The Arts: Taking... and Giving Back by Alanna Balicki Centauri Summer Arts Camp offers an array of opportunities for young minds to grow through imagination: music, writing, art, theatre and dance. Even within departments, there’s enormous choice: Improvisation, stage combat, clown, playwriting, collective creation, radio and musical theatre are just a few of the theatre [...]
Who Am I? by Hunter Gates Program Director, Stage Combat & Physical Theatre This will be my tenth year at Centauri Summer Arts Camp…HOLY WOW!!! My role at Centauri has always been to teach Stage Combat programs. I am a stunt artist by trade, and a Lecoqian Physical Theatre instructor. Stage Combat plays a huge [...]
Why not try Something New this Summer? For all of us, the tendency is to stick with things we know. If you're already good at dance, take dance at camp, for example. We fear failure, and- that's only human. But there are few 'safer' places to try something you have never done before than camp. [...]
Theatre Arts at Camp…or just Drama at School? Sometimes, when campers give their reasons for choosing to take programs in Film, or Creative Writing, or Dance with us at camp, they say: I don’t get to do anything like this at my school! True – and a great reason to explore these art forms at [...]
One of my favourite tasks at Centauri is wandering around the programs each morning to check in on everyone, and to take photos. Here’s a little of what I saw this morning…
We have made a few changes to Hunter’s Session One Stage Combat program… widening the appeal to include fight sequences from movies, and opening the program to 13 year olds!