Intensive dance camp in Mâcon, Burgundy, for teenagers 13–17

The camp is dance all week: over thirty hours of training, about six and a half hours a day split between morning and afternoon, with certified coaches at a French national sports centre. It is not a beginners' camp — the school asks for at least two years of competitive dance experience, two years of French behind the applicant, and the physical fitness to keep up a full training day. There is no audition tape to send; eligibility is checked at application.

Campers arrive on a Sunday and leave on a Saturday, taking one or two weeks. The fee covers administration, full board in a shared room, the dance training, the supervised sports activities and access to the centre's sports equipment, the evening and weekend programme, and a 24-hour emergency line. Flights, insurance, visa and passport costs, train transfers and personal spending are not included; the school suggests allowing modest pocket money for the week.

Campers live at the Omnisports Centre of Mâcon, the sports complex where they also train. Rooms are shared by two to four campers of the same gender and close in age, and French campers stay in the same accommodation as the international group rather than apart from it.

Full board, four meals a day — breakfast, lunch, an afternoon snack and dinner — served in a self-service dining hall at the centre. Allergies and dietary requirements have to be declared in advance; the school says some arrangements may carry an extra cost.

Outside the studio there are supervised sports with certified chaperones and the centre's own sports equipment to use, plus a social programme in the evenings and at the weekend. Mâcon sits on the Saône in Burgundy, about four hours from Paris by train.

The Omnisports Centre of Mâcon is a sports complex with training halls, accommodation and a self-service dining hall on one site, so campers train, eat and sleep without leaving the grounds.

This is a summer for a teenager who already lives for dance and wants to train like it, in French, with French peers. Three things make it unusual: the sheer volume of training, the sports-centre setting where everything happens in one place, and the fact that the camp is shared with local teenagers rather than being an international bubble.