Factory Street Dance Studio

Factory Street Studio provides non-competitive dance education in Southeast Ohio, promoting dance technique, self-esteem, personal growth, and a cooperative spirit. FSS stands in solidarity with Black artists, Black students, and all our community members of color. We are committed to addressing the racial inequities in dance education and pledge to start with our own organization. We can do better, and we join others in the demand for racial equality.

Factory Street Studio’s curriculum is founded on a fourteen week, methods-based program designed to bring cohesiveness to students’ dance education. Every week throughout the fourteen week semester, different dance concepts such as space, time, energy, and shape are incorporated into each class using movement games, concept-specific exercises, and improvisations. Teachers are also encouraged to take inspiration from Bartenieff Fundamentals and Rudolph Laban’s movement effort systems. These concepts are used as the basis for each lesson plan regardless of the style of dance (teachers of creative movement, modern, ballet, and jazz classes will be incorporating the weekly concept into the genre-specific structure of that technique). This fourteen week plan exceeds the standards for K-12 Dance Education as put out by the NDEO.