Academy of Dance Arts is a dance school in Rapid City, South Dakota, known for combining rigorous instruction with a supportive, family-friendly environment. Its structured training program spans early childhood through advanced study, with early curriculum shaped in conjunction with National Dance Education Core Standards and higher levels offering increasingly demanding work within a nurturing setting. Serving more than 250 registered students from across the Black Hills, Western Wyoming, Central South Dakota, and the Northern Hills, the school has become a regional center for dance education. Upper Division dancers receive expanded training and performance opportunities, and students have appeared as soloists and principal dancers in Black Hills Dance Theatre’s biennial Nutcracker productions.