Dance, Music, & Performing Arts Camps & Summer Programs for Kids in Manhattan

If your child loves to perform on stage, consider performing arts camps, music camps, or dance camps in Manhattan. Get more information on how to register online.

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Dance Camps

THE BALLET CLUB
328 E. 61st St., 2nd Floor, New York
917-281-1030
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The Ballet Club offers a nurturing, fun, summer day program for ages 3-8, Mondays through Fridays, beginning at 9am. Students may stay for a half day until 12:45pm, or remain for the afternoon until 3pm or 4pm. Extended hours are available. You may select the weeks, days, and/or times that work for you. Activities include ballet, drama, creative dance, yoga, music, crafts, puppetry, and outdoor activities. The Ballet Club offers an Early Bird Special. Contact the office for details.

BALLET ACADEMY EAST
1651 Third Ave., New York
212-410-9140

Ballet Academy East's Summerdance is a fun-filled summer program for ages 3-6. Designed to foster imagination and inspire a love of the arts, the curriculum includes dance, art, musical theater, origami, and more! Customize your own schedule! Enroll weekly, monthly, or for the full eight-week session.

HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS-ARTSCAPE SUMMER CAMP
645 Saint Nicholas Ave. (at 141st Street) , New York
Email [email protected]

ARTScape Summer Day Camp at Harlem School of the Arts is an arts experience like no other, offering a summer of fun in the arts for children ages 4-12. Campers enjoy a variety of classes in four different art forms: music, dance, theatre, and art and design.

STEPS ON BROADWAY YOUTH PROGRAMS
2121 Broadway at 74th Street, 4th Floor, Upper West Side
212-874-3678
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Steps on Broadway Youth Programs is the place to be this summer for dancers of all ages and levels! The Summer Workshop and Summer Intensive (ages 7-18) are geared toward the dancer who wants to dance Monday-Friday for one-six weeks. Join us for an exciting summer of dance!

Music Camps

BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC
323 W. 108th St., Upper West Side
212-663-6021 Virtual Office: 201-578-4289
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Bloomingdale is excited to welcome the return of in-person instruction, offering blended learning options in our historic brownstone July 5 to Aug. 29, 2021! Offerings include fun and interactive early childhood classes, flexible private lesson packages, beginner music theory, ensembles, and four weeklong immersive workshops!

HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS-ARTSCAPE SUMMER CAMP
645 Saint Nicholas Ave. (at 141st Street) , New York
Email [email protected]

ARTScape Summer Day Camp at Harlem School of the Arts is an arts experience like no other, offering a summer of fun in the arts for children ages 4-12. Campers enjoy a variety of classes in four different art forms: music, dance, theatre, and art and design.

IPIANOLAB
224 E. 95th St., Upper East Side,
347-816-5193
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iPianoLab Keyboard Camps are the fresh, fun way to learn piano or keyboard. Campers can attend in-person or online. No boring drills or baby songs; iPianoLab students learn the keyboard basics while learning songs they love! Recitals, cool learning games, and great tunes make learning fun!  

WILLAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
244 Madison Ave., suite 171,
646-838-3990
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Enhance music skills in day camp! Guitar Songwriting Camp and Violin Camp are offered. Willan Academy is enrolling now for summer in Midtown and Upper West Side in Manhattan. Children participate in music and outside activities!

Theater & Performing Arts Camps

ATLANTIC ACTING SCHOOL
76 Ninth Ave., suite 313, Chelsea
646-216-1187
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Actors (ages 4-18) spend their summer days playing, creating, and forming lifelong friendships, all from the comfort and safety of home! In addition to creating characters and scripts, students may produce their own work! Camps include musical theater, improv, scene study, and film. All are rooted in our acting technique.

CHATTY CHILD SPEECH, OCCUPATIONAL, AND PHYSICAL THERAPY, PLLC
325 Broadway, suite 403, Tribeca
347-491-4451
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Chatty Child is a unique, personalized pediatric therapeutic center in downtown Manhattan. We provide in-person and remote options for speech-language, occupational, and physical therapy. We offer evaluations, individual treatment, socialization groups, tutoring classes, and creative arts enrichment programming - InterAct: Theatre and Therapy Lab (summer workshops and yearly classes).

DRAMAZONE® BROADWAY CAMP FOR RISING STARS RIPLEY GRIER STUDIOS
520 8th Ave. /36th St.,
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Award-Winning DramaZone® Broadway Camp for Rising Stars 2020, in its 15th year offers an intensive Broadway Musical Theater Arts Camp with limited enrollment. Training is by Broadway professionals, expert artists and educators. Camps offer singing, dancing, acting classes, audition technique, and on-camera seminar. Broadway themes include Frozen, Mary Poppins, and Aladdin.

HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS-ARTSCAPE SUMMER CAMP
645 Saint Nicholas Ave. (at 141st Street) , New York
Email [email protected]

ARTScape Summer Day Camp at Harlem School of the Arts is an arts experience like no other, offering a summer of fun in the arts for children ages 4-12. Campers enjoy a variety of classes in four different art forms: music, dance, theatre, and art and design.

IMAGINE WORKS YOUTH THEATRE
115 MacDougal St.,
347-878-3813
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Camp Imagine is a summer theatre intensive for tweens-teens, July 5-23 at the Off-Broadway Players Theatre. Final performances of a Broadway musical are produced on their professional stage, July 23, 7pm and July 24, 2pm.Great for beginning or experienced young performers with small class sizes in voice, drama, and dance.

LITTLE STARS THEATRE CLASSES AT MARTIAL ARTS FAMILY STUDIO
290 Mulberry St. , Soho, Manhattan
646-335-5034

Taught by NYC actors, children (ages 5-8) will cultivate the technical and emotional skills needed to excel in musical theatre performance. Each week works to showcase a number from a different Broadway musical. Your child will find their confidence and charisma and have their big moment in the spotlight! 

PLAY ON! STUDIOS
Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, 263 W. 86th St., Upper West Side
347-709-4149
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Play On! Studios offers drama camps and classes on the Upper West Side for kids in grades Pre-K-8. Young actors will rehearse and perform in a full production, work with professional NYC actors/teaching artists, build up their skills in a nurturing, non-competitive environment and play lots of drama games!

TADA! YOUTH THEATER
15 W. 28th St. (at Broadway) 3rd floor, New York
212-252-1619 x4

TADA! offers weeklong musical theater summer camps in Flatiron and UWS for ages 4-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Students use a fun show title as a jumping off point to co-create an original musical. Watch their confidence grow as they work with new friends to perform a musical of their own!

TREEHOUSE SHAKERS
Radio City Station P.O. Box 186 Manhattan,
Email [email protected]

Treehouse Shakers, an awarded arts company, elevates experiences while building community. Our Playwriting Camp, ages 10-14, nurtures aspiring young writers to create an original play, which culminates with a performance. Branching Out: LGBTQIA+ Book Group, ages 11-14, is a brave space to explore identities that are often overlooked in literature.