Berkshire Pulse is excited to have summer dance intensives for ages 4 to 18 running June through August, alongside community classes for dancers of all ages!
Our offerings range in style and genre, from contemporary and choreography, to musical theater, hip hop, and more. Scroll to see all our intensives or check out our website.
Pre-registration is open! Save your spot and start your dream summer today!
Summer Intensives
🔎Dance Discovery (Ages 8-13)
📅 Monday to Friday, June 24 – 28
🕘 9am – 3pm; 9am – 12pm (half day)
This intensive has a half-day option for dancers ages 8-9.
An exciting journey into the engaging and rewarding world of dance, this one-week program provides an introduction to dance forms including ballet, modern, African, and more. Dancers will also have a chance to practice dance-making of their own!
🎶Berkshire Pulse Intensive (Ages 11+)
📅 Monday to Friday, July 8 – 20
🕘 9am – 4pm
Second week, Monday to Saturday, 9am – 4pm
This two-week program allows dancers ages 11+ to develop excellence in technique, as well as versatility and collaboration in the creative process. Daily classes will include ballet, contemporary, jazz, hip hop, swing, salsa, and flamenco. Dancers will explore dance-making through partnering and improvisation. Plus, field trips to local partnering organizations. For students with at least two years of prior dance training.
🚀Dance Adventure (Ages 4-7)
📅 Monday to Friday, July 22 – 26
🕘 9am – 12pm (half day)
This program for our youngest dancers invites them on an expedition into the exciting, engaging, and rewarding world of dance. Classes will include creative dance, tumbling, drumming, and more!
👟Hip Hop and Street Style (Ages 10+)
📅 Monday to Friday, July 29 – August 2
🕘 9am – 3:30pm
In this week-long program, dancers will learn foundational movements and techniques of hip-hop and street style dance, alongside discussions about the cultural meaning and significance of these dance forms. The program will create an encouraging space to try out what you learn and most importantly show off your unique style and personality while freestyling in daily cyphers.
🎭Musical Theater (Ages 10+)
📅 Monday to Saturday, August 5 – 10
🕘 9am – 3pm
This week-long program gives students the opportunity to jump right into the world of musical theater with classes in broadway jazz, voice, acting, and improvisation. Students will learn healthy warm-up practices for the voice and body, and work on character development, expression, participating in an ensemble, and more. The program directors will work with students to produce an informal performance for the final day of the program.
💃🏾Movement Lab: A Workshop in Professional Practice w/ Joe Poulson and Isadora Wolfe (Ages 17+)
📅 Monday to Saturday, August 12 – 16
🕙10am – 3pm
Advanced teens and undergrad students 17+, adults with advanced contemporary experience
In this week long intensive, student artists will be immersed in the experience of a dance company: challenging morning class imparting new skills, honing technique, and full-bodied dancing. Followed by an afternoon of process: Joe and Isadora will guide and direct the “company” through various tasks involving dynamic phrases, improvisation and mini-modules using contemporary, contact and physical theater practices. The emphasis is on the process, and sharing the information that Joe and Isadora have acquired through their years of experience inside companies and as makers in their own right. Expect to end each day sweaty, spent, inspired and filled up.
Starting in 2024, Berkshire Pulse is implementing a $20 non-refundable registration fee for our summer intensives. This charge covers administrative needs and is only charged once per student. If you register for multiple intensives, you will only pay one registration fee per student.
