JAZZ&CO DANCE is a pre-professional training company that performs contemporary work by both studio choreographers and guest artists from across the country. The goal of the company is to provide additional training and performing experience to those dancers who
are talented and serious about their work.

Company members are students of The Loudoun School of Ballet who have strong technical training in both ballet and contemporary dance. Dancers are chosen by the company’s directors, Sharon Mercke and Kristen Stanley.

Our company members have gone on to dance on Broadway and in professional dance companies, and a number of them are working choreographers.

The company presents two highly anticipated main stage concerts each year. We have a home at The Franklin Park Arts Center, where we open our season each fall. Our work is innovative and thoughtful, and we feel that we bring performances to the stage that enrich the audience as well as entertain it.

Typically we participate in the NYCDA and WCDE regional workshops and competitions. We are not a competition studio, but we feel that these experiences provide valuable additional training as well as performance experience and critique. We consistently have dancers who qualify to compete at the national level, though we generally do not attend as a group.

JAZZ&CO DANCE is host to a two week Jazz Intensive each summer in August which gives all high-intermediate to advanced students the opportunity to work with numerous guest teachers and choreographers.