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West Virginia Dance Festival in Charleston
The West Virginia Dance Festival gathers dancers from across the state at the West Virginia Culture Center in Charleston for a concentrated program of classes, workshops, and performances. Professional instructors lead sessions in ballet, modern, and jazz, giving students and companies from smaller communities access to training and stage time they might not otherwise find locally.
The West Virginia Dance Festival exists to solve a specific problem: in a state without a major professional dance company or a dense concentration of studios, dancers from smaller cities and rural counties have limited access to serious training.