Hollywood · Los Angeles, California
International Dance Academy Hollywood
Hollywood Boulevard training facility for commercial dancers, used as the production base for major US dance television programmes.
- Ballet
- Jazz
- Hip Hop
- Contemporary
- Commercial
How International Dance Academy Hollywood comes across
International Dance Academy Hollywood comes across as the LA arm of a full-time, residential commercial-dance program rather than a drop-in studio. Its own materials present a structured 1-, 2-year and 4-month "Versatile Dance Performer Education" split between Copenhagen and LA, where students live at a "private estate" and train toward professional backup-dance and stage careers. The pitch is heritage plus pipeline: it bills itself "the world's oldest dance performer academy," tracing to a Fredie-Pedersen lineage "since 1935," and names industry ties — training rotations at "Millennium, Playground, and Movement Lifestyle," representation talk around the McDonald Selznick agency, and alumni said to have worked with major touring artists. The curriculum spans hip hop, heels, contemporary, jazz and audition technique, with "personal performance coaching" and mandatory staged shows. The impression is intense and vocational — tears-and-blisters language included — clearly for committed older teens and adults chasing a working-dancer career, not casual enrichment.
An editor's impression, drawn from the school's own website and public materials, 13 June 2026. Not a review — if it misses the mark, the school or a parent can tell us via the form below.
About the school
International Dance Academy (IDA Hollywood) operates from a four-studio facility above Hollywood Boulevard and runs daily classes in ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, choreography and dance history. The studios are routinely used as a production base for television programmes including So You Think You Can Dance, America's Best Dance Crew and Dancing with the Stars, and as a private training facility for working musicians and actors.
At a glance
- Address
- 6755 Hollywood Blvd, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90028
- Suburb
- Hollywood
- City
- Los Angeles
- State
- California
- Disciplines
- Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Choreography
- Approach
- Competitive
What stands out
- i.Four-studio facility on Hollywood Boulevard
- ii.Production base for So You Think You Can Dance, ABDC and Dancing with the Stars
- iii.Daily open classes for all levels
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