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Following recruitment presentations,
individual applicants are interviewed by AileyCamp staffers
and volunteer community leaders. All campers receive full
tuition scholarships, breakfast and lunch, camp uniforms,
and dance clothing.
AileyCamp targets students with academic, social, and domestic
challenges—criteria that often determine a child's risk
of dropping out of school. AileyCamp welcomes students who
have little opportunity to develop their artistic interests
by providing positive adult and peer role models for underserved
youths.
At the end of camp, students leave with valuable life skills
and a sense of accomplishment before they enter the challenging
high school years.
One instructor is sent from
the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation and the remaining instructors
are from the metro-Atlanta area. Diane Sales is the director
of AileyCamp Atlanta. She is a local dancer and instructor
who, as a young New Yorker, received training at the Ailey
school and is a former member of the Ailey II Company.
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