Get ready for a dynamic and inspiring dance experience! Our full-day intensive is designed to challenge and elevate your technique while pushing you to new heights. Please note: Half-day participants will focus primarily on technique in the mornings and will not take part in the end-of-week showcase, as choreography will be learned during the afternoon sessions. This intensive is an incredible opportunity to refine your skills, grow as a dancer, and fully immerse yourself in a focused and enriching dance experience. Plus, you never know who might stop by—there may even be some surprise guest teachers! ??? Don’t miss this unforgettable week of growth! Bring a snack and water bottle.

For the advanced-level dancer, this ballet class helps dancers maintain and nurture their ballet skills. Dancers will focus on keeping their technical skills sharp while maintaining endurance and strength. Recommend 3+ years of ballet experience.

Learn Hip Hop dance moves, skills, and routines, from an experienced instructor and in a fun environment! Practice isolation movements, footwork, learn a choreographed routine and more and activities will change every 30-45 minutes. Register at www.therecreationacademy.com/stl.

Get ready for a dynamic and inspiring dance experience! Our full-day intensive is designed to challenge and elevate your technique while pushing you to new heights. Please note: Half-day participants will focus primarily on technique in the mornings and will not take part in the end-of-week showcase, as choreography will be learned during the afternoon sessions. This intensive is an incredible opportunity to refine your skills, grow as a dancer, and fully immerse yourself in a focused and enriching dance experience. Plus, you never know who might stop by—there may even be some surprise guest teachers! ??? Don’t miss this unforgettable week of growth! Bring a snack and water bottle.

This class offers ballet and modern technique and concepts in a more traditional class format and is perfect for those with some dance experience. Students combine choreography, barre, center work, movement across the floor, and stretches in order to maintain skills and strength.

Learn Hip Hop dance moves, skills, and routines, from an experienced instructor and in a fun environment! Practice isolation movements, footwork, learn a choreographed routine and more and activities will change every 30-45 minutes. Register at www.therecreationacademy.com/stl.

For the beginner pointe dancer, this class helps dancers build and maintain strength and alignment in their feet and ankles in order to prepare for future pointe work. Proper ballet warm up is also an important part of maintaining and building pointe skills, so we require also attending our weekly ballet class beforehand.

Get ready for a dynamic and inspiring dance experience! Our full-day intensive is designed to challenge and elevate your technique while pushing you to new heights. This intensive is an incredible opportunity to refine your skills, grow as a dancer, and fully immerse yourself in a focused and enriching dance experience. Plus, you never know who might stop by—there may even be some surprise guest teachers! ??? Don’t miss this unforgettable week of growth! Bring a snack, water bottle, and lunch.

For the beginner to intermediate pointe dancer, this class helps dancers maintain and nurture their pointe skills. Dancers will focus on keeping their technical skills sharp while maintaining endurance and strength. Proper ballet warm up is also an important part of maintaining and building pointe skills, so we require attending our weekly ballet class beforehand.

Get ready for a dynamic and inspiring dance experience! Our full-day intensive is designed to challenge and elevate your technique while pushing you to new heights. This intensive is an incredible opportunity to refine your skills, grow as a dancer, and fully immerse yourself in a focused and enriching dance experience. Plus, you never know who might stop by—there may even be some surprise guest teachers! ??? Don’t miss this unforgettable week of growth! Bring a snack, water bottle, and lunch.

This class will focus on learning proper dance techniques such as body isolations, mastering complex rhythms and patterns, and improving performance quality. Students will learn various styles of Musical Theatre Dance from Fosse, to jazz, to modern movement.

Webster University’s Department of Dance presents two exciting on-campus summer dance intensives for intermediate and advanced dancers each summer.

This class is ideal for dancers ready to elevate their skills to new heights. Emotionally expressive and grounded in strong technique, it challenges students to explore the depth of contemporary dance. Through a series of technique exercises and combinations, dancers will enhance their musicality, coordination, flexibility, strength, and overall technique. This class is perfect for those with previous dance training, looking to delve deeper into the art form.

This unique class is designed to build the foundations of strength, flexibility, and coordination necessary for the captivating art of aerial silks. Our students embark on an exciting journey, learning a range of techniques including aerial climbs, inversions, foot locks, and more advanced maneuvers. The class focuses on conditioning specific to aerial arts, ensuring a safe and effective progression in skills. Perfect for young enthusiasts eager to explore the thrilling combination of acrobatics and aerial performance, this class promises an extraordinatry experience of artistry and aerial grace.

Designed for dancers ready to bring their ballet training to the next level, this class delves deeper into specific ballet techniques. Students will have the opportunity to refine and master movements such as Plie (plee-AY), Tendu, Développé, Pirouette, Arabesque, Jete, Fouetté, and Tour Jeté. This class is ideal for those with some ballet experience, as it builds upon foundational skills to advance to higher levels of technique and artistry. Join us to enhance your ballet technique and express your artistry in a supportive and challenging environment.