Each summer, Children’s Aid hosts AileyCamp New York, a powerful dance enrichment experience made possible through a long-running partnership with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Eighty Children’s Aid campers (ages 11 to 14) spend three hours a day, four days a week, learning the basic techniques of ballet, modern dance, traditional West African dance, hip hop, jazz, and tap from trained dance professionals. At the end of the summer, family and friends gather for the culmination of the summer experience: a high-energy original performance designed entirely by the campers.

Without fail, children go back to school with high self-esteem and renewed confidence that only the arts can foster.

AileyCamp New York is based at the Children’s Aid Mirabal Sisters Campus in Washington Heights.

Learn more about AileyCamp.