Education first.
Since 1932.
Dance Educators of America has spent over nine decades building the standard for how teachers teach, judges judge, and students grow —
run by educators, for educators.
The legacy.
DEA started with one teacher, Dorothy Norman Cropper, and one rule: dance education comes before competition. Ninety-plus years later, that rule still runs the organization — a code of ethics holds every member to a higher standard, and our faculty is chosen because they're educators first, performers second.
The tour, the titles, and the medals are how we keep score. The real work happens in the workshop room, where our faculty hands teachers better tools to bring home to their own students.
Dance. Educate. Aspire.
