Nutcracker Auditions
All BDC students are welcome to audition. Our production will be ballet and modern technique based, so please arrive for your audition in ballet or modern dance attire. Auditions are at Bainbridge Dance Center and are by class groups for Fall 2025.
Nutcracker Auditions: Saturday, September 6
10:00-10:30 Music & Dance
10:45-11:15 Intro to Ballet, Modern, and Hip Hop
11:30-12:00 Level 1
12:15-12:45 Level 2
1:00-1:30 Level 3
1:45-2:30 Level 4
3:00-4:30 Level 6*
Nutcracker Auditions: Sunday, September 7
2:30-4:00 Level 7*
4:30-6:30 Levels 8 & 9*
*Students in levels 6, 7, 8 & 9 should prepare a short solo (1-2 min long) such as a ballet variation, self-choreographed work, improvisation or favorite piece of repertory. Please reach out if you need clarification or inspiration. You are also welcome to prepare a duet with a friend.
Fall Classes 2025
Fall class Schedule
Placement lists
Registration is open for our fall classes. Current students should check the placement lists to find their levels for next year. New students should email mail@bainbridgedancecenter.com for help with placement.
Holidays & Performance Dates
Sep 7 First Day of Classes
Nov 11 Veterans Day
Nov 16-22 Family & Friends Watch Week
Nov 26-30 Thanksgiving
Dec 4-6 Nutcracker Performances
Dec 20 Last Day of Classes
Dec 21-Jan 3 Winter Break
Eliza Jurcak & Tilly Clark - Photo by Quinlan Corbett 2025
BDC’s 44th Annual Student Performances 2025
Bainbridge Dance Center's 44th Annual Student Performances were June 19th-22nd at Bainbridge Performing Arts. This year’s production featured students ages four to adult in ballet, contemporary, creative movement, hip hop, modern, tap and student composition. Advanced Ballet Repertory students performed an excerpt of Cinderella starring our senior dancers Nina Chang-Lee and Serena Salamon.
Performance VIDEOS & Photos
Congratulations on a wonderful week of performances! It was an honor to photograph such a wide array of movement, and so many special moments around the stage. In the gallery link below you can view the photos, as well as order prints and digital files of any that speak to you. From Music & Dance to Adult Tap, it's all there, and what a joy! - Quinlan Corbett
Gallery Password: CMiORT6Mm4
BDC Hoodies & T-Shirts
BDC TShirts, Hoodies and Dance Bags are available for purchase online. Shipping available. Perfect for holiday and birthday gifts!
BDC merchandise
Watch BDC Performance Videos on our Vimeo Page
The BDC Performance Showcase includes videos of student performances from over the years including the Nutcracker, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, and Firebird. It is free to watch BDC videos so feel free to share the link with family and friends.
Photo by Sarah D. King
BDC: 100% Green Energy
BDC is proud to be apart of Puget Sound Energy’s Green Power program. All of our energy comes from renewable sources. From 2020 to 2021, BDC’s electricity carbon footprint was reduced by 10,574 pounds of CO2. To put that into perspective, that’s enough renewable energy to power 1,008,250 smartphones!
Race and Social Justice at BDC
I received fantastic suggestions from you all on how we can work together as a community to make BDC actively anti-racist. I hope that this is an ongoing conversation that helps us permanently shape our programs and actions as a school. Here are some resources BDC parents and community members shared. Please feel free to reach out to me with your thoughts and ideas.
Resources for Talking To Students About Race and Social Injustice
Recommended Books at Eagle Harbor
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped (for teens) by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
Stamped from the Beginning (for adults) by Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma OluoRecommended Dance Films:
Northwest Tap Connection: "Hell You Talmbout” By Shakiah Danielson. Northwest Tap Connection is a Race & Social Justice oriented studio connecting dance across communities. In 2016, hip-hop teacher Shakiah Danielson and NWTC responded to the deaths of unarmed black lives at the hands of police officers, using dance as passionate protest in a call to say their names, see their names, and feel their names. DONATE TO SUPPORT NWTC
"Cooped" by Jamar Roberts (dancer and choreographer in residence for the Alvin Ailey Company.) This work was inspired by the disproportionate amount of black and brown bodies being affected by the Covid-19 crisis.
Mental Health Resources
BDC Faculty Member Christina Kemp has put together a list of Mental Health Resources: therapy services as well as domestic violence, suicide, crisis, substance abuse, and grief resources. She also created a helpful guide for the trials of the current situation: Caring for ourselves and loved ones in a time of upheaval.
Bainbridge Island Psychotherapy Guild Website is a list of local therapists here on the island. A lot of therapists don’t use Psychology Today, so our local group’s website is a fantastic resource.
Bainbridge Youth Services is a non-profit on Bainbridge that is dedicated to the emotional well-being of youth. They provide professional counseling for youth 13-21, peer tutoring for grades K-12, and other service programs mostly for teens. Everything BYS offers is free to youth.
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Bainbridge Dance Center
Mail: PO Box 10338
Location: 844 Madison Avenue North
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Email: mail@bainbridgedancecenter.com
Call: (206) 842-1497