'"La danse est une poésie muette"
(Simonide de Céos)

Dance is the art of the movement of the human body in concordance with space and time, and the bond between these is done through rhythm and choreography. This is the definition of dance, as you could find it in specialized dictionaries.

What you will never find, in any dictionary, is the joy of dance, the joy one could compare with the joy you have seeing the first flower blossoming in spring, the first smile of a child or seeing the rainbow after the rain.

Our school's mission is to give children this joy. Our satisfaction, as teachers, is seeing them smiling and taking pride in their achievements reached during a school-year.

And, in 12 years, their achievements were also ours: little girls whose first steps were guided by us chose to become professional ballerinas, studying at the Romanian Choreography School (Facultatea de Coregrafie); children who discovered the joy of dance as “kids” of our school have been accepted to study at prestigious international ballet schools; and when young ladies stop us on the street and thank us for what we have taught them, even if they have different professions, not as ballerinas, it warms our hearts.

In these 12 years we have organized 22 shows, we have conducted cultural exchanges with Italy, we participated to TV shows and we have enchanted the eyes of thousand viewers and the hearts of thousand children.

Each year we show your children how beautiful this art is by teaching them not only ballet, but modern and contemporary dance, traditional dances of different cultures (tarantella, tango, waltz, csardas) as well, and we do it gradually through special created programs for each age group. Thus, starting with age 4 and proper music we manage that our pupils dance on music by Bach, Mozart, Shostakovich and Enescu.

Even if our pupils will not all choose to become professional ballet dancers, due to the years spent in our school, they all gain elegance in movement and stance, openness to culture and unfading memories of the emotions of being on stage, under the spot lights. The photographs nervous but happy little girls, dressed in beautiful costumes, will be shown, in the future, to their own children, children that we are waiting for to enter our school's gates.

Therefore, let your children fly on the wings of the dance, under our professional, patient and loving guidance.

La Sylphide Team