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The Tri-States Premier Performing Arts School!
Summer at Center Stage Music & Performing Arts is like no other!
Find your inner pop star while singing and dancing at Summer Pop Academy, brush up on your acting skills at Improv Mania or perform on stage locally. You will build your resume as a triple threat performer, singing, acting and dancing in one of our outstanding musical theatre camps or learn to play violin or SHRED on your guitar, or concentrate on your technique and study privately with a professional performer-instructor in our evening summer classes.
Carthage Summer Camps 2012
Classes conducted by professionals. All classes are subject to change.
Classes are designed in sets with parents and gas prices in mind!
If you take a set of 2-3 classes you receive an additional 10% off tuition!
Quincy Summer Camps 2012
Classes conducted by professionals. All classes are subject to change.
Classes are designed in sets with parents and gas prices in mind!
If you take a set of 2-3 classes you will receive an additional 10% off tuition
Parent & Student COMBO One Day Class
QUICK WITS Improv!
Ages 7+
Saturday, June 30th
Workshop 9:00am-11:15am Performance 11:30am-1:00pm
$50 per pair (that's $25 per person!!!)
Have a blast while bonding! This workshop and performance has proved to be a favorite! Who will be the fastest on their feet and in their mind! We will find out when the adults take on the kids in a battle of the Quick Wits!
Week of JULY 9th-13th
Improv Mania
Ages 8-16
June 25th-29th
9:00am-10:30am
$50
Through playing theatrical games students will learn life skills that will help them discover how to think positive all the time, follow their instincts, how to think on their feet and what it means to say "yes, and..."
At the end of this class students will perform their improv technique for friends and family.
You won't be able to wait for the next day of class!
Summer POP Academy
Ages 9-18
July 9th -13th
10:30am-12:00pm
$50
Bring out your inner pop star! Learn about your favorite pop stars, and what makes them unique. Find out which stars and songs best fit your vocal style, and how to find the best songs for your voice without a teacher! Learn what you should and shouldn't do in terms of pop techniques! Then work on stage, sing with the microphones and learn hands on how to perform like a real pop star!
A Song In Your Heart-Songwriting
Age 10-18
July 9th - 13th
12:30pm-1:30pm
$40 (materials included)
Few things compare to the feeling of creating your own music. Learn the basics of songwriting will be broken down and students will be guided through the writing process from the chords to the lyrics to the melody. Whether you've filled a notebook already or been staring at a blank page for months, if there's a song in your heart we will coax it out.
Week of JUNE 18th-23rd
The Triple Threat Performer Boot Camp
Ages 10-18
June 18th-23rd (Performance Saturday June 24th 10am)
9:00am-4:00pm
$145 (T-shirt included!)
Bring a sack lunch!
A Triple Threat Performer is someone who can Sing, Dance & Act!
This intensive all day 5 day bootcamp will put you through your paces. Perfect your singing, acting and dancing skills with our professional instructor-artists who will pass on their expertise in Musical Theatre, Film & TV, Hip-Hop, Acting for Stage, Acting on camera, Singing and much more.
Technique will be worked on and then hands on will take place to create a showcase for friends and family Saturday at 10am! Be the best – be a Triple Threat!
Participants of Triple Threat Bootcamp can expect to:
• Develop existing talents and find new ones
• Increase in confidence in their acting techniques
• Explore and develop the craft of delivering a musical
theatre song in a real, natural and personal style
• Develop as a character and learn to stay in the role
• Learn new and exciting dance styles
• Make friends and learn to work closely as part of a group
Social Dance
Ages 12-18
June 18th-22nd
3:00pm-4:30pm
$50 per person
Latin, Ballroom, & Swing! Learn Latin dance from a professional Latin Dance teacher from Mexico City, Learn Ballroom and Swing from Chenille Saunders!
A showcase of dances will be performed for friends and family the last day of class and possibly for a community venue!
Week of JUNE 25th-30th
Improv Mania
Ages 8-16
June 25th-29th
9:00am-10:30am
$50
Through playing theatrical games students will learn life skills that will help them discover how to think positive all the time, follow their instincts, how to think on their feet and what it means to say "yes, and..."
At the end of this class students will perform their improv technique for friends and family.
You won't be able to wait for the next day of class!
Get THAT Part! Audition Tips & Tricks!
