Alta Performing Arts

Alta Performing Arts is a dance studio in Newark, CA. It provides dance classes and musical theatre training for ages 3.5 to teens, welcoming youth and teens from Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area. Classes include ballet, jazz, lyrical, tap, hip hop, and combo and advanced classes, along with musical theatre classes in singing, dancing, and acting. Private lessons are offered in dance, vocal coaching, audition prep, gymnast and acro work, performance skills, and specialty choreography. The studio holds a 5.00 rating from the customers who have reviewed it.

The studio's Fall to Spring season runs September through May. All dance and musical theatre students are welcome to perform in the Spring Recital, held in late May or early June, with recital sign-ups beginning in the winter. The studio also participates in Newark Days performances and the annual parade. Summer camps and Tuesday classes are part of the schedule.

Alta Performing Arts is led by founder and studio director Monique Altamirano, a national award-winning choreographer, dance instructor, and musical theatre director. Monique trained in musical theatre and dance at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee and is a member of the Actor's Equity Association. Her choreography credits include performances with James Corden, Kenny Loggins, and Ben Platt, and an Emmy Award-winning regional documentary celebrating the music of Footloose under the musical direction of Grammy Award winner Kenny Loggins. She is joined by teachers Katarina, who instructs on Thursdays, and Jade, who instructs on Tuesdays. The studio's mission is to inspire students to be bold, take risks, and find joy through dance and musical theatre, and to learn the importance of storytelling through dance, singing, and acting.

The studio sits on Newark Blvd, about a third of a mile from Thornton Avenue, E L Musick Elementary School, and Newark Library, and about four tenths of a mile from the Newark Police Department.

Families in Newark looking for dance and musical theatre training for children and teens will find a studio whose director brings national choreography credits and conservatory training to classes built around performance.