Looking for a fun and enriching way to boost your child’s confidence and creativity this summer? Kids dance camps offer the perfect blend of physical activity, artistic expression, and social interaction—all essential for a child’s growth and development.
Jane Franklin Dance Summer Camps provide a unique space where kids can explore movement, develop coordination, and build confidence in a supportive, team-oriented environment. Dance not only improves physical skills like balance, flexibility, and strength but also enhances social and emotional development. Through creative storytelling, choreography, and themed activities like “Dance in Places” and “The Big Meow,” campers learn problem-solving, teamwork, and self-expression in a way that feels like play. Plus, with outdoor breaks, visual arts projects, and engaging movement games, kids stay active, creative, and engaged all summer long.
Whether your child loves to move or wants to discover a new passion, these dance camps for kids offer a fantastic way to nurture their creativity while making lasting friendships.
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Why Choose Kids Dance Camps This Summer?
Young people benefit from regular and ongoing practice in the arts, a safe place to cooperatively interact and communicate. Jane Franklin Dance contributes by providing activities that promote collaborative interaction, creative problem solving, development of physical skills and positive experiences. Movement education enhances abilities to succeed in cooperative activities that create a sense of belonging and interdependency.
Jane Franklin Dance Summer Camps are a great way for the active learner to have fun with hip hop and dance from freestyle improvised routines to fundamental steps and creative movements. Each day the offerings include movement fundamentals, visual arts and crafts, theme based activities, outdoor time for snack and lunch, movement and theater games.
What to Expect at Jane Franklin Dance Camps
Dance in Places and The Big Meow helps children develop confidence, coordination, and creativity. Increase physical skills by practicing movement with a partner or in a small group made of other class members who share the same goals. Move for fun, to tell your story, and to express your ideas.
In Move & Groove learners develop physical skills, find success, and channel energy in a healthy way that nurtures creativity and positive interaction.
In “Dance in Places” students explore contemporary movement while creating a dance for a specific place in Jennie Dean Park. Whether the group explores the baseball dugout, the risers, or the “Wheelhouse” sculpture, movers delve into hip hop, and develop skills in choreography.
In The Big Meow students are inspired by the story of a Little Cat who has a really big meow. You’ll discover a story about how Little Cat’s seeming weakness is also a unique strength. This camp makes room for everyone to explore their own inner cat, the creative presence deep inside waiting to emerge and leap out through expressive movement and theater. The picture book, written by Baltimore author Elizabeth Spires, is an inspired narrative and the story is transformed from the page to real life action. Campers work throughout the week to perform for friends and family at a concluding sharing on Friday.
More Than Just Dance: A Creative and Engaging Experience
All of our dance camps for kids incorporate a healthy amount of outdoor activity during snack and lunch breaks. Campers also enjoy time for a visual art or craft project that aids students in the understanding of the movement fundamentals. These projects explore concepts such as relationship, connection, sequence, foreground, background, and unison.
The students are given the freedom to express their ideas via another art form and are supplied with the materials to be successful. Exploration includes an array of movement styles. Hip-hop combines a variety of freestyle movements. Experiment and find fun through exploring popping, locking, and breaking. If you like to move, you’ll find a lot to like in one of the most popular and influential styles of dance: hip hop!
Other JFD Camp themes include the mysterious fun of UFO No!, Splash connecting movement and colors, Rainforest Craft & Create inspired by the animals, plants, and climate of the tropical rainforests. Find out more at https://janefranklin.com/summer-camp
The Power of Movement: How Kids Dance Camps Build Confidence
Jane Franklin Dance is a professional dance company based in Arlington, Virginia, serving the Arlington and Alexandria communities; and offering a range of programs that include performances for children, dance education, and collaborations with visual artists. They are also involved in community outreach, providing ongoing programs for older adults and free healthy movement workshops at senior centers.
Jane Franklin Dance is committed to making dance accessible to a wide audience through public performances, community engagement, and educational initiatives. They welcome involvement from artists, educators, administrators, and volunteers interested in contributing to their mission.
