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Summer Dance Experience 2025: July 7-25, 2025

The º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø University Department of Dance is delighted to present its 2025 Summer Dance Experience. Residential and commuter options are available for dancers who have a minimum of four years of ballet training (pointe is not necessary) and who will be at least 12 years old and no older than 23 years old by the time classes begin. Come dance in an environment designed to spark curiosity, grace, confidence, and bravery in your dancing while also fostering nimble habits of mind—we'd love to spend the summer with you!

Quality Education: Our summer program provides dance education with a solid foundation in ballet, kinesthetically sound practices, artistic exploration, and intellectual growth through both seminars and physical practice.
Valuable Introduction: We provide a safe environment where students can immerse themselves in a university setting while experiencing a diverse range of dance genres and styles.
Artistic Growth and Musicality: We encourage dancers to explore and hone all aspects of their craft by providing movement classes in collaboration with experienced musicians, and we hope they will be proud of how much they have grown when they return to their year-round training program.
Personalized Attention: We prefer to keep class sizes small, so the dancers receive individualized attention, which helps foster agency as students take ownership of their progress.
Experienced Faculty: We bring dance artists with broad perspectives to work with the students. º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø dance faculty and alumni, as well as locally, regionally, and nationally recognized dance educators, share their experiences in the field as dancers, teachers, choreographers, administrators, and scholars.

Sample Schedule

9 to 10 a.m. — Pilates/Yoga/Dance Prehab
10:15 a.m. to noon — Ballet Technique
12:15 to 1:15 p.m. — Lunch
1:30 to 3 p.m. — Pointe/Variations/Repertoire
3:15 to 4:45 p.m. — Contemporary/Modern/Jazz/Choreography
5 to 6 p.m. — Dinner
6 to 7 p.m. — Seminar: Artist Talk, College/Company, Nutrition for Dancers, Dance/Film, etc.

2025 Summer Dance Experience guest faculty will be announced soon!

Pricing

Tuition (1 week): $475, $575 after May 12
Tuition (2 weeks): $875, $975 after May 12
Tuition (3 weeks): $1275, $1375 after May 12
Chaperone fee (for students under 18 years of age at the time of the program, whether residential or commuter): $50 per week.
Housing in Warde Hall: $100 plus $25 cleaning fee per week

Meal Plan

Grotto Commons, the university's main dining hall, will be open during the Summer Dance Experience. It is an all-you-can-eat buffet-style dining hall with various options, including an allergen-free station. Students can pay in advance for a five-day meal plan or pay per meal on-site with a credit card.

Individual meals are priced as follows:

• Breakfast: $6.75
• Brunch/Lunch: $8.75
• Dinner: $10.75

A meal plan is $125.00, which includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Meal plans must be paid for with a check, made out to º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø University Summer Dance Experience, and either sent with your student upon arrival or mailed in advance to:

º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø University
Attn: Jennifer McNamara, Department of Dance
501 E. 38th St.
Erie, PA 16546

In addition, we will go grocery shopping on Monday nights, so students can stock up on snacks and small meals that can be made in the shared dormitory kitchen.

Additional Information

Sunday Suppers for all students.
Weekend trips to Presque Isle State Park, Wintergreen Gorge, and other outings in Erie.