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Offered by College of Embodied Arts & ULC

UNPLUGGED ART!

Children’s Performance Arts Camps

Five day, four night workshop for children ages 8 to 13 ~ 1/2 way between

Chico and Forest Ranch at The Goddess Temple/ 8 miles up Hwy 32

August Session:

Monday, August 2nd through Friday, August 6th

This Workshop will combine a creative performance workshop for children with a conscious, sustainable, retreat style environment. Students will work on an original show while gaining experience, skills and ease in the performance disciplines of music, dance and theater. Children will improve movement skills through the study of dance technique, and use their own ideas to create a performance using movement, acting, music, percussion, and fantasy play. It is an opportunity for children to work imaginatively and non-competitively with each other.  The week will culminate in a performance on Thursday evening, which friends and family are invited to view.

In addition to the performance project there will be swimming, hiking, artwork, costume construction, archery, storytelling, singing and free time.  Food will be organic, and the participants will have the opportunity to camp in tepees.  To maximize concentration, imagination and embodied reality, this will be a screen free environment - no television, movies, video games, computers or phones.  Children may contact parents each day, or as necessary.

DIRECTOR/INSTRUCTOR – Jeanne Christopherson (B.F.A. in Drama/Dance and a Masters in Performance, Culture and Education has been teaching dance and theater to children for 20 years. Her credits include Magic Movers and Young Audiences in Montana, Grand St. Settlement Children’s Dance Company in NYC, and Nefertiti’s Dozen in California.  She teaches at CSU Chico and College of Embodied Arts.

OTHER FACULTY:  Mariamma Christopherson, Zack Cowan and others

Each session is limited to 20 children

FOR INFORMATION CALL:  (530) 345-6324 ~OR~ (310) 902-9154