Cultural Arts District

HistoryCreation Arts & Athletics was founded in 2010 as a husband and wife venture to combine their talents of teaching dance and gymnastics in a ministry setting. Christy Coble-Baker has been dancing, teaching, and choreographing most of her life, and is also a veteran personal training and group fitness instructor. She is the Artistic Director and Dance Director. Nick Baker is a native Charlottean. He was an elite level gymnast who attended and graduated from the University of Illinois on a full gymnastics scholarship. He was also a mens team coach at the same university. Nick is the founder and former owner of Charlotte Gymnastics Academy, which he sold in 2010, to help build Creation Arts & Athletics with his wife. He is the Gymnastics Director and Coach. We are centrally located in South Charlotte, close to I-77 and I-485, off of Westinghouse Boulevard.SpecialtiesCreation Arts & Athletics is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit ministry offering professional dance instruction along with recreational and competitive gymnastics for boys and girls, summer camps, gymnastics birthday parties, parents night out, and more! Our dance and gymnastics programs at Creation Arts & Athletics are discipleship/mentoring programs which are the heart and soul of our ministry efforts. Our gymnastics classes are taught by an elite-level coach and offer an 8:1 student-to-coach ratio for more individualized attention, one class at a time. For more information regarding our dance program and our pre-professional dance company, Psalm 150, please visit our website. We look forward to meeting you!