The Rock School: West
610-431-4321
The Rock School prepares students who are gifted in dance for careers as professionals. The primary goal of the School is to produce classically trained and versatile dancers. Classes include ballet, jazz, hip-hop, tap and contemporary. The School has developed dancers for premiere companies throughout the United States and internationally. More than 1,500 dancers from around the world audition each year.
- Hours: The class schedule can be viewed on the website.
- Handicap Accessible: There is sidewalk accessibility and the lot has handicapped spaces.
- Membership info: Students must audition to attend this school.
- Parking: Free lot
- Public/Private: Private
- Accreditation/licenses: Yes
- Dance styles: Ballet, Hip hop, Jazz, Modern, Tap
- One-on-one instruction: Yes
After being at the school for over a year, I was shocked to find my daughter doing cartwheels and handstands in the back of a ballet class. What was even more surprising is that the women teaching the class, Mrs. Brown, completely ignored my daughter and when I tried to talk to her after class to express my disappointment about the lack of discipline in the class, she refused to speak with me. To make matters worse, when I went to Nicole Harmon, the school director, she was more concerned that I had broken their rule about parents observing the class than she was about establishing the appropriate level of discipline in the classroom. While the Rock School West may have at one point been a wonderful school, today they are a factory that ignores all but the best students.