Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts

Specialties

The Minnesota Conservatory for for the Arts offers a variety of quality arts education including:

Dance Instruction in Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Tap, Clogging, Belly Dance, Irish Dance, Barre Sculpt, Dance Conditioning (Yoga & Pilates), choreography and Modern. Classes for ages 18 months– Adult, including an all boys program and two-​week Summer dance intensive boarding camp.

Private Music Lesson Instruction in Piano, Voice, Violin, Cello, all Brass, Percussion, Flute, and, Clarinet.

Visual Art Workshops for kids and adults.

Theatre classes, camps and workshops.

History

Established in 1973.

The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts began in 1973 in a one-​room studio under the direction of Stefannié Valéncia Kierlin as The Ballet School.

Mme. Valéncia Kierlin attended the School for Extraordinaire Children Ext. Sorbonne University, the Paris Opera School, and L Ècole des Beaux Arts. She held an M.F.A. in Fine Arts and an M.A. degree in Languages and Literature from Sorbonne University, Paris and the Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela. Mme. Valéncia Kierlin danced professionally with Ballet de Cámara, Ballet Repertorio, Briansky Ballet, Conservatorio de Danza-​Rosario, L’Opera Ballet, and Rochester Chamber Ballet.

Mme. Valéncia Kierlin created a full ballet curriculum for her students, which in later years expanded to include contemporary dance forms and additional performing and visual arts programming. Many of Mme. Valéncia Kierlin’s concepts for instructing dance are still used today in classes at MCA.

In addition to technique class offerings at The Ballet School, Mme. V