Montclair Academy of Dance and Laboratory of Music and Drama
is a hub for performing arts, drumming, and creative arts production
in Montclair, New Jersey
We offer classes in
dance • choreography • drama • drumming • poetry • playwriting • video • film
for ages 3 through adults
Registering now for 2025/2026!
Registering now for 2025/2026!
We follow Howard Gardner’s theory of “Multiple Intelligences” and that everyone has talent!
“Music is the healing force
of the universe.”
— Albert Ayler
Dance
choreography • improvisation • modern • ballet
The Musical Crusade of Reggie Workman
Documentary
coming 2025
Drama
acting • playwriting • film
Drumming
African drumming • dkembe • dundun
“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”, since 1998, have lately created, “Dos Worlds”, “Ophelia’s Ocean”, “Pulling”, lectures and discussions about jazz, and contemporary arts, improvised dance & theater. For their creatve 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 wherever I go.”
— Grant Burroughs, Madlom student from the age of 5