Dancing Classrooms Pittsburgh is an arts-in-education program whose mission is to build social awareness, confidence, and self-esteem in children through the art and practice of ballroom dance. Your support will help to bring this important program to even more students and schools in our community. 

Left: Pittsburgh Dilworth PreK-5, dancing under the name “Team Mango,” took home gold and was named fifth-grade “Grand Champion” for the 2013-2014 school year at Pittsburgh Mercy Health System’s Dancing Classrooms Pittsburgh Colors of the Rainbow final team match, a ballroom dance competition held May 17 at Pittsburgh Allderdice High School. Dancing Classrooms Pittsburgh benefited more than 1,500 children in 27 schools during the most recent school year.

(Photo © 2014 Archie Carpenter, courtesy of Pittsburgh Mercy Health System)