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CASC Specialty Camps were designed to offer camp families additional options to experience throughout the summer. Most specialty camps run 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) and will include juice, a morning snack, and a hot lunch in our spacious, air-conditioned dining hall. A camp t-shirt is also provided. Every day, campers will have an optional free swim and one activity choice in addition to their specialty areas of concentration.
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Arts Camps
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Woodshop Camp
July 20 - 24, August 10 – 14
Boys and Girls ages 10 – 14 • Cost: $550
Do you love to work with your hands and use your imagination? How about building projects from scratch? Then join us for Woodshop Camp. Participants will choose from beginner to advanced projects, including audio-visual cubes, wall shelves, furniture, and more. All projects will involve measuring, cutting, drilling, sanding, and nailing. Campers will learn the proper use of tools, and then will use them under the close supervision of our woodshop director, Warner “Woody” Wood, who has been teaching woodworking for over a decade. Each day our young carpenters will receive handouts explaining various tools that will be used, as well as woodworking methods and practices. At the end of the week, campers will be able to bring their projects home and show them off with pride. No experience is necessary – just a willingness to learn and have fun. Very experienced? Choose one of the more advanced projects and you will be challenged as well.
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Art Camp
July 6 - 10
Boys and girls entering grades 4 – 8 • Cost: $550
So you have an interest in art? Then join us for an exciting art program that will encourage you to explore new avenues for your talent! Concord Academy Summer Arts Camp is a one-week program where participants spend time learning and creating with various art mediums in CA’s state-of-the-art ceramics, wood, and art studios. Classes emphasize creativity as an integral part of the art process for both beginners and more advanced artists. Campers also learn the importance of art as a means of personal expression. Our talented and experienced staff will lead morning and afternoon blocks where campers will explore their creativity through the use of clay, wood, fiber, canvas, and more. No experience is necessary, just a willingness to learn and have FUN!
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Dance Camp
June 22-26, June 29-2*, August 10-14 (Advanced)
Cost: $550
Concord Academy Summer Camp and Summer Stages Dance have joined forces to provide a FUN and exciting dance program for young dancers between the ages of 8-12! The program will include classes in contemporary dance including Jazz, Modern, Ballet and Hip Hop. Joanne Gervais will be back again to lead the dancers in all classes with the help of the skilled CA Summer Camp Dance counselors. All classes will take place in the state-of-the-art dance facility at Concord Academy. The first two weeks will be for all levels and the final week will focus on Advanced technique, which we are excited to offer this year. Dancers must have previous dance experience for the advanced technique week, and must be motivated to take their dance to the next level.
During each week, we will focus on fun and learning, while coming together as a team. We will perform at the end of the week for the entire camp and every day the dancers get a swim period and a all-camp choice activity.
Joanne Gervais is the owner, lead teacher of the Gervais Dance Studio, of Concord. She has been teaching and mentoring young dancers and dance teachers since 1997. Joanne is a former visiting artist in Jazz Dance for the Five Colleges, and Mount Hoyoke College. Joanne is excited to be back at CA for another exciting summer of dance fun
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Drama Camp
July 27 – August 7 (one two-week session)
Boys and girls entering grades 5 – 9 • Cost: $1100
In our air-conditioned 400-seat theatre, campers will learn how to produce a Broadway show from start to finish. Campers will learn all aspects of theatre production, from auditioning and casting the roles to making and assembling their costumes to designing and building the sets…and more! Campers will perform their own show on Thursday August 6 with an evening performance for parents, family, and friends. No theatre experience is necessary – just a willingness to learn and have fun! Space is limited! Drama Camp fills quickly – register early!
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Serious Play with Masks * NEW for 2009! *
July 13 – 17
Boys and Girls entering grades 5 – 9 • Cost: $550
Masks have a long history with the theatre. In this workshop, students will have the chance to explore full use of their bodies and imaginations through Neutral and Expressive mask-work. Discovery of space, character and relationship will be delved into. Students will also craft their own masks - the week will culminate with a Parade of Faces! No experience is necessary. A willingness to move, explore and have fun is required. Join us for this exciting workshop!
Megan Gleeson has been teaching and directing for Concord Academy for the past five years. She has worked both regionally and in NYC in theatres such as: Atlantic Theatre Company's Stage Two (co-produced by Columbia University and Politiscopes), New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park, Playwrights Horizons, Abingdon Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Chautauqua Theatre, New Harmony Project and the Playwright’s Collective, among others. She holds an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Circus Arts
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Simply Circus - Circus Arts Camp
Weeks 1, 2, 3, 4 Performance week 5
Boys and Girls entering grades 3 - 8 • Cost: $600
CASC has once again teamed with Simply Circus to bring the highest quality Circus Arts camp to the area. This year we will be offering 5 one-week sessions of Circs Arts Camp. The first four weeks are training weeks. Come for one, or get advanced instruction by registering for multiple weeks. The fifth week is a performance week, and is only open to those who have registered for one of the previous training sessions.
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At Simply Circus we pride ourselves on providing some of the best training in circus arts available today. All of our staff are highly trained circus artists and instructors. Our staff prides themselves on being able to teach not only the physical skills, but also the various theories that are associated with them.
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If it was easy, it wouldn’t be much fun – and we like to have fun! No matter what skills you have coming in to camp, we will challenge you to learn a variety of new skills, and to take your existing skills as far as you can. You will work harder than you have every worked before, and experience a summer like none you have ever had before.
Whether this is your first experience with circus, or you're looking for advanced level training, you will find it in our programs. During our training weeks, the day is broken into a series of skills classes, with each class focused on a specific circus art. Classes available may include acrobatic arts such as tumbling and hoop diving; equilibristic arts such as stilt walking, unicycle riding or wire walking; manipulative arts such as juggling and diabolo; aerial arts such as static trapeze, Aerial Fabrics, Lyra and Spanish Web; and drama arts such as stage presence, clowning, and physical comedy. At the end of each practice week we invite parents and friends to come and see the work that has been going on.
This year we are also offering a performance show week. During show week we will put together a full 45-60 minute show around this theme. Campers will experience all that goes into a show, including planning and practicing group acts, polishing individual acts, to working out costumes and sound, show order, and more. We will put on a dress rehearsal on Thursday, a camp show Friday afternoon, and our final show for parents Friday, July 24th in the evening.
Circus arts campers should wear a unitard or biketard and bring a bathing suit, towel, water bottle, and change of clothes everyday. Each camper will also receive a detailed handbook allowing them to continue practicing their skills outside of camp.
For more information about the Simply Circus curriculum, please contact Steven (steven@simplycircus.com) or visit our website www.simplycircus.com.
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"The Staff are what make CA camp so great! Somehow, for 8 weeks, day after day, they make each kid feel special and important."
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