Queen City Dance Academy - Dance studio in Cincinnati, Ohio
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Queen City Dance Academy

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7900 East Kemper Road

Cincinnati, Ohio 45249

Opening Hours
  • Monday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
  • Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
  • Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
  • Thursday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
  • Friday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
  • Saturday: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Sunday: Closed
71 programs

About Queen City Dance Academy

Queen City Dance Academy, located just north of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a vibrant hub for dancers of all ages and skill levels, fostering a love for dance while instilling discipline, technique, and artistry. Our mission is to help every dancer reach their full potential through proper technique delivered with a fun approach. We offer a comprehensive range of dance styles designed to inspire and challenge, including Ballet, Hip Hop, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, Lyrical, Acro, Salsa, Bachata, and Ballroom. Primary Level classes are designed for ages 2 ½ to 6 years, while Studio Level classes cater to ages 6 and up, with flexible enrollment available year-round. Queen City Dance Academy boasts a dedicated faculty of talented instructors with extensive dance experience, including owner Julie Swart, Epiphany Davis, Laura Price, Glenda Figuereido, Devon McClea, Ladye Plagge, Alexis Fiden, Ben Swart, Rachel Evans, and Angela Chin. Beyond recreational opportunities, the academy houses a competitive dance team for advanced dancers, with auditions and practices held at our Kids First Sports Center location. We also offer adult classes for ages 16 and above, focusing on fitness and fun. With four well-equipped studios and a commitment to creating a supportive and creative environment, Queen City Dance Academy encourages students to explore their passion, refine their technique, and achieve their artistic goals. We foster a culture of belonging, where friendships are formed and dreams are pursued together through annual recitals and family-friendly events. Prospective students are welcome to take advantage of our free trial offer to experience our dynamic atmosphere and expert training firsthand.

Programs from Queen City Dance Academy

71 programs available

Classes

Strong Nation

Bodyweight fitness class in sync with the music. Inspiring and uplifting HIIT overall fitness workout! Great for cross training and injury prevention!

Adult Tap

Enjoy learning this incredible style of dance by moving your feet to the beat. Engage with being the percussionist of the music. Taught to the level of the students in attendance.

Adult Jazz
Punch card system gives flexibility for busy schedules.

Enjoy moving to rhythms and beats. Learn isolations, increase flexibility, increase strength. Learn dance combinations mixed with kicks, turns and leaps. We will teach the class to the level of the dancer/s in attendance.

Adult Ballet
Punch card system which gives flexibility for busy schedules

We will teach the class to the level of the dancer/s. If you have experience or none at all, we want you to feel comfortable learning this incredible discipline of dance.

Zumba Dance

The Ultimate Dance Fitness Party! Fun Latin based rhythms fused with popular music to move and groove. Great Cardio Workout!

Turns and Leaps 5

For dancers who have completed Turns & Leaps 4 or have teacher approval. This class is for the competition dancer. It is a class that will focus on increasing the speed and accuracy of the dancer’s turns. The dancer will work on improving the level of difficulty of his/her turns and leaps as well as working on combinations of the two.

Turns and Leaps 4

For dancers who have completed Turns and Leaps 3 or have teacher approval. Ideal for the competition dancer and/or recreational dancer who wants to improve the speed and precision of his/her turns and leaps as well as the shape and extension of his/her leaps.

Turns and Leaps 3

Must have completed Turns and Leaps 2 or have teacher approval. Ideal for the competition dancer and/or recreational dancer who wants to improve the speed and precision of his/her turns and leaps as well as the shape and extension of his/her leaps.

Turns and Leaps 2

Must have completed Turns & Leaps 1 or have teacher approval. Ideal for the competition dancer and/or recreational dancer who wants to improve the speed and precision of his/her turns and leaps.

Turns & Leaps 1

This class is appropriate for the level 2 and 3 ballet or jazz student. The dancer will learn the basics of turning and leaping with the goal of increasing speed, precision, and technique. This class prepares the dancer for Turns and Leaps 2.

Zumba

Dance Fitness fused with using fun Latin based and popular music. Great Cardio Workout!

