Broadway Dance Center, located in the heart of Times Square in New York City, was founded in 1984 as one of the first "drop-in" dance training schools in the world, offering over 200 classes a week in Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Theater and more (Yoga, Pilates, Flexibility, Belly Dancing, Vocal Performance, and Vocal Technique). Dancers and performers such as Bette Middler, Brooke Shields, Britney Spears, Madonna, *NSYNC, Katherine Bailess, Jason Samuels Smith, Almamy and Elizabeth Berkley have taken class or rehearsed at the school and many Broadway performers take class there daily.