National Dance Institute is proud to continue its partnership with The WNET Group’s Camp TV this summer to bring day camp experiences to young learners across the country. Camp TV has returned for Season 3 with new episodes for campers ages 5-10 on public television stations nationwide and CampTV.org.
NDI is an original partner of Camp TV which launched in 2020 and is now featured in a total of 13 episodes of Public Television’s award-winning summer learning series.
NDI teaching artists take children through dance and music discovery in five new episodes in Season 3 as they learn through play, activities, and movement. Comedian Mia Weinberger joins as co-counselor alongside Broadway performer Zachary Noah Piser (“Dear Evan Hansen,” “Wicked”) as head counselor in the 10 new half-hour episodes. Each episode of Camp TV begins with the counselors announcing the theme for the day. Season 3 themes include Going Green Day, Unicorn Day, Carnival Day, Time Warp Day, Make a Splash Day, Self-Care Day, Pirate Day, Magic Day, Mustache Day, and Not Really Valentine’s Day.
To watch CAMP TV, find your PBS Station here: camptv.org/find-my-station. The entire collection of Camp TV segments, episodes, related activities, and more is available online where you can see all 13 episodes of NDI dance and music discovery in Season 1, Season 2, and Season 3:
| Episode Name | Segment Title |
“Unicorn Day”  |
Narwhal Dance |
| “Make a Splash Day” |
Fiona and Carlos Make a Splash |
| “Self-Care Day” |
Calia and Todd Elements Class |
| “Magic Day” |
Kelly and Tim Rhythm Challenge |
| “Mustache Day” |
Yakir’s Call and Response |
| “Summer Celebration Day” | Salad Dance |
| “Snow Day” | Family Challenges |
| “Celebrate Your Name Day” | Yoga Dance with Calia and Todd |
| “Favorite Animal Day” | Animal Dance Party |
| “Ocean Day” | Moving and Grooving with Jessi and Ly |
| “Poem in My Pocket Day” | Emotions Dance with Jen Aks-Neuman |
| “Black and White Day” | Our Bodies with Calia and Todd |
| “Favorite T-Shirt Day” | Nature Explorations with Calia and Todd |
Experts and teaching artists from leading educational and cultural institutions across the country present segments focusing on math, literacy, science, arts, movement, mindfulness and more. Kids are encouraged to actively participate with the show, with hands-on segments that have them drawing alongside experts from the Guggenheim Museum, learning math from the Intrepid Museum’s various exhibits and dancing with National Dance Institute. A new segment called “Mindful Me” teaches viewers self-care techniques that aim to build resilience, confidence, and self-awareness.
For Season 3, National Dance Institute joins Blackspace, Carnegie Hall, Children’s Museum of the Arts, Courtney Chu, The Exploratorium, Guggenheim Museum, Impossible Science, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Liberty Science Center, Lincoln Center, Memphis Zoo, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mister C, New Victory Theater, New York Philharmonic, One Voice Children’s Choir, PBS39, PBS North Carolina, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Story Pirates, They Might Be Giants, ThinkTV and WHRO Public Media.
Camp TV is a production of The WNET Group. The program is distributed nationally by the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA). Sandra Sheppard is executive producer. Melinda Toporoff is co-executive producer and writer. Kevin Di Salvo is coordinating producer. Major funding for Camp TV is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding was provided by The Charles and Lucille King Foundation, the New York City Council, the Alice Lawrence Foundation, Pine Tree Foundation of New York, and The Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney Fund.