{"id":44861,"date":"2021-09-04T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-dance-launching-in-mancos-community-center\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:22:04","slug":"durango-dance-launching-in-mancos-community-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-dance-launching-in-mancos-community-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango Dance launching in Mancos Community Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=00dd789c-dc9a-4ea9-82f2-01715aac6ddc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1038\" alt=\"Pictured in April, Durango Dance instructor Amanda McKovich teaches students how to do the \u201cworm\u201d dance during Durango Dance Camp. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Pictured in April, Durango Dance instructor Amanda McKovich teaches students how to do the \u201cworm\u201d dance during Durango Dance Camp. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Durango Dance, a 12-year mainstay for youth instruction in ballet in Durango, is preparing to offer classes at the Mancos Community Center.<\/p>\n<p>Classes begin Oct. 1 and will run every Friday until Dec. 17 before picking back up next year.<\/p>\n<p>Children between the ages of 4 and 10 are welcome to enroll.<\/p>\n<p>Vivien Doucette, a Durango native who moved to Mancos, will teach the ballet classes at the new location.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s excited to launch the studio and \u201cgive those children the opportunity for something to do in a community space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new ballet space will shorten the commute for many who traveled from out of town to drop off their kids for classes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have people coming from the entire Four Corners region,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Many families made the drive from Mancos and Cortez to attend the dance classes in Durango, and others couldn\u2019t make earlier classes that started at 3:30 p.m., she said.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the studio plans three class types: Discover classes for four-year-olds, Discover classes for 5- and 6-year-olds, and Explore classes, which are geared to dancers ages 7 to 10, she said.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s enough interest, the studio will introduce a class for dancers ages 11 to 14.  Doucette said she thinks it\u2019s likely to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the level of instruction, classes will commence at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. or at 12:30 p.m., with younger students starting first.<\/p>\n<p>A one-time fee per semester will include tuition, uniforms and other necessary materials. Tights and shoes will be available in a variety of colors to match student skin tones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to make it so it\u2019s easier on parents,\u201d Doucette said.<\/p>\n<p>The semester-long classes are listed at $225 on the studio\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Miriam Morgan, director of Durango Dance, and Amanda McKovich, youth program director, were inspired to bring their \u201clove of dance and small towns\u201d to the \u201cthriving art community in Mancos,\u201d according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The Mancos school district\u2019s four-day school week was another motivator, it said.<\/p>\n<p>To get more information and enroll in classes, visit www.durangodance.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montezuma County residents won\u2019t have to drive to Durango to take their children to the studio\u2019s ballet classes <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86256,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44861\/revisions\/86256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44861"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}