ABOUT US
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center provides quality music, dance, theater, martial arts and PreK programs year round. Group and private lessons provide study in modern/jazz, tap, ballet, hip-hop, and African dance forms, martial arts, piano/keyboard, guitar, bass, woodwinds, brass, drum, violin, and voice.
In addition, Mind-Builders offers free programs for teens: Positive Youth Troupe theater, Community Folk Culture program and Production Corps.
A vibrant part of the Bronx community, Mind-Builders is committed to maintaining both professional artistic standards, and a nurturing, engaging environment. Mind-Builders strives to make its programs accessible to all: providing financial aid, ensuring that the facility is clean and accessible.
Mind-Builders offers a trusted service of excellence, aspiration, and dependability. Our services are high quality and are made available to all families. We believe the opportunity to reach, to stretch and bend to the discipline of art is a powerful and enlivening experience for all. That is our goal and that is the mission that has kept us a vibrant part of Bronx communities since 1978.
Our Programs
Dance – Weekly group classes in African, Afrobeats, Ballet, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Jazz, Modern and Tap for students ages 3.5-adult. Dance Ensemble participation is by audition. FREE weekly Fit4Life classes for adults include Stretch and Zumba.
Music – Weekly group and private classes for students ages 4-adult in bass, clarinet, drum (set), flute, piano, keyboard, music theory, recorder, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, violin/Suzuki violin and voice. Band is FREE (auditions required).
Martial Arts – Weekly Karate classes in Goju Ryu Karate are offered for students ages 5-18.
Positive Youth Troupe (Teen and Young Adult Theater) – PYT’s staying power is its ability to “keep it real,” and deliver a positive message to youth, ages 14-21+, through creative spirit, attitude, energy, and movement. In PYT, young people get their start on the stage while acquiring life skills. This is FREE program.
Dr. Beverly J. Robinson Community Folk Culture – Research training program for students ages 14-21. Students apply for this program in late spring. Program takes place 3 days/week during summer vacation and throughout the school year November to May. This is a FREE program. Students receive a stipend.
Production Corps – Free theater production training for ages 16-21. By application. This is a FREE program.
Pre-K – Under contract with the NYC Department of Education, Mind-Builders offers free full-day Pre-K to 18 children Monday-Friday 8:30 am - 2:50 pm from September to June. This program is FREE. Applications are due annually through the NYC Department of Education.
Arts In Education – Contact us to become a community partner! Mind-Builders contracts with area schools and after-school programs to provide music and dance programs online, at their site or at the Mind-Builders site.
