

Explore Coastal Dance Centre’s Exciting Summer Intensive Options!
The Coastal Dance Centre Summer Intensive Program is for students, ages 9 -17 years.
Coastal Dance Centre’s Intensive offerings include:
The Summer Intensive Program is also a pathway to prepare new students who wish to join the 2023-2024 Coastal Dance Centre’s Conservatory Program.
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What is a Summer Intensive?The idea behind a summer dance intensive is to provide a rigorous period of dance training typically held as a multi-week program during the summer months. The dancer will spend days immersed in dance, receiving instruction, corrections, and valuable feedback from the teachers, gaining strength, and training alongside other dancers.
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How do summer dance intensive benefit dancers?Summer training is an exciting and crucial part of any serious dancer’s progress. Attending summer dance intensive allows students to hone their skills as a dancer. Students will gain physical strength, flexibility and muscle memory while improving their technique, artistic potential, and performance skills. Students will be working very hard, all day, every day! Strength, flexibility, and technique improve in a very short period of time.
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Summer dance intensives is about growth.It is not just the quality of instruction that makes a summer dance intensive so beneficial for students. The structure and time spent in rigorous training also leads to growth. Summer dance intensive students are immersed in dance nearly full time, attending several classes per day. Taking advantage of the whole summer of intensives could result in a year’s worth of progress in a dancer’s technique and artistry! Think it sounds rigorous? Indeed, it is!
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Performance opportunity at the end of the IntensivesA student who attends the entire summer intensive weeks will also have a performance opportunity at the end of the intensives. Performing in and observing other dancers in an instructional setting helps expand a dancer’s knowledge and understanding of dance, and hopefully, will inspire the dancers to set goals for their future in dance. It is for these reasons and more that the summer dance intensive has become such a valuable tool in so many serious dancers’ education and training. It is a rite of passage for serious-minded dancers.
The best way, however, to really understand what a summer dance intensive is and how it can benefit the student is to attend and experience one yourself.
For the older students (14 years and up) who attend summer intensives away from home, a dancer will probably also experience some growing up because there is travel and living away from home involved.
A summer dance intensive away from home is many older dancers’ first experience living away from home for an extended period. While our local dancers may commute from home, those who are from another town or state will have to travel and must arrange for accommodations such as Airbnb, or with maybe for some, stay with host families, often for weeks at a time. Students who stay with host families are chaperoned. It is somewhat like being in college, students live semi-independently. These few weeks of relative independence and rigorous study lead to personal growth. For dancers who live and study with other students who are also host families and who are passionate about dance, this opportunity may lead to life-long friendships. And it all happens in just a few weeks’ time!
FAQ's
Students from age 9 years and up are invited to apply and attend the Coastal Dance Centre Summer 2023 Intensives. Students will be placed/assigned according to age, ability, and skill level.
Acceptance into Coastal Dance Centre’s Summer Intensive Program begins with the Application / Audition / Placement Process.
Complete the Audition Application Form.
* Currently enrolled Coastal Dance Centre students will be placed internally by CDC faculty and do not have to audition.
Attend an In-Person Audition:
Sign-up to attend an In-Person Audition Class on Saturday, April 29th or May 13th.
Email us at info@coastaldancecentre.com OR call us at (843) 839 - 5678 to be scheduled.
For students outside the Myrtle Beach area:
Complete the Audition Application Form and submit the requested photos & video as listed in the Audition Application Form
Ladies: Leotard, pink tights, ballet shoes (bring pointe shoes for those studying Pointe). Pointe work may be given during the last 20 minutes of the audition class.
Gentlemen: Appropriate ballet class attire that the dancer will be comfortable in.
Yes, there is an In-Person Audition Fee of $35.00.
Audition videos are also accepted. There is a Video Audition Fee of $35.00
Requirements for auditioning by video:
* Total length: No longer than 10 minutes
* Auditioning dancer should be easily identifiable in the video.
AT THE BARRE
* Plies
* Tendu
* Fondu
* Développé
* Grands battements: each front, side and back
Note: Show one of each in all directions, however both sides of each combination are not necessary, please show combinations on alternate sides), all shot in profile.
IN THE CENTER
* Pirouettes en dedans and en dehors
* Small jumps
* The following steps in one or two combinations:
- Sissone, Glissade, Assemblé, Jeté
Note: All done facing the camera except for those steps which move naturally across the floor.
ACROSS THE FLOOR
Tour jeté
Grand jeté
A waltzing grand allegro
Note: Only very short combinations needed.
Pointe work -
At the barre: rélevès in arabesque on the right foot and then the left (shown in profile).
IN THE CENTER
Échappé combination
Pirouettes
Gentlemen: Please also include: tour en l’air and entrechat; à la seconde turns.
NOTE: Each audition video must be prepared in accordance with Coastal Dance Centre’s specifications and submitted with a non-refundable $35 video audition fee. Videos will not be reviewed without submission of payment.
Questions regarding instructions for auditioning by means of video, please call us at (843) 839-5678.
All applicants will be notified of their acceptance results via email approximately one week, but no later than two weeks following acceptance of your application.
Level placement will depend on age and technical ability.
Coastal Dance Centre highly encourages that summer students be enrolled for the entire week / two- or three-week program.
Students in the 3-week program will be able to participate in the Summer Showcase. The performance is on Saturday, August 5.
If you have been accepted into the program, please register online through our Parent Portal and the required deposit must be submitted to guarantee your spot. Registrations are accepted on a first come, first served basis.
The non-refundable and non-transferable deposit is due at the time of Registration.
Yes, your non-refundable deposit will count towards the total balance. Credit Card payments over the phone can also be accepted for a deposit. All deposits are non-refundable, no exceptions.
Yes. If you wish to avail of the Payment Plan options.
Tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable. Participants who must withdraw due to injury or illness before the Summer Intensive Program starts will receive a tuition refund minus a 15% administrative fee subject to the receipt of a medical certificate or a doctor’s note. No refunds without a doctor’s note.
Coastal Dance Centre reserves the right to exclude or refuse service to any person at any time prior to or during the Summer Intensive Program, if in the opinion of Coastal Dance Centre’s staff, that person is incompatible with the general enjoyment and well-being of the event. In this instance, no refund will be given.
Currently, we do not have any housing available. Families of out-of-town students are responsible for finding housing accommodations and transportation to and from Coastal Dance Centre will have to find a place to stay during the intensive. Please note that we are not responsible for supervising these students outside of the dance studios.