Seattle Theatre Group offers
DANCE This Camp at Centrum
August 5 - 11, 2012
Immerse yourself in dance!
The DANCE This Camp at Centrum provides an opportunity for high school students to study a wide range of dance styles and techniques in a supportive, yet challenging atmosphere.
Students participate in African, Ballet, Choreography, Hip-Hop and Modern dance classes with professional dance instructors from the Seattle area.
Each day includes technique classes, repertory instruction and choreography sessions, with time for meals and exploring the Fort Worden campus. At the end of the week, students share their work at a Saturday showcase for friends and family.
WHO: The DANCE This Camp at Centrum is open to students entering grades 9-12 in Fall 2012 at all levels of dance experience--from beginner to advanced.
LOCATION: Centrum is located at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend. Perched on the Northeast tip of the Olympic Peninsula, Fort Worden offers 450 acres of sandy beaches, wooded hills, wetlands, and a historic campus, with stunning views of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Olympic and Cascade ranges.
Renovated Fort buildings, including classrooms, dormitories, performance and studio spaces, serve as students' homes during their time at Centrum. Dorm wings are supervised by experienced dorm counselors.
COST: Tuition, room and board for the week is $850 per participant.*
*A limited number of scholarships are available. Please indicate any desire for consideration on the registration form.
2012 CORE ARTIST FACULTY
Daniel Cruz (Hip Hop) recently served as a Co-Dance Captain on the 1st National Tour of the Tony-award winning musical, In The Heights. Cruz has also worked with the 5th Avenue Theater, The Village Theater, MTV VMA's (Michael Jackson/NSYNC), BET (Ashanti), Musicology music video (Prince), Seattle Seahawks, Microsoft, STG, Napoleon & Tabitha D’Umo, Wade Robson and Brian Friedman.
Etienne Cakpo (African Dance) is a professional dancer, choreographer and musician from Benin, West Africa. He teaches and performs traditional and contemporary African dance styles, and has been building his dance repertoire for over twenty years. Currently the director and lead choreographer of Gansango Music and Dance based in Seattle, Etienne contributes regularly to the cultural arts community in Western Washington, and performs in solo events and group shows. Gansango works locally and nationally with public libraries, schools and independent arts agencies to make performance of dance and music from Africa available to a wide range of audiences, including young children. Etienne enjoys collaborating with multi-cultural dance groups and educating people of all ages and backgrounds about African culture through the arts.
Amy O’Neal (Choreography) is a performer, choreographer, dance educator and co-director of locust music/dance/video (locustsucka.com) and director of AmyO/tinyrage (tinyrage.com). Over the past decade, she has toured nationally and internationally with her own dance and video work as well as with Reggie Watts and the Pat Graney Company. She has created two works for Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance Theater, collaborated with Savion Glover at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle and choreographed for the DANCE This performance. Amy teaches regularly at Seattle’s Velocity Dance Center and with STG’s DANCE This Intensive and the Young Choreographer's Lab. Amy was choreographer in residence at Bates Dance Festival in 2007, Headlands Center for the Arts in 2008 and Dance Theater Workshop/Japan Society in 2009. Amy graduated with a dance degree from Cornish College of the Arts.
Ellie Sandstrom (Ballet, Modern) is a Seattle Magazine "Spotlight Award Winner," is originally from Minneapolis, where she began her movement training with Minnesota Dance Theater and later BalletArts Minnesota. She has studied various forms of dance technique, body conditioning, composition, improvisation and performance at dance festivals and schools across the country including Cornish College of the Arts, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance. Ellie worked and toured with dance companies locust and Scott/Powell Performance from 2000-2010. Her choreography, under the name SANDSTROMMOVEMENT, has been produced locally and nationally by organizations such as On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center and Perpich Center for the Arts and commissioned by Seattle Dance Project and Washington Ensemble Theater. She currently teaches ballet and modern at Velocity Dance Center and hip hop to high school students at Northwest School in Seattle.
Schedules and instructors subject to change.
Seattle Theatre Group is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit arts organization.
