1.YDR offers children and adolescents an opportunity to realize their highest potential and fulfill their artistic goals through quality, disciplined, creative, structured, challenging, and fun-filled dance programming. We encourage young people to learn not only skills but responsibility and self-esteem.

2. YDR seeks to reach those who otherwise would not have the arts as a part of their lives. This part of our mission is based upon the understanding that every individual has the capacity for artistic expression and is entitled to a high level of training and artistic experience regardless of age, aptitude, or ability to pay for classes.

3. YDR brings people of diverse backgrounds together through dance and the arts. We do this to build bridges among people of different origins. In sharing dances of diverse cultures we can understand our differences and explore our commonalties as human beings.