About Us

Infinity Ballet’s mission promotes a dance program in a healthy, creative and diverse atmosphere using a comprehensive teaching method and the professional performing experience of the director and artistic inspiration of the faculty.

Infinity Ballet was created for empowering students to believe in their unique potential through dance education. Its family atmosphere offers a safe space for supporting students-body, mind, and heart-while maintaining a commitment to excellence in artistic and technical development. Its students create lasting friendships, gain confidence through self-achievements and positive motivation, practice commitment and perseverance and learn how to express themselves authentically in and out of the dance studio. The skills learned in the studio translate far beyond its walls. Infinity Ballet teaches lessons for life through the art of dance.

The Conservatory is developed to create a place of study for the fine art of classical dance and an extended education in contemporary movement, physical fitness, musical theater and acting. It is founded on the understanding that classical lessons are the essential base study for most styles of dance. The program’s emphasis is on proper training which gives the maximum possibilities to the student for success. Education in the performing arts increases awareness of the arts in the
community and develops pride through the student’s goals and achievements.

Infinity Ballet Company (IBC) was co-founded in 1997 by its director, Debra Sayles Senchak, an acclaimed New Jersey Ballet principal dancer, teacher and proponent of the concept that dance, like all art, is a powerful reflection and expression of life. During its early years, IBC raised awareness and appreciation of dance in communities from New Jersey to Hawaii through lecture demonstrations, workshops and public performances by nationally and internationally renowned artists.

Infinity Ballet relocated to the Raleigh, N.C., area in 2000 and became a member of the United Artists of Wake County Arts in the School Program. The newly christened Infinity Ballet Conservatory opened its doors in 2002 as an instructional studio for students of Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance. IBC offers classical ballet and contemporary programs for dance enthusiasts of all ages and abilities – preschool through high school and adults. Today, the expanded curriculum includes a variety of classes and workshops in Creative Dance for preschoolers, National Character Dances, Musical Theater and Acting, Modern Dance and Tap training.

Infinity Ballet Conservatory is for those who wish their child to have a thorough dance education in a nurturing atmosphere. The staff is dedicated to maintaining the highest quality of training that follows a comprehensive program, rather than random teaching. This dedication to an ideal maintains an emphasis on building from a sound foundation of properly learned and executed steps before proceeding to the next level. The detail of every movement is taught at a pace that allows the student to perform the given skill successfully. This process builds confidence and self-esteem in the student, who learn not only to have an artistic awareness of themselves but also an understanding of being in unison with their peers.

The teachers have high expectations for each student, regardless of age, experience or career goals. The aim of Infinity Ballet is to educate dancers who will carry a love of dance with them into their future lives, regardless of career choice. Rather than using humiliation or despotic teaching methods, the pedagogical study is used to reinforce the person dancing and give them a basis from which to build their lives. The love for the art, understanding of the student being taught and the ability of the body to execute each movement infuses each dance lesson with kindness between teacher and student. Good manners, praise and positive reinforcement bring positive results for all involved. A code of ethics is reinforced in each class. Studio ethics is not a set of hidden rules. Instead, the quiet discipline of each class is reinforced by quiet repetition of each movement, from the first greeting of student and teacher at the beginning of the dance
lesson to the reverence to honor the art form and each other at the end of lesson.