BROADWAY COMES TO PARK SHORE:

Jamie Chandler-Torns has joined the Park Shore family as our new Director of Performing Arts. Jamie, along with her music and theater directors, has developed our all new Performing Arts Track Program for the summer of 2007, which will offer our senior girls and boys a more intense experience in Performing Arts.

Jamie's professional credits include the original cast of seven Broadway shows including Ragtime, The Red Shoes, A Class Act, Starlight Express, The Goodbye Girl, and Carrie. She was last seen in Sweet Smell of Success starring John Lithgow. Beyond her performance, she also served as dance captain for the show's choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon, a noted choreographer and renowned dancer with the New York City Ballet.

Jamie has performed at several of the acclaimed venues including The Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, and numerous Broadway theatres. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with accomplished composers and lyricists and has been teaching and choreographing for over 20 years. These are simply a few of her accomplishments as her list of accolades are many.     

                                                                    

The goal of the Park Shore Performing Arts Track Program is to offer campers with a keen interest in the Performing Arts the opportunity to express themselves creatively in a fun and highly instructive atmosphere. Creative drama builds self confidence, self esteem, and vocabulary in a fun and safe environment. This exciting program will offer our senior girls and boys a more intensive theater arts program that will give them the opportunity to develop their imagination and creativity as well as benefit from skill-building exercises that will aid them in all future endeavors.

A TYPICAL DAY OF A
PERFORMING ARTS TRACK CAMPER

 

• Three periods of Performing Arts, which will include classes in dance, theater arts, and voice. Classes will be conducted in our indoor theater in addition to our new Performing Arts classrooms.
• Instructional Swim
• Lunch
• Finish the afternoon in their regular camp group and experience all of the fun Park Shore has to offer including Sky Jump (Bungee Trampoline), Sky Mountain (24 foot Rock Climbing Wall), Sky Trail (High Ropes Course), free swim, special events, athletics, pedal karts, KidZone and so much more!

The following is a summary of the basic concepts from each discipline that campers will be exposed to during the course of our 8-week camp session:

Dance: Posture and body awareness, hand-eye coordination, interpretive movement, different styles of dance, dance terminology

Singing: Rhythm and tonality pitch, breath control and awareness, musical terminology

Acting: Posture and body awareness, improvisation and creative expression, character development, acting terminology

Musical Theater: Stage direction and blocking, ensemble techniques, rehearsal discipline, who’s who on a production team, musical theater terminology

These skill-building sessions along with rehearsal for the end of the summer production will make for an exciting and rewarding experience for all campers involved.

All campers who normally have Performing Arts on their daily schedule will benefit from our new and enhanced Performing Arts Program directed by Jamie and her Performing Arts team. A very exciting and professional skill-based activity program will be developed to increase all campers’ enthusiasm, self-confidence, self-esteem, and the overall enjoyment of each day at Park Shore.