DC DanceSport Academy
DC DanceSport Academy offers a wide range of ballroom dance and latin dance classes for any dancer and dance enthusiast.
Under the extensive expertise of Lydia Petrigova, our school welcomes students of all ages and backgrounds. We train and work with children, youth, and adults. From beginner to championship-level competitors and from social to professional dancers, we offer a place for everyone at the Academy.
Our world-class coaches are passionate about helping all students grow within their art and life. Regardless of their goal, we aim to arm them with the right set of skills and knowledge to thrive in any situation. This personalized approach has helped DCDA create well-rounded dancers and champions for over 16 years.
Our focus and expertise lie in International and American style dancesport. We use styles such as Latin, Standard, Rhythm, and Smooth to train our dancers and share with them the benefits of dance.
Dance is important and can help build skills which will carry through all facets of life. It builds confidence, grace, and resilience, in addition to improving health and happiness levels. A great workout, it also increases cognitive learning and helps with social interactions and team-building.
Join us today and see what dance can do for you and your family!
What Our Students Say
This is a word-class studio without peer and unquestionably the best place you can go for dance lessons of any kind and at any level.
DCDA is a new ballroom dance studio in Fairfax that’s the home of the best dance coaches in the D.C. area. As a new facility, DCDA is incredibly bright, clean, and inviting. DCDA has a huge schedule packed with group classes for beginners through high-level competitive dancers in virtually every style under the sun – Standard (e.g. Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Quickstep), Latin (e.g. Cha Cha, Rumba, Jive, Samba), social dancing (e.g. Salsa), and even exercise dances like Zumba. Wedding dance lessons are also offered. Prices here are always extremely reasonable across the board, particularly given the quality of dance instruction and the reasonable size of the group classes.
Unlike many other dance studios, DCDA makes dance fun and accessible. The classes here are detailed without being overwhelming and invigorating without being exhausting. As such, beginners can learn a lot without being intimidated, and experienced dancers can be challenged without becoming bored. Because everyone here is – without exception – friendly and talented, there are no awkward moments. Rather, there’s a sort of intoxicating accessibility to classes here that I’ve never seen at any other studio: even the most relatively complicated topics are made understandable, fun, and useful.
As amazing as the group classes here are, the private lessons are also amazing. The current instructors at DCDA – Lydia Petrigova and Anna Mikhed – are world-renowned competitors with a keen eye in virtually every aspect of ballroom dancing, which has led them to coach some truly amazing competitive couples. Bluntly put, their insight is worth its weight in gold. I’ve been working with Lydia for years now, and it’s been the best thing that’s ever happened to my dance career.
If you have even a scintilla of interest in dance, you owe it to yourself to go to DCDA!
DC DanceSport Academy provides quality instruction to all levels of dancers in a lovely and professional studio. Highly recommend this studio for all those wanting to learn to dance, regardless of age and dance experience, but especially for the serious dancers who are involved in competing and performing. Lydia organizes several elite workshops, and dance camps a year for both adult students and for her much younger students, and brings in the best world champions to teach at these workshops. The group classes offered are exceptional, ranging from basic technique classes to more advanced master classes, and practice rounds. Lydia is an amazing, encouraging, enthusiastic, technical, and talented teacher, and what I love most about Lydia, is that she never stops learning and growing as an instructor. Whether it’s a private lesson with Lydia, or participating in a group class, watching Lydia’s body movements, and her flair for styling, is inspirational for me. As a woman, learning from a woman is equally important for me. Lydia will make you feel beautiful and special, while inspiring you to move your body in ways you never thought possible.
Lydia is the best instructor around!
I always learn something new from her group lessons and I have grown so much as a dancer since I know her. The encouraging and upbeat instructors make learning even the most difficult moves fun! No matter what level you are and what style of dance you prefer, she will help you to become a better dancer. Anyone and everyone who is interested in ballroom should go to her studio!