I wouldn't spend any time or money on this place. The training is horrible. These kids wouldn't know 'technique' if they fell over it. Their teachers are their own former students and none is very good. The same bad habits and lack of any real dance training just get passed on and on. They brag about their ""accomplishments,"" but can never name anone or anything specific. Their so-called choeography is atrocious and the costuming is even worse. Real dancers don't wear those ditzy little crowns on their heads!\r
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If you want to study ballet, don't waste time even thinking about this place. Go to the Rock School of Dance or the Dance Center (school of the Brandywine Ballet) or even Crane Performing Arts. Stay far away from Harrison's.\r
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And all that hype about being voted the ""Best Dance School"" for many years in a row? That's a newspaper contest where readers send in a ballot cut from the paper. Harrison's advertises very heavily in the paper when that contest is going on and I've heard they urge their students to have their parents send in as many votes as they can. Other schools don't bother with such nonsense.
Cons: A waste of time
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