ROCK CENTER is the School's main facility, located on the Avenue of the Arts at 1101 S Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147. Rock Center houses five floors fully equipped with six state of the art sprung-floor studios, in-house costume shop, a delicious & nutritious 2nd floor Café and a Boutique for dancewear and Rock School merchandise. Rock Center also offers Residence for students training far from home as well as an Academics program for grades 7-12.

We love seeing your pics from our Summer Intensive! Thank you for sharing your stories from class, the residence, and weekend outings! 💕😊 #rockschoollife #repwithrock 📸 @hollylemons @molly.k.gibbs @tobias3651 @magsndancer @mmulbrick @sophia_renaye
Thank you Beckanne Sisk and Chase O'Connell. Your time spent teaching here during our Summer Ballet Intensive is truly cherished by our students. 🙌 15 randomly chosen winners from the Summer Ballet Intensive early registration won a lunch with alumni, guest faculty, Beckanne Sisk and Chase O'Donnell from Ballet West. Everyone had so much fun chatting and eating together in the Rock Academics room. Beckanne reminisced about her days as student in Academics and she even searched to see if her name was still written in the Chemistry books on the shelf. YAY #rockschoollife #earlyregistrationwinners
First Arabesque Friday with levels 5/6 #rockschoollife
“When you form a team, why do you form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed”. -Russel Honore "25 students between the ages of 7-15 who never met before, came together in 7 days to build an inaugural contemporary piece for Fast Forward Dance to perform for an audience of over 4,000 at the Mann Center. As the Director of the program, I was so proud of the dedication of the students and my co-teacher/co-choreographer, Toby Lewellen (sp). The students performed a complex piece to the musical score “Mix” by Ryuichi Sakamoto."- Sun-Mi Cho, Director of Fast Forward Dance
We are proud to be performing at The Mann today for the young people's concert series "Rock-Ology" Levels 2-3x just took a bow performing Stars and Stripes to a packed audience at this beautiful amphitheater. ❤️⚪️🔵⭐️
We are so excited that we have another week down for our 2017 Intensive! We’re feeling a little nostalgic though so, we caught up with Rock School alumna Regina Montgomery (2013) of Tulsa Ballet on her experience at the Rock School as well as her friendship with fellow alumnus, Derek Dunn (2012) of Houston Ballet. How long have you and Derek be friends? Derek and I have been friends for 9 years! Where did you guys meet? We met when we were both 13 years old at our first summer intensive program at the Kirov Academy in Washington D.C. How did you become best friends? We both started at The Rock School as freshmen, but we didn't become best friends until we went to Jackson IBC at the end of our freshmen year. After that, we spent two inseparable years together at the Rock until Derek went to Houston Ballet as an Apprentice for his senior year, while I stayed at the Rock. We have remained best friends, keep in touch and try to visit each other once a year. I have been to Houston to visit Derek multiple times, and he has come to see me in Tulsa as well! It is so cool to see how our companies are similar and differ in many ways, and we have been able to see how each other has grown as an artist, dancer, and person over the years. I know that we will always stay close and remain friends forever. What's life like after the Rock school? Life after the Rock school had its pros and cons. I graduated from Rock with a job to join Tulsa Ballet's 2nd Company and I was nervous and excited. I had been at Rock for four years and that was my home and my family. It was a really hard change to leave my friends, teachers, directors. and everyone else in the Rock family. But I knew this was my next step to accomplishing my dreams and I felt the Rock had fully prepared me for my life as a professional. I was hired into Tulsa Ballet's main company after one year of being in the 2nd company and skipped the rank of Apprentice and went straight into the Corps de Ballet. I am also enrolled in college, working towards a business degree and taking my classes online. . I feel that all of my success here in Tulsa is because I was trained so well at the Rock School.
Our Lady Liberty, Gina Grace, wishing everyone a happy 4th of July from The Rock School! 🔴⚪️🔵✨
Excited about our 21 students registered in Fast Forward Dance Summer Intensive. Students rehearsing for the Mann Center performance of Rock-Ology on July 10. The performance is free with an rsvp online. Come out and support our Summer Intensive students.
We are so happy to have Sarah Lapointe as a guest teacher this summer. Sarah is Rock Alum, a Charlotte Ballet company member, and Dance Magazine's 25 dancers to watch. Here she demonstrates a saute arabesque with first position arms to level 3a. 🙌
Level 6 student, Arnaldo, turns it up and out in his développé a la seconde in the first week of Summer Intensive. Go #epaulement #wokeupthisway #balletboys
 

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