Center for Excellence - Performing Arts Summer Conservatory

CHAMINADE CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE

PERFORMING ARTS SUMMER CONSERVATORY

ONLINE PERFORMING ARTS SUMMER CONSERVATORY We realize that although we are unable to come together physically as an artistic community, we can come together virtually and continue to connect and grow in the performing arts that bring us joy and feed our soul.

There is value in holding on to what nourishes us as human beings and can prepare us for the future when we are back in the studio and on the stage.

You may sign up for one class, two classes or as many as you desire. You may create your performing arts experience online here at Chaminade with our resident teaching artists!

After all, this is just an extended intermission.

All sessions will be on Zoom.

SUMMER SESSION I JUNE 15- JULY 2 Contemporary Ballet Entering grades 9-12

Chaminade is thrilled to welcome Lillian Barbeito as the Director of our new Dance Program. Her contemporary dance background permeates her ballet classes for a fun “off the barre” progressive ballet experience.

Popular and world music will accompany exercises that emphasize healthy alignment, movement, precision, and expressivity. Each class will culminate in a contemporary ballet phrase work that builds every week. At the end of the three classes, there will be a “virtual showing” for friends and family to observe the contemporary ballet phrases that have been taught, learned, and explored on Monday, June 29 from 11:30 am. – 12:00 pm.

Instructor: Lillian Barbeito, Chaminade Director of Dance Program

14 student maximum Date: Mondays June 15, June 22, and June 29 Time: 10:00 –11:30 am Cost: $125

Vocal Technique

Entering grades 9-12 Our Vocal Technique class will explore the different colors of the voice and teach students how to effectively transition to the three different areas of the voice: chest voice (belt voice), middle voice, and head voice. This course is an intensive vocal arts class that will focus on performance technique and expressiveness, confidence building, and song selection. This class is suited for singers of all musical levels and will allow students to be exposed to several genres of music including: musical theatre, art songs, pop, jazz, and rock. Our Vocal Technique class will focus on each singer’s strengths, and cultivate their love of music.

Instructor: Sara Greenberg, Chaminade High School Choral Director

14 students maximum Date: Mondays June 15, June 22, and June 29 Time: 12:30 – 2:30 pm Cost: $125

Improv

Entering grades 6-8 This course will offer an introductory approach to the beginning elements of improvisational theatre, including the 5 Rules of Improv. Through a series of improvisational games and exercises, students will learn the basics of how to create a living, breathing character by using facial expressions, body language and voice.

Instructor: Michael Russ, Chaminade Middle School Drama Director

14 students maximum Date: Tuesdays June 16, June 23, and June 30 Time: 9:00 – 10:00 am Cost: $90

Improv

Entering grades 9-12 This course will focus on character creation through improvisation as the way to uncover the truth in your acting. Emphasis is placed on the combination of personal discovery, proper technique and a healthy attitude through a variety of improvisational games and team-building exercises. Students will be encouraged to explore self-expression as fully and creatively as possible in order to discover your authentic voice.

Instructor: Michael Russ, Chaminade Middle School Drama Director

14 students maximum Date: Tuesdays June 16, June 23, and June 30 Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Cost: $100

Musical Theatre Master Class Series Entering grades 10 – college

Pursue you passion and learn from industry professionals with this Master Class. Students should come prepared with questions about the business of working as an actor. We will focus on musical theatre, song interpretation, bringing yourself to your work, mastering your auditions and sustaining a career. Bring your best 32 bars!

June 17 – Joanna Gleason, joannagleason.com Broadway: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony Award Nom.), Nick & Nora, Into the Woods (Tony Award Winner for The Baker’s Wife), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Tony Award Nom.), The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard, I Love My Wife.

Film/TV: Hannah and Her Sisters, Heartburn, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Boogie Nights, The Boys, The Good Wife, The Wedding Planner, Blue Bloods, Newsroom, Love & War, The West Wing, The Practice, King of the Hill, Friends, Murphy Brown, ER and more.

June 24 – Ben Davis, benjaminjaydavis.com Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen, Violet, Les Miserables, Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Boheme; National Tours: Sound of Music, Spamalot, Les Miserables; Opera, Regional, Recordings; Film/TV: Law & Order SVU, Blue Bloods, Woman in the Window, Boogie, 3rd Rock and more.

July 1 – Susan Egan, www.susanegan.net Broadway: Beauty and the Beast (Tony Award Nom.for Belle), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cabaret, Triumph of Love, State Fair, Putting it Together; National Tours: Bye Bye Birdie. Film: 13 Going on 30, Gotta Kick it Up. Falling in Love, Extreme Close Up, and more; Television, Concerts, Recordings and more. Voice Over: Meg in Disney’s Hercules, Lin in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away and more.

