About

An honest map of the summer

Every winter, families with a serious young dancer face the same tangle: forty audition tours, a dozen tuition pages, and housing rules buried three clicks deep. This guide puts the facts side by side.

How listings are made

Each listing comes from the program's own public pages. We write our own short descriptions, link to the source, and show the date we last checked it. Where a school hasn't published something yet, we say TBD rather than guess.

Who runs it

This guide is published by the family behind the American Academy of Ballet in Williamsville, New York. That's why AAB's Summer Intensive appears first, labeled Featured. It isn't a ranking. Read the full disclosure.