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Camp Bravo combines creativity with the enjoyment of outdoor activities providing drama teachers an opportunity to come together, explore new ideas, learn new skills, and renew their passion. This season provides four areas of focus from four amazing workshop leaders from within the world of academia and professional theatre. Not only will participants receive hands on practical tools to bring back to the classroom, you will spend three days rediscovering your talent through an intensive course of study designed to provide insight, education, and FUN!!!
COME BE AN ARTIST AGAIN!
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Camp Bravo is located in the San Bernardino National Forest, about two hours outside of Los Angeles, at the de Beneville Pines Camp facility. Camp Bravo is set in a grove of tall pine trees and provides a natural setting with beautiful landscapes, fresh air, and numerous multi-purpose performance spaces.
Lodging consists of fully enclosed cabins with individual double occupancy rooms and bunk bed type accommodations.
Each participant is enrolled in four workshops. Each day will include four workshop sessions, an outdoor activity, free time, and an organized nighttime activity.
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Head of Voice at American Conservatory Theatre
in San Francisco
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BREATH AND MOVEMENT
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Breath that comes and goes on its own is always shifting and changing,
connecting us with our inner life and the impressions of our outer world.
Participants will work with breath in its uncontrolled state to experience
meaning and expressiveness from sensing the possible shapes, directions,
qualities of breath that remain in contact with the unconscious.
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Julliard School - NYC
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THE FREEDOM OF THE MASK
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The goal is to cover the actor in order to uncover. The mask conceals the
wearer, but also reveals. This safety behind the mask functions as a
"permission-giver" and allows the actor to go beyond what is
comfortable and familiar into the unknown and dangerous. The actor is
looking to surprise themselves and to live in the moment and to truly
experience what it means to listen. When fully engaged in the work the
Mask the actor disappears and a new life enters the actor with tremendous
ease. It is a highly rewarding experience, and as much fun to watch as it
is to play.
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University of Southern California
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CONSEQUENCE OF ACTION
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This workshop is an exploration on the nature of violence and how our
personal histories (physically and emotionally) influence our experience of
confrontation on stage. This is a "hands on" class that will
explore moment-to-moment techniques to examine the relationship between the
"aggressor" and the "victim". This workshop is also
intended as an instructional tool on executing the illusion of stage
violence safely and effectively.
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UCLA - School of Theatre
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ACTING THE SONG
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How do you help your students deliver the best audition possible for
Musical Theatre? Broadway vet, Linda Kerns will take the group through a
step-by-step process to help enable your students to focus in and visualize
their objective, create the "opening moment" and emotionally
support their vocal performances.
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Register On-Line
Three transferable 500 level graduate units for teachers' continuing education are currently available through the University of Redlands. Fees are $50 per unit for a total of $150. Checks should be made out to University of Redlands and can be sent to our office with payment for camp. Camp Bravo will handle all registration forms. Anyone who would like further details should contact our office at 1-888-44-BRAVO.
For those who are traveling from outside the Los Angeles area, van pickup is available from the local airports for an additional fee. Please call our office at 1-888-44-BRAVO for arrival and departure times.
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Friday May 28th through Monday May 31st 2010
Participants will arrive in time for dinner on Friday, and the program will continue through lunch on Monday.
The fee for Camp Bravo Teachers Weekend is $375. This includes all lodging, food, workshops, activities, and materials. Payment can be made in full, or we can reserve a spot with a deposit of $200.00. Many participants receive reimbursement through their schools and for California teachers, you may be able to receive some reimbursement through State Bill 1882 or through SIP funds. Registration or deposits are due no later than May 15, 2010. Please send payments to:
Camp Bravo
19360 Rinaldi St. #406
Northridge, CA 91326
This price includes 3 nights lodging, 9 meals, and all workshops, materials, and activities. Please remember to include your complete registration application with your payment. Thank you for your interest in the Camp Bravo Teachers Weekend. If you need a registration application, or have any questions, please call our office.
We look forward to seeing you Memorial Day!
Deadline for registration is May 15, 2010.
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LINDA KERNS - Ms. Kerns is a multi-faceted artist and teacher, whose most
recent projects have included serving as Musical Director for the
critically-acclaimed production of Big River and as Director of Matthew
Goldsby's world-premiere musical Makin' Hay, both at Actors
Co-op in Hollywood. As a performer, Linda was the recipient of the 2006
LAWeekly Award for Best Musical Performance for her work in Into The Woods.
She most recently appeared in Wicked at The Pantages theatre, was in the
original cast of the Broadway musical Nine, Broadway's Big River and
in the National Tour of Les Miserables. Film work includes Titanic, Rat
Race, Mrs. Santa Claus, and Gepetto. Her most rewarding accomplishment,
however, is to be in her 11th year as Adjunct Assistant Professor at UCLA,
serving as teacher to the incredible students in the Ray Bolger Musical
Theater Program.
KATHLEEN MCNENNY is an actor and teacher in New York City. She has
appeared on Broadway in Coram Boy, The Constant Wife, After The Fall and A
Few Good Men, as well as off-Broadway and numerous regional theaters. Most
recently she starred opposite her husband Boyd Gaines in Sylvia at the
George Street Playhouse. She is in her 12th year of teaching at the
Juilliard School, and has also taught at UCSD, Yale, Capp 21, the Michael
Howard Studio, the Tom Todorroff Studios and most recently swung down to
Georgia for the State Thespian convention. She is thrilled to be back at
Camp Bravo to play and share.
EDGAR LANDA - serves on the adjunct faculties of the theatre schools at the
University of Southern California and the California Institute of the Arts.
Mr. Landa is an accomplished education artist and has worked extensively in
the nationally recognized education programs at Shakespeare & Company
in Lenox, MA. He previously was a board member for The Edge of the World
Theatre Festival and a member of the Diversity Advisory Council for Center
Theatre Group.
JEFFREY CROCKETT is the Head of Voice at ACT in San Francisco. Other
teaching credits: Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio
d'Amico in Rome; Prima del Teatro in San Miniato, Italy; The Guildhall
School of Music and Drama in London; The Chautauqua Theatre Conservatory in
Chautauqua, New York. He is a practitioner of Middendorf Breathwork and a
certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.
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