Summer Shakespeare Conservatory 2010
Five-Week | Four-Week | Two-Week | Scholarships | Registration
The Summer Shakespeare Conservatory is rooted in the same passion for artistic exploration that guides Cal Shakes’ Main Stage productions. We ask our students to set aside limits: to be courageous and open to surprise as they immerse themselves in the immediacy and power of Shakespeare’s plays. We offer opportunities to engage creatively with professional artists and fellow students through expressive language, deep acting process, active investigation of historic context, and public performance.
Working with professional teaching artists—experienced teachers who are artists in their own right—Conservatory students spend the morning studying acting, voice, physical comedy, stage combat, movement, improvisation, text, and more; afternoons are for rehearsals, where all the disciplines come together to create a fully-realized, specially-adapted public performance of a Shakespeare play on the final day of the conservatory session.
| Bentley Upper School, Lafayette Our Five-Week program* is the most intensive of our offerings, providing theater enthusiasts the complete Cal Shakes experience, with master classes, field trips, and two full days of hour-long Shakespeare performances at the end of the program. The Two-Week program is a condensed version, also rigorous in structure, and culminating in a day of 30-minute Shakespeare performances by each age group. June 21–July 24* 9am–3:30pm Bentley Upper School, Lafayette $1350 Includes two days of performances: July 23 and July 24 July 26- Aug 6 9am-3pm Bentley Upper School, Lafayette $500 |
St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco Our first year in San Francisco finds us right off the Hwy 1 Corridor at Saint Ignatius—easily accessible from both the North Bay and South Bay—for a Four-Week* Summer Shakespeare Conservatory. Participants immerse themselves in a wide variety of theater disciplines—including master classes by theater professionals—as well as daily rehearsals culminating in a day of 45-minute Shakespeare performances at the end of the program. July 12–Aug 6* 9am–3pm St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, San Francisco $1200
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Holy Names High School, Oakland We are back at Holy Names for the fourth year in a row, offering a Two-Week Conservatory perfect for those with a passion for theater but whose schedule constraints don’t allow them to attend a longer session. Participants spend the morning studying acting, physical comedy, stage combat, and more; afternoons are reserved for rehearsals, culminating in a day of 30-minute Shakespeare performances. June 28–July 9 9am–3pm Holy Names High School, Oakland $500 |
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Performance Tickets Please check back with us in June for more information on how to purchase your Five-Week Conservatory Final Performance Tickets. |
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| Transportation to and from Summer Shakespeare Conservatories: Bentley Upper School: A shuttle will transport students from Lafayette BART to the camp site. Holy Names High School: A shuttle will transport students from Rockridge BART to the camp site. Please Note: There is a nominal fee for transportation. |
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| Registration & Contact Information Click here to register online Or contact Ava Jackson, Artistic Learning Administrator, at 510.809.3293 org learn@calshakes.or for further information. Please Note: *If you are interested in registering for the Five-or Four-Week Conservatory and have never attended before, please call Ava at 510.809.3293 to book an interview.
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| Scholarships Need-based scholarships are available for all of Cal Shakes’ Summer Shakespeare Conservatories, and we at Cal Shakes are eager to make scholarships available to every youth who needs one. Please call our office at 510.809.3293 to request a scholarship application. Scholarship application deadline is March 15, 2009. Underwriting for scholarship assistance is provided through the generosity of numerous individuals. |
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