Customized educational fine arts tours for middle school and high school groups. Theater, Dance, Art, and Fashion — every itinerary is built around your program and tailored to your students.
New York City is the arts capital of the world. Broadway fills 41 theaters every night. The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds over two million works. Fashion designers from every corner of the globe set up shop within a few square blocks of each other. Harlem has shaped jazz, hip-hop, and modern dance in ways that no other neighborhood on earth can claim.
Not through a screen, not through a textbook, but by taking a stage combat class with a working Broadway professional, walking through a costume designer's studio, or sitting in a theater seat watching a show that was built by people they met that afternoon.
e.e. Tours has been designing customized Educational Fine Arts tours for student groups in New York City for over 30 years. Every itinerary starts with your school or class goals and gets built outward from there. Theater groups get inside Broadway. Dance groups train at the studios where professionals work every day.
Art students move through the city's greatest institutions and then sit down with someone who earns a living in the industry. Fashion students visit the schools, the designers, and the brands that are actively shaping what the industry becomes next.
This is not a bus tour with a microphone. It is a working trip in the world your students are preparing to enter.
Every itinerary is built from scratch around your program, goals, and schedule.
Performances include between 2 to 4 Broadway shows across your trip, depending on schedule and group preferences, with access to talkbacks where students meet and question the cast directly after the curtain comes down. Workshops are led by working professionals — stage combat training with certified instructor Jared Kirby, improvisation sessions at Broadway Comedy Club, and song interpretation and dance workshops at Pearl Studios.
Students visit the Museum of Broadway, tour Lincoln Center, and explore backstage at the New Amsterdam Theatre. A typical day opens with Central Park, the Upper West Side, and Harlem, with evenings anchored by Broadway shows.
Dance students take class at Alvin Ailey, Broadway Dance Center, and Steps on Broadway — studios where professional dancers train daily. Workshop instructors are selected from the casts of current Broadway productions, bringing students up close to performers who are actively working in the industry. Students also have the opportunity to take a class at Radio City Music Hall.
Groups attend Broadway shows and, where possible, participate in talkbacks with cast members who are dancers themselves. If your school or company has its own performance scheduled during the trip, itineraries are built around those dates.
All styles are represented in New York: Broadway, jazz, ballet, contemporary, hip-hop, and African dance traditions all have a home here.
Request a Dance Tour ItineraryMuseum visits include the MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and the Frick Collection. In addition to the collections themselves, students get a guided tour of Rockefeller Center focused specifically on its art and architecture — one of the best hidden secrets of public art experiences in the city.
A gallery owner sits down with the group for a candid conversation about the business of art: how galleries discover artists, how pricing works, and what career paths exist beyond making art. This is the kind of access that cannot be replicated through a textbook.
Request an Art Tour ItineraryThe tour includes a visit to the Fashion Institute of Technology with a walk through its museum, which houses one of the most important collections of fashion and textiles in the world. Students visit the Brooklyn Museum during exhibitions that spotlight individual designers.
A Broadway costume designer — Ricky Lurie of Ricky Lurie Designs — leads a workshop covering how costumes are designed, sourced, and constructed for live production. The tour also includes a visit to Zero Waste Daniel, a New York-based sustainable fashion brand that has become a student favorite. It is a conversation about the future of the industry as much as the present.
Request a Fashion Tour ItineraryStart the conversation up to a year before travel. Most groups begin payments 6 months out.
No prior trip experience needed
Larger groups reduce the cost per traveler
Support available in the hotel and during activities
Recommended ratio: 1 adult for every 10 students
e.e. Tours helps first-time trip organizers through each step, from the first conversation to the day your group returns home.
Most travelers who contact us are planning their first student trip.
Our team guides you through the planning, approvals, payments, and travel logistics.
Thirty years of relationships that no booking website can replicate.
The same person who answers your email writes your itinerary and picks up the phone six months later.
Travelers regularly change the direction of a tour entirely. One found Zero Waste Daniel through her own research — it is now a regular stop.
When you are coordinating thirty students and a school board approval, waiting a week for an answer is not an option. It has never been the complaint here.
The cast talkbacks, the studio sessions, the backstage visits — these exist because of real relationships built over three decades. Not available to groups that book online.
School district checks, individual family payments, or online via wetravel.com. The initial deposit is small and fully refundable if the trip does not come together.
Request a free custom itinerary. We respond within one business day.