Reach for the Barres Dance Camps

Reach For The Barres Dance Camps offers summer dance camps, dance parties, and a Camp Counselor and Counselor in Training (CIT) program that include dance, arts + crafts, group games, friendship-building exercises, kid-friendly movies, and script/acting/rehearsal. Campers take part in ballet, tap, hip hop, jazz, choreography, dance games, and creating stories, characters, and sets that lead up to an end-of-the-week show where parents are invited to a special showing on the last day of camp. The program includes Pirouette + Play Dance Parties, Mini Sparklers Preschool + Kinder Camps, Little Stars Reach For The Barres camp, Primary Performance Camps, Tween + Teen Premier Performance Camps, and a 2025 CIT Summer Camp Workshop.

• Ages: 2–14 years old
• Schedule: Dance Camp at Reach For The Barres offers 3-day and weekly options; Pirouette + Play Dance Parties (ages 3–5) are 2-hour parties on Saturdays from 9:30–11:30 AM; Mini Sparklers Preschool + Kinder Camps (ages 3–6) run as 5-day camps with 3-hour days; Little Stars Reach For The Barres (ages 2.5–3.5) runs as a 3-day camp with 45-minute days; Primary Performance Camps (1st–4th grade) and Tween/Teen Premier Performance Camps (5th–8th grade) each run as 5-day camps with 6-hour days; the 2025 CIT Summer Camp Workshop is a 1.25-hour session on Sunday, May 11th from 2:00–3:15 PM.

Reach For The Barres is described as a Premier Recreational Dance Studio with a small town feel and was founded in 2015. The studio’s mission states that it believes dance is a joyful part of childhood and that its mission is to nurture confidence, creativity, and connection in every child by offering premier dance education in a welcoming, specialized environment. The mission further states that classes are rooted in expert, age-appropriate training and joyful, imaginative learning, and that the program offers an alternative to traditional dance studios with an innovative and conceptual approach to dance education. The program is based upon multiple-class lessons, runs its main season like a 9-month academic calendar with 34 weeks in the season, guarantees students enrolled in September a spot in class for the entire 34 weeks, offers over 100 dance classes, and has over 600 dancers enrolled. The program also includes a Summer Camp Mentorship Program with Camp Counselor roles for ages 14+ and Counselor in Training (CIT) roles for ages 11–13, and requires the CIT Summer Camp Workshop for incoming CITs.

Last updated June 16, 2026.