Covid 19 Precautions
Student Precautions
- Dancers placed 6 feet apart
- Small Class Sizes (10-15 Students Only)
- No parents/friends in the building
- Masks MUST be worn on entry
- Temperature checked on entry
- Only Studio will be accessible; all other rooms closed
Studio Precautions
Filtering air contaminants to a level of 0.3 microns
- Air Purification
- HEPA Filtration
- Active Carbonization
- Ionization
- TiO2 Photocatalytic Filteration
- Ozone Oxidation
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About XPY
X-Press Yourself embraces the everyday experiences of our urban students to promote essential life skills by utilizing creative and performing arts as a positive outlet and means of expression.
Virtual Classes
In order to keep our students active and engaged, we have developed virtual classes. We are bringing our sessions into your home.
“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
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XPY Competition Team
Our Competition and Performance Group is about learning and growing together as dancers and individuals. Throughout the season, we’ll strive for an environment that demands discipline, creativity, personal expression, and above all, fun! Our Competition Team places emphasis on TEAM and therefore, we work together, learn together, laugh together, and grow up dancing together. This group is composed of dancers who have been hand-selected through a rigorous audition process. They serve as our representatives not only in talent and skill but in character as well.
Give to XPY
Partial Monthly: $30 per month
Full Monthly: $60 per month
Partial Season: $300 yearly
Full Season: $600 yearly
We along with various cohosting studios, have a Winter and Summer dance intensives called Dancers Don’t Take Breaks. Both are designed with the intent to bring dancers together from all over the city to train during their breaks. We believe that dancer don’t only learn to be better performers from their instructors, but there’s much to be learned from being exposed to other dancers.
Training groups are broken up into
Jr.s.: Ages 7-11
Sr.s.: Ages 12 and up
Declaration Statement
We are not perfect people, but hey, who is?
We will stand by our hearts and will not fall down.
We will say to ourselves “I am amazing no matter what others might say or think.”
We have made all of our haters our motivators and pushed harder to do our best.
We stay optimistic through all of our imperfections and
Yes, we do not always succeed however, we strive to get past our limits and press toward success.
Our character will reflect responsibility, citizenship, trustworthiness, respect and fairness that will be recognized wherever we go.
We are representatives of the art of expression. We are X-Press Yourself!
– Anajah Fisher, 2015,
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. […] Dance when you’re perfectly free.”
Meet Our CEO
At 4 years old Fayette’s mother enrolled her into Settlement Music School’s Dance Program. After a year at Settlement, she was transferred to South Philadelphia Dance Center, which later became Progressive Center for Dance (PCD) and now known as Ms. Carol’s Center for Dance where she continued her dance training into adulthood. She has trained under the late Carol C. Davis, Rodney “Itola” Byrd, Shawn-Lamere, Milton Myers, Deborah Chase, Patricia Thomas, Patrica Scott Hobbs, Deborah Manning, Hope Boykin, Christopher Huggins, Desmond Richardson, Bernard Gaddis and a host of other instructors.
Fayette Coppock
Founder & C.E.O.
At 18 years old, Fayette joined Greater Exodus Baptist church and in 2001, although she had reservations, God said that it was time for Fayette to take over the dance ministry. The ministry has grown to include over 50 members ages 4-adults. In the summer of 2007 she developed the X-Press Yourself Creative and Performing Arts Program for children ages 6-16, which was housed in the People for People building. In 2011 she reconnected with her longtime friend, Christian Winters and together they launched The Feltonville Dream Center’s Arts and Education After-School Program.
“If you hit a wall, climb over it, crawl under it, or dance on top of it.”
