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The Mid Maryland Performing Arts Center is a highly regarded school for dance and musical theater in Frederick, MD. With two state-of-the-art facilities in Frederick and New Market, they offer a safe and enriching environment for students of all ages and abilities to experience the arts. Committed to providing excellent performing arts education, the Mid Maryland Performing Arts Center aims to instill a lifelong love of the arts in its students. They offer a wide range of classes, workshops, and summer camps, as well as annual performances and opportunities to join their performance companies.Generated from the website

Center Stage Dance and Performing Arts Center was incorporated in 1990 by the Artistic Director, Sherri Shortell. Center Stage offers quality dance instruction, from beginner through professional, in tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical, hip hop and modern classes for children and adults. The Center also offers musical theatre, drama and vocal classes for children of all ages. A professionally staged dance revue is presented in late June of every year. The professional Center Stage Dance Company, directed by Ms. Shortell, is in residence at the school.The Center's competition dance teams have received hundreds of regional and National titles at competitions such as Star Systems, I Love Dance, and Showstopper. Dance Teams also attend National Finals or perform at Disney World in Orlando Fl and also have other performance opportunities throughout the year. Members of the dance teams performed with Center Stage Dance Company at the Olympics in Sydney, Australia in September of 2000. Former students are performing nationally in dinner theatres, cruise ships, amusement parks, and touring companies. Students have performed in Debbie Allen's production of "Dancing in the Wings" at the Kennedy Center and "Showtime at the Apollo".