The Dance Center, Official School of the Brandywine Ballet, was established in l973 in West Chester by Donna L. Muzio.

The main goal and purpose of the school is to provide professional training to serious students pursuing a career in dance.

The entire faculty at The Dance Center is committed to providing individual attention to achievement and progress to each and every student whether they are pursuing a professional career in dance or dancing for pure enjoyment and good exercise. Both types of students receive excellent guidance throughout their years of training at The Dance Center. Students from our school and company have gone on to enjoy professional ballet careers as Principal dancers with companies such as Ballet Eddy Touissaint USA, The Harrisburg Ballet and most recently The Pennsylvania Ballet; Soloist dancers with companies such as Pennsylvania Ballet, Dayton Contemporary Ballet, and Hubbard Street Dance Company; Corps de Ballet dancers with companies such as Tampa Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Garden State Ballet, Ballet Metropolitan, Miami City Ballet, Ballet Theatre of Pennsylvania, and San Antonio Ballet; Apprentice dancers with companies such as Pittsburgh Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre and most recently The Richmond Ballet. Scholarships are awarded yearly to students for prestigious summer programs such as New York City Ballet (to date, our school has had l2 students train at the School of American Ballet, 4 of which were awarded full scholarships), Washington Ballet, Boston Ballet, Ballet West, Pacific Northwest Ballet and American Ballet Theater to name a few. Too numerous to mention are all the colleges and universities that our students are accepted into with scholarships for dance education.