Pauline Rodgers School of Dance

Happy Halloween 🎃

We had five dancers attend Encore Extreme in Columbia, South Carolina last weekend to take classes, compete their brand new solos, and audition for the Dream Team. We are so proud of all of them for their hard work last weekend!

Makaehla Beckel - Overall Excellence Scholarship in convention classes & Dream Team Finalist

Abby Montrella - $50 Contemporary Scholarship, Discovery Spotlight Scholarship, & Dream Team Finalist

Juliana Montrella - $50 Ballroom Scholarship (Dream Team VIP from Encore Grand Finals in July)

Zoe Binus - $50 Jazz Scholarship

Sydney Allen - Discovery Spotlight Scholarship

Congratulations! Makaehla Beckel & Juliana Montrella received a diamond adjudication and were the highest scoring duo/trio/group dance age 12 & over for their duet, “14 Days,” choreographed by Natalie Aikens. Amazing job! We are excited to watch this piece all season!

Congratulations to Makaehla Beckel! Makaehla was crowned as Senior Miss Encore Extreme and received a Mic Drop adjudication (near perfect score) in Columbia, South Carolina this past weekend for her contemporary solo, “The Empress,” choreographed by Natalie Aikens. We are so proud of you and cannot wait to watch you shine all season! Keep up the hard work!

Happy Halloween 🎃 Students can wear their Halloween costumes to dance starting this Thursday! Please make sure dancers are still able to dance in their costume.

We will not have class on Thursday, October 31st since it is Trick-Or-Treat night.

More stage shots from Encore Extreme. We are so excited for this upcoming season!

Congratulations to Erin Statler, Hadley Zerbee, Rozalyn Binus, Zoe Binus, and Ashley Snyder for being selected as finalists for the 2025 Encore Dream Team! They auditioned while at Encore Extreme in Lancaster and will find out the results in November. Good luck girls!

We are so proud of all our dancers who competed and took classes last weekend at Encore Extreme. Our dancers had so much fun and loved learning from the incredible faculty! The following dancers were awarded scholarships for their hard work during classes:

Overall Excellence-
Zoe Binus & Nora Walk

Contemporary-
Maddie Dodson, Ruby Santella, & Addie Sawyer

Jazz-
Erin Statler

Musical Theater-
Ashley Snyder

HipHop-
Ella Monahan

Ballet-
Piper Harr

Amazing! Zoe Binus and Ella Monahan had the highest scoring dance out of all the duets, trios, and group dances at Encore Extreme for their duet, “Read All About It,” choreographed by Rachel Monahan. They received a $500 cash prize for their hard work. Congratulations girls and Rachel!

Way to go! The following dancers placed as runner ups in their title competition at Encore Extreme. Congratulations dancers, we are so proud of you!

Petite Miss Encore Extreme - Clare Heaton; “Learning To Fly”
Choreographer: Emily Dumm
1st Runner Up - Nora Walk; “Isn’t She Lovely”
Choreographer: Ashley Walk
3rd Runner Up - Ruby Santella; “Boogie Shoes”
Choreographer: Madison Noel

Junior Miss Encore Extreme
1st Runner Up - Zoe Binus; “Control”
Choreographer: Allie Riggen
5th Runner Up - Ella Monahan; “Butterfly”
Choreographer: Emily Dumm

Teen Miss Encore Extreme
2nd Runner Up - Ashley Snyder; “Amen”
Choreographer: Emily Dumm
3rd Runner Up - Erin Statler; “Genesis”
Choreographer: Rachel Monahan

Congratulations to Clare Heaton for being crowned as the new Petite Miss Encore Extreme at Encore Extreme in Lancaster this past weekend! You were incredible with your brand new solo, “Learning To Fly,” choreographed by Emily Dumm. We are so proud of you and cannot wait for the rest of the season!

Tickets for our performance of The Nutcracker in partnership with Cambria Dance Academy are on sale now! Use the link below to purchase your tickets through the The Mishler Theatre box office.

