The New Canaan Dance Academy began as an Academy for Tap in June 2001 and has since expanded to offer more than 100 classes per week in all the main dance disciplines, including ballet, jazz, tap, modern, lyrical as well as hip hop, breakdancing, creative movement and African. Owners Elaine and Ben Young, New Canaan residents for twenty years, moved the school to a new, renovated facility on Forest Street in 2009.
The school has more than 500 students, including members of its traveling dance company, and offers a special needs program, adult classes and private lessons. The studio is also available for birthday parties.