Usdan Center for Creative and Performing Arts is adding classes to its creative and performing arts summer camp on Long Island.
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts will introduce more than 10 new classes this summer in its dance, theater, art, and recreation programs.
Andrew Copper, associate executive director of Usdan, says the arts-based camp is expanding to accommodate students’ interests. “We’re an environment that’s opening and welcoming to all students,” he says. “It’s actually an environment where everyone on our campus is passionate and loves what they do.” Students in second through 12th grades take two classes, one for their major and minor interests, and have one hour of swimming.
New dance programs include hip-hop, lyrical, and a combination dance class. Combination dance is an introductory course that incorporates aspects of jazz, lyrical, theater dance, and modern dance. Theater dance will be offered in the theater department, in which students in seventh through 12th grades learn dance choreography straight from Broadway shows. The art department will now have architectural design, Lego design, sewing classes with bigger class sizes for beginner and advanced levels, and fashion design in part with sewing. For recreation, the camp will offer yoga, archery, Quidditch, and lifeguarding in the swim program.
In addition to the new classes, the Discovery Program will now be open to students in pre-K, rather than only kindergarteners and first-graders. The Discovery Program allows students to explore different areas before fully immersing themselves in a particular subject.
The summer program will run from June 29-Aug. 14 and registration is now open.
Above photo: Students observe an instructor painting a butterfly in one of the art classes.
