Middle/High School Dance Company

Dance is a universal language, a powerful art form that requires tremendous discipline and offers great rewards. Dancers learn that a deep commitment to study in dance provides growth in the individual’s physical, emotional and spiritual well-being, enhances confidence, communication and a strong sense of community.  The VCS Dance Company program offers an intensive pre-professional, conservatory-type training program with a concentration on foundational dance techniques, experience with classic and contemporary dance repertoire, diverse dance forms, and creative expression through performance opportunities and choreography studies and production. VCS Dance Company has performed at Disneyland, Universal Studios, reality shows, fundraisers, pep rallies, chapels, sports events, and more!

This intensive training includes the areas of ballet and foundational modern dance techniques, jazz dance, world dance forms, contemporary dance, tap dance, hip hop dance, classical repertoire, improvisation, and dance composition.

The following classes are by audition only and are now closed for the 2023-24 school year. Information about auditions for the 2024-25 school year will be posted later in the school year.

  • Intro to Middle School Dance Company ($500 fee covers instructors, t-shirt, leotard, and costume rentals)
  • Middle School Dance Company ($750 fee covers instructors, sweatshirt, and costume rentals)
  • Junior Varsity Dance Company ($900 fee covers instructors, t-shirt, sweatshirt, sweatpants, and costume rentals)
  • Varsity Dance Company ($900 fee covers instructors, t-shirt, sweatshirt, sweatpants, and costume rentals)

Meet the Instructor: Kim Patteri

Kim Patteri, Dance Instructor, has toured internationally with the renowned dance company, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, swung thirteen roles in the Toronto Broadway Production of Beauty and the Beast, danced opposite Grammy Award winner Celine Dion, was an original member of the Canadian pop sensation group, KONNEXION, and performed in numerous other regional and industrial shows. On camera, Mrs. Kim was a Rockette in The Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas, played Wasp Woman opposite Brendan Frasier in Monkeybone, and appeared in over fifty television shows and commercials. As a choreographer, Ms. Kim assisted two thousand performers in the Opening Ceremonies of the 1996 Special Olympics, Guys and DollsAnne Of Green Gables, and the world premiere of Ben Hur: The Musical. Ms. Kim studied dance at the prestigious York University and on scholarship at The Studio Dance Theatre of Toronto, Canada. As a teacher, Mrs. Kim has taught every age and every style of dance in studios, workshops, master classes and colleges all over the world, including Sheridan College Performing Arts (Toronto), Dance Factory (Montreal), Pineapple Studios (London), The Edge (Los Angeles), Dance Precisions (Yorba Linda) and Orange County Song and Dance (Huntington Beach).