We have two NEW combination classes for our 2022-2023 Season: Jazz/Hip-Hop and Hip-Hop/Tap beginning September 6! Does your child frolics around the playground? Make up dances to songs on the radio? Or just can’t stop their body from moving when they hear music? Spends time at home learning the latest dance trends? If so, it might be time to enroll [...]
Dance, Music, & Tumbling Student… Haley Procarione! Age: 4 Favorite TV Show: Nature Cat! Favorite Activity: Playing! Lessons you take at AMA: Hippity Hoppers, Music FunTime, Ballet/Tap, & Basic Tumbling! Favorite Dance Move: Spinning on one toe! Favorite Food: Rainbow Sherbet! How long you’ve been taking lessons: Just started year 3! Favorite Color: Blue! Favorite [...]
Below is an excerpt from a letter we received from Dr. N. Karen Thames following our June Performance. Karen granted us permission to use her letter here, and we offer our most heartfelt thanks to her. Dear Ann Marie, My name is Karen Thames and my husband, Craig, and I are the proud parents of [...]
(Today's post comes from Kendall Frank, Miss Ann Marie's daughter.) It was March of 2012. With college costs looming over our heads, we knew we had to think of a way to come up with our portion of our education. We have a deal with our parents: they each pay one-third of all costs (tuition, [...]
(Today’s post was written by Lauren Tedeschi.) The success of any business relies on the hard work and efforts of its support staff. It is no different here at AMA Dance & Music School. There is a behind-the-scenes “fairy” that works with us every day. You don’t “see” her a whole lot because she is busy painting in the workshop, hidden behind a computer screen, or even tucked in behind the wheel of our AMA car during parades so the rest of us can smile and wave to the crowd. And many, MANY times, she is in her home “working her magic” for AMA. Our Creative Fairy has a name. It’s […]