Dancing from coast to coast...

Each summer, company members have the option to join a partially subsidized week-long retreat in a location of great natural beauty (selected by the participants) to create site-specific work. Dance camp participants live and eat together, rehearse and explore together, for a week of fun, bonding, and creativity.

August 2024 took us to Aptos, California, where we worked on beach- and ocean-related material for our upcoming production, Terrain. Dancing on shifting sands turns out to be a great workout for foot strength and stability, too!

In July 2023, dance camp took place in Alma, Colorado, where we adapted to high-altitude dancing and compiled video footage in different locations, interacting with specific spaces both natural and human-made. The result is Altitude : Latitude, with a score composed for the piece by Mike Coffin.

NCDE dance camp originated in June 2022, when we gathered in Southwest Harbor, Maine, to create a rainbow dance of love and togetherness on a lawn (sloped, increasing the challenge!) overlooking Somes Sound. Love You More was performed on-site for a small audience as part of a very special wedding ceremony — and a new NCDE tradition was born.