The DanceLife Center Camps & Clinics
The DanceLife Center Charleston, 307 6th Street, Charleston, IL 61920
About
The DanceLife Center Camps & Clinics offers a range of dance experiences, including Early Childhood Dance, recreational classes, a performance program, a competition program, and summer program camps. Camp and clinic options include Preschool Camps, an Intensive Ballet Camp, Intensive Tap Camp, Intensive Acro Camp, Intensive Jazz for Musical Theatre, Intensive Contemporary Camp, Intensive Modern Camp, Intensive Leaps & Turns Camp, and an Intensive Floor Work Camp. Dancers can also take classes in Ballet & Pointe, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Musical Theatre, Modern, Lyrical, Pointe, Acro (dance tumbling), Ballroom, and Adult Dance, and families can schedule a Birthday Party through the program.
• Ages: 2–18 years old
• Schedule: Six-week sessions, plus single-day camps and intensives that run between 1.5 and 2.5 hours
• Price: $40 per listed camp or intensive session
In 2010, The DanceLife Center was established with 100 students, and in 2015 it expanded with a second location and partnered with Debbie Jansen at Jansen’s Power Tumbling and Gymnastics. One of the coordinators at The DanceLife Center LLC is Antoine Thomas. The program uses an online account management system and Customer Portal for enrolled families to view schedules, track absences and makeups, update payment information, and join a waitlist for full classes, and a credit or debit card or bank account is required to register. The DanceLife Center offers a free trial class, birthday party setup, end-of-season recital opportunities, and exciting summer technique classes and camps, and operates two studios with six dance classrooms and four or more performances each year, with a focus on the 4Ps: Procedure, Performance, Passion, and Purpose.
The DanceLife Center states that its goal is to cultivate young dancers into well-rounded individuals who have an appreciation for dance and who reach for high achievement in academics and community service, and it describes its philosophy as making dancing fun and focusing on developing people rather than “moving robots.” The program states that it fosters respectful, confident, and conscientious young people who share their gifts and talents with the community. Families and students have shared feedback such as a student named Jacey saying she has grown over six years and credits her dance teachers, and a parent named Shannon describing the staff as very caring and warm. Other comments include students and parents describing DanceLife as a second home, praising the show, and noting that technique is taught in fun and creative ways while encouraging each individual dancer.
Last updated January 11, 2026.
• Ages: 2–18 years old
• Schedule: Six-week sessions, plus single-day camps and intensives that run between 1.5 and 2.5 hours
• Price: $40 per listed camp or intensive session
In 2010, The DanceLife Center was established with 100 students, and in 2015 it expanded with a second location and partnered with Debbie Jansen at Jansen’s Power Tumbling and Gymnastics. One of the coordinators at The DanceLife Center LLC is Antoine Thomas. The program uses an online account management system and Customer Portal for enrolled families to view schedules, track absences and makeups, update payment information, and join a waitlist for full classes, and a credit or debit card or bank account is required to register. The DanceLife Center offers a free trial class, birthday party setup, end-of-season recital opportunities, and exciting summer technique classes and camps, and operates two studios with six dance classrooms and four or more performances each year, with a focus on the 4Ps: Procedure, Performance, Passion, and Purpose.
The DanceLife Center states that its goal is to cultivate young dancers into well-rounded individuals who have an appreciation for dance and who reach for high achievement in academics and community service, and it describes its philosophy as making dancing fun and focusing on developing people rather than “moving robots.” The program states that it fosters respectful, confident, and conscientious young people who share their gifts and talents with the community. Families and students have shared feedback such as a student named Jacey saying she has grown over six years and credits her dance teachers, and a parent named Shannon describing the staff as very caring and warm. Other comments include students and parents describing DanceLife as a second home, praising the show, and noting that technique is taught in fun and creative ways while encouraging each individual dancer.
Last updated January 11, 2026.
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