For the 4th year, ESDC offers creative movement workshops to students in the Troy NY School District for its 21st Century After School Program.

Through its four-year partnership with UAlbany’s Physics Department for Girl’s Inc.’s Eureka Summer Program, ESDC examines science through dance workshops drawing from the company’s collaboration with UAlbany Physics professor Keith Earle to develop Choreophysics, an examination of the communion of the arts/dance and sciences/physics.   

ESDC will perform with percussionist Brian Melick as part of the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall's Barker Park Kids' Summer Series! This interactive performance of ESDC's popular family-friendly production Undercover Playground brings site-specific dance to the public, and encourages kids to think a little more creatively about the playgrounds they visit! Free to the public. Barker

For more than 25 years, ESDC has provided programming designed to offer ALES’ 2nd and 3rd graders the opportunity to experience the bravery of creativity and invention as they step into the realm of how one might learn differently and see themselves in the most positive way possible. By incorporating the art form of dance

Pre-K – 3rd grades ESDC returns to the Troy Public Library for a Movement Story Hour. The Artistic Director introduces literacy through movement. Reading from the ESDC’s extensive library of children’s books, she incorporates creative movement to enhance the reading experience. Children become a part of the story and find a love of reading. 

For more that 15 years, ESDC has provided programming designed to offer GSD 2nd and 5th graders the opportunity to experience the bravery of creativity and invention as they step into the realm of how one might learn differently and see themselves in the most positive way possible. Our current program brings “Dance by Chance”