Est. 2016
Paradise Performing Arts Center is Hilo’s local rental facility for dance, theater, music, and cultural events.
Located in the heart of downtown Hilo, PPAC provides a professional, spacious studio with sprung floors, mirrors, sound system, and flexible seating options. Our mission is to support the performing arts community by offering an affordable and inspiring space for rehearsals, workshops, and performances.
Whether you’re a teacher, choreographer, musician, or community organizer, PPAC is here to provide the space you need to create and share.
As the director/owner of Paradise Performing Arts Center, Nadia Schlosser hopes to inspire and foster an appreciation for the arts while giving back to the community she loves so much. She started studying ballet and tap at the age of two, and has been dancing ever since! She studied intensively for fifteen years as a dedicated student of The Performing Arts Center in Van Nuys, CA training in singing, acting and the dance styles of ballet, pointe, jazz, modern, tap, contemporary and hip hop.
She attended Cal Arts as a Dance major in 1997 and obtained a three year certificate in Entertainment Studies: Film, Television and Digital Media from UCLA Extension. She has worked on various films, awards shows, and television shows including “Legally Blonde, “ “Friends,” “The Ellen Show,” “Will and Grace,” “Ally McBeal,” “That 70s Show,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “American Idol,” “The American Music Awards,” "Thalians Ball" with Debbie Reynolds & Shirley MacLaine, and “The Soul Train Music Awards.”