CityDance Early Arts is an active partner in the national D.A.R.E. Dance Program, an innovative venture in the effort to fight drugs and violence in our communities and schools. CityDance runs the D.A.R.E. Dance program in seven schools in the D.C. metropolitan area.

D.A.R.E. America launched this program in 2000 as an effort to bring dance—as an athletic, creative, fun, and healthy art form—to schools as a positive alternative to drugs and violence.  The D.A.R.E. Dance program offers dance classes with a strong anti-drug and anti-violence message during the after-school hours when students are most at risk.  Students have the opportunity to learn many styles of dance, including African, ballet, Hip Hop, jazz, modern, tap and more from the Early Arts D.A.R.E. instructors. D.A.R.E. students also have the opportunity to perform within their schools and communities.

CityDance Early Arts teaches weekly after-school dance classes to high school students at the Sitar Arts Center, a community arts organization offering arts education programs to residents of the Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant, and Columbia Heights neighborhoods of Washington, DC. The Sitar Arts Center currently serves 300 students in the areas of music, dance, drama, writing, and visual art with programs that are accessible and affordable to the youth in the neighborhood. Through its partnership with the Sitar Center, CityDance gives students the opportunity to express themselves physically, while they also study culturally relevant dance styles in a group setting.