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!