Build Your
Training
Formula.
Four interconnected programs designed to condition, challenge, and elevate every advanced dancer - ages 6 to 18. This is the summer you get intentional.
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Movement is movement.
The body doesn't care what genre you call it.
We often hear dancers say "I'm a hip hop dancer" or "I'm a contemporary dancer." That identity matters — but when you train only in one lane, you build in only one direction.
When you train across disciplines, you develop a physical intelligence that shows up everywhere — in the way you hold your body, the way you respond to music, the way you connect artistry to technique.
This summer, we've built every program so that every advanced dancer — regardless of their primary style — has a clear entry point into broader movement comprehension.
Versatility is a superpower. And this summer, we're building it intentionally.
The Summer Programs
Four pathways. Your training formula.Summer Skills Lab Series
Weekly sessions built to condition the body, expand movement range, and introduce styles that are current, exciting, and genuinely challenging. Two classes each session — one cross-training, one commercial styles and advanced progressions.
- Cross-training and conditioning across every style
- Hip Hop, Street Jazz, Commercial Contemporary Fusion and more
- Vancouver's top dance contributors leading the sessions
Summer Technique Intensive
A focused week of technical training across Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, Jazz, and Hip Hop Fundamentals — plus the history, artistry, and creative context that give each genre its voice. Not just drilling steps — understanding why we move the way we move.
- Company & Performance — Full days across all styles
- Crew, Performance & Tap — Program-specific sessions deepening genre connection
- STARS! — Half-day with optional full-day upgrade available
Creative Process Week
This is where the creative season begins. We used to call this "choreo week" — but that never captured what actually happens here. Choreography doesn't get finished in a week. What does happen is the creative groundwork gets laid: concepts, movement vocabulary, and artistic direction for everything developed throughout the year.
Aerial Silks Intensive
A dedicated program for dancers moving into our aerial and acro track in the 26/27 season. Dedicated warm up, conditioning and flexibility exercises to build repertoire of aerial silks skills, positions and transitions building towards skill sequencing and routine building.
- Building stamina, lengthening time under tension and in the air
- Building grip strength and training to hold skills and positions longer
- Training shoulder stability and handstands for in-air inversions
- Core strength for static holds and integration with movement for in-air inversions
- Intro to aerial hoop & trapeze
Dancers with advanced movement experience - learn aerial silks terminology, safety and gain the prerequisites! 1hr Fundamentals Bootcamp schedule coming soon.
Strategic, thoughtful, intentional training.
These programs aren't random offerings. They're sequenced so that every dancer — regardless of their program — has a clear pathway into broader movement comprehension. Together, they compound.
Physical intelligence
Cross-training builds body awareness that no single-style training can create. Strength and coordination built in one genre becomes available across all of them.
Artistic depth
Understanding the history behind each genre transforms technique into expression. Dancers who know the roots of a style move inside it — not just through it.
The compound effect
The Skills Lab builds range. The Intensive deepens it. Creative Process Week channels it into the season. The formula creates results a year from now.
Four programs.
One direction.
This summer is about being strategic about your training — not just taking a class here and there, but building a formula that takes you or your dancer to the next stage in their journey.
Rest matters too. Your body needs it. Just not for three months straight.
SUMMER SKILLS LAB
Ages 14+
Wednesdays & Thursdays | 6:30pm-8:30pm
Ideal for dancers in or entering Teen & Senior Company, Senior Performance and Live, Luxe & Lucid Crew
JUNE | 10 & 11, 17 & 18, 24 & 25
Ages 6-9
Wednesdays & Thursdays | 5:00pm-6:30pm
Ideal for dancers in or entering Stars!, ISTD Ballet, Twirl Trio Academy (Year 2), and Lil’ Crew
Ages 10-13
Wednesdays & Thursdays | 6:30pm-8:30pm
Ideal for dancers in or entering Junior Performance, Mini, Junior & Intermediate Company, and Legacy Crew