YDR provides youth with a nourishing, educational environment that encourages and develops self-efficacy, skill and esteem building, and leadership qualities through dance. We offer youth between the ages of 4-18 an opportunity to realize their highest potential and fulfill their artistic goals through quality, disciplined, creative, structured, challenging, and fun-filled dance programming.  YDR provides artistic and educational experiences to youth regardless of professional intention, aptitude, previous training, or ability to pay for classes.  Through dance, YDR brings people of different cultural and economic backgrounds together in a non-threatening way to begin building bridges among people of different origins by exploring our commonalities and differences in International dance forms.