Wecome to Legacy Studios for the Performing Arts, is Durham’s premier dance studio for classical ballet, pointe, modern, aerial, flamenco, acting and voice. Our instructors have been individually selected for their outstanding teaching and artistic abilities. We also feature guest artists from the Carolina Ballet, Gaspard Louis & Company, and the Aerial Angels, among others.
Legacy students have performed with professional companies such as Carolina Ballet, Missouri Ballet Theatre and Long Leaf Opera and our own repertory company Legacy Studios Repertory Company. Our students also have been accepted at nationally known summer dance programs such as University of North Carolina School of the Arts, American Ballet Theatre, the Rock School of Dance Education, Miami City Ballet, Carolina Ballet Summer Intensive, Virginia School of the Arts, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Bossov Ballet Theatre, and have recently competed at the American Ballet Competition in Austin TX.
All of our ballet and pointe classes are taught using the American Ballet Theatre’s National Training Curriculum. This curriculum is a breakthrough 8 level program that combines high quality artistic training with the basics of dancer health and child development using a comprehensive set of age appropriate, outcome-based guidelines to provide the highest quality ballet training to dance students of all ages and skill levels. All of our ballet instructors are versed in this technique and Mr. Terry and Ms. Willis-Zeger are certified in all 8 levels of the curriculum.
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