Serving up summer tennis

Dust off those rackets and get ready for Tennis in the Parks as part of City Parks Foundation’s Summer Sports program. From now to Aug. 14 the city’s youngsters will get the opportunity to get tennis lessons from the pros.

The program is suitable for children 6 to 16 years old and offers lessons at all skill levels, tournaments, and leagues.

All classes are free, and registration is required online at: www.cityparksfoundation.org/2015-summer.

Here are the Manhattan locations:

Inwood Hill Park (207th Street and Seaman Avenue), Mondays and Wednesdays, 9 am – noon.

Riverside Park (Riverside Drive and W. 119th Street), Mondays and Wednesdays, 9 am – noon

Central Park Tennis Center (93rd Street and West Drive), Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 am to noon

East River Park (Montgomery Street and E. 12th Street), Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 am – noon.

The Ailey School – First Steps and Bounding Boys

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The School at the Mark Morris Dance Center

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" data-sheets-value="{" data-sheets-userformat="{">The School at the Mark Morris Dance Center offers year-round, community-based dance and music programming in a fully inclusive and nurturing environment, located in the heart of the Brooklyn Cultural District. The School&rsquo;s diverse and professional faculty provides progressive and non-competitive instruction with all of our classes accompanied by live music. Though we are a non-recital school, there are opportunities for students to perform and for parents to see their dancers in action.</span></p>