If you’re ready to challenge yourself and step more fully into your artistry, RDA’s Dance & Choreography Intensive is for you. 🩰✨
The RDA Dance & Choreography Intensive (DCI) is designed for dancers who want to strengthen their technique while also exploring their creative voice.
📍 June 8–13 | Roswell, GA (Atlanta) 📍 June 22–27 | Lawrence, KS (Kansas City) 📍 July 27–Aug 1 | Carlisle, PA (Harrisburg)
At the DCI, your days are layered with focused technical training, performance development, and choreography exploration. You won’t just be told what to do — you’ll be challenged to understand why you move, how you interpret, and how you create.
And to make it accessible — 🎥 we accept online audition videos. You can apply from wherever you train.
If you’re looking for a summer experience that builds both discipline and creative confidence, DCI is calling.
🗓 Apply online by April 29.
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Ready to take the stage with more confidence this summer? 🩰✨
The RDA Performance Workshop is designed for dancers who want to refine not just how they move — but how they perform.
📍 June 5–7 Kingwood, TX (Houston)
This three-day experience focuses on performance quality, musicality, presence, and connecting your technique to storytelling. It’s about stepping into your artistry, learning solo works, and receiving personalized coaching to command the stage with clarity and intention.
You’ll train in a focused, supportive environment alongside other dedicated dancers who are serious about growth — without the pressure of a competition setting. 🤝
🎥 We accept online audition videos.
We welcome dancers from everywhere to apply right from wherever you are.
🎥 RDA Dancer = Automatic Acceptance.
Dancers who train with an RDA Member Company are automatically accepted and do not need to apply. DM us for the link to register and reserve your spot!
If you’ve been working hard in the studio and want to translate that into stronger stage presence, this workshop is for you.
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Featuring Outstanding Soloists from the 2024 RDA National Festival 🌟
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🔔 Calling ALL Choreographers! 🔔
The RDA Dance & Choreography Intensive (DCI) will help you deepen your craft and bring your creative visions to life.
📍 June 8–13 | Roswell, GA (Atlanta) 📍 June 22–27 | Lawrence, KS (Kansas City) 📍 July 27–Aug 1 | Carlisle, PA (Harrisburg)
The DCI is designed to help choreographers explore composition, structure, musicality, and intention — and you’ll be encouraged to take risks in a space that supports experimentation. You’ll work through daily composition classes, dynamic seminars, and lead rehearsals with trained RDA dancers to develop new works for live performance. Refine your artistic identity in an immersive, process-driven environment!
🎥 Online audition videos accepted now! Apply from anywhere.
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🗓 Applications due April 29.
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✨ That’s a wrap on the 2026 RDA/Northeast Festival ✨
What a beautiful weekend of dance, growth, artistry, and community. Congratulations to all of the Outstanding Soloists, scholarship winners, award recipients, performers, choreographers, and companies recognized throughout the Festival 👏💫
A huge thank you to our incredible faculty & accompanists, our Adjudicator, the RDA/Northeast Board, the National Board, volunteers, families, and parents who help make this experience possible each year!
But most importantly — thank you to the dancers.
For showing up fully, supporting one another, taking corrections, embracing challenges, and filling every classroom and theater with passion and joy all weekend long. You are what makes RDA so special ❤️
Until next time, Northeast ✨
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✨ Friday night performance highlights ✨
Powerful performances, unforgettable moments, and that unmistakable RDA/Northeast energy lighting up the stage 🔥
Camera roll full. Memories loading… 👀💫
One final night of Festival magic ahead.
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And just like that… classes at the RDA/Northeast Festival are officially wrapped ✨
A weekend full of learning, growth, inspiration, and the kind of dance community that makes RDA so special. Now it’s time for the final performances and gala banquet to celebrate everything these dancers, faculty, and companies have shared together this weekend 💫
Last day energy is HERE 🎭🖤 #RDANortheast #RegionalDanceAmerica #DanceFestival #RDAFestival #DanceCommunity
✨ First look at Thursday night performances at the RDA/Northeast Festival ✨
Still not over the energy from opening night 🔥
Beautiful performances, inspiring artistry, and the kind of community that makes Festival weekend so special.
As we head into the final day of classes and performances, we’re soaking in every moment 💫 NE, you’ve been incredible.
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Day 1 in the books and WOW, what a start to the Festival ✨
A full day of classes, inspiring corrections, and dancers pushing themselves to grow together 💥 So much artistry, focus, and energy already filling the studios!
One of the most special parts of Festival is the work happening in the classroom — challenging yourself, learning from incredible faculty, and growing alongside dancers from across the region 👏✨
Day 2… we’re ready for you 👀🔥
More classes, more dancing, more unforgettable Festival moments ahead!!
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✨ Meet Your 2026 RDA/Northeast Festival Faculty ✨
Dynamic, inspiring, and ready to push you further — the 2026 RDA/Northeast Festival faculty is here and it’s a stacked lineup. 💥
This is your space to train, explore, and soak up every bit of knowledge these artists bring into the room!
Meet your 2026 RDA/Northeast Festival Faculty:
✨ Chelsea Ainsworth & Jessica Smith
✨ Laszlo Berdo
✨ Charles Maple
✨ Kim Sagami
✨ Chip Abbott
✨ Anton Wilson
✨ Lori Bodine Benold — Adjudicator
✨ Nick Korkos
✨ Jon Perry
✨ Matteo Mangialetti
✨ Steven Mitchell
✨ Ryan DeFranzo
✨ Bradley Harris
✨ Deborah Engerman
✨ Mani
From studio to stage, this faculty brings depth, experience, and perspective that defines the RDA/Northeast experience!
Northeast… it’s your turn. Let’s get to work 🔥
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Susannah Bucko — Philadelphia Dance Theatre
✨ 2026 RDA/Northeast Eurotard Dancewear Senior Contemporary Outstanding Soloist
Susie Bucko will perform “La Vie en Rose”, choreographed by Zach Kapeluck, at Festival. Susie’s selection highlights expressive contemporary artistry and we can’t wait to see it live on stage this weekend!
Thank you to Eurotard Dancewear for supporting emerging artists. ✨❄️🌹✨
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Abigail Larkin — Greater Annapolis Ballet
✨ 2026 RDA/Northeast Eurotard Dancewear Senior Classical Outstanding Soloist
Abigail Larkin will perform a variation from Coppélia at Festival. Join us in celebrating all of the talented dancers stepping on stage this weekend!
Thank you to Eurotard Dancewear for supporting emerging artists. ✨❄️✨💃
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