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Mark your calendars! Tickets for our performance of The Nutcracker at the The Mishler Theatre in partnership with Cambria Dance Academy will go on sale at 7am on Monday, October 7th through the Mishler Theater box office. It will be a performance you do not want to miss!

Don’t forget to vote for us as your Hometown Favorite Children’s Dance Studio. Today and tomorrow are the last two days to vote!

Check out Pauline Baker Rodgers School of Dance. Now through September 25th

We had a fantastic first week back to dance! It was so great seeing all of our returning dancers and meeting all of our new ones. We are so excited for the rest of season💗

We are honored to have made it in the top 5 for this year’s Altoona Mirror Hometown Favorites. Vote for us daily using the link below now through September 25th. Thank you!

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Happy Birthday Miss Pauline! We are so thankful for all that you do and have done for all of us. You are remarkable and an inspiration to many. 92 years young and still teaching. We love you Pauline Rodgers!

REMINDER! Our new dance season starts tonight. We cannot wait for another incredible year with all of our amazing dancers! See everyone soon!

Come dance with us! Registration is now open for both our Altoona and Duncansville locations. Please visit our website http://www.pbrdance.com for more information.

We are so grateful for the feature by WTAJ highlighting in the incomparable Miss Pauline and our studio. Our studio, and every student past and present wouldn’t be who we are without her kindness, wisdom, and generosity. Miss Pauline teaches kindness and respect. She makes the world a brighter place 💗

Teaching the next generation of dancers in Blair County ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) — A 91-year-old dance school owner is still teaching lessons at her Blair County studio. Her name is Pauline Baker Rodgers, or as her students call her, Miss Pauline. She starte…

We had so much fun at our Eras Dance Party, and we are so excited we get to do it again next week! We still have a couple of open spaces for ages 6-9 from 12-3pm August 12th- August 15th. If interested, please email [email protected] for the link to register!

Dancers will participate in an obstacle course, play games, make crafts, have dance parties, and learn dances to Shake It Off, …Ready For It?, and Never Grow Up. If your dancer loves Taylor Swift, this camp is perfect for them!

We have been nominated as an Altoona Mirror Hometown Favorite again this year. Vote for us daily now through August 11th to help us get into the top 5! We greatly appreciate all of the love and support over the years💗

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Check out some of our remaining dance camps and sessions that still have some availability!

👑Our Prince & Princesses Camp is always so much fun. Come dance with Miss Ali to all your favorite princess songs!

🤸🏻‍♀️Flip Hop is a great way to try out hip hop and acro to see if they are right for your little one!

🎤The Eras Dance Party is perfect for any Swiftie! Our first camp filled so quickly we had to create a second one. Swifties will be dancing to all of Taylor’s major hits! Are you ready for it?

To register for Duncansville, please email Rachel at [email protected]

To register for Altoona, please email Mary Ellen at [email protected]

We are so thrilled to announce that Mia Noel was selected as the first ever recipient of the Encore DCS Artist Endowment scholarship worth $10,000. Mia is attending Pointe Park University in the fall to receive her B.F.A. in Dance. Mia is extremely dedicated, humble, kind, and a wonderful leader. She is truly so deserving of this scholarship, and we could not be more happy/proud of her. Her winning this scholarship was the cherry on top of our amazing week at Encore DCS Grand Finals. Mia your future is so bright, and we cannot wait to see what stages you will be dancing on. Good luck, we will miss you! Thank you to Encore DCS and Jessica Schaefer for creating this incredible scholarship!

Congratulations to Natalie Aikens and the dancers of “The Rain” and “Vogue!” These dances were selected as the best performance of their category and won. “The Rain” was selected as the best performance in a speciality category and “Vogue” was selected as the best jazz performance of the entire competition. Great job!

Special shout-out to Madison Noel and Emily Liebal who also had pieces of choreography nominated in the following categories:

Best Performance in a Specialty Category
“Gaga” choreographed by Natalie Aikens & Emily Liebal

Best Hip Hop Performance
“Barbz” choreographed by Madison Noel

Best Contemporary Performance
Mia Noel; “Lilac Wine” choreographed by Madison Noel