Dance Fremont Summer Programs

Dance Fremont Summer Programs include teen ballet workshops, modern dance workshops, weekly classes for kids, weekly classes for beginning adults, and half-day creative camps. Themed camps for kids include Moana camp, Under The Sea camp, Frozen camp, Ballet Stories camp, and Taylor Swift Camp. The program also offers a range of workshops such as Ballet Repertory Workshop, Ballet Skills Workshop, Modern Repertory Workshop, Modern Partnering Workshop, Advanced Ballet Repertory Workshop, Spring Repertory Workshop, and teen workshops, along with Beginning Ballet, Beginning-Intermediate Ballet, Intermediate-Advanced Drop-in Ballet, Beginning Modern, and Beginning Jazz classes.

• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Summer programming runs Monday–Thursday, with no class on Fridays.

Dance Fremont Summer Programs are part of a non-profit community dance school for youth and adults that provides in-depth ballet and modern dance training and continues adult open classes throughout the summer, including an Adult Program for ages 15–99 with a pay-what-you-can option for intermediate/advanced ballet. The Youth Program serves ages 3–18, from creative dance through pre-professional training, with an emphasis on anatomical education and alignment, collaborative exploration, peer-to-peer support, and thoughtful observation and feedback. The faculty consists of working dance artists, musicians, and master teachers based in the Seattle area.

Dance Fremont was founded in 1996 by Vivian Little, later brought Mary Reardon on as co-director, and was purchased in 2015 by longtime faculty member Steve Casteel, with Karena Birk stepping into the role of Director. Dance Fremont has been a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization since 2019 and states a mission as an inclusive dance community offering in-depth ballet and modern dance training, using dance to inspire joy, creativity, confidence, and a lifelong love of learning, welcoming all backgrounds, bodies, and identities. The organization offers tuition scholarships, pay-what-you-can open classes and performance tickets, reduced-rate rehearsal space for Black, Indigenous, and POC artists, and has updated attire and hair requirements to welcome dancers with all skin tones, hair types, and cultures.

Dance Fremont partners with PRICEarts as its resident dance company, providing free studio space for rehearsals and involving PRICEarts in teaching classes and staging repertory, and has a collaborative partnership with the TINT festival, which centers People of Color in dance. The organization notes that it is expanding access to dance instruction, performance, and resources through scholarship programs, accessible public performances, subsidized rehearsal space, and community partnerships, and it acknowledges dancing on the traditional land of the Duwamish People while directing people to realrentduwamish.org to learn more and take action. Additional offerings connected to the program include studio rentals for rehearsals, auditions, private lessons, group classes or workshops, an annual holiday performance tradition The Steadfast Tin Soldier that incorporates Signing in Exact English, an annual spring recital performance for all students over age 7 called the Rite of Spring, and the Impact Dance Festival, and masks are recommended, not required, at Dance Fremont.

Last updated January 8, 2026.