Trai Allgeier is the owner and director of Point Performing Arts in Springfield, Missouri. According to Trai, their studio welcomes all students from ages 2 to adult. Point Performing Arts has two competition team levels. The first team is a competition team that is for dancers who want to study and perform more intensively with the hope of becoming professionals. Point also offers another competition team specifically geared more towards the beginner dancer or the dancer that is also involved in other activities. The second competition team involves a little less time but still has performance opportunities and a full recreational program as well. Additionally, Point is the only studio in Springfield, Missouri who offers Special Needs dance classes! These are the studio’s Superstars!
Point Performing Arts is Springfield’s premiere dance studio – offering a variety of styles for all ages and all levels. Besides the usual dance classes such as Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Modern, Musical Theater, and Tumbling, Point Performing Arts also offers voice, piano, and acting lessons. They are impacting and enriching lives through artistic development and expression in Dance, Voice, Piano, and Acting.
In Trai’s opinion, her studio is separated from other dance studios because their studio really incorporates all of the performing arts. They want to form a well-rounded artist. Also, at their studio they do not segregate their team from the recreational. Everyone takes classes together if they are the same level. Trai, personally, teaches the little ones all the 
way up as do most of her teachers. She is fully involved in every aspect of the studio. Point Performing Arts is also a member of National Dance Education Organization. They are only the second studio in Missouri to have a NDEO honor society, for ages 11 years to 18 years.
Trai’s proudest moment coaching occurs when she is working with the recreational dancers who have come up with the studio since the age of 3 or the competitive dancers who have grown so much. Her proudest moments are seeing how much they have grown. They students love to dance and it shows! Also, seeing how nice and welcoming they are to other dancers makes her very proud!
The biggest mistakes Trai sees dancers make involve their focus. She thinks dancers now tend to have blinders on and only focus on certain things . . . getting that one turn or accomplishing that one step. She believes a dancer has to be able to look at all aspects of their dancing to continue making themselves a fully formed dancer. Most times when they stop laser focusing on just that one certain thing and just embrace dance as a whole, they end up getting that step anyway! Also, sometimes dancers at the studio think they are really good and do not push themselves anymore. Trai encourages them to push out of their box and go to different master classes and conventions. She believes that it really helps them improve their craft.
Trai’s goal for the Points Performing Arts going into this dance season is to make her students amazing dancers. She is really pushing the kids to be artists and not just winners. Winning that trophy is great, but it won’t get you a job. She wants her dancers to be employable if they decide to choose dance as a career and she is going to give them everything in her arsenal to make them a dancer that would standout and be the one that everyone wants to hire. Their improvisation classes and choreography classes are some of the biggest classes at their studio and she is extremely proud of that.
Trai did not start Point Performing Arts – it kind of fell into her lap. She has taught at several studios across the country over the last ten years and knows how hard it is. She had no idea that she would have the opportunity to own a studio in Springfield, Missouri, but she is so glad she does. Trai started dancing at the age of two and eventually became proficient in ballet, jazz, lyrical, pointe, tap, musical theatre, hip hop, clogging, flamenco, and African. She progressed until she became a principal in commercials and was in several movies before the age of ten and went on to perform in plays and movies as an adult. Additionally, she went into competitive dance and won several high point awards, 
titles, and scholarships. In 2014, Trai Allgeier had the opportunity and bought Point Performing Arts after studying dance for over 28 years.
Trai is committed to providing all students high-quality dance education. Point Performing Arts is a member of the National Dance Education Organization. Point Performing Arts is the second studio in Missouri to have a National Honor Society. Establishing a National Honor Society for Dance Arts in their School is one very important way that a dancer can help advance the field of dance education. Celebrating the artistic and academic achievements of exceptional dance students helps to create honor and prestige within their field and improve their image to those outside the field.
This studio has been such a blessing to Trai and her family. It has brought her family closer and now she can say she has a studio full of children and she loves every one of them. She is thrilled that she gets to be a part of their lives and fully realizes the importance of that. She feels that it is such a gift to be even a small part of these kids’ lives. She feels so lucky to have this opportunity.
Trai says that Point Performing Arts has one goal and that is to bring children of all types together. They have recreational, competition and special needs children and adults that dance has brought together. Her students accept each other as dancers and are friends. Trai is really proud of how they greet and help each other.
Point Performing Arts has highly trained instructors at all levels. They believe in teaching proper dance technique from the very beginning. Trai ensures her students receive top notch training in a variety of style of dance by hiring instructors based on their dancing and instructional abilities. Point Performing Arts also offers Voice, Piano and Acting lessons. Their staff trains dancers who wish to attend an amazing dance program at an accredited four year university. Their job is to position dancers for this goal even if it is so far on the horizon sees it yet. They believe that all dancers benefit from an environment of high expectations and structure that comes from our goal oriented program. Dancers are evaluated annually to empower parents to make decisions about proper program placement for their children.
They have also created a perfect blend of technique which focuses on personal development and challenges our dancers. Their youngest dancers have a fabulous time in class with their teachers. At the same time they are learning an incredible amount of terminology and technique without even realizing it.
Trai believes that professionally managed dance studios are rare. Point Performing Arts strive to create an environment where their teachers can focus on teaching and skip routine administrative task. That is why they are proud of the many innovations they have adopted to make their students’ and their family’s dance experience positive. Point Performing Arts offers personal attention and well maintained facilities to a simple, streamlined registration process. Point Performing Arts is on the cutting edge of dance management technology.
If you would like more information about Point Performing Arts, visit their website at pointperformingarts.com, call them at 417-885-8010 or email them at trai@pointperformingarts.com. You can also “Like” them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.
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