OUR MISSION
Dance, Ltd. offers quality dance training with personal, professional attention.  The staff strives to instill a growing love for the performing art of dance, increase body awareness, stimulate creative ability, as well as give students the opportunity to interact with others who have like interests and abilities.  Ms. Mundschenk believes in a strong technical foundation and considers each dancer's body structure, capability and development on an individual basis.  Dance boosts self-esteem, teaches discipline, increases coordination & flexibility, improves cardiovascular & physical condition and provides enrichment through a basic rhythmic & musical background.  Dance gives students goals to strive for and educates them by involving them in an athletic/art form, the benefits of which will last a lifetime.

"Fairies" from "Sleeping Beauty" - Spring 2009

Dance is a performing art and therefore without the performance only half of the goal is reached.  In the 30 years of operating Dance, Ltd.- School of Dance, Ms. Mundschenk has produced over 80 main stage productions.  Each year her students have the opportunity to perform in two main stage productions as well as other performance venues.  Past productions include several productions of  "The Nutcracker" (the last one being December 2010), "Sleeping Beauty", "Romeo & Juliet", "Swan Lake", "Cinderella", "Hansel and Gretel", "Les Sylphides", "Giselle", "Coppellia", "La Fille mal gardee", "Firebird", Gala Performance", "Wizard of Oz", "The Red Shoes", "Alice in Wonderland", "Things that go Dance in the night", "Beauty and the Beast", "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs" and more.  Dance, Ltd. students have performed with the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra Family Concerts, Philharmonic Children's Performances, "Artwalk", and entertained at numerous fundraisers and fairs.  Students also perform at area retirement and nursing homes.  In Spring of  2010 students were featured twice as the half-time entertainment for the Rough Riders Arena Football Team.   In January 2011 fourteen of her dancers donned kilts and performed the "Highland Fling" as entertainment for the Abilene Pipers presentation of "The Robert Burns Supper".  January 2012 the London 2012 group opened for the Harlem Globetrotters with their rendition of "Footloose" the opening number for their performance during the 2012 Olympics in London, England. January 2012 Cindy Mundschenk and several of her students participad in an Art Show at the Center for Contemporary Arts, in Abilene, TX.  The Art show "EVOLVE" featured several artists including Terri Knight who incorporated dancer as performance art during the art show. in the second floor gallery. 
Advanced Hip Hop Class - Spring 2009

Students from Dance, Ltd.have also had the opportunity to perform live onstage with the Moscow Ballet.  As the Children's Chorus Director for the World Premier of the Moscow Ballet's "The Great Russian Nutcracker".  Ailene's cast was chosen to represent the children's chorus on training aids distributed nationwide.  Moscow Ballet returned in the winter of 2009 to the Abilene Civic Center with Ms. Mundschenk again stepping into the role of Children's Chorus Director.  She was the liaison between the professional Russian dancers and the local children's cast.  Dance, Ltd. Studios was the hosting studio and rehearsal facility. 

FRIENDSHIPS TO LAST A LIFETIME\

Alice and Friends from "Alice in Wonderland" - Spring 2011

Soloists from "Gala Performance" 2009 show off their ruffles.

Curtain Call from "Alice in Wonderland" - Spring 2011