Joan Harris Center For Gifted-Talented

Dance is a performing art. In order to properly develop a dancer, one must also learn to perform. This is the reason the Joan Harris Centre stages five full-school performances a year. Each eight-week session the studio produces a lively show that features all the students of the school.

The summer session concludes with a picnic and performance at Knoebels Amusement Resort, October brings our Halloween Spooktacular, and in December our Holiday Extravaganza.Each spring we stage a full-length ballet and in June all of our dancers appear in our biggest shows of the year at the F.M. Kirby Center.

The past 39 years the Joan Harris Centre has held a family picnic and shows at a local Amusement Park. We started with Angela Park in Drums, then Rocky Glen in Moosic and now for 32 years in a row we have been down to Knoebels Amusement Resort in Eleysburg. It is a fun way for the dancers, their families and the studio staff to get together, go on rides, share stories and laugh.

We are extremely proud of our professional staff of instructors and support staff. Each one has been carefully selected for the role they play at the studio and they carry out duties in the most effective and sincere way. This expertly trained team takes great care to not only make sure that the student is receiving the best education possible, but also serve as role models for the children.

We have been blessed with some wonderful images provided to us by parents of our dancers and we would like to share a few of them with you here on our home on the internet.

These fabulous images only scratch the surface of our shows, so we invite all of you to visit our Facebook page at JOAN HARRIS CENTRE, then go under PHOTOS, then hit ALBUMS and then hit SHOW ALL and your will find literally tens of thousands of pictures that will truly depict what our children have accomplished over the years.Feel free to tag yourself or share with your friends.