Strength and Flex

For levels 3 & Up. Designed for the dancer who wants to increase his/her strength and flexibility in dancing. Designed to help with injury prevention and core strength as well as stamina and length of lines while dancing.

Lyrical

This class is for dancers who are ballet level 3 & Up. The study of movement that tells a story to the lyrics of songs. A background of ballet training is essential to further movement exploration.

Contemporary 2

Level 7 dancer with previous experience. Exploration of combinations of movement with modern, jazz and ballet styles. This class will utilize the study of Horton, Graham, Limone, Cunningham, classical ballet and jazz through space and time.

Contemporary 1

This class is for dancers who are ballet level 3 + or have teacher approval. Introduction to the foundations of contemporary movement and proper body alignment.

Hip Hop 4 and 5

For dancers who have completed level 4 hip hop or have teacher approval. The level 5 hip hop dancer will continue learning more intricate movement with syncopated rhythms and adding more styles of hip hop with street styles like crumping, tutting, breaking, waving, popping and locking and other street style techniques. High energy movement.

Hip Hop 3

For dancers who have completed level 2 hip hop or have teacher approval. This class focuses on learning more intricate movement with syncopated rhythms and exploring the varying styles of hip hop. It will also explore other styles of street dance. High energy movement.

Hip Hop 2

For dancers who have completed Level 1 or have had prior hip hop experience. This class is for the beginner hip-hop student with some experience. This class will focus more on the intricacies of hip hop and introduce other styles of street dance and will increase in difficulty as the year progresses.

Hip Hop 1

Fun introduction to the beginning fundamentals of hip-hop dance using trendy movements to age-appropriate popular music.

Boys Hip Hop

A Boy’s Only Hip Hop Class! This class is a fun introduction to the beginning fundamentals of street style dancing using trendy movements to age-appropriate popular music in hip hop.

Tap Choreography

Tap combinations for our most advanced levels 5+. This class focuses on choreography.

Tap 3/4

For dancers who have completed Level 3 tap or have teacher approval. It’s for the beginner tapper with some tap experience. The dancer will work on increasing the speed of his/her footwork, tackle more challenging rhythms and increase his/her ability with complex patterns.

Tap 2

For dancers who have completed Level 1 tap or have teacher approval. This class is for the beginner tapper with some tap experience. The dancer will work on increasing the speed of footwork, tackle more challenging rhythms and increase ability with complex patterns.

Tap 1

For the beginning tapper with little or no experience. Learn tap technique with rhythms and patterns to fun music.

Jazz 9/10 with Tap

For the advanced jazz dancer who has completed Level 8 jazz or has teacher approval. This class will focus on increasing level of difficulty of isolations, high kicks, turns, leaps and patterns for 45 minutes; followed by foundational tap technique to increase the speed of footwork for 30 minutes.

Jazz level 7 and 8 with Tap

For the pre-advanced dancer who has completed level 7 jazz or has teacher approval. This class will focus on increasing level of difficulty of isolations, high kicks, turns, leaps and patterns for 45 minutes; followed by foundational tap technique to increase the speed of footwork for 30 minutes.

Jazz level 5 and 6 with tap

For the pre-advanced dancer who has completed level 4 jazz or has teacher approval. This class will focus on increasing level of difficulty of isolations, high kicks, turns, leaps and patterns for 45 minutes; followed by foundational tap technique to increase the speed of footwork for 30 minutes.

Jazz level 4 with Tap

For the pre-advanced dancer who has completed level 3 jazz or has teacher approval. This class will focus on increasing level of difficulty of isolations, high kicks, turns, leaps and patterns for 45 minutes; followed by foundational tap technique to increase the speed of footwork for 30 minutes.

Jazz level 3

Intermediate dancer who has completed jazz 3 or has teacher approval. Dancers will have jazz technique and learn jazz combinations for the first 45 minutes of class; followed by 30 minutes of tap technique. This class is for the intermediate jazz dancer who also wants to learn the fundamentals of tap to increase footwork speed.

Jazz Level 2

Beginner level jazz technique with experience. This class will focus on jazz technique with body isolations, high kicks, big leaps and combinations of steps to popular music.

