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If you have been in dilemma about where to send your child this summer – a camp or to give in to her pleas of learning jazz; the American Dance Training Camp answers your question with its two-in-one solution of summer dance camps for kids. This is a summer camp where kids learn how to dance about the core dancing styles – hip hop, jazz, Broadway, ballet, and contemporary. And the best part about this place is that one does not have to worry about how much dance your kid knows, because there is a place for everyone to fit in.

Attending ADTC’s jazz classes is a dream for many children at their overnight summer dance camps. Kids of age group 8-17 can attend this overnight dance camp and learn new moves every week. Jazz has been a dance form that has forever been used to define the ever changing popular culture and the creative flow of movements. Thus, with change of culture each time, jazz dancing has got a new face and a new representation. ADTC tries to bring it all together to give your child the best – right from the 1920s social dances, to the Bob Fosse Broadway hits and to the more recent modern steps of Alvin Ailey.

Basically jazz covers all the traditional techniques of ballet. Movement of the arms, head, ribcage, shoulder, and feet are synchronized with popular music to represent a dance form. Thus while jazz beginners focus on basic dance steps; the more experienced ones concentrate on musical awareness of rhythm and expression of the entity. In both situations – your child will find an advantage. If she is a beginner, she will absorb it all with eager eyes and open mind to dance to the music. And if she has basic jazz training, she can learn how to perfect the art from the professional masters present in the ADTC camps. That spares a parent the worry of feeling that his child may feel left out or alone. ADTC is not only a dance camp for kids, it is also a great place to make new friends. After all when fresh air, great ambience, fabulous food and soul lifting dance combine, how can one remain aloof from the rest!

With famous guides like Adriana Falcon, Charlotte Asplin, Jessica Chen, Michelle Vaughn and many others you could enroll your kid for the overnight camp or specifically for the jazz dance camp where the focus is only on one dance style. Campers take four classes per day and finish their camp with having learnt something new about the world of jazz.