Detroit Windsor Dance Academy

Detroit Windsor Dance Academy
Type	Dance school
Established	1984
Founders	Bruce & Deborah Whie-Hunt
Students	500+
Location	New Center Building
Website	http://www.detroitwindsordance.org/welcome/index.html

Last updated March 24, 2019

Detroit Windsor Dance Academy is a nonprofit dance academy in Detroit, Michigan, United States where people of all ages can learn to dance.

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History

Detroit Windsor Dance Academy was established in 1984 by Bruce Hunt and his wife Deborah White-Hunt. In 1984 the school was very small and only offered a few basic classes, but since then it grown to about 500 young students and many adult students. They offer dance classes for every style of dance, and for all ages on most days. The academy started a few small rented rooms at 1515 Broadway, near the Opera House in downtown Detroit. As numbers grew they moved into a much larger space in the New Center Building in downtown Detroit.

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Classes

Classes are usually split up by age and skill level. Students may enrol from three years of age. There are over fifty classes, from basic classes including tap, jazz, modern, hip-hop, liturgical, and ballet. There are also classes such as ballroom and belly dancing. For more advanced students there are classes including pre-professional (pre-pro). Most classes for children are held outside the school week, but there are also weekday evening classes.

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Jazz is seen by many as "America's classical music". Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

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Annual concert

Detroit Windsor has held a public recital at the end of every term since 1985, usually in late May or early June; where students can show what that have learned. The concert is usually held every year at the Music Hall in downtown Detroit, but it has sometimes been held at the Opera House. Usually about 50 children's classes participate. During the year all of the dance classes take pictures in the costumes that they plan to wear in the end of year annual concert. At the concert a souvenir booklet with the class pictures and other information is sold.

Fees and scholarships

There is a fee for classes, but scholarships are available to talented students and to those who cannot afford the fees. The scholarship covers most of the nine months' classes leading up to the annual concert.

Crystal Ball

Every year a "Crystal Ball" is held to raise money for different charitable causes.

Money Object or record accepted as payment

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