Jazz Level 1

Beginner level jazz technique. For the beginning dancer with an introduction to jazz technique with isolations, kicks, turns, leaps, combinations of footwork all to fun age-appropriate music.

Ballet Technique levels 6 and up for pre-advanced to advanced dancer

For the pre-advanced to advanced dancer who wants to concentrate on the precision of ballet technique predominantly at the ballet barre. This class supports the curriculum-based ballet classes.

Ballet level 9 and 10 with Lyrical Classes (Advanced)

2 hour class that includes 1 hr 30 minute Ballet technique class followed by 30 minutes of lyrical ballet.

Ballet Level 9 and 10 with Pointe (Advanced)

For advanced dancer who has accomplished ballet level 8 and is dancing en pointe or needs to strengthen their ballet with pre-pointe work. The class will be divided into 90 minutes of ballet with 30 minutes of Pointe.

Ballet Level 8 with Pointe (Pre-Advanced)

For the pre-advanced to advanced dancer who has accomplished ballet level 7. This curriculum-based class is for the pre-advanced to advanced dancer who is already dancing en pointe or needs to strengthen their ballet with pre-pointe work.

Ballet Level 7 with Pointe (Pre-Advanced)

For the dancer who has accomplished ballet level 6 ballet or has teacher approval. For the pre-advanced to advanced dancer who has accomplished ballet level 6 and is dancing en pointe or needs to strengthen their ballet with pre-pointe work. The class includes 90 minutes of ballet along with, at least, 30 minutes of Pointe.

Ballet 6 and Pre-Pointe/Pointe

For the intermediate to pre-advanced dancer who has accomplished ballet level 5 or have teacher approval. This curriculum-based ballet technique class is for the intermediate dancer and will include pre-pointe within the class.

Jazz & Tap Fundamentals

This class is ideal for those dancers interested in musical theater and want to improve their dance technique. Foundations of tap and jazz will be taught in this class.

Ballet Fundamentals

This class is for the beginning or beginning with experienced level dancer who wants to learn the fundamentals of ballet.

Ballet 5 (Includes Pre-Pointe)

For the intermediate dancer who has accomplished the skills of ballet level 4. The class includes 60 minutes of ballet with 30 minutes of Pre-Pointe or Pointe based on preparedness of the students. Curriculum based ballet technique with pre-pointe.

Ballet Level 4 (Intro to Pre-Point)

For the intermediate dancer who has accomplished the ballet level 3 curriculum.

Ballet Level 3 - Beginner/Intermediate Ballet

For dancers who have accomplished the ballet level 2 curriculum or have teacher approval.

Ballet Level 2

This curriculum-based class is for the beginner who has had some prior ballet experience. The dancer will learn proper terminology and the class will increase in difficulty as the year progresses.

Ballet Level 1A

This class is for our youngest dancers who show an accelerated focus and ability for ballet.

Ballet Level 1

For the beginning dancer Introduction to foundational, curriculum-based ballet technique in a fun and nurturing environment.

Ballet Fundamentals

Introductory class for the beginning Dancer. Foundational ballet class.

Contemporary

Queen City Dance Academy offers recreational and competitive classes. High quality of instruction is integral to our mission of providing the best dance education for dancers of all ages. Classes for all levels are offered where you can find the right fit for you. QCDA ensures proper technique with a dose of fun!

Lyrical

Queen City Dance Academy offers recreational and competitive classes. High quality of instruction is integral to our mission of providing the best dance education for dancers of all ages. Classes for all levels are offered where you can find the right fit for you. QCDA ensures proper technique with a dose of fun!

Tap

Queen City Dance Academy offers recreational and competitive classes. High quality of instruction is integral to our mission of providing the best dance education for dancers of all ages. Classes for all levels are offered where you can find the right fit for you. QCDA ensures proper technique with a dose of fun!

Boys Hip Hop

Queen City Dance Academy offers recreational and competitive classes. High quality of instruction is integral to our mission of providing the best dance education for dancers of all ages. Classes for all levels are offered where you can find the right fit for you. QCDA ensures proper technique with a dose of fun!

