Youth & Teen Dance Classes and Summer Programs
ODC Dance Commons, 351 Shotwell St, San Francisco, CA 94110
About
Youth & Teen Dance Classes and Summer Programs offers weekend dance classes and week-long intensives that include dancing, singing, and playing instruments. Students can take classes and intensives in contemporary, hip-hop, composition and choreography, ballet, and musical theater dance. The program includes Summer Weekend Dance Classes, Summerdance, and Summer Teen Lab, as well as specific weekend classes such as Youth Beginning Ballet, Youth Hip Hop IA, Little Rabbits, Morning Moves, Jr. Contemporary Movers, Jr. Ballet Movers, Welcome to Hip Hop, Kid Contemporary, and teen introductory classes in ballet, hip hop, and contemporary.
• Ages: 2–18 years old
• Schedule: Summer Weekend Dance Classes run as an eight-week session from June 6–July 27, 2026, with various Saturday and Sunday class times; Summerdance for ages 8–12 runs July 6–17, 2026, 9:30 AM–4:30 PM, with each week ending in an informal performance; Summer Teen Lab for ages 13–17 runs June 8–29, 2026, Monday–Friday, 10 AM–5:30 PM, as four weeks of intensives, each ending with an informal showing.
• Price: Summerdance is $675 per week or $1,250 for both weeks with a $100 discount; Summer Teen Lab is $675 per week with discounts of $50 per additional week (up to $200 off for four weeks); Youth Classes are $208 per class, Young Creative Classes are $200 per class, and Teen Classes are $216 per class, with 10% off tuition when enrolling in multiple classes.
ODC was founded in 1971 and built ODC Theater in 1979, which later expanded in 2010, and opened the ODC Dance Commons in 2005. The organization is led by Artistic Director Brenda Way, founder of ODC/Dance. ODC states that it is dedicated to the lifecycle of the artistic process and aims to inspire audiences, cultivate artists, engage community, and foster diversity and inclusion through dance. ODC is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization and advocates for the performing arts as an essential component of the economic and cultural development of its community. One unique aspect of ODC is that it was the first modern dance company in the United States to own its home facility, the ODC Theater, and it also offers ODC Connect, a curated streaming platform with dance films, classes, and interviews, as well as ODC/arts access, which offers a limited number of additional subsidies for performance tickets and classes where price is a barrier.
Last updated March 28, 2026.
• Ages: 2–18 years old
• Schedule: Summer Weekend Dance Classes run as an eight-week session from June 6–July 27, 2026, with various Saturday and Sunday class times; Summerdance for ages 8–12 runs July 6–17, 2026, 9:30 AM–4:30 PM, with each week ending in an informal performance; Summer Teen Lab for ages 13–17 runs June 8–29, 2026, Monday–Friday, 10 AM–5:30 PM, as four weeks of intensives, each ending with an informal showing.
• Price: Summerdance is $675 per week or $1,250 for both weeks with a $100 discount; Summer Teen Lab is $675 per week with discounts of $50 per additional week (up to $200 off for four weeks); Youth Classes are $208 per class, Young Creative Classes are $200 per class, and Teen Classes are $216 per class, with 10% off tuition when enrolling in multiple classes.
ODC was founded in 1971 and built ODC Theater in 1979, which later expanded in 2010, and opened the ODC Dance Commons in 2005. The organization is led by Artistic Director Brenda Way, founder of ODC/Dance. ODC states that it is dedicated to the lifecycle of the artistic process and aims to inspire audiences, cultivate artists, engage community, and foster diversity and inclusion through dance. ODC is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization and advocates for the performing arts as an essential component of the economic and cultural development of its community. One unique aspect of ODC is that it was the first modern dance company in the United States to own its home facility, the ODC Theater, and it also offers ODC Connect, a curated streaming platform with dance films, classes, and interviews, as well as ODC/arts access, which offers a limited number of additional subsidies for performance tickets and classes where price is a barrier.
Last updated March 28, 2026.