Ages 8-18
June 25th-29th
10:30am-11:30am
$50
Chenille Saunders is known for her students getting THE part! She will be teaching tricks of the trade and how to be the performer every director wants! Learn about behaviors, facial expression, staging, clairety, and what it really takes from the moment you step out of the car till you drive away! These are life skills we should all get to know!
Acting Out!
Ages 8-16
June 25th-29th
11:30am-12:30pm
$50
Explore the basics of acting in an exciting and interactive way.
Learn about acting theories styles, and explore stage combat and characteriztion.
We will also touch on memorization tricks and performance preparation techniques. Student-artists will have the opportunity to perform a scene and/or monologue in a final showcase at the conclusion of the session.
Don't miss your chance to Act Out!
Week of JUNE 25th-29th
Basic Violin!
Ages 7-15 & seperate Adult classes
June 25th-29th
2:00pm-3:00pm
$50
Are you just learning violin? Want to learn more? Do you have a violin but never learned to play? Join us as we learn the basics of playing the violin, including proper playing technique, posture, and producing great sound, no more screeches and scratches! While we cannot teach everything there is to know about the violin in a week, we can help you get started and motivated to continually learn. There will be a short performance the last day of camp to SHOWCASE all that we will have learned.
Requirements: A violin, a method book (it will be assigned at the first session) and a desire to have FUN!
Violinists…striving to be first chair?
Ages Jr. & Sr. High School
June 25th-29th
3:00pm-4:30pm
$60
Here’s where you learn to become a little more professional and a better violinist! In this camp, students who are at a more advanced level of playing will enjoy playing all genres of music, playing in an ensemble as well as soloist, learn new tricks, and brush up on that thing we love to call theory. A performance will follow on the last day of camp, to SHOWCASE all that we will have learned. You will be surprised by your performance quality at the end of the week!
Guitar 101 Youth
Ages 8-12
June 25th-29th
3:00pm-4:30pm
$60
Beginning guitar players of all ages will learn the basics of the instrument at a pace that is both comfortable yet exciting. Students will be taught basic guitar set-up for both acoustic and electric guitar, major and minor scales, and then build their skills into simple yet fun chord progressions to make songs you can show off to your friends and family!
Week of July 2nd-28th
Musical Workshop Production - Jack and The Beanstalk
Ages 6-13
Auditions June 29th 4:00-6:30pm
Class is the whole month of July
Times 4:00pm-6:30pm
Join Jack and the cast in mounting a full production of this classic story. Participants will gain knowledge in all the skills needed to be in a production.
Everyone who signs up will be in the show however auditions June 29th will be held for casting placement. Rehearsals will begin directly after this, Mon - Fri for two hours. Tech week rehearsals will be Mon - Fri for four hours. Performances (2) will be the last week of July!
Props, costumes and set will be used! We are also using stage hands, set designers, lighting and sound people as well! Don’t miss this awesome opportunity!
A FREE performance for the public will be performed July 27th & 28th!
JULY 9th-13th
Acting Out! Youth
Ages 6-12
July 9th-13th
12:00pm-1:30pm
$50
Explore the basics of acting in an exciting and interactive way.Learn about acting theories styles, and explore stage combat and characteriztion.
We will also touch on memorization tricks and performance preparation techniques. Student-artists will have the opportunity to perform a scene and/or monologue in a final showcase at the conclusion of the session.
Don't miss your chance to Act Out!
Summer POP Academy
Ages 9-18
July 9th -13th
1:30pm-3:00pm
$50
Bring out your inner pop star! Learn about your favorite pop stars, and what makes them unique. Find out which stars and songs best fit your vocal style, and how to find the best songs for your voice without a teacher! Learn what you should and shouldn't do in terms of pop techniques! Then work on stage, sing with the microphones and learn hands on how to perform like a real pop star!
Improv Mania Youth
Ages 7-12
June 25th-29th
3:00pm-4:30pm
$50
Through playing theatrical games students will learn life skills that will help them discover how to think positive all the time, follow their instincts, how to think on their feet and what it means to say "yes, and..." At the end of this class students will perform their improv technique for friends and family.
You won't be able to wait for the next day of class!
Week of JULY 16th-21st
A Song In Your Heart-Songwriting
Age 12-Adult
July 16th-20th
12:00pm-1:00pm
$40 (materials included)
Few things compare to the feeling of creating your own music. Learn the basics of songwriting will be broken down and students will be guided through the writing process from the chords to the lyrics to the melody. Whether you've filled a notebook already or been staring at a blank page for months, if there's a song in your heart we will coax it out!
