Delaware's Home for Dance
🎉 DanceDelaware Named "Best Dance School" and "Best Dance Instruction" in Wilmington🎉
We’re overjoyed to once again be voted the Best Dance School and Best Dance Instruction in Wilmington, Delaware — a heartfelt thank you to our incredible families and community for making this possible! This marks our fifth consecutive win, and we’re honored to have been inducted into Delaware’s Hall of Fame.
At DanceDelaware, we're more than just a dance school — we’re a family. Under the loving leadership of Valerie Smith, our devoted faculty brings decades of experience, care, and mentorship to every child who walks through our doors. We believe in creating a space where all students feel seen, supported, and inspired to shine — no matter their background, ability, or story.
Through a joyful mix of technique, discipline, and creativity, our dancers grow not only as artists but as confident, compassionate individuals. We celebrate every leap, every twirl, and every triumph — together.
Thank you for trusting us with your children and being part of the DanceDelaware family. Here’s to many more years of dancing, dreaming, and growing together. ❤️
The Benefits Of Dance
Ballet & Pointe
Ballet is the foundation of all dance forms and it provides grace, poise, and technique needed to be proficient in all other areas of dance. Early ballet classes will help dancers with posture, flexibility, turnout, terminology and ballet positions.
Tap
Tap dance is an exciting form of dance that involves dancers using their feet like drums to create rhythmic patterns and timely beats. Dancers practice a series of steps, adding more difficult combinations as they become more proficient. Tap dancing is a vigorous form of dance, requiring a great deal of physical fitness.
Jazz
Jazz is a fun dance style that mixes many different forms of movement. Jazz dancing often uses bold, dramatic body movements, including body isolations and contractions.
Contemporary Lyrical
Contemporary Lyrical dancing is combining ballet and jazz technique to execute a more interpretive and expressive form of dance. This style performed to music with lyrics to inspire movements to express strong emotions the choreographer feels from the lyrics in the chosen song.
Hip Hop
This discipline teaches the latest, most innovative and trendy urban dance techniques. Elements include proper conditioning, stretch and strengthening techniques, as well as dance steps and combinations.
Technique
Focusing on core, leg, and arm strength and overall flexibility. Students will build muscle, obtain balance, and gain more abilities to become stronger dancers. Focused on leaps, turns, tricks, and legs while learning new and innovative choreography to expand the student's dance vocabulary and ability when performing.
Acrobatics
Learning acrobatics in conjunction with dance allows dancers to develop and display physical strength, flexibility, balance and agility.
Musical Theater Dance
Acting, singing, dancing = Recreating dances from broadway shows to television to film. Fun, energetic styles of dance for all levels to enjoy.