New Festival Disney Solo & Small Ensemble Virtual Competition in 2020

There is a NEW Festival Disney Solo & Small Ensemble virtual competition coming in 2020! Festival Disney is a competitive music festival produced by Disney Performing Arts. Hundreds of schools compete to achieve performance excellence and recognition. For the first time ever, student performers now have the chance to compete

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Disney Performing Arts Conservatory Returning to Disneyland Resort This Summer

Disney Performing Arts Conservatory Returning to Disneyland Resort This Summer. Young performers will be happy to hear the Disney Performing Arts Conservatory will be returning to Disneyland Resort this summer! Perviously Disney has offered a musical theatre conservatory for young performers to practice their skills with acting, dancing, and singing

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Performing Arts Students Get Surprised By Aladdin On Broadway Stars

Performing Arts students from Aventura City of Excellence School in Aventura, Florida thought they were attending a routine workshop.  Little did they know they were about to be surprised by two of Disney on Broadway’s biggest stars! Adam Jacobs and his sister Arielle surprised the group on stage as the workshop was getting

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Disney Celebrates National Dance Day on July 28th and All Year Long!

On July 28th, Disney celebrates National Dance Day! On this day of dance, dancers from around the country will celebrate dance education and get us moving our feet to the beat! But Disney Performing Arts celebrates dance every day of the year by offering year-round workshops and performance opportunities for dance

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Cast of Disney’s The Lion King Surprise Massachusetts Performing Arts Students During Disney World Visit

A dance studio group from New Bedford Massachusetts received a very special surprise at Walt Disney World this week when members of the touring cast of Disney’s “The Lion King” popped by to pay a visit to their Disney Performing Arts Workshop. The students from The Illusions Academy of Dance

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Broadway Stars Surprise Delaware High School Students At Walt Disney World

The Delaware high school choir got a big surprise during their Disney Performing Arts workshop at Walt Disney World Resort when Broadway stars Kissy Simmons and Alton Fitzgerald White stopped by for a Q&A session with the group. Simmons and White, former stars of the Broadway hit The Lion King, popped

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World-Class Drum Corps to Perform in Disney Springs This Sunday July 9th

If you enjoy good music and entertainment, and will be in the Walt Disney World Resort area this weekend, you’ll want to visit Disney Springs on Sunday July 9th for some world-class entertainment. Disney Performing Arts will be hosting a day of Drum Corps International marching performances, with drum corps

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Little Big Town Surprises Ohio Students at Walt Disney World as Part of Music in Our Schools Tour

Disney had a very special surprise for students  from Wadworth High School in Ohio who attended a Disney Performing Arts workshop this past Friday at Saratoga Springs Resort as five-time CMA Vocal Group of the Year, Little Big Town showed up to bestow students with some showbiz words of wisdom.

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Disney Performing Arts Takes its Music Workshop to North Carolina High School Students as part of the 2016 Grammy Music Educator Award

Disney Performing Arts brought one of its popular music workshops to the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics as part of band director Phillip Riggs winning the 2016 Music Educator Award™ presented by the GRAMMY Foundation® and The Recording Academy®. To celebrate his achievement, Riggs’ music students participated in

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Disney Performing Arts Workshop Has Surprise Visit By Grammy Award-Winning Pentatonix Star

Cello beatboxer, Kevin “K.O.” Olusola, member of Grammy Award-Winning vocal quintet Pentatonix made a surprise visit at Walt Disney World to Disney Preforming Arts students at Saratoga Springs Resort. Lewisburg Area High School (Pennsylvania) students had a chance to visit with Olusola during a “Disney Sings” musical workshop. He spoke with the students

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The Voice Winner Joins Forces with Disney Performing Arts

Being a teen is very demanding today, it can be easy for busy students to overlook something valuable in their daily lives. That’s why Give a Note Foundation and Disney Performing Arts will join forces with 17-year-old Danielle Bradbery, the youngest-ever winner of The Voice, for the Music In Our

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