Summer Programs

Summer Camps
Mondays - Fridays
Recreational
Ages 6+

Camp Dates:
June 30 - July 3
July 7 - July 11
July 14 - July 18
July 21 - July 25
Aug. 4 - Aug. 8
Aug. 11 - Aug. 15

Morning Session 9am-12pm: $235
Deposit: $117.50 (due on registration)

Afternoon Session 12pm-4pm: $120
Deposit: $60 (due on registration)

Remainder Payment: Due the 1st of the month that camp occurs. Your card will be charged automatically.

Campers have the option to register for both the morning and afternoon sessions to enjoy a full day of camp!

Early Drop Off and Late Pick Up are available for $50 per week each. Sign up below.

Our circus & dance camps are recreational, no experience is required. Campers will have instruction in dance, acrobatics, and aerial dance. The exact dance and circus disciplines that your child does will depend on the faculty for the camp. We offer the following disciplines for camps:

Contemporary Dance
Creative Movement
Jazz
Breakdancing
Hip-hop
Aerial Silks
Trapeze
Basic Tumbling
Juggling

In the morning, campers will learn circus and dance disciplines from 9am-12pm.
Pick up at 12pm. Late pick up at 1pm.

In the afternoon, campers will have fun doing arts & crafts, story times (ages 6-8), open practice time of the dance and circus skills learned in the morning (ages 9+) and games.
Pick up at 4pm. Late pick up at 5pm.

There will be a short show and tell performance on the last day of camp in the theme of the camp where campers can show what they have learned and you can snap a few photos.

2025 Summer Camp Dates

Camp Information Details

Expectations
- We want to make sure all students have a fun experience. We expect students to follow instructions of the teachers and treat other students with respect. In addition, we expect participants to exhibit self-control, be nice to others, and follow simple instructions. They are also expected to participate in all activities to the best of their ability.
  - If you do not fulfill this expectation, you will be asked to take responsibility for your actions. Depending on the severity of the situation, students may be asked to leave camp for the remainder of time.
- In the event your camper is unwell, please do not send them to camp that day. If a camper becomes unwell at camp, we will contact parents to come pick up.
- Electronics (tablets, phones, etc.) can be brought in to use during lunch time. Other times they will stay in bags in the lobby.

Where Are We Located?
- 9315 Monroe Rd (Suite E)
- Located in Southeast Charlotte near Matthews on Monroe Rd in Greylin Business Park near Sardis Road North, in between the Culinary School of Charlotte and Hunter Coatings Paint Store Look for the CC&Co and Charlotte Cirque & Dance Center signs

Lunch
- Be sure to send a healthy lunch, 2 healthy snacks, a refillable water bottle, and hand sanitizer.

Pick Up/Drop Off
- Drop Off at the Front Door
  Charlotte Cirque & Dance Center
  9315-E Monroe Rd.
- Please come in and sign in your student.
- Pick Up at Front Door - make sure a staff member signs them out
- Early Drop Off and Late Pick Up are 1 hour before and 1 hour after camp times - there is a $50 per week fee for each.

Medication/Special Needs
- If medication is being sent with your child, please provide clearly written instructions for dispensing and in the original container.
- If there is anything that you would like us to know about your child/children such as allergies or behavior, please email us prior to the camp start date so our staff can be aware.

What to Wear & How to Do Your Hair

Dos

Wear a fitted shirt or leotard (shirts must be tucked in)
Wear leggings or tights that reach the ankles
Wear clothes you can move in freely
Wear proper dance shoes for class if applicable
Keep hair secured out the the face
Keep nails neat and trimmed.

Don'ts

Wear baggy clothes
Wear shorts
Wear jewelry
Let your hair hang in your face
No zippers, buttons, or Velcro as it can damage equipment

Best Options: Leggings that go to the ankle, leotards

Class Specific Dress:

Aerial/Acro
- Form fitting athletic top with short or long sleeves that covers entire torso (no crop tops)
- Non-see-through leggings that reach the ankle
Dance
- Form-fitting shirt and tights/leggings that reach the ankle
- For hip hop/breakdancing- sneakers

Refund/Cancellation Policy
- 2+ Weeks Notice: Full Refund of Tuition
- Less than 2 Weeks Notice: 25% Refund of Tuition
- During Camp: No refund.
- Once you cancel, someone else might take your child’s space who is on the waitlist.

Performance
- There will be a performance on the last day of camp, family and friends are welcome.

If you have any questions, feel free to email anytime. info@cltcirquedancecenter.org

General Camp Information

Intermediate/Advanced Camp

June 23 - 27
July 28 - Aug. 1

General Camp Info

Tuition: $435

Deposit: $217.50 (due on registration)

Remaining Amount: Due the 1st of the month that camp occurs. Your card will be charged automatically.

Early Drop Off and Late Pick Up are available for $50 per week each. Sign up below.

This circus & dance camp is an opportunity for students who have circus and dance experience to improve technique and learn new skills.

