Performing Arts Camp

For children and teens in grades K-10

Performing Arts Camp builds self-esteem and confidence as it gathers campers into a unified company of performing artists – a group where teamwork and cooperation are rewarded by the sound of applause.

There's time to swim, participate in sports, create arts and crafts projects, and just relax. Unlike traditional camps, however, our focus is the arts: by showing how different disciplines complement each other, campers learn how they can each contribute to an amazing final product. SJCC Performing Arts Camp provides young people with enriching summer experiences that develop their social and physical skills, cultivate independence and self-confidence, and challenge their imaginations - all in a Jewish atmosphere. The program is highly structured and requires that each child is motivated to give his/her full attention and fully participate each day. Performing Arts Camp also participates in daily outdoor recreation and swimming.

Performing Arts Camp offers children a stimulating summer of workshops in art, dance and drama. The program also includes on-stage performances, weekly field trips, visits from guest artists, and a full-length production in which every actor has a speaking part.

From attending youth productions to strumming the guitar at EMP to learning the art of puppeteers, SJCC Performing Arts Camp encompasses a wide variety of field trips which expand the knowledge of art for each camper. Not only do campers set off to experience these talents, but visitors from Seattle area companies come to teach dance, improv, music and other aspects of the performing arts.

Drama
Theater games as well as drama and vocal exercises help campers learn to express themselves. Both onstage and off, they will experience theater up close through workshops with professionals from the Seattle theater community. Workshops may include acting for the camera, stage combat, make-up, and theater sports.

Dance
Through a study of technique and choreography, campers learn how to break down complicated routines into manageable steps. They gain flexibility, strength and stamina, explore various dance styles, and learn how to survive a dance audition - a must for any school musical.

Theater Production
Campers participate in an all-camp production at the conclusion of each camp session. We experience the camaraderie and energy that builds with the unfolding of a performance. In addition, campers have the opportunity to learn about the backstage components of theater production, including set construction and lighting, as well as sound design and operation.

SUMMER STOCK
For teens in grades 7-10
Summer Stock gives 7th through 10th graders the chance to exhibit their performance skills in a more competitive, intense and demanding work environment. This is a great opportunity for past SJCC campers to continue the legacy and be a part of the community. It also offers new-comers a great chance to get involved!

Days in Summer Stock will be spent rehearsing and using improv/drama games to strengthen onstage skills, as well as singing and voice exercises which teach projection and allow campers to become more comfortable onstage. Other workshops include dance and choreography, stage combat, technical skills (lighting, sets and backstage management), stage makeup, and field trips.

The camp program will follow this three-week schedule:
Week 1: Auditions, receive scripts: read-troughs and character development
Week 2: Blocking/stage directions, set and lighting design
Week 3: Off script, costume fitting, dress rehearsals and performances

LOCATION
Stroum JCC Mercer Island Auditorium

TIME
Monday though Friday
9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

DATES
Session I: June 21-July 9
Session II: July 12-July 30
Session III: August 2-20

GRADES/GROUPS
Starstruck: Grades K-1
Acting Up: Grades 2-3
Broadway Bound: Grades 4-6
Summerstock: Grades 7-10

COST
Early Bird Registration (received by April 1): $515 per session
Standared Registration (received after April 1): $575 per session

For more information, contact SJCC Program Director Zach Duitch at ZachD@sjcc.org or 206-388-1990.

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Director's Cut filmmaking camp
Lights, camera, campers! In this three-week program, campers will write, shoot and star in the film genre of their choice, from music videos and documentaries to short films. They'll learn how to use camera equipment, write scripts, develop a film set, and discover how an idea becomes a movie. Campers will spend time watching movies and talking about what influences films of the past have on films of the present. The main goal of the program is for campers to learn to use film as an artistic outlet and look at modern-day media in ways that they might not have before.

LOCATION
Stroum JCC Mercer Island campus

TIME
Monday though Friday
9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

DATES
August 2-20

COST
Early Bird Registration (received by April 1): $605 per session
Standard Registration (received after April 1): $665 per session

 

For more information, contact SJCC Program  Director Zach Duitch at ZachD@sjcc.org or 206-388-1990.