Camps for Ages 7 and Up
Jellybean Conspiracy Inclusive Camp›
Summer Dance Intensive III/IV›
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Camp Comedy: Friday Night Live
Create hilarious comedy sketches and improv scenes similar to Saturday Night Live using improvisational techniques, pe
rformance skills, and your imagination. Campers will work in small age appropriate groups with professional teaching artists to develop their comedic style and put it all together for a performance for family and friends.
Fee: $210
Ages: 8-13
Dates:
June 14-18 and July 26-30
Time: 8am-4pm
Teaching Artists: John Mulvey, Brad Shaw and friends!
You will love this comprehensive and energizing week of dance! This is a great opportunity to become a versatile dancer by learning the fundamentals of a 
wide variety of dance forms. Each morning you will study the basics of ballet and jazz. Building on this knowledge, you will take workshops in modern, tap, African Dance, flamenco, and improvisation. Learn how to create your own dance pieces using your new skills in choreography workshops. Impress your family and friends with your new steps at the final presentation on Friday.
Fee: $210
Ages 7-12
Time: 8am-4pm
Dates: June 14- 18 and July 26-30
Teaching Artists: Kim Shope, Jeremiah Bagunu, and more!
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**Shop Curtain Call for Class for all your ballet and dance attire needs. We'll earn credits towards costumes and other supplies with every purchase.**
This new camp features workshops that allow students to learn more about the history and aesthetic expression of hip-hop culture. Learn to D-J, rap, dance (breaking and popping), and create graffiti art. Students will learn how hip-hop can be
a positive, productive form of creative self-expression.
Fee: $220
Ages: 9-13
Dates: June 21-25, July 12-16, August 2-6
Time: 8am-4pm
Teaching Artist: Stacey 'Reach' Smith and friends
Jellybean Conspiracy Inclusive Camp
Learn what it means to be a Jellybean! This music and theatre focused camp is designed to bring together children to learn about the power of theatre to teach kindness and acceptance. Designed for children with and without disabilities, this camp experience is a perfect opportunity for children with disabilities to participate with their typical siblings and peers. Campers will learn performance skills and theatre crafts while preparing a performance of the new Jellybean play – “No Such Thing As Normal”, a musical about autism. This camp is a collaboration between the Community School of the Arts,
VSA arts of Missouri and the Jellybean Conspiracy.
Fee: $250
Ages 8-12
Time: 8am-4pm
Dates: July 26-30
Teaching Artists: Andi Meyer
SPECIAL NOTE TO PARENTS! If your child requires one-on-one attention, no registration fee will be charged for a personal attendant. The Community School for the Arts cannot provide personal attendants; families must arrange for them. Children using wheelchairs must be able to transfer by themselves or the family must provide a personal attendant (personal attendants also need to send in a registration form).
Learn how to take a play from the page to the stage! During this fun-filled week, you will form your own theatre troupe, and become producer, director, stage manager, designer, actor/actress...all rolled into one. Create and build your own costume, make-up and set designs. Includes your own theatrical make-up kit.
Fee: $230
Ages 7-9
Time: 8am-4pm
Dates: July 5-9
Teaching Artists: TBA
Ages 10-14
Time: 8am-4pm
Dates: July 5-9
Teaching Artists: TBA
Become a triple threat! Sing, dance, and act your way through a fun-filled week of musical theatre. You will learn how to put these three essential elements together in an energetic and compelling manner. Learn how to create your own musical in playwriting, songwriting, and choreography workshops. Wow your family and friends at the Friday afternoon performance!
Fee: $210
Ages: 7-12
Time: 8am-4pm
Dates: June 7-11,
June 28-July 2,
July 19-23
Teaching Artists: TBA
Calling all detectives! There’s been a crime! Who solves it? You do! You and your campmates will stage your own “whodunit” using theatrical techniques to create and build suspense. Perform your mystery production for your family and friends on Friday!
Fee: $210
Ages: 8-13
Time: 8am-4pm
Dates: June 21-25
Teaching Artists: TBA
Have a blast making people laugh! Back by popular demand, those zanies from Right Between the Ears (produced by Kansas Public Radio) will take you on a journey through live radio comedy. Learn how to create an entire world for your audiences using your voice, a microphone, sound effects, and your imagination. The week culminates with a performance before a ‘live studio audience’.
Fee: $230
Ages: 8-13
Time: 8am-4pm
Dates: June 28-July 2 and
August 2- 6
Teaching Artists: Darrel Brogdon,
Andi Meyer, Mary Ellen
New Older Ages!
Fee: $230
Ages: 12 and Up!
Time: 8am-4pm
Dates: July 19-23
Teaching Artists: Darrel Brogdon,
Andi Meyer, Mary Ellen
For students age 7-13 with one or more years of dance training: Ballet technique class in combination with jazz, modern, pointe or pre-pointe and stretch classes. Open to students currently enrolled in Ballet I, Ballet II, Jazz I, Jazz II, Modern I or Modern II. Please contact misskim@kcya.org to for arrange for an audition class if you are not currently a student at CSA.
Fee: $210
Ages: 78-13
Time: 8am-4pm
Dates: August 2- 6
Teaching Artists: Kim Shope and friends
Photo by Chris Campbell.
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For Intermediate/ Advanced Ballet students ages 11-18: Multiple ballet 
technique classes in combination with pointe or pre-pointe, variations, jazz, modern and stretch classes. Open to dancers currently enrolled in Ballet III and Ballet IV. Please contact misskim@kcya.org to for arrange for an audition class if you are not currently a CSA dance student.
Fee: $210
Ages: 11-18
Time: 8am-4pm
Dates: July 19-23
Teaching Artists: Kim Shope and friends
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Explore the brave new world of digital film making with Kansas City Art Institute instructor and producer, Joel Jenkins. Use your digital video camera, imagination and inventiveness to tell a story. Learn how to choose the right shot to create believable emotions and how subtle changes in editing can make or break your film. Group and independent projects may be uploaded to You Tube at the end of this exciting week. This class meets at UMKC. Campers need to bring their own lunches or cash to purchase lunch at the student cafeteria.
Fee: $210
Ages: 12 and up
Time: 9am-4pm
Dates: June 21-25 and July 12-16
Teaching Artists: Joel Jenkins
Spend the week exploring your inner artist as you work with professional 
teaching artists to develop your visual art skills. The week will feature work in multiple arts media including clay, paint, and fabric! Amaze yourself with the fantastic pieces you will have to take home at the end of this great camp!
Fee: $225
Ages: 8-13
Time: 8am-4pm
Dates: June 7-11 and July 12-16
Teaching Artists: TBA
Extend the fun with visual arts, games, and other activities. Perfect for working parents. Available for all camps except Video Camp at UMKC.
Fee: $45
Time: 4pm–5:30pm