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• Eagles Take Flight! - NEW DATES!

  Entering 6th and 7th grade – For Students New to Chaminade Middle School
  This half-day workshop will immerse new students in a daily three-hour experience specially designed to prepare them for starting the new school year off right at Chaminade’ s Chatsworth campus. Each student will attend two classes daily to expose them to the skills and knowledge expected of entering Chaminade students. The classes will include an “Introduction to Chaminade”, a class designed to familiarize students with Chaminade culture, meet program directors, ask pertinent questions and meet their classmates, and “Study Skills”, in which students will learn important skills for organization, time management, note-taking, and test preparation. Students will utilize tablet computers daily in each class to practice keyboarding and learn the basic functions of the laptops in a classroom setting.
  
  Due to the latest directives from state and local goverment officials, we will hold these classes online through Schoology.  
  
  Location: VIRTUAL
  Session 1: July 6 – July 17 
  OR
  Week 2:  July 20 - 31
  Time: 8:30 am – 10:45 am
  Fee: $455

• NEW - Virtual Performing Arts Conservatory

  This summer, we realize that although we are unable to come together physically as an artistic community, we can come together virtually and continue to connect and grow in the performing arts that bring us joy and feed our soul. There is value in holding on to what nourishes us as human beings and can prepare us for the future when we are back in the studio and on the stage. You may sign up for one class, two classes or as many as you desire. You may create your performing arts experience online here at Chaminade with our resident teaching artists! After all, this is just an extended intermission. All sessions will be on zoom.  Please see brochure below to see instructor bios.
  
  

   

  Summer Session I  (June 15- July 2)

   

  
  Mondays (June 15, June 22, June 29)
  
  

  Contemporary Ballet (grades entering 9^th- 12^th)

  10-11:30 am

   

  Chaminade is thrilled to welcome Lillian Barbeito as the Director of our new Dance Program. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and founder of BODYTRAFFIC, a world-class, professional contemporary dance company based in Los Angeles. Her contemporary dance background permeates her ballet classes for a fun "off the barre" progressive ballet experience. Popular and world music will accompany exercises that emphasize healthy alignment, movement, precision, and expressivity. Each class will culminate in a contemporary ballet phrase work that builds every week. At the end of the 3 classes, there will be a "virtual showing" for friends and family to observe the contemporary ballet phrases that have been taught, learned, and explored on Monday, June 29th from 11:30-12:00pm.

   

  (Instructor: Introducing Lillian Barbeito, Chaminade Director of Dance Program)

  14 student maximum

  Fee: $125

   

  Mondays (June 15, June 22, June 29)
  
  

  Vocal Technique (grades entering 9^th-12^th)

  12:30-2:30 pm
  
  

  Our Vocal Technique class will explore the different colors of the voice and teach students how to effectively transition to the three different areas of the voice: chest voice (belt voice), middle voice, and head voice. This course is an intensive vocal arts class that will focus on performance technique and expressiveness, confidence building, and song selection. This class is suited for singers of all musical levels and will allow students to be exposed to several genres of music including: musical theatre, art songs, pop, jazz, and rock. Our Vocal Technique class will focus on each singer’s strengths, and cultivate their love of music. 
  
  

  (Instructor: Introducing Sara Greenberg, Chaminade HS Choral Director)

  14 students maximum

  Fee: $125

   

   
  
  Tuesdays (June 16, June 23, June 30)
  
  

  Improv (grades entering 6^th-8^th)

   9 -10 am 

   

  This course will offer an introductory approach to the beginning elements of improvisational theatre, including the 5 Rules of Improv.  Through a series of improvisational games and exercises, students will learn the basics of how to create a living, breathing character by using facial expressions, body language and voice.

   

  (Instructor: Michael Russ, Chaminade MS Drama Director)

   14 students maximum

   Fee: $90

   

  Improv (grades entering 9^th-12^th)

   10:30 am- 12 pm

   

  This course will focus on character creation through improvisation as the way to uncover the truth in your acting. Emphasis is placed on the combination of personal discovery, proper technique and a healthy attitude through a variety of improvisational games and team-building exercises.  Students will be encouraged to explore self-expression as fully and creatively as possible in order to discover your authentic voice. 

