Join us for CPRD Academy’s Bring a Friend Week and Open House! Students are encouraged to share the joy of dance by inviting a friend or family member to attend class for free. Whether they’re new to dance or simply curious, they’ll get to experience what makes your favorite classes and teachers so wonderful. Remember, your friend must be a new student!
We will finish off the week with an Academy Open House. All classes will be donation based with a suggested donation of $10! Everyone who attends will have the opportunity to enter into a giveaway for a chance to win CPRD concert tickets, free classes, merchandise, and more!
Training Track is a structured and customized dance track for CPRD Academy students who want to further/fast track their training. Students are placed on a specific class track after evaluation through placement classes.
Students will commit to a required number of classes per week based on their level and learn to advocate for their own success by setting and tracking goals with support from a staff member.
Dedicated members of Training Track have the opportunity to audition for one of our Youth Ensembles. Both the Youth Ensemble and Junior Youth Ensemble perform all over the Front Range in the Mile High Dance Festival, DWTDS Gala, Granny Dances to a Holiday Drum, and for community partners and schools.
Junior Youth Ensemble (Ages 8-13)
Youth Ensemble (Ages 13-19)
Training Track Placement classes will take place on the following dates in the listed classes. You can register ahead of time through Mindbody as you would any other class.
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Academy’s policy is designed to promote students’ disciplined study of dance. Scholarships are awarded to students based on financial need, dedication to the program and availability. The financial aspect of this process will be modeled off of the Denver Office of Economic Development’s 2021 Income Limits.
All students who wish to receive a scholarship award must do the following:
Please allow 2 weeks to process applications.
The MSU Denver Dance major is unique in its versatility and in its partnership with Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (CPRD). CPRD is recognized worldwide for their dynamic cross-cultural curriculum, community engagement, innovative choreography, and promotion of American dance heritage. In this exciting program, CPRD’s mission of social transformation through dance and MSU Denver’s academic rigor and focus on real-world experience converge.
The dance curriculum includes coursework in modern, jazz, ballet, hip-hop, tap, world dance forms, world dance history and culture, community-based dance practices, somatics and anatomy, pedagogy, improvisation, choreography, contemporary dance and interdisciplinary performance, movement analysis, dance production, and arts administration. The Dance Program allows students to combine their interest in dance with other fields, taking classes in non-profit management, teaching or arts administration, among others. The program will utilize service learning, field experience, and internship programs to enrich students’ learning and to foster a connection between MSU and its student body and the Denver community. We aim to prepare students for their future in dance and beyond, supporting their specific career and educational goals through concrete learning experiences and creative exploration.
Construction activities are well underway for the Cleo Parker Robinson Center for the Healing Arts.
This map indicates, in BLUE, how to walk around and into our facility during construction.
Single Class Drop-In $17
Zumba Drop-In $10
10-Class Bundle $150 (can be used for one student)
Unlimited Monthly Package
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Need-based scholarships are available. Please apply using the button closer to the top of this page.
As of June 17th, 2024, the entrance is located at the front of the building through the church doors.
Please click on the “Class Schedule/Sign-In” Button above and register all of those who are TAKING class.
The Academy opens Monday-Thursday at 4:00pm and on Saturdays at 8:00am. We are closed on Sundays and Fridays.
There are 3 ways you can sign up for classes:
a) Download the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance App from the App Store
b) Click a “Class Schedule/Sign-In” button above
c) Visit the Academy Desk after 4:00pm Monday-Thursday and from 8:00am-2:15pm on Saturdays.
We have a Creative Dance Class for children ages 1-2 and their parents on Saturdays from 8:45- 9:30am.
See the buttons at the top of the page for our registration portal. Once you fill that out, we’ll give send you an email to complete the registration.
Yes, please refer to our class schedule.
We have a drop-in policy, you may take classes whenever you like and need not commit to a specific series. You may purchase a 10-class bundle for a savings.
Students have up to one hour before class begins to cancel their reservation. Students can cancel their reservation online through Mindbody or by calling the Academy at (303) 295-1759 x 17 to cancel. If a student doesn’t show, the fee will be forfeited. In the case of a last-minute class cancellation, the student’s class credit may remain in their account if the cancellation is communicated.
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For Ballet: Leotard, tights, ballet slippers, hair pulled back.
For Zumba: Workout clothes, clean sneakers
For All Other Classes: Comfortable clothing, hair pulled back, no jewelry