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Spotlight Performing Arts Center

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41 New Jersey 73

Hammonton, New Jersey 08037

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(856) 816-4848

http://spotlightpac.com/

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27 programs

About Spotlight Performing Arts Center

Spotlight Performing Arts Center, located in Hammonton, New Jersey, is a vibrant hub for artistic expression and comprehensive dance education, welcoming students of all ages and skill levels. Founded in 2020 by Erin and Jen, who bring extensive experience from their collegiate studies at the University of the Arts, the studio is dedicated to fostering artistic growth and cultivating a passion for the performing arts. Spotlight Performing Arts Center offers a diverse range of dance styles, including foundational genres like Ballet, Jazz, Tap, and Hip Hop, alongside expressive forms such as Contemporary/Lyrical and Modern dance. The studio places a strong emphasis on ballet technique, rooted in the expertise of Artistic Director Jen Radkowski, who holds a BFA in Modern Dance and has performed with local companies. For younger dancers, Creative Movement classes encourage early artistic exploration, while the certified Acrobatic Arts program provides specialized training in strength, flexibility, and safe progressions. Dedicated students can join the Spotlight Company, a competitive team offering numerous performance and competition opportunities. The studio features two bright, spacious rooms with sprung, marley floors designed for high-quality instruction. The experienced faculty, including Erin McCloskey, Leigh Strain, Jenny Husta, Rosemary Cornwell, MaryEllen Healy, Kiara Grimes, Valerie Amis, and Jozelynn Chandler, nurture, encourage, and motivate dancers. Spotlight's commitment to excellence is evident in its students' success, with former students achieving acceptance into prestigious programs like ABT and Joffrey Ballet, and even starring on Broadway. Spotlight Performing Arts Center cultivates a positive, welcoming atmosphere, ensuring every student leaves class energized and inspired, ready to shine on and off the stage.

Styles offered at Spotlight Performing Arts Center

Programs from Spotlight Performing Arts Center

27 programs available

Classes

Progressing Ballet Technique

PBT is a program developed by Marie Walton-Mahon to help students advance in all dance forms by training muscle memory. PBT focuses on core stability, weight placement, and alignment. Here at Spotlight, our more advanced level dancers use this technique to support their ballet training.

Hip Hop

Hip hop refers to a popular, energetic style of dance performed to hip hop music or that have evolved as part of hip hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles which were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the US.

Tap

Tap dance is a style of dance in which the dancer wears shoes fitted with heel and toe taps and makes audible beats by rhythmically striking the floor or any other hard surface.

Jazz

Jazz dance combines techniques of classical ballet and modern dance with current forms of popular dance. Jazz also has its own movement vocabulary ranging from the isolation of specific body parts to the movement of the entire body with accents of musicality.

Acro

Spotlight Performing Arts Center is one of the very few studios in New Jersey that offers an Acrobatic Arts program taught by a certified Acrobatic Arts instructor. The program is based off of safe and effective progressions with proven results in flexibility, strength, balancing, limbering, and tumbling. These progressions take the beginner preschool level dancer from log rolls and somersaults, to the advanced dancer tumbling across the stage.

Contemporary / Lyrical

Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of modern, jazz, lyrical, and ballet. Contemporary dancers strive to find a mind-body connection through fluid movement that often tells a story. In our contemporary classes, we encourage dancers to find a sense of artistry while dancing.

Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century. It later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. Ballet training helps prevent injury and improve balance, concentration, alignment, posture and more.

Intro To Hip Hop

Pre-K Ballet

Creative Movement

Tiny Tots

Birthday Parties

$299.00

Spotlight offers birthday super fun parties right here at our studio! The children will get a two-hour party which will include a dance instructor who will teach a 30 minute class along with fun dance games.

Dance Classes

Registration for the 2025/2026 Dance Year opens July 15. Click "Register" below for the class(es) of choice and sign up with Dance Studio Pro to finish your registration.

Intro To Hip Hop

Classes for little ones as young as age 2.

Pre-K Ballet

Classes for little ones as young as age 2.

Creative Movement

Classes for little ones as young as age 2.

Tiny Tots

Classes for little ones as young as age 2.

pre-professional level class

Whether taking a preschool level class or a pre-professional level class, your dancer will feel nurtured, encouraged, and motivated.

preschool level class

Whether taking a preschool level class or a pre-professional level class, your dancer will feel nurtured, encouraged, and motivated.

Spotlight Company

The more serious student has the opportunity to be part of our Spotlight Company, a competition team, and will be presented with multiple performing and competitive opportunities throughout the year.