Halloween is celebrated all week long at AMA! Great costumes were worn by our students and each year, the AMA staff goes crazy with creativity with their annual costume theme. This year was no different! The staff was dressed as Musical Legends and Pop Stars. The pictures alone say how much fun we had! Can [...]
A great afternoon was enjoyed by all at the Des Plaines Public Library on October 12! Several groups of dancers from AMA Dance & Music School demonstrated four genres of dance, including tap, ballet, jazz and boys’ hip-hop. All AMA students did a fabulous job showing their talents! Two AMA piano soloists were also featured [...]
Each fall, all AMA students get to invite their friends to their lessons to share what they have learned throughout the year, and their friends can PARTICIPATE in the lessons as well! We have bins of used dance shoes for dance friends to borrow… and really fun hands-on games are played in music lessons! All [...]
AMA Dance & Music School wants to make sure our students have the opportunity to perform in amazing venues! In 2011, when Chicago Sky’s marketing manager Bryan Van de Bosch got word of the large production routines that AMA performs, he knew he had to invite to AMA perform for them! On Tuesday, July 2, [...]
The town of Des Plaines, Illinois is known for presenting one of the biggest 4th of July Parades in the Northwest suburbs! AMA Dance & Music School has been participating in this fabulous event since 2008. This year, was AMA’s biggest showing yet, with over 100 students, parents and staff marching through the 1-mile route [...]