Metropolitan School of the Arts Jazz Students Return to Broadway Dance

Nineteen jazz students from Metropolitan School of the Arts (MSA) pre-professional jazz company, attended a street jazz class with Neil Schwartz at the Broadway Dance Center in NYC, founded in 1984. MSA students attended other classes as well, including a contemporary class with Ginger Cox from the Broadway Dance Center. For more information on MSA, please visit www.metropolitanarts.org.

Schwartz hails choreography credits from: Pharrell Williams' fragrance "Girl" for Sephora, The Today Show, Good Morning America, NBC Live, World of Dance, and more.

“This NYC student field trip is something we’ve done annually, but this is our first time resuming the NYC Broadway Dance Center experience since COVID,” said Sara Hart, co-executive director of Metropolitan School of the Arts of Alexandria, Va. “It was exciting to be back in person for this amazing real-world opportunity.”

As a non-profit organization, Metropolitan School of the Arts relies on the generous donations of sponsors and the community to sustain operations for its Academy and studio programming.

The Academy at Metropolitan School of the Arts is a college preparatory performing arts school for emerging young artists, grades 7 to 12, who are dedicated to a rigorous academic experience in a pre-professional performing arts conservatory environment. Their cross-curricular approach to arts training fills each young artist’s toolbox with the dance, music and acting skills necessary to be a triple threat in the arts world. Metropolitan School of the Arts approach to education is designed to develop independent, self-motivated and skilled learners. The school offers a post-high school graduate/gap program as well, for those students who desire an extra year to prepare for admittance into a performing arts university.

ABOUT METROPOLITAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (MSA) Alexandria, Va.-based, Metropolitan School of the Arts (MSA), a 501 (c) 3 organization, is the first Washington, D.C. area, private, secondary performing arts school, founded in 2013 by Melissa Dobbs. The MSA performing arts studios in Alexandria, Va. have taught dance, music and theater to more than 10,000 students since 2001. Noted for its world-class instructors, MSA offers high quality performing arts training in a ground breaking, holistic learning environment that cultivates creativity, builds community and empowers students. The organization was featured in Dance Teacher magazine, FOX 5 Morning News, WUSA9 Great Day Washington, ABC-7 Good Morning Washington, Northern Virginia Magazine, Washington Business Journal, Washington Post Weekend and Washington Families magazine. Many students from MSA studios go on to perform in prestigious arenas including Broadway, National Tours, The Julliard School, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, The Washington Ballet, The American Academy of Ballet, Universal Ballet Academy, The Kirov Ballet, The Hartt School, Marymount University (New York), Ford’s Theater and Mark Morris Dance Company. MSA offers a performing arts academy, a performing arts studio, a youth tap ensemble, a youth ballet, a MetroImprov company, a jazz company, and a musical theatre program, as well as adult fitness and dance. Call 703.339.0444 or visit www.metropolitanarts.org, Facebook or Twitter.