Our vision is to provide professional instruction to children and adults in a family-friendly environment. In the classroom, our students are taught proper technique and skills in a safe, non-competitive environment that emphasizes classroom etiquette, perseverance, goal-setting and self-esteem. Outside the classroom, family values are embraced and promoted through activities and events that encourage families to have fun together through the arts!
We value YOU at EMC and we hope that you will choose US to fill your child's afterschool time with inspiring lessons, individualized attention, long-lasting friendships and a solid arts education.
Parents will appreciate our sincere interest in customer service, our affordable prices and conveniently scheduled classes located in your own community.
Since 2003, EMC has committed it's resources to enriching the lives of children in our community through the arts! For 12 years prior to that, we contributed to the Baltimore City community.
Your child will shine at EMC even if she/he doesn’t aspire to pursue a professional career in the arts. The lessons taught here will help mold your child into a responsible, hard-working, conscientious person who is bound to succeed regardless of the path they choose to follow.
Robin Snyder-Wiencek
Robin Snyder-Wiencek is the founder and director of EMC. She graduated from the Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA) in 1987 where she studied ballet extensively under Norma Pera. From there, she went on to Montclair State University in New Jersey and discovered improvisational dance and choreography. She supplemented her training by studying in New York at Steps and the Broadway Dance Center. She returned to Baltimore in 1990 to teach the Vaganova Method of classical ballet at the BSA and to continue pursuing a B.A. degree in Visual and Performing Arts at University of Maryland Baltimore County. Robin has been developing and implementing EMC in and around Baltimore since 1992. In 1999, she founded the professional modern dance company, The Collective, which is now The Collective Inc., the parent company of The Susquehanna Youth Ballet and The Collective Percussion and Rhythm. In 2003 she expanded her studio and opened a second location in Southern Pennsylvania. Over the past 9 years the studio has expanded to include dance, art, music gymnastics and theater lessons both in our studio and through our Outreach Program.
