5 Fun Facts That Make ADTC The Best Vermont Summer Camp for Girls
Our Vermont dance camp home is the Stratton Mountain School. SMS is a beautiful, fully accredited boarding academy located a quarter mile from the base of Stratton Mountain, a ski resort in the Green Mountain National Forest. From kayaking and stand up paddle boarding to horseback riding and alpine slides, ADTC in Vermont offers our campers so much more than just dance. Read on to find out what makes ADTC the best Vermont summer camp.
1. Awesome Activities
One reason ADTC is the best Vermont summer camp for girls ages 8 – 17 is the awesome activities and extras we offer campers outside of dance. We believe girls in our perfectionist culture need to get out and have more authentic fun! Here are just some of the fun activities we offer at ADTC in Stratton, VT…
Kayaking & SUP
Horseback Riding
Alpine Slides
Paintball
Aerial Dance
Trampolines
Swimming
Pottery Painting
Water Rides
2. Longest-Running ADTC Dance Camp Location
Another fun fact that makes ADTC the best Vermont summer camp is Vermont is our longest-running location! The Stratton Mountain School’s state-of-the-art campus was completed in 1999 and our first summer dance camps were held at SMS in 2003. We’ve been back every summer since! Another fun fact is that our dance camps pre-date many of the buildings on campus, including the performing arts center where we now hold dance classes and our show! In the early years we held dance classes in dorm classrooms and even in the cafeteria, so we’ve come a long way!
3. Olympic History
The Stratton Mountain School is a winter ski & snowboarding academy and college preparatory school. Another fun fact that makes ADTC the best Vermont summer camp is it’s Olympic History – SMS has produced 46 Olympic competitors! And ADTC campers get to stay in the home of some of the world’s best snowboarders, including the 2002 Men’s half pipe Olympic gold medalist Ross Powers, and Lindsey Jacobellis, who achieved a silver medal in the Snowboard cross event in 2006.
4. ADTC’s Founder Has a Condo at Stratton Mountain
Another reason ADTC is the best Vermont summer camp for girls is it was founded by someone who truly knows Stratton Mountain! American School of Dance, LLC (dba American Dance Training Camps) was founded as a Fairfield County, CT dance school in 2003 by recent college graduate, Lindsey Fadner. Lindsey believed a summer dance camp near her family’s ski condo in Stratton Mountain, VT might be a fun idea and that summer “ADTC” held 3 weeks of dance camp. Nearly 100 dancers from the Fairfield County, CT area attended, most of whom danced at American School of Dance during the year.
Just three years later ADTC in Stratton Mountain offered five sessions to more than 250 campers from all over the country. In addition, 2006 marked the year that ADTC expanded to Lake Tahoe, CA, offering three sessions to over 100 campers. Today, ADTC offers dance camps in 9 U.S. locations (and Lindsey’s family still has a ski condo at Stratton!).
Pictured left is Lindsey Fadner with her son, Jackson, outside the SMS performing arts building in 2019 – his first ADTC Friday Night Show!
5. Many of Our Campers Become Staff Members!
And the final fun fact that makes ADTC the best Vermont summer camp for girls is that many of our paid Instructors started as ADTC campers! They’ve worked their way up, first becoming CITs, then JICs (Junior Instructors) and finally ICs (Instructor-Counselors). Two of our favorite Vermont staff members (Alli Gallant & Eileen Boyle– see videos below) began as campers in Vermont 14+ years ago!!! Read more about our Counselor-In-Training program for 16 & 17 year olds here.
Eileen at ADTC in 2009
Alli at ADTC in 2011
Hone your jazz dance technique in this 5-day Spring Break Dance Camp for intermediate/advanced dancers! You’ll have 90 minutes of live instruction/discussion with our world class dance instructors + 30 minutes of self-paced practice per-day.
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Dance with a real Radio City Rockette & Broadway Star each week! In this ongoing class for beginners, dancers explore the fundamentals & wide variety of techniques in contemporary dance. Fresh technique & choreography every time we meet!
Hone your technique in this 5-day Spring Break Dance Camp for intermediate/advanced dancers! You’ll have 90 minutes of live instruction/discussion with our world class dance instructors + 30 minutes of self-paced practice per-day.
The perfect home-based jazz dance camp for all levels! This is a multi-day course that meets one night per-week for four or five weeks.
The perfect home-based hip hop dance camp for all levels! This is a multi-day course that meets one night per-week for four or five weeks.
The perfect home-based contemporary dance camp for all levels! This is a multi-day course that meets one night per-week for four or five weeks.
The perfect home-based jazz dance class for intermediate-advanced dancers! This is an open class and does not require a longer commitment. Drop-in anytime! We’ll hone our jazz & traditional ballet technique while dancing to an upbeat, popular song in this challenging & fun 1-hr class. Fresh technique & choreography every time we meet!
The perfect home-based hip hop dance class for intermediate-advanced dancers! This is an open class and does not require a longer commitment. Drop-in anytime! We’ll explore a mix of street dance styles in a highly energetic, challenging & fun 1-hr class. Fresh technique & choreography every time we meet!
The perfect home-based contemporary dance class for intermediate-advanced dancers! This is an open class and does not require a longer commitment. Drop-in anytime! We’ll hone our technique & explore creative expression in this 1-hr class while energizing movement with emotion. Fresh technique & choreography every time we meet!
The perfect home-based jazz dance class for beginners! This is an open class and does not require a longer commitment. Drop-in anytime! We layer jazz style over traditional ballet technique & dance to upbeat, popular songs in this fun 1-hr class. Fresh technique & choreography every time we meet!
The perfect home-based hip hop dance class for beginners! This is an open class and does not require a longer commitment. Drop-in anytime! We’ll explore a mix of street dance and hip hop foundations in a highly energetic & fun 1-hr class. Fresh technique & choreography every time we meet!
The perfect home-based contemporary dance class for beginners! This is an open class and does not require a longer commitment. Drop-in anytime! We’ll explore the fundamentals & wide variety of techniques in contemporary dance in this fun 1-hr class. Fresh technique & choreography every time we meet!