The Dance Academy of Virginia

The Dance Academy of Virginia McLean, Virginia's award-winning dance academy offering in-person classes to children ages 2 - 18.

09/18/2026

Surviving Nutcracker season is pure magic and a tiny bit of crazy! ✨

To every dance parent running on love, coffee, and hairspray, you've got this.

Here are 5 sweet tips to keep the magic alive and stress low:

1. Keep an Emergency Pouch: Pack extra hairpins, tights, band-aids, and safety pins so you're always ready for quick backstage fixes.

2. Pack Mess-Free Snacks: Protein bites, cheese sticks, and fruit keep energy high without risking any costume stains.

3. Label Every Single Item: Put names on shoes, warm-ups, and water bottles. Backstage dressing rooms are famous for mixing things up!

4. Plan a Cozy Ride Home: Soft music and warm cocoa in the car help your dancer unwind after the post-show adrenaline rush.

5. Soak It All In: Take a deep breath and enjoy the sparkle. These busy, beautiful moments fly by faster than you think.

DAV presents The Nutcracker at Capital One Hall in Tysons on November 22nd at 1 PM and 6 PM.

Tickets at the link in bio ✨

09/18/2026

Ballet gets a reputation for being strict. When it is taught with warmth and intention it is one of the most freeing things a child can do.

Because the structure of ballet is actually what makes everything else possible. The alignment, the strength, the musicality, the body awareness that ballet builds is the foundation that every other style of dance is built on.

The hip hop dancer with ballet training moves with a clarity that is hard to name but everyone can see. The jazz dancer with a ballet foundation has a precision that sets her apart.

Starting with ballet is not limiting a child. It is giving them the foundation that makes everything else go better.

Join our dance family to build that foundation 💖

📍 DAV Locations: McLean & Del Ray, VA
🔗 Link in bio 🤍

09/18/2026

When the last note plays and the curtain comes down and they walk back out to take their bow ✨

Everything they worked for. Every early Saturday morning. Every week they came to rehearsal. Every time they ran the combination one more time. All of it is in that bow.

And the room applauds and they find your face in the audience and that look they give you is something no photograph gets exactly right.

Come be in that room on November 22nd, 1 PM and 6 PM at Capital One Hall in Tysons!

Tickets at the link in bio.

09/18/2026

At the Capital One Hall in Tysons! ❄️

Our dancers will fill that stage on November 22nd and they have been working toward exactly that for months.

Two shows. 1pm and 6pm. The Nutcracker performed by the students of DAV at one of the most beautiful venues in Northern Virginia.

Tickets at the link in bio. This is the one you do not want to miss 🎄

🔗 Link in bio

09/18/2026

1. They watch everything before they do anything. In every new situation. That is not a problem to fix. It is a quality that makes remarkable dancers.

2. They have a whole inner world that does not always come out in conversation. Dance gives that world somewhere real to go.

3. They are quietly hard on themselves. They notice their own mistakes more than anyone else does. Good teachers know how to channel this into something that drives them forward instead of holding them back.

4. A trusted adult's genuine attention transforms them. When the right person invests in them something opens that was not open before.

5. Music means something to them personally. Not background. Something specific and felt. That is the foundation of everything in dance.

📍 DAV Locations: McLean & Del Ray, VA
🔗 Link in bio 🤍

09/17/2026

The music starts and something happens to the room ✨

Not just excitement. Something quieter than that. The whole theater leans in simultaneously. Little ones go completely still because something in the music reaches them in a place they did not know they had yet.

This is what live performance does. And this is why The Nutcracker has been performed for over a hundred years and still fills theaters every November.

DAV brings it to Capital One Hall on Sunday November 22nd. 1pm and 6pm. Tickets at the link in bio!

📍 Capital One Hall, Tysons
🔗 Link in bio 🎄

09/16/2026

We are doing this twice on November 22nd and we would love for you to be at one of them.

1pm and 6pm at Capital One Hall in Tysons. The Nutcracker performed by DAV dancers who have been working toward this stage since September.

It is the kind of afternoon that puts you in the holiday spirit whether you were ready for it or not.

Tickets at the link in bio. Come find your seats!

📍 Capital One Hall, Tysons
🔗 Link in bio 🎄

09/14/2026

Every year The Nutcracker has a moment that makes the whole theater go completely quiet.

Usually it is the snow scene. The music swells, the stage fills, and for a few seconds absolutely nobody in the audience is thinking about anything except what is happening right in front of them.

That is what live dance does. And that is what our dancers work toward every single year.

DAV at Capital One Hall in Tysons. Sunday November 22nd. 1pm and 6pm.

Tickets at the link in bio.

📍 Capital One Hall, Tysons
🔗 Link in bio 🎄

09/11/2026

Something settles.

It is the hardest thing to describe and the easiest to see. A teenager who has found a dance studio that is truly theirs carries themselves differently. Not because they have been told they are wonderful. Because they have spent a year showing up to something hard and getting better because of it.

They find a community where they are valued for effort rather than aesthetics. Where what they can do matters more than how they look. Where the friendships are built on something real.

Something settles. And everything else in their life starts to feel a little more navigable. Get that feeling for your teenager and join our dance family!

📍 DAV Locations: McLean & Del Ray, VA
🔗 Link in bio 🤍

09/11/2026

Little ones who have never seen live dance. Older kids who have been training all year and will watch with completely different eyes. Adults who have seen it every year and still get chills at the overture.

The Nutcracker at Capital One Hall works for all of them simultaneously and that is one of the things that makes it so special.

Sunday November 22nd, 1pm and 6pm at Capital One Hall in Tysons.

This is the November Sunday plan. Tickets at the link in bio.

📍 Capital One Hall, Tysons
🔗 Link in bio 🎄

Address

6723 Whittier Avenue Suite L1
McLean, VA
22101

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 8pm
Tuesday 9am - 8pm
Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm
6pm - 7pm

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(703) 891-4292

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