Guitar for Teens!
Ages 13-Adult
June 25th-29th
1:00pm-2:00pm
$50
Jesse Mazzoccoli is a well known professional guitarist, we are so excited to have him teach our TEENS! Guitar players will learn the basics of the instrument at a pace that is both comfortable yet rockin’. Student-artists will be taught basic guitar set-up for both acoustic and electric guitar, scales, chord progressions and then build their skills into awesome songs to show off while jammin’ with friends!
All Things Acting - Teens Workshop class
Ages 13-18
July 16th-20th
12:00pm-1:30pm
$50
Marion Denckla Dye an amazing instructor-artist knows All Things Acting and we are thrilled to have her teach YOU! Students will learn about all things acting! Topics include dialects, accents, acting styles, characterization, acting theory, acting for stage and screen, improv, and masks!
Improv Mania - Teens
Ages 13-19
July 16-20th
1:30pm-3:00pm
$50
Through playing theatrical games students will learn life skills that will help them discover how to think positive all the time, follow their instincts, how to think on their feet and what it means to say "yes, and..." At the end of this class students will perform their improv technique for friends and family.
You won't be able to wait for the next day of class!
Social Dance
Ages 12-18
July 16th-20th
3:00pm-4:30pm
$50 per person
Latin, Ballroom, & Swing! Learn Latin dance from a professional Latin Dance teacher from Mexico City, Learn Ballroom and Swing from Chenille Saunders!
A showcase of dances will be performed for friends and family the last day of class and possibly for a community venue!
Parent & Student COMBO One Day Class
QUICK WITS Improv!
Ages 7+
Saturday, July 21st
Workshop 9:00am-11:15am Performance 11:30am-1:00pm
$50 per pair (that's $25 per person!!!)
Have a blast while bonding! This workshop and performance has proved to be a favorite! Who will be the fastest on their feet and in their mind! We will find out when the adults take on the kids in a battle of the Quick Wits!
Week of JULY 23rd-27th
Act It Out - Workshop class
Ages 10-16
July 23rd-27th
9:00am-10:00am
$40
In this exciting class students will act out scenes, of their own choosing, from their favorite books and movies! We will also play fun theatrical games and work on improv.
Vocal Boot Camp
Ages 8-17
July 23rd-27th
10:00am-11:30am
$50
Learn all the basics such as how the vocal chords work, care of the chords, proper breathing, diaphram work, diction and more! Games and awesome videos will prove to make you a better singer with a lot of fun! This class includes a take home warm-up CD produced by nationally renowned singer and performer Chenille Saunders, also the director of the course!
Get THAT Part! Audition Tips & Tricks!
Ages 9-18
July 23rd-27th
11:30pm-12:30pm
$40
Chenille Saunders is known for her students getting THE part! She will be teaching tricks of the trade, and how to be the performer every director wants! Learn about behaviors, facial expressions, staging, clairety, and what it really takes from the moment you step out of the car till you drive away! These are life skills we should all get to know!
That thing we call THEORY!
Ages 10-18
July 23rd-27th
12:30pm-1:30pm
$40
No one seems to like theory as much as Stephanie Hughes! She will be teaching fun ways to look at theory as well as get you ready for school! Be the top in your class for theory knowledge! Join us for a new look at that thing we call THEORY!
Shredding 101
Ages 12-Adult
June 25th-29th
1:30—2:30pm
$50
Want to SHRED with all your friends or just show off some licks? Don't just pretend on Guitar Hero!
This is the place to be! Jesse Mazzoccoli is a professional guitarist, writer for guitar international magazine, and has his Masters in Guitar Performance! Learn from the best! Bring your guitar, pics, amp and attitude and Let’s RAWK!!!
Register by calling the Studio at
(217) 357-NOTE
online registration coming soon!
Register by calling the Studio at
(217) 357-NOTE
online registration coming soon!
Register by calling the Studio at
(217) 357-NOTE
online registration coming soon!
Register by calling the Studio at
(217) 357-NOTE
online registration coming soon!
Register by calling the Studio at
(217) 357-NOTE
online registration coming soon!
Register by calling the Studio at
(217) 357-NOTE
online registration coming soon!
Register by calling the Studio at
(217) 357-NOTE
online registration coming soon!
Register by calling the Studio at
(217) 357-NOTE
online registration coming soon!
Register by calling the Studio at
(217) 357-NOTE
online registration coming soon!
