and Pointe Park University to further their training in ballet, modern and jazz. Many students have also been accepted in the area’s art magnet schools and some of the nation’s best undergraduate dance programs.