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BALLROOMBEES CAMP FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How are camps different from regular BallroomBees classes?
Our Camps are specifically tailored for each Season. Summer camps include special music, new choreography and specifically themed dances as well as props and our now famous show-stopping performance at the end of each week!
How is the day broken up for the children during the week of Camp?
As opposed to once a week -45 min classes camps will run Monday -Friday 5 days a week for 2.5 to 3 hours each camp, depending on age group. Our Minibees camps for under 3’s are 1.5 hours and are accompanied by an adult. Our camps operate in modules of 40-45 minutes sections with small breaks in between.A 3-hour camp that runs over 5 days will be the equivalent of 15 weeks of classes for a student that normally dances once a week. So it is doing a full semester in 5 days!
What makes BallroomBees camps special and different from other providers?
At the end of each week of summer camp, the students have a chance to do a show that will take up the last hour of the last day of Camp. We call it our Strictly Show Case and parents and our students love it. As well as the show, our students will receive certificates of completion at the end of the week. It is very exciting for the children to start the week knowing they will perform for their parents and friends at the end of the week. The sense of accomplishment shows in how they build their confidence throughout the week.
What makes BallroomBees camps special and different from other providers?
At the end of each week of summer camp, the students have a chance to do a show that will take up the last hour of the last day of Camp. We call it our Strictly Show Case and parents and our students love it. As well as the show, our students will receive certificates of completion at the end of the week. It is very exciting for the children to start the week knowing they will perform for their parents and friends at the end of the week. The sense of accomplishment shows in how they build their confidence throughout the week.
What are the advantages and benefits of BallroomBees camps?
For students, the Camps are an incredible opportunity as they are a more intensive way of learning. Excelling in any sport or craft repetition is key. The camps are essentially constructed as one long rehearsal towards the show, it teaches the students to focus and work towards a common goal.
What skills will my child learn during their time while doing the BallroomBees Dance and Movement Camps?
From developing your child’s balance, coordination, spatial awareness and creativity. The BallroomBees Dance camps will also help build your child's focus and concentration. Children need to learn how to be nimble on their feet, and the BallroomBees 'footwork pattern' dances and activities will help with just that. BallroomBees specially curated dances, choreography and obstacle courses help develop those fundamental skills that our children need these days such as Agility, Balance and Coordination to live a healthy and balanced life. Footwork patterns are essential to our everyday life of our children. They have to be able to access a range of them and excel at them. For example, These skills can be used in everyday life such as moving through large crowds of people, and can also be applied to sports such as netball, football and handball, when dodging opponents and moving into space, running for the bus or dodging bicycles.
During our one-of-a-kind famous BB obstacle courses your children pivot, spin, balance, side step, and walk backwards and forwards using both balls of feet and heels of feet all while learning the correct direction of our line of dance.
Do participants need previous dance experience?
Camps are for everyone. Both new and seasoned students benefit significantly from Camps. Generally, great growth is experienced in students due to the nature and intensity of the camps. The camps in itself are about levelling/or building up progress. The students will be guided by our BB instructors through our BallroomBees curriculum modules from easy to hard levels
How many students are in each camp?
The number ranges from 5 up to 18. ( With classes above 10 students we will have another teacher) If joining 2 weeks of camps or more is the syllabus/choreography repeated? The more repetitions we do - The more control, and coordination we have and this ultimately leads to us “feeling” the dancing more. We teach fresh choreography by the week hence you will expect identical items to be repeated. But if your child did the GrowingBees camp and it was on the easier side then we would recommend the second week he or she would level up to a different age group. We offer bundled discounts for siblings or individuals who join more than 2 camps.
What are the age groups and how many hours the camps run for those age groups?
MiniBees: Unders 3’s - 1.5 hr
GrowingBees: 3-4yrs -2.5hrs
HoneyBees: 4-6yrs-2.5hrs
SuperBees & MightyBees: 7-11yrs - 3hrs
What is being taught in the dance camps and how will the children spend their day/week?
Each day will be dived between technique and performance training. In 3- 45 min sectors with small breaks in between.There will be a fun dance warm-up at the start of the day which will include stretching, strengthening and cardio. Followed by creative and imaginative ice-breaking dances and games, as well as our famous creative obstacle courses. We will teach rhythm recognition, and movement coordination skills from basic to advance depending on the participant level each week
Each day will be Followed by choreography and preparation for the big performance at the end of the week.
Your child will end the week learning 4-8 new choreographies and dances ranging from the late movie or tie Tok craze as well as ballroom and Latin legendary dances such as cha cha cha, jive and waltz and SO much more. Having the opportunity to spend an extended time with students during Camps gives the teachers an opportunity to both inspire a deeper engagement in dancing and also making big steps in terms of the ability of the students.
Finally, it must be remembered that play-based learning is essential for BallroomBees so that Camps will be full of fun and laughter. On the day of the demonstration/show, students will spend the first 2 hours doing general rehearsal, then the parents/friends arrive and it is Showtime! It is recommended for the teacher(s) to come out and do a little speech to introduce the show at the beginning.