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More than just a summer camp...it's a summer EXPERIENCE! All of Westover's summer sessions are fully residential, designed to give every camper enriching programs during the day and an exciting camp experience in the afternoon and evening. After a full day of the arts or academics, our campers make the most of their time with afternoon and evening programs. Campers are assigned dorm rooms, roommates, and dorm parents... What a wonderful way to experience all that Westover's summer programs have to offer! COME JOIN THE FUN!Westover's Summer Sessions set the stage for a well-supervised away-from-home adventure. Make new friends! Spend the evening around the bonfire eating s'mores, take part in talent shows, and try a new craft! Your tuition to camp includes all activities, arts and crafts, supplies for your classes, and all of your meals. Come for one week, or stay for two! All courses are taught by Westover teachers, assisted by Westover graduates and current Westover students.
Course DescriptionsDRAMASESSION I & IIPerfect if you want to learn more about theatre, Summer Drama will provide you with instruction in Basic and Intermediate Acting Technique. Each session will include theatre games and improvisation, strengthening concentration and stage presence. The week will culminate in a festival of your own one-act plays and demonstrations. DANCE
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PHOTOGRAPHY
SESSION I & II
Study Photography in Westover's state-of-the-art studio. You will learn the basics of photography using a 35 mm camera and explore such topics as exposure, lighting, and composition. You will develop your own black & white film in the lab and print in the dark room. The week will end with your own gallery show!
CERAMICS
SESSION II
Clay is a material that can be shaped and worked directly with your hands. In this course, you will learn a range of techniques for making pots by hand. Basic skills are gained as you learn to control and manipulate the clay by pinching, coiling or stretching slabs. All aspects of the ceramic process, from preparing and recycling clay to glazing and firing work, are explored. Finally, you will design your very own pots and glaze and fire them to take home!
CREATIVE WRITING
SESSION I
Are you entranced by the magic of language, often finding yourself weaving words together into poems or stories? If you are, you will love this class devoted to creative writing. In this workshop devoted to practical exercises and readings to prompt creativity, you will craft your own book, a short collection of stories and poetry you will write in and out of class, ending the week by binding your works together with an original cover.
W.I.S.E.
SESSION I
Summer W.I.S.E. is a great introduction to Westover's Women in Science and Engineering program! Campers will be conducting experiments and building structures all over Westover's beautiful campus. Each day will be an exploration of a new topic, including structures, simple machines, forensics, pond study and food chemistry
Needle Arts
Session II
Learn how to knit your own fashion accessories with nothing more than sticks, string, and your imagination! Students will learn the basics of hand knitting, from choosing yarns and tools to figuring out how to read patterns. We’ll explore exciting online knitting resources, see the works of today’s hippest knitting designers, and even touch on how knitting is making an impact on the visual arts. Students can expect to finish a simple but fun project during the week, and take home the knowledge of how to keep knitting.
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Faculty
Tom Juvan, Creative Writing
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The class will include writing exercises to stimulate students to generate poems and short stories, then experience in editing and revising their work. Some short stories and poems will be read during the week to offer some models for student work. At the end of the week-long class, students will print and bind their poems and short stories into two copies of their own chapbooks.
Mr. Juvan has taught English at Westover since 2008. Previously, he had taught eight years at the Vermont Commons School in South Burlington, Vermont, and worked in publishing. He holds a B.A. in English from the University of Vermont and an M.A. in English from Brown University.
Marla Truini, Drama
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Campers will have use of the school’s state-of-the-art theatre. Students will learn basic acting and vocal technique, stage fighting, theatrical make-up, costuming and improvisation to strengthen concentration and stage presence. Each week will conclude in a performance for family and friends. Marla Truini, who holds a Masters Degree in Theatre, is now in her thirteenth year as the Director of Drama. She moved to Roxbury and began teaching and directing theatre after working as an actor and singer in New York. A member of AFTRA, SAG, and Actor’s Equity, her New York credits include The Miracle Worker and Relative Values at ELT; featured performer for the U.S.O. aregional tours; and appearances on As the World Turns and in the feature the film Music and Lyrics, New York Stories, Working Girl, and Big. Her training includes voice with Patsy Rodenburg, and Master Classes with Lee Strasberg, Uta Hagen, and Michael Howard. With Lenka Peterson, she co-founded the Young Angels Theatre, at the Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury, CT. She has directed plays and taught workshops at many local schools, both independently, and through the After School Arts Program.
Patti Buchanan, Dance
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The dance class, which will be taught by Patti Buchanan, director of Westover’s Dance Program, will be offered during the first week of the program.
The main curriculum will be dance composition explored through improvisation. After warm-ups that include basic ballet, modern, and jazz, we’ll be teaching the girls how to use the tools of chorography, such as space, time, levels, and qualities. By the end of the program, Ms. Buchanan will combine each girl’s original phrase of dance into a culminating performance.
For the first time, the Summer Programs Dance Class will also include a world dance component. Ruth Curzan, Director of Summer Programs, will be teaching a traditional dance from her native Ghana, and Priti Ghalia, mother of Aditi Ghalia, a member of the Class of 2014, will be teaching Bollywood dance.
Ms. Buchanan has been Director of Westover’s Dance Program since 2002. A graduate of the University of Connecticut, she has been a long-time teacher of modern dance and is a founding member of the Kiva Dance Collective.
Lee Juvan, Needle Arts
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Lee Juvan holds a B.A. in English from the University of Vermont and an M.A. in American history from Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her designs and articles have appeared in Knitty, Interweave Knits, Spin-Off, and Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti by Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain. Lee lives in Middlebury, where she spins, knits, writes, designs, and teaches needle arts at Westover School.
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