Program Locations

  Cities hosting the DARE Dance Program

2001-2006

Annapolis, Arlington, Aurora, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Fairfax, Houston, Jersey City, Los Angeles, Mantua, New York, Philadelphia, Raleigh, San Antonio, San Diego, Shepardstown,    St. Kitts, Washington, D.C., and Woodland Hills.

The first program D.A.R.E. Dance program occurred on January 28, 2000 at Deep Creek Middle School in Baltimore, Maryland.

D.A.R.E. was very excited to work with Deep Creek Middle School. The students, led by principal, Roger Pancake and D.A.R.E. officer, Laura Phelps, were first introduced to the program in a classroom discussion, then enjoyed an assembly by a group of professional D.A.R.E. Dancers from Washington, D.C., CityDance Ensemble.

The students who registered for the D.A.R.E. Dance program class series studied jazz and modern in their ten-week program.

Professional D.A.R.E. Dancers, CityDance Ensemble Jam Crew and Peoples and Clark Dance Company also performed for students in other area Baltimore County schools to celebrate with students at their 6th grade D.A.R.E. graduation. These schools included Holabird Middle and Deer Park Middle.

The first school to undergo the D.A.R.E Dance Program in New York City was PS 20 (The Anna Silver School) in Manhattan. The 6th grade class was invited to an assembly led by the CAP21 Dancers, a dance group composed of alumni of CAP21 (Collaborative Arts Project 21),  a musical theater conservatory where students from NYU Tish Undergraduate Program receive their training in musical theater.

The students at PS20 viewed a musical theater dance production that was written and choreographed specifically for D.A.R.E. The students enrolled in the ten-week class series focused on jazz and theatrical dance that tells a story such as in a theater production.

In addition to the above schools, the Washington D.C. Police Department elected to put the D.A.R.E. Dance program into four of its schools.

The schools elected to try this new venture in D.C. are Langdon, Thomas and Turner Elementary Schools and Shaw Junior High School.

The Arlington County Police Department agreed to implement the program into three schools. The schools that participated in Arlington were Gunston, Kenmore and Swanson Middle Schools.

The schools participating in Philadelphia include: Bluford, Kearny, and Luis Munoz Middle schools. The professional companies working in the Philadelphia area include Rennie Harris Puremovement and Koresh Dance Company.

In Baltimore, the DARE Dance Program has entered back into Deep Creek Middle to test a combined 6th and 7th grade program to evaluate working with the same children overtime. In addition Peoples and Clark, the professional Baltimore dance company brought a high school dance company out to the school (the Bryn Maur Dance company) to work with the younger students and to gain community service hours.

DARE America receives continuous requests to bring the D.A.R.E. Dance Program to new communities. Although the program continues to grow and will hopefully be in nearly 100 schools nationally by the 2006-2007 school year.  Because of funding restraints, the DARE Dance Program is expanding slowly to new cities. It is our goal to always return to schools that we begin with, and to always focus on quality versus quantity.

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