At Tony Williams Dance Center, our mission is to provide quality dance instruction to a diverse urban community. We believe that quality dance builds physical and mental discipline and is also an excellent means of cultural education. We are proud to boast one of the most diverse class offerings, faculty, student and parent populations in the Greater Boston Area. We offer a graded ballet program, with many performance opportunities including the Urban Nutcracker and a yearly recital. We also provide authentic instruction in Ballet, Folklorico, Hip-Hop, Salsa, Modern, Lyrical, Flamenco, Modern, Jazz and Rhythm Tap, for children and adults.
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Meet Tony Williams, Founder & Artistic Director! Mr. Williams remembers how his early exposure to dance opened up a treasure of self-expression that was hidden to him. Ballet gave him the confidence to take on the challenge of an exciting new career while offering him the necessary tools to make a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood.
City Ballet of Boston’s annual holiday classic, The Urban Nutcracker! Urban Nutcracker puts a modern spin on the 19th Century fairy tale and transports the audience to an enchanted world not unlike their own. Say hello to Clarice & friends…you’ve entered the world of the Urban Nutcracker. Strains of Duke Ellington dovetail with the buzz of neon driven by the heartbeat of Tchaikovsky. You could say it is a fusion of modern, multicultural and classical dance…but it’s more! It’s an organic interpretation brought about by a unifying of cultures.
TWDC brings kids together from a diversity of Greater Boston communities—urban kids, suburban kids, young people who might never have had the opportunity to meet and connect—and creates an environment for them to connect socially through a shared love of dance. We provide need-based scholarships to our school. These scholarships expand access to Boston’s diverse communities and enable young people to experience an excellent dance education. We rely on the annual support of individuals like you who believe, as we do, in the transformational power of the arts.