On Stage Kids 'N Dance 'N Theater Arts

On Stage Kids 'N Dance 'N Theater Arts offers daily blocking, choreography, musical rehearsal, and show-related crafts, along with activities such as board games, air hockey, art, and group games. Campers take part in Aerial Gym Room fun, outdoor playtime on a Ball Pit Play-Structure, and field trips that may include mini-golf, bowling, and swimming. The program also includes circus arts such as aerial silks, trapeze, juggling, acrobatics, gymnastics, hip-hop dance, needle felting, stop-motion claymation, recycled art, show-themed crafts, relays, improv, dance, musical theater, and free time in an Aerial Gym Room and Game Lounge.

• Ages: 4–16 years old
• Schedule: Camps run in 1-week, 3-week, 5-day, or 4-day sessions at 7 hours per day, with options including Little Theater Camps (1 week), Dance Camp (4 days), Youth Musical Theater (1 week), Youth Improv (5 days or 4 days), and a 3-week Summer Arts Camp – Theater and more; extended care is available 8:30–9:00am and 4:00–5:30pm.
• Price: Little Theater Camps $445; Dance Camp $356; Youth Musical Theater $445; Youth Improv $445 (5 days) or $356 (4 days); Summer Arts Camp – Theater and more $1246–$1335 for 3-week sessions; extended care $7 (8:30–9:00am) and $14 per hour (4:00–5:30pm).

Kids 'N Dance was established in Lafayette in 1996 and expanded to Kids ‘N Dance ‘N Theater Arts four years later. Kris Mueller’s vision is to inspire students, and the instructors, curriculum, and approach to teaching aim to create experiences that capture creativity and allow it to blossom. The program states that it is as equally committed to building self-esteem as to methods to enhance self-expression through dance, musical theater, and circus arts, and describes itself as a performing arts center that grows with children through non-competitive, well-structured, and appropriately rigorous instruction, with high-caliber theater shows and most musical theater and dance shows offering reserved seating. Each Summer Arts Camp session ends with a stage performance with full scenery, professional lighting, costumes, props, and individual microphones, and other final shows also include full scenery, costumes, props, professional stage lights, and individual microphones, with no requirement for campers to read fluently or have every line memorized because directors guide them every step of the way.

The program notes that one snack is provided for campers, all campers must be potty trained and self-sufficient in restrooms, there is no class on 6/19 for the 6/1–6/19 camp, there is no class on 7/3 for the 6/22–7/10 camp, and families are asked to register for extended care two weeks before camp. The Summer Arts Camp – Theater and more has a rotating weekly focus that may include circus arts, musical theater, and hip-hop dance, and some camps are described as a more intensive experience with a higher level of commitment, though no prior experience is required. The organization states that it brings programming to the greater Bay Area.

Parent comments include that a child’s 5th birthday party there was led by a teacher who remembered all the girls’ names, included a younger sibling who was almost three, and ended with time in the acrobatics room, and that the children were “beaming from ear to ear” and wanted more parties there. Other parents describe the instruction as high quality musical theater without a pressured or intense schedule, and say that teachers are strong dancers who care about the children and want the experience to be meaningful.

Last updated March 19, 2026.