Summer 2025 enrollment now open!

Discover Usdan
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Each summer, we bring professional teachers and artists—actors, directors, playwrights, painters, sculptors, musicians, composers, dancers, poets, and novelists—to teach and collaborate with our students ages 5 to 18 from Long Island and New York City.

Summer 2025 enrollment is now open! Read on to learn more about our programs and click here to register for a campus tour.

Special Offer for attendees of the RISE: Brand new families to Usdan save $100 off our 4-week Classic and Discovery Programs with promo code RISE24. Offer good for new families only and limited to one per-family. Offer expires October 31, 2024.

Usdan Allegro Music Program
MUSIC

If you love to sing, play, or compose music, explore our Allegro Music Program. Each camp day, Allegro students have two hours of instrumental or vocal instruction in a Major of their choosing—Concert Band, Orchestra, Vocal Ensemble, Piano, or Composition—one hour in a Minor class of their choice, and one hour of U Time as their Recreational Activity, during which they swim or choose from an array of fun games and activities. 

 

Usdan Classic Program for ActorsTHEATER

If you love to perform, explore our Theater classes and then take a look at our Classic Program. From acting to improv, musical theater to the accomplished Usdan Troupe, theater students learn how to develop characters, improvise scenes, perform songs for the stage and more under the expert guidance of professional theater educators and performers.

Students in our Classic Program choose a two-period Major, a one-period Minor, and a one-period Recreational Activity, during which they swim or choose from an array of fun games and activities.

 

Usdan Classic Program for Dancers
DANCE

From modern to contemporary dance, salsa to hip-hop, ballet to jazz—all styles are welcome at Usdan! Come practice your moves and learn new styles from acclaimed dancers and choreographers. If you're a dancer, review our dance classes and find the Major that's right for you. Then create your curriculum by enrolling in our Classic Program.

Students in our Classic Program choose a two-period Major, a one-period Minor, and a one-period Recreational Activity, during which they swim or choose from an array of fun games and activities.

 

Usdan Classic Program for Artists
ART

Calling all painters, fashion designers, cartoonists, photographers, sculptures, ceramicists, jewelry makers! Explore our diverse offering of art classes—including Sewing and Fashion Design taught by experienced art educators and professional fashion designers—choose an art Major that speaks to you and design your own course of study by enrolling in our Classic Program.

Students in our Classic Program choose a two-period Major, a one-period Minor, and a one-period Recreational Activity, during which they swim or choose from an array of fun games and activities.

Set on 140 acres of natural beauty, Usdan is a welcoming and inclusive place within which campers have the freedom to build new friendships, explore nature, develop personal independence, and have fun, alongside their art making.