Wolcott Dance Academy

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Prospect, Naugatuck, Southbury, Terryville, Watertown, & Woodbury
The Wolcott Dance Academy, with an established reputation of the highest caliber in its profession, continues to offer proper dance education and successfully aid the development of children, ranging from beginners to professional competitive dancers and performers.
With three professionally equipped teaching rooms with over 4,200 square feet, Wolcott Dance Academy offers a safe, comfortable and progressive way to learn from a highly qualified staff. We also believe in small classes, 10-12 students with 1 teacher and 1-2 assistants in each class.

The Wolcott Dance Academy celebrated its' 50th Anniversary last year. The Academy is a family owned business under the direction of Corinne Townsend, her daughter Linda Eustace, and granddaughter Nicole Zimyeski. Three generations with one passion, A Dedication to Dance. Click to view (or hide) complete article.

Her daughter Linda followed in her footsteps. She began dancing at the age of 3 and continued her dance training throughout Connecticut and was on scholarship with the famed American Ballet Center in NY City. She is the director and choreographer for the dance academys performing company and competition students. Lindas students were the first in the area to enter national competitions, traveling to South Carolina in 1982. Students from the dance academy are still competing nationally and have won countless awards, cash prizes, scholarships, trophies and titles. Titles include Most Entertaining, Best Precision, Excellent Emotional Execution, Best Ballet Technique, Best Costume, Grand National Champions, and hundreds of Top Overall Titles in various competition categories. Linda was Miss Wolcott, Talent Winner and 3rd runner-up in the Miss Connecticut Pageant and has since taught talent routines to contestants for various pageants and has produced over 80 title winners.
With two generations of tradition before her, Lindas daughter Nicole started dancing at age 2 and was the youngest dance competitor at age 5. She has received over 800 awards including Best Technical Execution, Most Potential, Future Star, Best in Show, and Miss Superstar. Nicole won Top Model titles eight times, and other pageant titles such as Miss Connecticut Preteen, Miss Teen New England, and Olympic Miss.
Nicole has completed accredited dance course at Central Connecticut State University as well as taking master classes from numerous teachers from across the US. Her students have received numerous awards in both dance and modeling. Both Linda and Nicole have entertained, organized and hosted charity shows for St. Judes Childrens Research Hospital, American Diabetes, Muscular Dystrophy, Girls Inc. and for numerous convalescent homes, veterans hospitals and senior citizens centers.
Many of their students have pursued dance careers and became very successful. Nine of their students have opened their own dance studios across Connecticut. Numerous other students are working professionally, such as Rachel Ricciardi who is a choreographer and entertaining at the resort hotel in Mexico, Nancy Abondola who attended the Alvin Ailey dance school in New York City, and Christine Pelletier who taught dance in Los Angeles, California school system.
Many other students have gone on to college and have taught and assisted in dance classes at their colleges. The list of accomplishments that the academys students have achieved is endless. For the 50 years they have been fulfilling little girls dreams.
Corinne, Linda, and Nicole believe that you measure a dancing schools success not by how many students you have enrolled, but by how many of your students lives you touched and influenced. The Wolcott Dance Academy is truly successful. They will continue to provide a proper dance education and promote the arts for many more years to come.