   

  (Instructor: Michael Russ, Chaminade MS Drama Director)

   14 students maximum

   Fee: $100

   

   

   

  Wednesdays (June 17, June 24, July 1)
  
  

  Musical Theatre Master Class Series (grades entering 10^th- college)

  12- 2 pm
  
  

  Students may come prepared with questions about the business of working as an actor, with a focus on musical theatre, song interpretation, bringing yourself to your work, mastering your auditions and sustaining a career. Bring your best 32 bars.

  (Moderator: Yvette L. Bishop, Chaminade Director of Performing Arts/ HS Drama Director)

   

  June 17^th—Joanna Gleason (Bdway: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony Award Nom.), Nick & Nora, Into the Woods (Tony Award Winner for The Baker’s Wife), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Tony Award Nom.), The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard, I Love My Wife; Film: Hannah and Her Sisters, Heartburn, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Boogie Nights, The Boys, The Good Wife, The Wedding Planner. Blue Bloods, Newsroom; Television:Love & War, The West Wing, The Practice, King of the Hill, Friends, Murphy Brown, ER and more.

  http://www.joannagleason.com/

   

  June 24^th— Ben Davis (Bdway: Dear Evan Hansen, Violet, Les Miserables, Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Boheme; National Tours: Sound of Music, Spamalot, Les Miserables; Opera, Regional, Recordings; Film/TV: Law & Order SVU, Blue Bloods, Woman in the Window, Boogie, 3^rd Rock and more.

  https://www.benjaminjaydavis.com/index.html

   

  July 1^st— Susan Egan (Bdway: Beauty and the Beast (Tony Award Nom.for Belle), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cabaret, Triumph of Love, State Fair, Putting it Together; National Tours: Bye Bye Birdie; Film: 13 Going on 30, Gotta Kick it Up. Falling in Love, Extreme Close Up, and more; Television, Concerts, Recordings and more; Voice Over: Meg in Disney’s Hercules, Lin in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away and more.

  http://www.susanegan.net/

   

  Space is limited.

  14 students maximum

  Fee: $150

   

  Wednesdays (June 17, June 24, July 1)
  
  

  Musical Theatre Workshop (grades entering 6^th-9^th)

  3-5 pm
  
  

  Students will work on audition technique! How to tell a story and effectively communicate with an audience through monologue work and song interpretation. Students will sharpen their skills and have fun in a supportive, non-competitive environment. Students will learn to focus on creating truthful characters and making acting choices to craft multilayered performances. The first session, students are to come prepared with a one minute monologue and a one- two minute musical theatre song of their choice. The workshop will culminate in a final showcase of their newly learned material on July 1^st from 5- 5:45 pm.

   

  (Instructor: Yvette L. Bishop, Chaminade Director of Performing Arts/ HS Drama Director)

   14 students maximum

   Fee: $125

   

   

  Thursdays (June 18, June 25, July 2)

  
  Contemporary Dance

  10-11:30 am

   

  Chaminade is thrilled to welcome Lillian Barbeito as the Director of our new Dance Program. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and founder of BODYTRAFFIC, a world-class, professional contemporary dance company based in Los Angeles. This series of 3 classes catapults students through time. Week One will explore pioneering modern dance from the 1960s and 70s with exercises derived from dance luminaries such as Martha Graham, Jose Limon, and Paul Taylor. Commonly referred to as Release Technique, Week Two leaps into post-modern dance that was popular in the 1980s and 90s and includes inversions and floorwork. Week Three students will fall and fly into a cutting-edge movement system called Countertechnique. Mrs. Barbeito is one of 32 teachers in the world who is certified in Countertechnique, developed by Dutch choreographer Anouk van Djik for dancers to move bigger and faster with more ease and enjoyment. At the end of the 3 classes, there will be a "virtual showing" for friends and family to observe the contemporary dance phrases that have been taught, learned, and explored on Thursday, July 2nd from 12:30-1:00pm. 

   

  (Instructor: Lillian Barbeito, Chaminade Director of Dance Program)

  14 students maximum

  Fee: $125

• Virtual Mock Trial Camp

  Entering 6th, 7th and 8th grade
  Come learn about the criminal justice system from the coaches of the four-time Los Angeles County Champion Chaminade Mock Trial Team. Students will learn the skills of trial advocacy including rules of evidence, how to examine witnesses, give opening statements, and make closing arguments. On the last day of camp, students will have the opportunity to present a criminal trial for parents and family. This presentation will be held on Zoom. Open to all 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.
  
  This class will be running in an online format through Zoom.
  
  Time: 8:30 am – 11:30 am
  Fee: $490