Our Story
Located in Berryville, Virginia, The Blue Ridge Studio is committed to providing a joyful, exciting dance experience for all of our students. We keep our classes small, intentionally, because we believe that our students benefit from individual, personal attention. Although our main objective at The Studio is to teach technique, we also feel our responsibility is to educate our students in a wide variety of dance forms and styles…
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Meet Our Instructors
Nela Niemann (Founder and Director) began studying ballet at the age of seven, when she started dancing with Miss Dorothy Ewing of Winchester, VA. She continued her training as a teenager at the Washington School of Ballet, Shenandoah University, and the Bolshoi School of Ballet and later studied with professional companies in Washington DC and Zaragoza, Spain…