Downtown Dance Factory

We are ready for Week 4 of DDF Summer! ☀️🩵

More recital memories …

More wonderful photos from recital. So many great pics and so many great memories. 📸: .nyc

Looking back on such great recital memories … 📸: .nyc

While we’re celebrating our seniors in our stories, let’s shout out our amazing teachers and staff! We all got together for a rooftop end-of-year celebration over the weekend and we couldn’t be luckier in terms of the amazing team we get to work with every day!

So thrilled to celebrate our amazing graduating seniors … and this year there are FIFTEEN of them! Check out our instagram stories over the next week as we share just a bit about what makes each of them so special to us! Next year they will be heading to college all over the country (and beyond!), including to some of the countries top dance programs! So proud of all of them! 📸: .photography

What a weekend! 3 days … 7 shows … 190 dances … over a 1000 dancers … and a whole lot of fun had by all! Congratulations dancers on the work you put in over the year and everything you brought to the stage over the weekend! So proud of you all! 📸: .nyc

Show 1 done! And it rocked! A big congratulations to Isabella Grifo, the 2024 winner of the Tessie Award. The Tessie Award is given in memory of Tess Burstein, one of our amazing DDF dancers. Isabella truly represents the wonderful values that this award celebrates – positivity, community, generosity, and a joy in dancing. Also a big thank you to Schuyler and Otis, Tessie‘s brother and sister, who presented the award to Isabella.

Happy International Dance Day 🩵

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As we approach our last competition of the season, we wanted to shout out our newest and littlest competition team members! Our mini duo - Maya & Adriana - competed for the first time at Reverb competition and not only came FIRST OVERALL, but got the highest score of any dance in their whole age division! Well done girls! And we just love to see our older dancers looking after the littles and our littles looking up to our seniors!

Throwback to Reverb Competition - such a fun time and such success for our dancers! So many awards including “Best Technique” Studio Award and the “Reverb Award” for Top Scoring Studio in all our age divisions. Also 1st Place Soloists in all our age divisions (Willow - Junior, Willa - Teen, Charlie - Senior) and all seven “Smash Hit” Awards of the whole competition (for only scores above 97%) went to DDF! Well done all!

Last week DDF was so thrilled to be a featured on the stage of NYC’s iconic Joyce Theater at the NYCDA Foundation’s “Destiny Rising” show. Our dancers performed alongside top professional companies such as Complexions Contemporary Ballet, ABT Studio Company, Parsons Dance and Sidra Bell Dance New York, and some of the nation’s elite college dance programs - Pace University Commercial Dance and University of Arizona Dance. In two fabulous pieces choreographed by our wonderful DDF teacher and choreographer Al Blackstone, our dancers did us proud! So thankful to have been chosen as one of just two dance studio to be a part of such an amazing event. Thank you New York City Dance Alliance, NYCDA Foundation and thank you Joe Lanteri for including us! 📸: Chris Coates Photography

Happy Leap Day!

We are so excited to have photographer .photography back at DDF this Weekend!

DDF Dancers: Cici McConnaughy, Sydney Morakis, and Gwen Kaufman

DDF is so excited to have been chosen to perform at “Destiny Rising” at to benefit the NYCDA Foundation. Our dancers from Companies Orange and Blue will be performing works by , alongside dancers from such companies as , , and , as well as students from and . What a line up! Get your tickets to come support us!

"If You Only Knew", performed by DDF’s Company Orange at Jump Philadelphia. This beautiful piece, choreographed by James Washington won "Best of Jump", "Best in Studio", "You Rocked Jump" Award, 1st Overall Senior Group, and was the top scoring of all senior lyrical pieces. We were so proud to have these dancers represent us in the Jump closing show.

Downtown Dance Factory performs "If You Only Know" DDF's Company Orange performs "If You Only Knew" at Jump Philadelphia, February 2024."Best of Jump", "Best in Studio", "You Rocked Jump" Award, 1st Overall S...

Happy Monday! Ready for another great week at DDF!

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A big shoutout to DDF alum who is now an NBA dancer with the Milwaukee ! Maddie is a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and travels to Milwaukee for every game and practice, performing at every home game, primarily doing hip hop, which is her fave! So proud of you Maddie!

DDF's competition production numbers include all 45 of our team dancers - from age 10 through 18! So proud of their performance of "Would I Lie to You" at JUMP competition in Philadelphia, last weekend. It was rewarded with: 1st Place Teen Production, Top Scoring Teen Jazz number, "You Rocked Jump" Award, "Best of Jump" Award! Choreographed by DDF Artistic Director Hanne Larsen ... enjoy!

DDF performs "Would I Lie to You" at Jump Philadelphia Downtown Dance Factory's competition team performs "Would I Lie to You" at JUMP competition in Philadelphia, February 2024. 1st Place Teen Production, Top S...

What an amazing weekend of dancing at Jump Philadelphia! Our dancers had a blast and did us proud, as always! A truly amazing start to the season and a fitting celebration of DDF’s 15th year!

It’s our pleasure and our privilege to see our dancers grow up before our eyes. These 3 dancers won 1st Overall for their Junior Contemporary Trio this weekend. They’ll all been with us since they were Kindi dancers. Check out the flashback photo to their very first trio when they were just littles!

These eight DDF dancers are all senior dance majors at LaGuardia High School. To see them on stage in their Senior Winter Dance Showcase was nothing short of amazing! We could not be more proud! So many of them have been at DDF since they took their very first steps and now they are ready to launch Into their futures. Well done Charlie, Kai, Gracie, Ingrid, Ryan, Sadie, Serena, and Zoe.

What a fantastic four days spent at 24/7 Dance Convention and Competition in Meadowlands! Congratulations to all our DDF dancers on their amazing performances both on stage in competition and also at convention! A big congratulations soloists who placed in the Top 10: Sadie, Ryan, Bea, Casey, Willa, Cici, Isabella, Sydney and Willow! And to our amazing trios & groups! And all our scholarship winners, especially our Non-Stop dancer winners Casey, Willa and Sydney! What a fabulous time was had by all! Thank you 24 Seven Dance Convention.

Look Out… We’re Back! 2024 classes start today!

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Congratulations to DDF dancers Ava, Remy, Zoe, and Audrey on their performances in this year’s LaGaurdia Musical, “The Adam’s Family”! We are so proud of you 🩵

Congratulations to DDF dancer Willow on her performances as Marie (Clara) in the New York City Ballet Nutracker! Willow also studies Ballet at The School of American Ballet. Your DDF family is so proud of you!

Congratulations to DDF dancer and 2024 Young Arts Winner Charlie Head! is prestigious competition that recognizes the top high schoolers in arts from across the Nation. Charlie was recognized as a Winner with Distinction in Jazz, with his solo choreographed by DDF’s AND as a Winner in Modern/Contemporary. What an honor… We are so proud of you Charlie!

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These beautiful DDF Dancers will be performing in Cristina Fontanelli‘s “Christmas in Italy”show at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Music Center on December 2nd. 8 Can’t wait! Two shows with tickets available now. See our story to buy your tickets!

DDF was so excited to have some of our dancers work with photographer Lee Gumbs Photography in mini-shoots at our studio recently. We can’t wait to share some of the beautiful images they created together! Check out this one of Company Pink dancers Sydney, Elle & Wynne. Love it!