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Welcome to Central Indiana Academy of Dance, Carmel and the surrounding Indianapolis area’s leading classical ballet institution and home of the Central Indiana Dance Ensemble. We are proud of our academy’s dedicated professional faculty as well as our many successes, including students who have gone on to dance professionally with Dayton Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet II, Minnesota Ballet, Nashville Ballet II, North Carolina Dance Theatre II and Pacific Northwest Ballet and study at such prestigious universities and schools as Butler University, Indiana University, Point Park University, The Ailey School/Fordham University, University of Cincinnati, University of Utah, School of American Ballet and The Joffrey Ballet School.

We welcome you to share with us your love of dance and we promise to provide you with the best classical training.

Academy News

  • Central Indiana Dance Ensemble Company Member Takes First Place At NSAL Competition

    In February, sixteen year old Hannah Sink, a Central Indiana Dance Ensemble senior company member and a student at the Central Indiana Academy of Dance, won first place in the Ballet Category at the 2012 National Society of Arts and Letters, Bloomington Chapter. The competition was held at the Jacobs School of Music, where awards were given in voice, instrumental and ballet. In addition to the cash award, she will perform along with the top two prizewinners in each category on April 15th at 2:00 PM as part of the NSAL 46th Annual Showcase of the Arts at the John Waldron Arts Center auditorium. Hannah will perform the Diana and Acteon variation.

  • 2012 Summer Programs


    Click here for information and registration forms for CIDE's Summer Intensive.

  • CIDE honored to have dancer featured in Indianapolis City Ballet's Young Stars of Ballet

    Central Indiana Dance Ensemble and Central Indiana Academy of Dance are thrilled to announce that one of their own, Hannah Sink, will be featured in a solo at the Indianapolis City Ballet’s Young Stars of Ballet performance this Friday evening at Murat Theatre at the Old National Centre.