Dance schools, considered.

New York · United States

New York

Balanchine's school on the Upper West Side, Ailey and Broadway Dance Center in Midtown, Mark Morris and the African-diaspora belt in Brooklyn, the Joffrey in the Village — and a quiet corridor of forty- and fifty-year community schools across Queens, Harlem, and the Bronx.

96 schools · 32 suburbs

Victoria · Australia

Melbourne

Suburban schools forty and sixty years old, run by women whose names are on the door, performing at the local town hall in December.

59 schools · 51 suburbs

New South Wales · Australia

Sydney

Eighty-year heritage schools in the Inner West, harbour-side ballet on the lower north shore, Northern Beaches coastal density — and a Western Sydney hip-hop and contemporary culture that has built itself outside the city's institutional spine.

52 schools · 44 suburbs

California · United States

Los Angeles

A commercial-dance capital on Ventura Boulevard and Hollywood, an institutional concert-dance pocket downtown at Colburn and LA Dance Project, a recreational Westside built around Santa Monica, and Pasadena's civic-ballet belt to the east.

50 schools · 16 suburbs

Queensland · Australia

Brisbane

A bayside east anchored by Wynnum's three multi-style studios, an Inner Brisbane West End spine carrying thirty years of Latin dance at Rio Rhythmics, a Northside community-school belt, and a Southern Growth Corridor running from Springwood out to Springfield.

28 schools · 25 suburbs

California · United States

San Francisco

San Francisco Ballet School (1933, the oldest in the United States), ODC and Dance Mission in the Mission, LINES at SoMa — and an East Bay carrying Shawl-Anderson, Malonga Casquelourd and Destiny Arts.

19 schools · 8 suburbs

Florida · United States

Miami

7 schools · 3 suburbs

Illinois · United States

Chicago

7 schools · 5 suburbs

Massachusetts · United States

Boston

6 schools · 4 suburbs