THE JUSTIN AND INEKE PODCAST — A podcast for dance parents
Sep 3, 2026 · 18 min · 9 segments
In this episode of THE JUSTIN & INEKE PODCAST, we pull back the curtain on the financial reality of elite dance training. We’re breaking down every single expense from our time at the Amsterdam…
Okay, so here we have the sheet that we've built over here.
The name of the intensive is the Amsterdam International Summer School, and it's based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
And by the way, this was in 2025, and we had attended one week of the intensive.
The training was about five days in total, and in terms of class hours per training day, that was about six hours of pure dancing.
We were six days away from home, like we mentioned, like Ineke mentioned, that we had left the evening earlier.
But the total training days were still five.
In total, that was about 30 hours of training.
Okay, let's move on to the tuition and the programming itself.
Okay, why did we mention here photoshoot, Ineke?
So you might have to file in a portfolio and send in photos.
Often it's of certain poses that they ask.
In this case, we managed to have beautiful photography ourselves because Justin is an amazing photographer.
However, if you need professional photos for your application, you have to fill in the invoice there.
You might also do it yourself and then it comes to Xero.
The audition fee in this case was zero.
And the tuition for that one week junior course in 2025, the prices might have changed already, was then 750 euros.
There's further on no registration or admin fee.
So the total comes to 750 euros.
And then we will talk about where we sleep and what we eat.
And we're just sharing what we paid.
Okay, so this is a really important section, and that's the accommodation for that one week.
It came to a cost of 1,050 euros.
For food, we estimated that he, our son, there was about 20 euros per, for every dinner, and so that came to a cost about 500 euros.
There was no laundry or bedding costs, and we had estimated about 10 euros for each of the five days of training, just like pocket money for snacks and to spend on in the canteen.
Okay, so here we have the sheet that we've built over here.
The name of the intensive is the Amsterdam International Summer School, and it's based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
And by the way, this was in 2025, and we had attended one week of the intensive.
The training was about five days in total, and in terms of class hours per training day, that was about six hours of pure dancing.
We were six days away from home, like we mentioned, like Ineke mentioned, that we had left the evening earlier.
But the total training days were still five.
In total, that was about 30 hours of training.
Okay, let's move on to the tuition and the programming itself.
Okay, why did we mention here photoshoot, Ineke?
So you might have to file in a portfolio and send in photos.
Often it's of certain poses that they ask.
In this case, we managed to have beautiful photography ourselves because Justin is an amazing photographer.
However, if you need professional photos for your application, you have to fill in the invoice there.
You might also do it yourself and then it comes to Xero.
The audition fee in this case was zero.
And the tuition for that one week junior course in 2025, the prices might have changed already, was then 750 euros.
There's further on no registration or admin fee.
So the total comes to 750 euros.
And then we will talk about where we sleep and what we eat.
And we're just sharing what we paid.
Okay, so this is a really important section, and that's the accommodation for that one week.
It came to a cost of 1,050 euros.
For food, we estimated that he, our son, there was about 20 euros per, for every dinner, and so that came to a cost about 500 euros.
There was no laundry or bedding costs, and we had estimated about 10 euros for each of the five days of training, just like pocket money for snacks and to spend on in the canteen.
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The Real Cost of Training
The advertised tuition was only part of
Hidden Costs Add Up
The biggest expenses came after enrollment
Why They Chose To Go
The family faced a difficult financial choice
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