- Holliday Dance is centrally located across from the Martin’s Grocery Store in Duncansville.
- A spacious and inviting waiting area provides family members with an area to relax during class time.
- Two studios equipped with “free floating” oak floors provide a safe dance environment for students, made to help prevent injury and joint damage.
- Students enjoy our air conditioned studios with wall-to-wall ballet barres and full length mirrors.
- State-of-the-art sound equipment is provided in both spacious dance studios.
- Parents enjoy our studios’ large windows, which provide easy access for classroom viewing.
- Holliday Dance teachers are encouraged to attend dance conventions & classes to continue their dance education.
- The Holliday Dance Competition Team was created in 2000 and today is a six-time platinum-award-winning competition team. We have been awarded with numerous special judges’ honors for performance and choreography through the years, and continue to strive for such achievements each year. The Competition Team, which is over 50 members strong, travels to the Dance Educators of America and Sheer Talent Regional Competition each year.
- The Holliday Dance annual spring recital is a major studio event, for which students and teachers work and strive for all year long. Our recital is anticipated by the community, and has earned the reputation for being a fun and entertaining recital.
In 1993, Sharon Hollingshead began teaching ballet and jazz at the YMCA in Hollidaysburg, Pa. After many hours at the barre and a lot of time spent choreographing, the dance program more than doubled in size. In 1997 Sharon relocated to 401 Bedford Street in Hollidaysburg and created the Hollidaysburg School of Dance. The move provided more flexibility to the dance schedule, and the dance school expanded to more than 200 students. Sharon realized the need for a state-of-the-art facility for her dance school and bought property in the Strawberry Meadows development in Duncansville. Construction was complete in February 2002. It was exciting to move into the new building with two dance studios equipped with professional “floating” floors, a lobby that offers a waiting area for dancers and their families, and a director’s office. After re-establishing at our Duncansville location, we changed the studio name to Holliday Dance in 2006.
The studio continues to grow and offers many dance styles. Our classes include ballet, pointe, jazz, lyrical, acro, hip hop, modern, tap, musical theatre productions and a platinum-winning competition team that’s over 50 members strong. The studio currently travels to the Regional Dance Educators of America and Starbound Dance Competitions.
With a faculty of dedicated and energetic teachers, the Holliday Dance family provides a wonderful opportunity to learn, to dance, to build self-esteem, and to make friends.
We Live. We Dream. We Dance.
