ADTC sleep-away dance camps focus on hip-hop, jazz, lyrical, musical theatre and ballet for 8-17-year-old girls. ADTC has four great locations: Nantahala Village, NC, Squaw Valley, CA, Stratton Mountain, VT and Winter Park, CO.

Our northeast home is the Stratton Mountain School in the picturesque Green Mountains of Southern Vermont, while in the southeast campers stay at the Nantahala Village Resort & Spa in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of western North Carolina. In the West, ADTC offers two great locations: the Squaw Valley Lodge, nestled in a valley at the edge of Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Mountains of northern California, and the Winter Park Mountain Lodge in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Each week-long session incorporates dance training with traditional summer camp activities like arts & crafts, swimming, hiking, horseback riding, canoeing / kayaking, organized team sports and several field trips.

ADTC is looking for instructors who are passionate about dance and sharing their love of dance with children. ADTC staff participate in 3-5 required dance classes a day (Monday-Friday), totaling approximately 4-5 hours of daily dance instruction. Depending on position, ADTC staff should be able to independently lead or assist the instructor each dance class: warm-ups, across-the-floor work, conditioning, combinations, etc., as well as choreograph and teach (or assist in teaching) an original 2-3-minute performance piece to each student group.

Dance classes are organized by age and overall ability level across disciplines. Once placed, campers remain within the same group for all dance classes that session. We expect to keep dance classes to no more than 14 students per class. Each class meets daily, but times and locations may vary day-to-day.

To determine ability, a “dance screening” takes place each Sunday afternoon (the first day of each session week), during which staff members teach small groups of campers a short combination (most likely in jazz and hip hop) and then give each camper a score. Staff members are expected to help make this process as non-competitive and encouraging for each camper as possible. The core dance techniques offered at ADTC are jazz, hip-hop, and theatre dance (theatre dance also incorporates basic ballet). Other techniques offered can include lyrical, modern, Latin jazz, tap, etc. The adjunct class/es offered during each session depends on the specialties of that week’s Instructor-Counselors and the number of campers that we have for that session. 

ADTC staff are assigned to teach or assistant teach one dance technique for the duration of each session, teaching each class and all levels of that discipline. ADTC staff teaching for more than one session should expect to either teach a different dance discipline each session, or, if teaching the same discipline for multiple weeks, develop COMPLETELY NEW performance pieces each week.

All ADTC staff should also expect to teach a “master class” for interested campers at least one night per session. The daily dance schedule for each session - including which staff members will teach which disciplines, and where and when each class will be held each day - will be finalized at the mandatory all-staff meeting, which will be held the Saturday night before each session.

When not teaching dance classes, ALL ADTC staff will help out around the camp as camp counselors. This includes helping with any and all facets of our day and evening activities, both camper-mandatory and camper-optional, as assigned by the Program Director. Examples of activities include “American Dance Idol” night, camp fire night, horseback riding, elective dance classes, swimming, hiking, arts & crafts, canoeing and many other activities / events. The activities schedule for each session - including which staff members will be assigned to help with each activity &/or field trip - will be finalized at the mandatory all-staff meeting, held the Saturday evening before each session’s Sunday check-in.  

Separately from both dance classes and the activities schedules, each week each staff member will be assigned as the leader of a “team” of campers. Each staff member will be responsible for helping to inspire and lead his/her team through team activities and competitions during each session. Team assignments will be communicated at the mandatory Saturday all-staff meeting before each session, and more about the process also will be explained at that time. Socializing with campers during mealtime, free time and around camp is strongly encouraged. The fundamental expectation is that staff members will participate in the ADTC camp experience as a whole by being accessible, responsible, positive role models for the campers throughout all facets of each camp session.