◆ OUR PROGRAMS
What We
Teach
Hip hop to music production. Theater to individual coaching.
◆ DANCE
Dance
Professional instruction in adaptive ballet, contemporary, hip-hop, jazz, and tap, structured around a 1:12 teacher-to-student ratio that keeps the work personal and the standard high. SUPA holds four active school district contracts in Los Angeles and Orange County, which means this training reaches students who would otherwise have no access to it. The All-Stars performance troupe competes for spots. Families stay, 85% of students have been with SUPA for 3 years or more. The stage is not a reward. It is the curriculum.
Matthew Von Der Ahe has been dancing with SUPA for years — now he performs with the All-Stars at venues like the Royal Opera House and Disney World. Miles Delgado stood on the stage at Paul Hamlyn Hall in London while 300 strangers rose to their feet.
◆ MUSIC & DJ
Music & DJ
Students don't just learn music, they release it. SUPA musicians have original tracks on Apple Music and Spotify, perform live for real audiences, and work with industry-standard equipment from day one. The program is led by DJ Hymn, Numark's North American Ultimate DJ champion. Some students are nonverbal. Some have never touched a turntable. All of them leave with something they made.
Zion is largely nonverbal, but he records his voice, loads it onto a pad keyboard, and performs it live. His music is on Apple Music and Spotify. Jack live-loops beats on an Akai MPC and raps in single takes. Jamie writes his own songs and produces them using AI composition tools.
◆ THEATER & ACTING
Theater & Acting
Scene work, improvisation, monologues, and live performance are taught with the same rigor applied to every SUPA program. Theater students have appeared on CBS national television and performed at the California State Capitol. The program builds something that funders and employers both recognize: the ability to communicate, adapt, and show up. Skills that started in a rehearsal room and traveled well beyond it.
SUPA theater students have appeared on CBS national television and performed at the California State Capitol. The rehearsal room is where that starts — scene work, improvisation, and stage presence training that builds the one skill everything else runs on.
◆ INDIVIDUAL COACHING
Individual Coaching
Twenty private sessions per week, each one built around a single student. No shared curriculum. No averaged expectations. Coaching at SUPA is where students work on the specific thing, the audition, the technique, the transition from one skill level to the next. Robin Olive has been doing this for 18 years. The coaches she trains carry the same philosophy: find where the student is, then build from exactly that place.
Twenty private sessions a week, each one built around a single student's specific goal. Robin Olive has been doing this work for 18 years. The coaches she trains carry the same philosophy.
◆ VIRTUAL CLASSES
Virtual Classes
Eleven weekly Zoom sessions, running continuously since 2021. What began as a pandemic response revealed something SUPA hadn't fully anticipated: demand that had always existed beyond Southern California. Students in eight states now attend weekly. The instruction is live, the instructors are the same, and the expectation that you show up ready to work does not change based on geography. Inclusion has no zip code.
Eleven weekly sessions running continuously since 2021, reaching students across 8 states. The instruction is live, the standard is the same, and the expectation that you show up ready to work does not change based on geography.
◆ ALL-STARS
All-Stars Performance Team
Thirty members. Capped intentionally. The All-Stars are SUPA's professional performance troupe, auditioned, rehearsed, and deployed on stages that make no exceptions. Royal Opera House, London. Disney World. Special Olympics World Games. Between twelve and thirty performances a year. This is not an extracurricular. It is a professional track within a nonprofit that produces performers who are hired, booked, and recognized beyond SUPA's walls.
Matthew Von Der Ahe. Miles Delgado. Performers who earned their spot through audition, rehearsal, and the kind of commitment that takes you from a Los Angeles studio to Paul Hamlyn Hall at the Royal Opera House.
◆ SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES
School Assemblies
SUPA holds active vendor contracts with LAUSD, Magnolia School District, Anaheim Unified, and Orange County schools, meaning this work is embedded within the institutions rather than being delivered to them. A 45 to 60-minute live assembly. An interactive performance. The energy is always electric, and the program reaches students who have never seen someone perform like this, and that is precisely the point.
SUPA holds active vendor contracts with LAUSD, Magnolia School District, Anaheim Unified, and Orange County schools. The Q&A runs long every time — because the questions don't stop.
◆ STUDENT-TEACHER PIPELINE
From Student to Teacher
Michelle Kim started as a student. For two years, she showed up every Saturday as Robin's teaching assistant, soaking up information like a sponge, learning how to read a room, build a lesson, and bring out what each student carries. She developed her own choreography. She took on her own class. The pipeline from student to professional is not a promise at SUPA. It is already happening.
Michelle Kim showed up every Saturday for two years. Now she teaches her own class and steps into her first paid instructor role this June. She will not be the last.
Ready to find your program?
In-person in Los Angeles, Orange County, Las Vegas, and Anaheim. Virtual classes available nationwide.