Boston Youth Moves (BYM) is a pre-professional dance training program for teens from the Greater Boston Area. Though students receive ample professional performance opportunities, the program is not driven by recitals or competition. Emphasis is placed on the variety and quality of dance training with a highly-respected faculty. The aim of the program is to enhance the student's development in a career as a dancer, or in a dance- or arts-related field.
BYM is a non-profit organization with a Board of Directors that actively fundraises scholarship subsidies in order to offset the tuition cost of all full-time students. To accept this subsidy, students must agree to abide by the attendance rules and other regulations of the program. Assuming sufficient space in each level, all auditioning students are admitted to the program. The audition consists of a ballet barre and a modern/jazz combination.