Montclair Academy of Dance and Laboratory of Music and Drama
Montclair’s Hub for creative and innovative dance, drama, drumming and film
Registering now for 2025/2026!
Registering now for 2025/2026!
Discover creativity and self-expression
Develop critical thinking and technique
Demonstrate talent and confidence
for ages 3 - 18 and above
ballet, modern dance • choreography • acting, drama, improvisation
African drumming • poetry, play writing • video • film
We follow Howard Gardner’s theory of “Multiple Intelligence”, “Everyone Has a Gift”, and the collaborative Music, Physical theater and Dance works and productions of Reggie Workman and Maya Milenovic.
“Music is the healing force
of the universe.”
— Albert Ayler
Our Classes
Dance
choreography • improvisation • modern • ballet
Drama
acting • playwriting • film
Drumming
African drumming • dkembe • dundun
Documentary
coming 2025
“The process of finding the origin of images and ideas in any of the different areas of arts acquires new meaning!”
As a collaborative team, Reggie Workman and Maya Milenovic, the “co-founding heart of MaDLOM”, have been creating works since 1985, including: “H.P.Madame’s Portrait, “Abstractions”, “Come & Go”, “Dos Worlds”, “Ophelia’s Ocean”, “Pulling”, lectures, and discussions about jazz, movement, theater, and contemporary arts, as well as improvisation. For their creative collaborations, they have received a Guggenheim fellowship.
“I have been a lifelong Madlom member. Aside from instilling a love for music in me, Madlom has made me a more confident, kind, and caring person. I know to take those traits (and drumming) with me where I go.”
— Grant Burroughs
Madlom student since the age of 5