Host: Yvette L. Bishop, Chaminade Director of Performing Arts/ High School Drama Director. Space is limited. 14 students maximum.

Date: Wednesdays June 17, June 24, and July 1 Time: 12:00 - 2:00 pm Cost: $150

Musical Theatre Workshop Entering grades 6 -9

Students will work on audition technique! How to tell a story and effectively communicate with an audience through monologue work and song interpretation. Students will sharpen their skills and have fun in a supportive, non-competitive environment. Students will learn to focus on creating truthful characters and making acting choices to craft multilayered performances. The first session, students are to come prepared with a one minute monologue and a one- two minute musical theatre song of their choice. The workshop will culminate in a final showcase of their newly learned material on July 1 from 5:00 – 5:45 pm.

Instructor: Yvette L. Bishop, Chaminade Director of Performing Arts/

High School Drama Director. 14 students maximum.

Date: Wednesdays June 17, June 24, and July 1 Time: 3:00 – 5:00 pm Cost: $125

Contemporary Dance Entering grades 9-12 Chaminade is thrilled to welcome This series of three classes catapults students through time. Week one will explore pioneering modern dance from the 1960s and 70s with exercises derived from dance luminaries such as Martha Graham, Jose Limon, and Paul Taylor. Commonly referred to as Release Technique, Week two leaps into post-modern dance that was popular in the 1980s and 90s and includes inversions and floorwork. Week three, students will fall and fly into a cutting-edge movement system called Countertechnique. Mrs. Barbeito is one of 32 teachers in the world who is certified in Countertechnique, developed by Dutch choreographer Anouk van Djik for dancers to move bigger and faster with more ease and enjoyment. At the end of the three classes, there will be a “virtual showing” for friends and family to observe the contemporary dance phrases that have been taught, learned, and explored on Thursday, July 2 from 12:30 –1:00 pm.

Instructor: Lillian Barbeito, Chaminade Director of Dance Program

14 students maximum Date: Thursdays June 18, June 25, and July 2 Time: 10:00 –11:30 am Cost: $125

INSTRUCTOR BIOS Sara Greenberg-Hart is a Los Angeles based choral conductor and vocal music instructor, and has been teaching music for the last ten years to students ages 3-adults. Ms. Greenberg-Hart received her B.A. in music from California Lutheran University and her M.A. in music education from San Jose State University. She has worked with some of the best vocal music educators and choral conductors in the music field, including: Donald Brinegar, Wyant Morton, and Jeffrey Benson. Ms. Greenberg-Hart founded and directed several gold award-winning vocal music programs around the San Fernando Valley that have appeared on KTLA and were asked to audition for the hit television show America’s Got Talent! She is passionate bout sharing her love of music with students of all ages and all skill levels.

Yvette Lawrence Bishop is the Drama Director at Chaminade College Preparatory High School. Since the Fall of 2007, Yvette has directed and produced all of The Chaminade Players productions, including: Sweeney Todd, Hamlet, Almost Maine, The Wizard of Oz, The Crucible, Guys and Dolls, Macbeth, The Secret Garden and many more. She holds an M.Ed from Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, an AOS in Drama from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and a B.A. in Communication Arts from the College of Mt. St. Vincent. She participates in the Directors Lab West and is a member of Actors Equity Association and an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Mrs. Bishop directed Susan Egan in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Peter Pan (Broadway World Nomination) for 5-Star Theatricals. She also has numerous performing credits on Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tours, television, national commercials, and voiceover recordings.

Lillian Barbeito is the new Director of Dance Program at Chaminade College Preparatory High School. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and has an extensive performance career that took her to Europe, New York, and then finally to Los Angeles where she founded BODYTRAFFIC with Tina Berkett. She has taught internationally for organizations such as CalArts, Idyllwild Arts Academy, L’Ecole de Danse de Quebec, Northwest Dance Project, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures and Loyola Marymount University.

Mrs.Barbeito has choreographed over 50 works for high schools, universities, competitions, and professional dance companies throughout the US and Canada.

Michael Russ is the Drama Director at Chaminade College Preparatory Middle School. Since 2006 he has directed and produced all of the improv, drama and musical productions performed by the Middle School Players. He received his B.A. in English Literature from Michigan State University. Mr. Russ moved to New York City in 1995, where he studied at the New Actor’s Workshop under the tutelage of famed teachers and directors George Morrison, Mike Nichols and Paul Sills, the founders of The Second City. He also studied Shakespeare with Douglas Campbell, former Artistic Director of the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota and one of the founders of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Ontario, Canada. He has performed in several national commercials. Mr. Russ has taught drama to students from elementary school to college and was honored for this work in 2000, by the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island, Senator Vincent Gentile and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

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