Campers will personalize their experience by selecting a specific discipline to focus on for the week from each of the following categories:

Aerial: Silks, Trapeze, or Lyra
Acrobatics: Solo, Partner, or Cyr/German Wheel
Dance: Contemporary, Jazz, or Hip Hop

At the end of the week, students will showcase their progress in a special show-and-tell performance for family and friends!

2025 Summer Camp Dates

Register
Here

2025 Summer Camp Instructors

Caroline Calouche - School Director, CC&DC Company Director, Dance & Circus Faculty (She/Her) has taught contemporary dance, Pilates, Gyrokinesis and ballet at UNC Charlotte, Winthrop University, The Belmont School of Ballet, Gaston Dance Theatre and The School of North Carolina Dance Theatre. Her dance and fitness teaching background has allowed her to become a sought after aerial dance instructor. Not only has Caroline developed a safe method and syllabus of teaching Aerial Silk, Sling, Trapeze, Lyra, Corde Lisse and Spanish Web, she is able to teach students how to incorporate floor work with their apparatus to seamlessly move from the ground up and back again. With her strong anatomy and physiology background, Caroline focuses on proper alignment in the air and on the ground to prevent injury and promote efficient movement. Caroline’s aerial and dance training is diverse. In the air, she has worked with Juliana Hane, Nicole Merman, Elsie and Serenity Smith, Christine van Loo, Caroline Wright, Jamie Hodgson, Tanya Burka, Cheetah Platt, Kevin O’Connor, Allie Cooper, Nancy Smith and Susan Murphy. While on the ground, Caroline’s influential teachers range from Leah Cox (Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company), Elizabeth Corbett (Forsythe Composition), Libby Farr (Ballet), Andrew Harwood (Contact Improvisation), Fernando Bujones (Ballet), Elizabeth Gillaspy (Ballet), Susan Douglas Roberts (Contemporary), Brenda Daniels (Modern Dance) to name a few on an endless list of amazing teachers!

Special Teaching Skills: Understands ADHD (she has ADHD too)

Carlos Alexis Cruz - Faculty (He/Him or Ellos) holds an MFA in Physical Theatre (2007) from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre where he studied a range of movement techniques including Commedia dell’Arte, Laban, Lecoq-based theatre dynamics, Alexander Technique, as well as an extensive voice training in the Linklater voice method. As part of his thesis project, Cruz went on to train Circus Arts and Chinese Acrobatics under the tutelage of Master Coach Lu Yi at the San Francisco Circus Center. He specialized in the disciplines of Aerial Straps (Sangles Aériennes) and Acrobatic Rope(Corde Lise), and developed his thesis on the study of the convergence between Circus and Theatre. In the professional realm, he was a fulltime company member of the Do Jump! Dance Theatre, and Imago Theatre, touring nationally and internationally, and was awarded a Princess Grace Acting Fellowship prize in 2011 for his unique physical acting work with the Miracle Theatre Group, the premiere Latino Theatre Company in the Pacific Northwest. Cruz is the 2014 Arts and Science Council McColl Award winner with which he developed a community powered contemporary circus company/show, the Nouveau Sud project, from and about the city of Charlotte and the evolving concept of what is often referred to as the New South. The Nouveau Sud project had its debut production in April 2016, and it has been an ongoing initiative, with shows in 2017 and 2018.

Languages: Fluent Spanish and conversational French

photo of Carlos Alexis Cruz, Latino male wearing a blue shirt

Elise Franchi - Dance Faculty (She/Her) Elise Franchi is a Company Artist with Roanoke Ballet Theatre, where she performs in a range of classical and contemporary works. Alongside her performing career, she is a dance teacher, dedicated to the next generation of dancers. She is also a Level III Certified Instructor in Progressing Ballet Technique, helping students develop strength, alignment, and body awareness. Elise is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Organizational Leadership and an Associate’s degree in Business.

Kim Melohn - Circus Faculty (She/Her) is a multi-disciplinary circus performer and coach with a specialty in bending gravity to her will. She chooses to triumph over that overwhelming force via contortion and vertical apprarati. Ever since she learned how to climb fabric, in 2014, she has hardly been able to come out of the air. While living in the Chicago suburbs, Aloft Circus Arts was her circus home. There she worked with aerial and flexibility coaches: Hayley Larson, Natalie Abel, and Julie Marshall. In 2021 she started training full time at the renowned New England Center for Circus Arts, where she switched her focus to contortion under the guidance of Stephanie Abrams.

As an adult sized child, Kim just wants to have fun and do cool stuff! To her that means big dynamic movements, death defying drops, intricate wraps, and splits for claps (ha that rhymes)! She enjoys creating high energy acts with a lot of personality and a healthy helping of corny humor.

When this bendy babe doesn’t have her feet over her head, she enjoys spending time at home with her husband and their dogs. Their activities include but are not limited to eating food, watching reruns, and “attempting photosynthesis.”