WHBPAC Opens Registration for 2015 Summer Arts Education Classes & Camps

Registration is now open for the WHBPAC's highly acclaimed Summer Arts Education Camps & Classes.

From summer-long acting classes to week-long camp offerings, these distinctive performing arts programs span a wide spectrum of arts areas, including musical theatre, ballet, and acting. Each program is designed to enhance and refine young people's performing arts skills and deepen their appreciation and life-long love for the arts. Participation in the performing arts unleashes creative energy, helps young people find his/her unique voice, and reinforces valuable life skills: teamwork, social skills, responsibility, commitment, self-esteem and creative development.

The WHBPAC's Arts Education Program prides itself on being a sequential, skill-based program where students can grow and develop. Its wildly popular Musical Theatre Camps are the foundation upon which students can begin to build a life-long love of the performing arts.

MUSICAL THEATRE CAMPS

Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm

Ages 6-16

Fee: $450

Campers are cast on Monday, and by Friday, they are performance-ready with costumes and sets! And when they're not rehearsing with Missoula Children's Theatre Directors, campers will be learning all about theatre and singing from WHBPAC's acclaimed Teaching Artists, enjoying pizza parties and ice cream socials and participating in the ever-popular "Spirit Days!" Young people ages 12 and up who would like to be "behind the scenes" can choose to participate as "Assistant Directors." This summer's Musical Theatre Camps include:

Red Riding Hood

July 6-10

Go over the river and through the wood to this camp full of fun and surprises!

Performance: Friday, July 10 at 7pm

Peter & Wendy

July 20-24

It's off to Never-Never Land in this week of musical theatre fun!

Performance: Friday, July 24, 7pm

Sleeping Beauty

August 10-14

Zzzz ... dreaming of the perfect musical theatre camp? Join us for this one-week program where your child is the star!

Performance: Friday, August 10, 7pm

BROADWAY BOOT CAMP - Camp Broadway

Monday-Friday, August 3-7, 9am-5:30pm

Ages 10-17

Fee: $750

Back by incredibly popular demand, Camp Broadway gives enthusiasts of the Great White Way the chance to work with real Broadway professionals. Campers will learn choreography, music and acting as they prepare a show-stopping performance for family and friends at the end of the week. Mid-week, campers will travel via motor-coach to NYC for a Broadway show, lunch and a peek backstage!

Final Showcase: Friday, August 7th

BALLET CAMP

Monday-Friday, August 17-21

Ages 5-17

Fee: $340 (ages 11 and younger) $350 (ages 12 and older)

Learn and perfect your technique in this esteemed residency with Peconic Ballet Theatre (formerly DanceCore)! This glorious week of daily classes and rehearsals culminates in an evening performance alongside a company of professional dancers. All ability levels are welcomed; no prior experience necessary.

ACTING CAMPS - Tween Theatre Troupe

Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm

Ages 9-11

Fee: $450

These special week-long camps are designed specifically for the tween actor to learn new skills and shine in his or her own peer group. Campers will expand their imaginations while honing their theatrical skills as they rehearse and perform an original play written just for them by WHBPAC Artistic Staff!

Prank Wars

July 13-17

In the raucous comedy "Prank Wars," two rival camps take one another on in a prank battle of epic proportions!

Performance: Friday, July 17, 2:30pm

Cirque du Sabotage

July 27-31

Intrigue and mystery abound in Cirque du Sabotage - someone is trying to bring down the circus, and it's up to the performers to figure out who!

Performance: Friday, July 31, 2:30pm

ACTING CLASSES - Teen Theatre Troupe

Mondays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, June 22-August 10, 5-8pm

Ages 12-18

Fee: $700

This evening theatre program is designed especially for the serious teen actor. Join us for seven weeks of acting techniques, playwriting and all-around fun as we work toward an end-of-summer performance on Monday, August 10, 7pm! Make friends, express yourself and experience the thrill of opening the "actor's toolbox!"

Performance: Monday, August 10, 7pm

PLAYWRITING INTENSIVE

Monday-Friday, July 13-17, 10am-3pm

Ages 12-18

Fee: $450

The play's the thing in this brand-new one week intensive with Jonathan Dorf, a Los Angeles-based playwright and screenwriter whose plays have been produced over 1000 times, including productions in every US state, as well as around the world! Young dramatists will learn all about translating creativity to the stage, as they write monologues, scenes and ultimately, plays, in a master class setting. The intensive culminates in a reading of students' original ten-minute plays, featuring WHBPAC teen actors!

Play Reading: Friday, July 17

For more information, contact Julienne Penza-Boone at 631-288-2350 ext 114 or JulienneP@whbpac.org.

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