Presidio Dance Theatre Academy Won Nickelodeon's Parents Picks Award for Best Dance Classes in the SF Bay Area!

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Thank you parents for voting for Presidio Dance Theatre Academy who won Nickelodeon TV's Parents' Picks Award for Best Dance Classes in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is the second straight year Presidio Dance Theatre Academy has won Nickelodeon TV's Parents' Picks Award. In 2008 Presidio Dance Theatre also won the Nickelodeon Television's Parents' Picks Award for "BEST ARTSY PROGRAM" in the San Francisco Bay Area Award CLICK HERE to check it out

Presidio Dance Theatre International Tour To Russia - Summer Tour

Presidio Dance Theatre was invited by the Russian Federation, Ministry of Culture to perform in the famed White Nights Festival, 300th Anniversary of Tsarskoye Selo in June 2008. The company was hosted by the Royal School of Imperial Ballet and performed at the Palaces of the Tsars and the Pushkin International Festival, where 22,000 Russians attended the festivities!
Excursions included the Mariinsky Theatre, home of the Kirov Ballet; Vaganova School and Museum, Hermitage Museum, Pavlovsk Palace, Peterhof Palace; and Catherine Palace, where the group enjoyed a sumptuous garden party Welcome to Russia!. The Ministry of Culture provided English-speaking educational tour guides and sponsored all entrances for dancers and accompanying parents. It was the trip of a lifetime! Please enjoy our slideshow here

2009 DANCE OUT! Four Locations----------Record-breaking number of students!

Presidio Dance Theatre's DANCE OUT! education and outreach program expanded this session to include 4 locations at Robert Louis Stevenson School (Sunset District); Lafayette School (Richmond District); New Traditions (Panhandle); Presidio Dance Theatre Academy (Marina District). For the 11th year, DANCE OUT! is offered to K-5th graders at no cost each school semester. Currently, nearly 150 boys and girls are receiving free dance classes two times per week. The school year will end with DANCE OUT! students performing at the Presidio Dance Theatre's annual Spring Showcase Recital at the Palace of Fine Arts, May 22. Participating students attend: Lilienthal, Sunset, Peabody, Cobb, New Traditions, Lafayette, Feinstein, Francis Scott Key, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lawton, Jefferson, Ulloa, and Alamo elementary schools. This program is funded in part by the California Arts Council/National Endowment for the Arts and matched by the Jackson and Keon Family Funds.

Check out this Article about the Presidio Dance Theatre Academy featured in Dance Teacher magazine October 2008 issue

Click on the image above to enlarge the article. Bay Area parents recently chose the Presidio Dance Theatre Academy as San Francisco's "Best Artsy Program" for Nickelodeon's ParentsConnect's First Annual Parents' Picks Awards. Check out this awards page Presidio Dance Theatre won the Best Artsy Class for Teens here.

Presidio Dance Theatre Welcomes Julia Zharova, Artist and Teacher

Presidio Dance Theatre is pleased to welcome Julia Zharova to our dance company and teaching staff. Julia is from Russia and studied dance at the Moscow Choreographic School. Following graduation, she entered the prestigious Stanislavsky Theatre and performed roles in the ballets of Giselle, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty and others. She toured internationally with the company. As a graduate of Gitis, Julia earned a B.A. in Dance Choreography and classical ballet pedagogy. Her first performance with Presidio Dance Theatre will be in May at the Opera House and Palace of Fine Arts. Julia lives in SF with her husband and 2 year-old daughter.