The Habitat Performing Arts Center

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A natural environment in which something grows, thrives, and belongs.

Quality Dance Training for Ages 2-18

Erica and her teaching staff are dedicated to not only celebrating and challenging each dancer individually, but providing them a tight-knit community of supporters to encourage them to respect and appreciate working together toward goals.

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The Habitat Performing Arts Center
297 W Centre Ave
Portage, MI 49024

Dance to me, is like writing.

A strong foundation and understanding of the techniques of the language you are speaking helps in communicating successfully. You can much better communicate your feelings the more vocabulary you have.

Knowing the rules and executing them well, is step one.

Step two in my opinion: breaking the rules. Writing poetry.

The art and soul in writing is found in the individuality and uniqueness of the author. The distinction of their writing style. The way they modify and utilize the rules and techniques of language, as well as how they make the reader feel, is how they communicate their story.

Dance is no different.

The more you master the technique and are fluent in the movement vocabulary,
the more equipped you are to tell your unique story through choreography.

I do not want a library full of the same book. I want variety to work with. I
want dancers as unique as they are human. I want poetry of all kinds.

But whether it’s ballet or a fusion style, the hunger to understand and execute
the technique must be there in order to attain artistry.

We are athletes.

We are artists.

We are storytellers.

And I cannot wait to write this Chapter with you all.

All my love,
Miss Erica