In-Person

Camp Mode

Mon-Fri

schedule

7 to 17

age

Rising Stars

Beginner/Intermediate

Dance Elites

Advanced (Audition only)

Pathway Dance Stars
Featuring Shen Yun Arts Proficiency Curriculum

Our summer dance programs are designed to enrich your child’s life with artistry thousands of years in the making. Drawing from a lineage established millenia ago, our classical Chinese dance (CCD) system of classes connect your child’s mind and body with an art form distilled through a truly ancient culture.


Featuring curriculum from the Shen Yun Arts Proficiency Assessment Center, we incorporate the most up-to-date and refined system of CCD instructions to our pedagogy, and through a program that packages CCD fundamental training, tumbling, and choreography together, your child will experience classical Chinese dance training in comprehensive fashion.
 
– Mr. Mingye Liu

Stretching and Warm Up:

Improves whole body flexibility through routines that target the major splits, the back, and the feet, allowing the body to perform its best.

Classical Chinese Dance Fundamentals:

Features curriculum produced by Shen Yun Arts Proficiency Assessment Center to systematically instruct students in CCD fundamentals in a way that is easy to understand and impactful.

Tumbling:

Students will learn foundational skills that comprise the array of acroatic flipping skills CCD dancers often use on stage.

Rehearsal:

Students will learn choreography and perform it upon conclusion of the camp, allowing them to experience the artistry of CCD by putting together all of the skills and knowledge learned during camp and presenting it on stage.

program overall schedule

All dance campers will undergo an assessment on the first day of camp. Campers will then be placed into the appropriate level based on skill level. Dance program is subject to change.

Rising Stars Program (Beginning and Intermediate)

July 6 – 24, 2026 Monday to Friday
  • 9:30 AM – 10:10 AM Stretching and warm up
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM Classical Chinese Dance Fundamentals
  • 11:20 AM – 12:00 PM Rehearsal Mon, Wed, Fri / Tumbling Tue, Thur
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Lunch
  • 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Afternoon Activity Camp (Choose one of the following: Smash Champs, SciBite, English Fluency, or Arts & Crafts)
  • 2:40 PM – 3:40 PM Culture and Meditation (optional)
July 27 – 31, 2026 Monday to Friday (Dance Focus Week)
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Stretching and warm up
  • 10:40 AM – 11:40 AM Classical Chinese Dance Fundamentals
  • 11:40 AM – 12:30 PM Lunch and Rest
  • 12:40 PM – 1:40 PM Rehearsal
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM Dance Appreciation Mon, Wed, Fri / Tumbling Tue, Thur
  • 2:50 PM – 3:50 PM Culture and Meditation (optional)
August 1, 2026 (Saturday)
  • 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM Dance Camp Finale Performance
  • 1:00 – 4:00 PM Dance Camp BBQ

Dance Elites Program (Advanced – BY AUDITION ONLY)

July 6 – 31, 2026 Monday to Friday
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Culture and Meditation (optional)
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Lunch
  • 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM Flexibility
  • 1:20 PM – 2:50 PM Classical Chinese Dance Fundamentals
  • 3:00 – 4:00 PM Rehearsal Mon, Wed, Fri / Tumbling Tue, Thur
 
August 1, 2026 (Saturday)
  • 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM Dance Camp Finale Performance
  • 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Dance Camp BBQ

All dance campers will undergo an assessment on the first day of camp. Campers will then be placed into the appropriate level based on skill level. Dance program is subject to change.

+1(845) 288-0636

summer@northernacademy.org

49 Seward Ave. Middletown, NY 10940

Our mission is to nurture students to become well-educated individuals of exemplary moral character. To this end, we provide a rigorous college preparatory and classical arts education steeped in the traditional values of the West and the East.
We are accredited by the Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Institutions of the Middle States Association.