As the school year is about to come to an end, many parents are scrambling to find the right summer camp(s) for our kids. If you have a little actor/actress and performing artist in your family, have a look at Educational Theatre Company (ETC).
They have a wide range of summer camps for little performers, as well as teen performers. A partial list of the summer camps being offered this summer include: Creative Drama Camps for grades: K-2nd Grade; Hamleton (A Shakespeare Camp) for grades 3rd-7th; Musical Debut Camp for grades 3rd – 7th; Camp Comedy for grades 3rd-6th; Intro To Film Camp for grades 3rd-7th; Musical Review Camp for grades 3rd-12th; Acting Out Camps for grades 3rd-7th; Puppet Palooza for grades 3rd-7th; Composer’s Corner Camp for grades 3rd-12th; Page to Stage for grades 3rd-12th; That’s a Wrap Film Camp for grades 3rd-12th. There’s even a Podcast Bootcamp!
My daughter Ella is super excited to get immersed into the world of Shakespeare this summer. Please follow my Instagram Stories this summer, as I’ll be popping into the Hamleton class to bring you live coverage as the students imaginatively investigate Shakespeare’s technique through his text and by learning to create unique characters. Campers will gain a wide range of acting skills through both rehearsal and participation in specialized workshops including stage combat, dance, characterization, script analysis, voice and diction, and more! Friends and family will also be invited to an end-of-camp performance–the famous play, Hamlet with a musical twist.
Since 1998, Educational Theatre Company’s (ETC) mission is to unlock the potential of children and adults through immersion in theatre arts.
ETC’s professional theatre artists provide a safe and structured environment where students of all ages can explore their creative potential, take risks and develop skills that stretch beyond the performing arts classroom. Through collaborating with their students as peers and mentors, instructors seek to nurture and support the next generation of theatre professionals and patrons.
ETC changes lives through the arts by encouraging our four pillars in our students, and staff: Creativity Confidence, Collaboration, Community. Each class and program that ETC offers reflects these ‘four C’s.’
Inspire Creativity
At ETC, students plant their own meaning into the stories they tell, be it a folktale, a scene from Shakespeare, or an experience from their own lives. They learn to write, compose, design, and direct in ways that stretch their imaginations beyond their reality.
Encourage Confidence
At ETC, students are given autonomy over the pieces they create. From scripts to set designs to films, students are put in charge of their own creations. Doing so gives students ownership of their creations, engendering self-confidence that they carry beyond the stage and classroom.
Emphasizing Collaboration
ETC is committed to an ensemble approach to theatre education in which students work closely with each other and their teachers throughout the creative process.
Bringing Theatre to the Community
ETC goes into the community to reach underserved audiences such as low- income children and senior citizens who might not otherwise have access to arts programming. ETC sends its teaching artists into schools, community centers, and retirement homes, making theatre a much more personal experience for the participants.
Camp highlight:
- ETC has 32 Summer Camps that run every week of the summer *Including the week before and after APS schools are in session for kids who go to private schools
- Camps are for ages 3-18
- Special half day camps for preschoolers
- Camps are located all over Arlington, so you can find one closest to you
- AM and PM extended day is available
- There are 5 camps this summer at St. Charles Early Childhood Center in the heart of Clarendon for PreK-2nd grade students
There is a little bit for everyone! Puppetry, Shakespeare, Filmmaking, Playwrighting, Sketch Comedy, Acting, Composing and more!
All camps are taught by professional teaching artists that not only teach for us, but are working theatre professionals in D.C.
Professional teaching artists help campers develop skills that allow them to successfully work with their peers to make their own creations on stage and film.
In addition, because of ETC’s emphasis on process, every camper from preschool to high school learns to value both their own and their peers’ contribution to the whole whether it is a film, short play, or Shakespearian scene.
To learn more information and register your children, visit www.educationaltheatrecompany.org
{This is a sponsored post from Educational Theatre Company.}
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