Seattle Theatre Group and Centrum offers
DANCE This! Camp at Centrum, Port Townsend, WA
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.
REGISTER FOR 2012 DANCE This! Camp at Centrum
Tuition, Room & Board is $850
Scholarships are available.
View 2011 Student Showcases
African Musical Theatre Ballet Modern Hip Hop Choreography
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.
View photos and comments from past DANCE This! experiences
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.
At Centrum, renovated Fort buildings, including classrooms, dormitories, performance and studio spaces, serve as home. While here, students are supervised by faculty and staff, including experienced dorm counselors. During free time students are asked to be in groups of two-to three if they are exploring the grounds of Fort Worden. They are not accompanied by supervisors during their free time, but they are asked to let the Dorm staff know where they are going. Food served at Fort Worden is organic, fresh, and local.
Tuition is $850 per participant and includes room and board.
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.
REGISTER FOR 2012 DANCE This! Camp at Centrum
Tuition, Room & Board is $850
Scholarships are available.
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Produced by Seattle Theatre Group, DANCE This! brings together teen performers, choreographers, guest artists and teachers to share their culture through the art of dance. The DANCE This! Program started in Seattle in 1999 with a performance of cultural and contemporary dance at the Moore Theatre. It has grown into a multi-faceted program that includes performances at the Paramount Theatre, a two-week training Intensive in diverse styles and, the DANCE This! Camp at Centrum.
Seattle Theatre Group (STG) is a non-profit performing arts organization dedicated to operating Seattle's historic Paramount & Moore Theatres, presenting diverse programming and maintaining extensive Education & Community Programs. We are pleased to be partnering with Centrum for this program.
CORE ARTIST FACULTY
Etienne Cakpo 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.
Daniel Cruz recently served as a Co-Dance Captain on the First 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, with choreographers such as Tabitha and Napoleon, Wade Robson, and Brian Friedman.
Amy O’Neal is a performer, choreographer, dance educator, co-director of locust Dance.Music.Video and the director of AmyO/tinyrage.
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 2 works for Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance Theater, collaborated with Savion Glover at the Paramount Theater in Seattle and choreographed for the DANCE This performance. Amy helped to develop STG’s Young Choreographer's Lab.
Ellie Sandstrom, a Seattle Magazine "Spotlight Award Winner", is originally from Minneapolis, where she began her movement training with Minnesota Dance Theater and BalletArts Minnesota. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance at Cornish School of the Arts.
Ellie worked and toured with the dance companies locust and Scott/Powell Performance from 2000-2010, and has been touring with both groups since 2004. 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.
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This program is generously funded by the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Additional sponsors include the Washington State Arts Commission, Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, The Baker Foundation, the College Success foundation, The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Poncho, The Forest Foundation, the Kirlin Foundation, Rayonier Foundation, the Congdon Hanson Family, and nearly a thousand individual donors whose generosity celebrates the power of creativity to change lives.
