Introduction
 SOCAPA’s Summer Dance Program is a Jazz and Hip Hop intensive that also features specialty classes in Breakdancing, Lyrical, House, Wacking, and African. Classes are geared towards learning cutting-edge choreography at a professional pace and preparing routines to be featured in live theater performances and in dance videos shot by SOCAPA instructors. This provides students in our Dance Program with a video portfolio featuring a number of their performances in a variety of projects.
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
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--Maya Angelou |
Youth Dance
 SOCAPA’s Youth Dance Programs are for ages 12-14 at our New York City Campus and 11-13 at our Burlington, Vermont Campus at Champlain College. The Youth Dance Program shares the same curriculum as the High School Dance Program, but is a little less intense allowing the students more time for summer fun! Youth dancers will have the opportunity to perform in a professionally filmed dance video and perform for a live audience, like their high school counterparts, but will not be required to create their own choreography project. During the time allotted for the high school dancers’ choreography project, students in the youth program will be hitting the beach or pool for a cool-off swim, getting an ice-cream at the original Ben and Jerry’s ice cream factory, playing a game of capture the flag on the quad and enjoying the other summer-time highlights that Burlington and New York City have to offer!
 Although most classes are geared towards learning choreography for the videos and performances, others will concentrate on improving technique, body conditioning, improvisation, and developing style, stage presence, and confidence. In addition to regularly scheduled classes, there are special guest instructors, make-up and costuming sessions, audition and theater etiquette classes, dance-related field trips, and a headshot session with SOCAPA’s Photography students.
Dancers will perform their video number as well as their original work on stage for a live audience in conjunction with the Acting Program’s monologue/scene presentations. In this way, students gain invaluable experience in both commercial and concert styles of dance and performance.
| Dance is music made visible. |
| --George Balanchine |
Showcase Festival
On the final Friday afternoon of the three-week program, SOCAPA holds its "Showcase Festival" followed by a reception for friends and family. All the acting reels, photography slides, music videos and student films are shown on the giant silver screen. In addition to the projected work, there are live dance performances, actor monologues, and a photography exhibit. We encourage you to invite your fellow collaborators, friends and family. Although we do have a final live performance/film screening of all the two-week work just for the camp, please note that students in the two-week program do not have a final showcase festival for friends and family.
SOCAPA - The Best Choice
 For the aspiring young dancer, SOCAPA is by far the best choice! We’ve had former students go on to study at prestigious dance schools, appear in professional music videos, and even go on tour with a major artist. SOCAPA offers small classes, and an accomplished teaching staff comprised of industry professionals with recent and ongoing experience as performers, educators and choreographers. Drawn from some of the top universities and dance programs, including Alvin Ailey, Broadway Dance Center, NYU and LIU, and having taught and performed all over the world, the instructors at SOCAPA guide the students through the Program with delicacy, energy and skill.
LA Dancers during video shoot on Venice Beach
Summer Dance Program Sample Videos
DANCE PROGRAM LINKS
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