Fall Session: September 8 - December 19

To register for the fall session, please check the Fall Placement Lists to see the appropriate placement for your dancer in each discipline. Then complete your registration online through the BDC Webstore. New students should email mail@bainbridgedancecenter.com for help with placement. If a class is full, join on the waitlist as we will add new class sessions if there is enough interest.

BDC Nutcracker Auditions: Sept 12-13

Nutcracker Auditions will be at BDC on Saturday, September 12th & Sunday, September 13th. Dancers register in advance for auditions and will audition by class group. Auditions will consist of a short ballet class. Students will then learn Nutcracker choreography. Students in levels 5, 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. Check out the BDC Nutcracker Webpage for the audition schedule and registration information.

BDC June Performances 2026 Videos

Videos of the 2026 June Performances are now available to watch for free on the BDC Vimeo page.

When looking for your dancer, check out the description below the video as it will list the program order. The videos are from the two Dress Rehearsals, Alice in Wonderland from the Tuesday night performance, and Tap from the Thursday night performance. It may also be helpful to check out the the Program Order Spreadsheet that contains Class Lists, Cast Lists and Dress Rehearsal Program Orders.

Videography of June 2026 Performances is by Quinlan Corbett Photography

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

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.

• Anti-Racism Resource Page

• 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 Oluo

  Recommended 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