Experience a week of intensive dance training!
July 28 - August 2, 2025
Acadia Dance Festival offers a rigorous, creatively engaging, week-long Summer Intensive for dancers aged 14-22.
The Summer Intensive is designed for high-school and college-aged dancers looking to expand their training, explore their artistry, and gain experience in a professional-level dance setting. Faculty are experts in the field who have carefully crafted curricula to help young dancers grow technically, artistically, and professionally.
Participants take daily classes (ballet, hip hop, contemporary) with professional dance artists from Nimbus Dance and a rotation of special topics such as injury prevention, audition skills, and improvisation.
Cost: $450 (merit and need-based scholarships available)
Location:
The 2025 The Acadia Dance Festival Intensive will take place at ArtWaves MDI, 1345-A State Highway 102, Bar Harbor, Maine
2024 Acadia Dance Festival Intensive Students take class on the stage of the 1932 Criterion Theatre.
2024 Acadia Dance Festival Intensive Students Rehearse at Art Waves Studio.
Sample Intensive Schedule
9 am - 10:25 - Technique Class #1
10:30 - 11:15 - Technique Class #2
11:15 - 12 pm - Lunch
12 - 2 pm - Rehearsal and Repertory
Technique Classes Include Ballet, Modern, Improvisation, Jazz, Conditioning, and Contemporary
Scholarships:
The Acadia Dance Festival offers need-based and merit-based scholarships for the intensive to ensure that dance students are able to access this training opportunity. Please complete the form through the button-link below to submit an application.