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 [...]
Aaron Alviano: An Interview Aaron Alviano has headed our Fine Art Department at Centauri Arts Camp for 7 years now. It wasn't hard to get his answers to these questions, because he also works with us part time in the camp office! Julie: What is your history at Centauri? Aaron: Unlike many staff, I was [...]
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 [...]
Interview with Soyeon Kim, Fine Art Director at Centauri Arts Camp This past week, I had the opportunity to interview the multi-talented Soyeon Kim, who returns this summer to teach fine art with us at Centauri Summer Arts Camp. Here's a transcript of our conversation! Julie: Hi, Soyeon! Last summer you joined us for the [...]
It's Time to Make Stuff this Summer! At Centauri Summer Arts Camp, we always try to offer a few art programs each summer that incorporate elements of design, so campers have the opportunity to put their creative ideas to practical use. Here's a couple of programs that fit this format, for summer 2013: Session Two: [...]
Each summer, Centauri Summer Arts Camp welcomes dozens of brand new campers with enthusiasm and warmth. Like all great summer camps, however, our traditions, and the continued quality of our community atmosphere and programs, depends on those wonderful people who return to us year after year as campers and as staff. One of those people [...]
A few days ago, we shared with you the story of Melissa, a camper and then counsellor at Centauri, who discovered a love of Stage Combat while at camp, and went from knowing nothing about it to certifying as an Actor-Combatant. She now hopes to make the art of stage combat her career. Well, Melissa [...]
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 [...]
Last week, a new camp parent called to ask us a few additional questions about Centauri. One of her questions was: do all your campers want to be arts professionals when they leave school? I told her no, this was absolutely not the case. Many of our campers do go on to successful arts careers, [...]