Summer Camps

Dates: July 12-16 and July 19-23, 2027

Join us for an exciting summer of dance, creativity and outdoor fun!
Our Summer Camps offer a unique blend of movement and artistic exploration for children ages 4–11 years.

Guided by professional artists, campers will immerse themselves in dance, yoga, visual art, and theatre throughout the week while enjoying the beautiful natural spaces around them and within.

Location: Studio Danse Chelsea
1337 Route 105, Chelsea, Quebec

Cost: $350 per week or $600 for two weeks.

Limited number of day passes available two weeks before camp opens where space permitting: $79 per day.

Camp Schedule:

8:30-9:30 am: Drop off and free play time
9:30-12:00 pm: Opening Circle, Dance and theatre workshops
12:00-1:00pm: Lunch.
1:00-3:30 pm: Yoga and Visual Art workshops and closing circle
3:30-4:00 pm: Pickup
4:00-5:00pm: After Camp care is available for an extra charge of $10 per day.

Dance and Yoga with Celine Richard Robichon

Yoga invites children to explore their senses through movement and imagination while nurturing a strong mind–body connection. Through dynamic physical poses and creative relaxation imagery, children experience yoga as both active and calming. Simple breathwork techniques help cultivate positive self-image, build self-confidence, and encourage peaceful awareness. Balancing movement with moments of stillness supports an overall sense of well-being.

In dance, students will explore both contemporary and hip hop dance while building physical confidence, strength, flexibility, and body awareness. They learn fundamental movement skills needed to express themselves through dance and create their own choreographies.

Céline Richard Robichon is a dancer, educator, choreographer, and artistic director. Originally from Ottawa, she trained in ballet, jazz, and tap before moving to Montréal, where she immersed herself in street dance and discovered the heart of community and the freedom of self-directed movement. Céline currently performs with Tentacle Tribe. Her performance career also includes work with companies like Gadfly and Ebnflõh, as well as commercial projects with Québec artists such as Marie-Mai and Eli Rose. She has experience on television and film sets in Toronto with Family Channel and Nickelodeon, and recently worked as a choreographer with film director Jules de Niverville on his short film HUBRIS. Today, Céline’s work is driven by a commitment to creation, inclusive teaching, and fostering a progressive artistic environment.

Theatre and Visual Art with Kelsey Walsh

Theatre with Kelsey:
Step into the enchanting world of theatre where kids explore the magic of imaginative play. Within a kind and inclusive space, kids will bring their ideas and stories to life through storytelling, tableaux work, vignettes, soundscapes, and more. Inspired by our theme of the week, each child will uncover and play out the stories that have been bubbling up inside of them.

Visual Art with Kelsey Walsh:
Join Kelsey for a week of art experimentation. Campers will unleash their creativity as they explore colour, texture, collage and creative risk taking.  Campers will be supported in colouring outside the lines and following their imaginations, inside the studio and out in the fresh air. This is the art class where you get to be MESSY! PLAYFUL! UNIQUE!

Kelsey Walsh is an interdisciplinary dance artist who facilitates expressive arts classes and projects in diverse community contexts. As Artistic Director of Dandelion Dance, Kelsey created and delivered programs to girls and women from equity-seeking groups across Ottawa. Now Kelsey is a proud new mama, facilitating classes in the Wakefield/Chelsea area. She trained as a modern dancer at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre before completing her BFA with Great Distinction at Concordia University. Her experiences with traditional dance and theatre forms led Kelsey to purposely create inclusive spaces for creative expression. She welcomes all of her participants into the exciting language of dance, and believes dancing and creating art together helps to build caring communities.

What to Bring

• A nut-free lunch and/or a snack
• A labelled re-usable water bottle
• Loose-fitting clothing that allows for freedom of movement and which can get dirty
• Weather appropriate clothing: we will go outside at lunch time so children should be prepared for mud, sun and rain.

Camp readiness guidelines

Children will be encouraged to explore new ways of moving, creating and exploring through the arts. To do this all must feel safe and welcome to express themselves in their own unique ways and be free to take risks in a trusting atmosphere.

To encourage a safe and welcoming place for all, please talk with your child prior to coming to camp to ensure they are:

• comfortable taking direction and following direction from staff
• staying with their group
• being comfortable in both large and smaller groups of children they may not know and being able to get along with them.
• understand the importance of snacks, lunch and water and be able to manage them on their own with supervision of a counselor
• being able to dress themselves, knowing and asking when to use the washroom
• be able to apply sunscreen or be able to ask a counselor for help
• be able to keep track of their belongings with the help of counselors

We hope to make camp a positive experience for all children and will work with you to help your child transition to camp. Please share any concerns you may have so that we can help your child thrive at camp. If we have exhausted all means to ensure their success at camp, we reserve the right to refund the remaining fee and ask that they return in another session when they are more prepared for a camp experience.

Cancellation and Refund Policy

In the event of illness or other unforeseen circumstances, any changes to and/or cancellation of your child’s registration must be done in writing no later than three weeks prior to the start of camp in order to receive a full refund less an administration fee of $50. Refunds requested with less than 3 weeks before the first day of camp will be subject to a $75 administration fee. If your child becomes ill before camp starts and is unable to attend, the administration fee of $75 will be waived with a doctor’s note.  Once camp has started, days missed for any reason cannot be refunded or made up.