Mike & Donna PayneTogether, they own and operate Phoenix Gymnastics and Dance Academy. They each have over 25 years of teaching and coaching experience with beginners to elite competitors. The athletes that they have coached have won state, regional and national championships. Many have continued gymnastics in college through gymnastics scholarships. Donna is a former state chairman and current member of the USA Gymnastics State Board of Directors. She is also an active elite level gymnastics judge.Gymnastics & Dance Is The Basis Of All Sport! Your childs physical and mental development will be enhanced through gymnastics & dance activities. Physical attributes such as balance, coordination, strength, flexibility, grace, confidence and a more positive self image, are just a few of the positive affects of doing gymnastics or dance. Besides Gymnastics and Dance is fun! Most kids love to flip, jump and dance through the house, so why not save the furniture? Let them learn from experienced instructors in a fun and safe environment.Please Visit Our Website for More Information
Bender Performing Arts is a modern 14,000-square-foot facility with five large dance rooms, four private music rooms and two group lesson rooms for acting and voice instruction. Its staff has more than 200 years of combined teaching experience and provides instruction to students from age three through adults. The state-of-the-art facility boasts of cameras and television monitors in each classroom with playback capability to help track students progress. Raised maple floors help ensure the dancers safety and large observation windows allow parents to monitor children while in class. Bender Performing Arts, formerly Betty Johnson School of Dance offers a wide range of performing arts classes in dance, music and theatre. Its family-friendly studio allows its students to perform their best. From the novice to the national-award winner, from preschoolers to grandmothers, the company offers each student the opportunity to experience the thrill of the performing arts. Bender Performing Arts is located in Phoenix.
Established in 1986, Ballet Arizona is a professional ballet company that creates, performs and teaches classical and contemporary ballet. The company works towards preserving and celebrating classical dance while creating and commissioning new innovative works. Performances by Ballet Arizona s performers include Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker, Mosaik, Raymonda, Balanchine, Divertimento No. 15, Apollo, Serenade, Agon, La Sonnambula, and Theme and Variations. Seating is available at the theater at Symphony Hall and the Orpheum Theater. The School of Ballet Arizona is the official school of Ballet Arizona and is operated as an integral unit of the ballet company. Ballet Arizona is in Phoenix.