Hip Hop

Queen City Dance Academy offers recreational and competitive classes. High quality of instruction is integral to our mission of providing the best dance education for dancers of all ages. Classes for all levels are offered where you can find the right fit for you. QCDA ensures proper technique with a dose of fun!

Jazz

Queen City Dance Academy offers recreational and competitive classes. High quality of instruction is integral to our mission of providing the best dance education for dancers of all ages. Classes for all levels are offered where you can find the right fit for you. QCDA ensures proper technique with a dose of fun!

Ballet

Queen City Dance Academy offers recreational and competitive classes. High quality of instruction is integral to our mission of providing the best dance education for dancers of all ages. Classes for all levels are offered where you can find the right fit for you. QCDA ensures proper technique with a dose of fun!

Dance Mix

Queen City Dance Academy offers recreational and competitive classes. High quality of instruction is integral to our mission of providing the best dance education for dancers of all ages. Classes for all levels are offered where you can find the right fit for you. QCDA ensures proper technique with a dose of fun!

Primary Hip Hop

For the beginning young dancer who wants to groove to age-appropriate music in hip hop style.

Dance Mix Primary

A combination class of ballet, jazz, tap and hip hop. Ideal for the young dancer who is ready to be introduced a variety of dance styles. Each week, the class will focus on two different styles of dance.

Dance Mix Mini

Combination class introducing of ballet, jazz, and tap movements. Ideal for the young dancer who is ready for more than our Magical Movement class but not quite ready for a primary ballet or jazz level 1 class.

Magical Movement

Introductory class Explore creative movement, improve motor skills and begin awareness of the body. Using props like scarves, tambourines, and drums, the dancers will learn to move their body to different rhythms and patterns which help with basic ballet, jazz and tap movements.

Adult Classes

Adult Classes Class for ages 16 and up.

Competitive Team

Competitive Team Auditions and competitive team practices are held at our Kids First Sports Center location in Cincinnati, OH. Dance Team auditions have taken place for the 2024-25 school year. If you would like more information or to audition for the upcoming season please contact jswart@kidsfirstsports.com.

Studio Level

Studio Level classes are for Ages 6 and up Queen City Dance Academy offers recreational and competitive classes. High quality of instruction is integral to our mission of providing the best dance education for dancers of all ages. Classes for all levels are offered where you can find the right fit for you. QCDA ensures proper technique with a dose of fun!

Primary Level

Primary Level classes are for Ages 2 ½-6 years Queen City Dance Academy offers recreational and competitive classes. High quality of instruction is integral to our mission of providing the best dance education for dancers of all ages. Classes for all levels are offered where you can find the right fit for you. QCDA ensures proper technique with a dose of fun!

Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Lyrical, Musical Theatre, Jazz, Turns & Leaps, Acro, Yoga, Pilates, Nutrition, and MORE!
$350.00

Camps

Game On

A dance camp for children aged 7-10 focused on energetic and playful dance moves with a game theme.

Taylor Swift Training Camp 2

A second iteration of the popular Taylor Swift-themed dance camp for children aged 7-10.

Dancing through Oz

A dance camp for children aged 7-10, taking them on a journey through the magical land of Oz.

Taylor Swift Training Camp

A dance camp for children aged 7-10, inspired by the music and style of Taylor Swift.

Wagtastic Adventure

A fun and adventurous dance camp for young children with a whimsical theme.

Moana Week

A dance camp for young children themed around the popular movie Moana.

Once Upon A Dance

A magical dance camp for young children, inspired by fairytale stories.

MerMagic

A dance camp themed around mermaids and magic, suitable for young children.


Frequently Asked Questions

How do I contact Queen City Dance Academy?

Call Queen City Dance Academy at (513) 489-7575 or visit http://www.queencitydanceacademy.com/.

What is Queen City Dance Academy's phone number?

Reach Queen City Dance Academy directly at (513) 489-7575.

What city is Queen City Dance Academy in?

Queen City Dance Academy is in Cincinnati, Ohio.

What are Queen City Dance Academy's hours?

Queen City Dance Academy is open Monday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Thursday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Friday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Saturday: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM.

What is the best way to contact Queen City Dance Academy?

The quickest way is to call (513) 489-7575 or visit http://www.queencitydanceacademy.com/.