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New York · United States
New York
Balanchine's school on the Upper West Side, Ailey and Broadway Dance Center in Midtown, Mark Morris and the African-diaspora belt in Brooklyn, the Joffrey in the Village — and a quiet corridor of forty- and fifty-year community schools across Queens, Harlem, and the Bronx.
Victoria · Australia
Melbourne
Suburban schools forty and sixty years old, run by women whose names are on the door, performing at the local town hall in December.
New South Wales · Australia
Sydney
Eighty-year heritage schools in the Inner West, harbour-side ballet on the lower north shore, Northern Beaches coastal density — and a Western Sydney hip-hop and contemporary culture that has built itself outside the city's institutional spine.
California · United States
Los Angeles
A commercial-dance capital on Ventura Boulevard and Hollywood, an institutional concert-dance pocket downtown at Colburn and LA Dance Project, a recreational Westside built around Santa Monica, and Pasadena's civic-ballet belt to the east.
Queensland · Australia
Brisbane
A bayside east anchored by Wynnum's three multi-style studios, an Inner Brisbane West End spine carrying thirty years of Latin dance at Rio Rhythmics, a Northside community-school belt, and a Southern Growth Corridor running from Springwood out to Springfield.
California · United States
San Francisco
San Francisco Ballet School (1933, the oldest in the United States), ODC and Dance Mission in the Mission, LINES at SoMa — and an East Bay carrying Shawl-Anderson, Malonga Casquelourd and Destiny Arts.
Florida · United States
Miami
Illinois · United States
Chicago
Massachusetts · United States
Boston
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