About Degas Dance Studio
Degas Dance studio is dedicated to instructing, educating and inspiring children to advanced professional performers in the ART of DANCE.
Degas Dance Studio (pronounced Dey-Ga) was named after the French famous painter Edgar Degas who was known for painting dancers. We felt the name closely related to our philosophy and mission to teach children through advanced pre-professionals “The Art of Dance”.
Our training videos and teacher certifications are an extension of this mission teaching proper foundational skills from the ground up.
Our Alumni students have been recipients of National Young Arts Spotlight, YAGP 1st Place awards. Scholarship recipients and acceptances to top summer programs including SAB, ABT, San Francisco Ballet, Bolshoi, Houston Ballet, Jacobs Pillow, Orsolina 28, European School of Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Harid Conservatory, Bodytraffic, Hubbard Street and tons more. As well as some of the top college programs including Codarts Rotterdam in Netherlands, Copenhagen Contemporary Dance Conservatory in Denmark, NYU Tisch, University of Michigan, Vasser, Peabody at Johns Hopkins and many are working professionally in the industry or have used their skills to help them be SUCCESSFUL in whatever THEY SET THEIR MINDS TO ACHIEVE.
The foundational blocks offers exceptional level of pre-professional training for each age student in a fun and engaging way. I've seen first hand incredible results and exponential growth from students.
- Parent
Anacia Weiskittel
My passion for over 30yrs is teaching the ART of DANCE. I have studied and developed my training principles, curriculum and class syllabus with a tried and true system that has successfully trained generation after generation of top professional dancers from the ground up.
Savea Kagan
Received the Holland Scholarship and is attending Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam, Netherlands working towards her Bachelor in Dance degree. She was honored to receive the 2020 Music Center Spotlight Honarable Mention award with her self-written and self-choreographed solo “17 Things”. She was a 2019 National Young Arts Winner for Modern/Contemporary and was able to spend a week training with some of the top leading professionals in the industry. Throughout her pre-professional career, she trained at Degas Dance Studio in Encino, California and LACHSA (Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.)
Over summers and winter breaks she studied with Jacobs Pillow 2020 Contemporary Virtual intensive under mentor guidance of Milton Myers,and Didi Veldman with guest choreographers including Francesca Harper, Helen Pickett, Stephen Shropshire, Doborah Wingert, Aszure Barton, Ami Shulman and Hope Boykin. She was also registered to attend Orsolina28 but was cancelled due to Covid. She has also attended summer/winter intensives Bodytraffic, Paul Taylor, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Mathew Bourne’s workshop. At the age of 16 she went on faculty at Degas Dance Studio teaching classical ballet, jazz technique, contemporary and modern to ages 5-18 Beg to Adv pre-professional levels.
In addition she has choreographed award winning solo/duo/trio, ensemble and production pieces for YAGP competition and live concert performances. As a training dancer, choreographer and teacher she believes in being well rounded and studying all styles to increase dynamics and artistry, exploring movement, and life long learning & personal development.