Summer intensive dance?
Hi, The nature of an intensive depends a lot on which school at which you plan to take the intensive. The length can range from one week to six weeks, with classes every day for about 4-9 hours. It's difficult to be more specific if I don't know where you intend to take your intensive and when. If you're serious about getting better at ballet, don't worry about being in a class with 10-year-olds. At your age, they may place you in the class with the girls your age. They will be much more advanced than you seeing as they have probably been taking class for many years. Either way, class will not be exactly comfortable, and it's a sacrifice you have to make if you want to get better. Intensives can be expensive at a good school. Tuition alone for a one-week program is usually around $250. If you're going to board, which you probably will, that costs about $350 as well. So you're looking at about $600 total. What you will be doing in an intensive ballet program is fairly universal. You will start out with warm-ups and a few technique classes. Then you will most likely move on to a partner class. Then, depending on the type of intensive, you will either take other styles of dance classes (such as modern, jazz, ballroom, etc.), or move straight to variations. Variations are very difficult solos that are usually performed in a showcase at the end. They are trying and physically draining, and require concentration, skill, diligence, practice, and a lot of willpower. At the end of the program you usually have a short showcase where your parents and guests can see a bit of choreography, perhaps variations, that you have been working on throughout the week. Good luck and hope that helped. Keep dancing!♥
Dance Summer intensives ?
okay...i don't know which camp i should go to...the first one is called blue lake fine arts camp. they offer many different arts. they have a major (required) and a minor (optional) i would do my major in dance (ballet) and if i decide to do a minor i would like to do health and fitness (i would do contemporary dance but they wont let dance majors minor in contemporary dance =[ ) i also like that this is in the woods and like a regular sleep away camp but i can still dance there. this does not require an audition. they offer pointe and pre-pointe. oh yeah and there is a kinda ugly uniform you have to wear. tuition- 1,025 the second one is cecchetti. this one s just a dance camp. we will have time to see the town it is in and get to leave the campus when we are on break. there is a fitness center near by that we have access to (has a track, pool, weight room, ect.) this one offers pointe to level B C and D i would probly be in level A but im not positive. you must send in pictures to be exepted to this camp. tuition-1,200 here are the links to the websites- http://www.bluelake.org/program_major_da... http://www.cecchetti.org/main.php?smPID=... which one do you reccomend for me to go to and also if you know of any other dance summer intensives w/ housing please let me know thanks!
What some really good summer dance intensives?
I only know about ballet intensives, so I'll just list a few of those: -Ballet Chicago -School of American Ballet (feeds into NYCB) -Boston Ballet -San Francisco Ballet -Pacific Northwest Ballet -American Ballet Theater -North Carolina School of the Arts All require auditions, some require applications, some require photos.
Best Dance Summer Intensives/Programs?
I highly recommend Point Park University's International Summer Dance program: http://www.pointpark.edu/Academics/Schoo... They're located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and specialize in a triple-emphasis program in ballet, jazz and modern. Tap is also offered as part of the program. The dance majors at Point Park are able to do the summer intensive for credit, so the level of instruction is quite high. Because the program is run using their own facilities, the tuition and housing costs are quite reasonable.
Ballet Summer Intensives?
Okay well CPYB has a very good program, 3 of my friends went there, they loved it and they improved a lot. For the others I can only tell you about Boston, SAB, ABT, and NCDT. Well for Boston I heard is a great program, I am going to audition for it next year as well, my friends have been and they loved it. SAB, your very very lucky if you make it past the audition. I knew a girl at the Atlanta Ballet intensive, which I went to this past summer and she said that the people there pick two people to watch the entire audition and hardly anyone gets in if the audition is a really big group. ABT, I haven't heard too much about but yes, the NYC is much harder to get into. My friend from UNCSA's summer program went there this summer and she is one of the best dancers I know. NCDT I auditioned for this past summer and the audition was really hard but I still got in, i just decided to go to Atlanta instead. My friend went and she really enjoyed, the only thing is you take a bus to and from the studios every day, you have to wait for it in the heat which is really the only thing people complained about there. I would also recommend you audition for Atlanta Ballet or University of North Carolina School of the Arts. I've been to both and I loved both of them and learned a lot. In Atlanta the dorms are great (you have your own bedroom[separate from your roommate], kitchen and bathroom. you walk to and from the studios and the teachers are great. I loved this program so much. UNCSA I went for two summers and they were really good. Everything is right there on campus. To get to the studios you only have to walk to the building across the way. The dining has really good food(not exactly good for you but it tastes really good) and I really liked the teachers and learned alot. The dorms there aren't as good as in Atlanta though. It is just one room with two beds, two desks, closets and a sink. Also, NCDT's rooms are like Atlanta's. Anyways, I hope that helped, good luck!
What are some good summer dance intensives for beginners?
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Where and what is the best ballet summer intensive camp?
It really is hard to say which is the best ballet summer intensive, as there are so many excellent ones. However, I think perhaps the two most elite and exclusive programs might be: the Ballet Program at the School at Jacob's Pillow (for 22 professional-level and advanced ballet dancers) http://www.jacobspillow.org/school/schoo... and Ethan Stiefel's Steifel & Stars program (15 advanced ballet students) http://www.stiefelandstars.com/stiefelan... They are also located in two lovely locations: the Berkshire hills and Martha's Vineyard, respectively. It's too late to be thinking about the best ballet summer intensives now, however, as the audition season for all the best programs runs from January through March. Audition schedules are published in the January edition of dance magazines.
What ballet summer intensives are best?
I just finished ABT's 5 week summer intensive in NYC. For ABT I wouldn't recommend going until you're 15 or 16: the levels are done completely by age and they favor the JKO kids soooooo much. The levels go (from lowest to highest): red, yellow, blue, green, violet, aqua, indigo. The 12-13 year olds are usually in red but while there are some 13 year olds in yellow and blue the 12 year olds are always in red. The rest of the ages really just falls into category if you can guess (red,12-13. Yellow, 13-14. Blue, 13-16. Green, 14-16. Violet, 15-17. Aqua, 15-19. Indigo, 16-21.). Once you're at least 13 as you can tell it just has to do on how good you are. SAB is THE top program everyone wants to get into (there were a lot of people that were at ABT that didnt get into SAB and friends of mine that got kicked out of SAB that are now at JKO... I go to SAB year round and it is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! I love it so much! PNB is also really good and that was one of the SI's that wad on my list. Chautauqua Institute of Dance is one that everybody loves and one I get into every year but never end up going (I think I'll go next year.) they only accept like 20 kids to Chautauqua which is a little gated community in upstate NY with great teachers like Daniel Ulbricht from NYCB. SFB is also really good but like ABT and PNB they do the levels mostly by age. Miami City Ballet is also good but not until you're older, like 16. Hope this helped!!! SAB all the way!!!!!