Davenport Junior Theatre

Teen Puppetry Workshop (Ages 10 - 18)
* Guest Instructor from the Ballard Institute School of Puppetry, Stefano Brancato.

Adult Workshop Series (Shakespeare & Puppetry)
* Guest Instructor from the Ballard Institute School of Puppetry, Stefano Brancato.
* Guest Instructor from the Royal Shakespeare Company, Andrew Wade.

Performing Arts Camps: The Magic of Theatre (London and Paris)
Junior Theatre offers two exciting weeks of Performing Arts Camps during the summer months. Students will collaborate on the creation of their very own script, while learning about props, costumes, and lights. During the week they will travel throughout the Performing Arts Complex, exploring improvisation, musical theatre, make-up, and the life of a professional actor. Our first camp will focus on London and the second on Paris. Both of these cities have great history in the theatre arts. Special workshops will cater towards the styles of these amazing cities, as well as sharing slideshows and information to get the students' imagination working. Everything ends with a performance for family and friends on Friday afternoon from 4:00 - 5:30 PM. Early drop off and late pick-up are available for an additional fee. Students should bring their own lunch and Junior Theatre supplies two snack breaks throughout the day. Join us as we provoke your child’s imagination like never before!

Camps are a great deal at only $130 for the week! It beats the cost of daycare & students gain skills that will last a lifetime.

Enroll for both camps, as each will be a unique challenge with new information each time.

Performing Arts Camp I: London
Ages 6 - 13
June 21 - 25
Monday - Friday
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
$130
Early drop-off 7:30 AM and/or late pick-up by 5:30 PM and is an additional $20 for the week.
Performance: on the Friday of camp @ 4:00 PM (OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC)
* Students are to bring a sack lunch and water bottle. Two snack breaks provided by Junior Theatre.
* Students shuold wear closed-toed shoes to camp. We do many physical activities.
* Medical Release form required to be filled out by first day of camp.
* Camp limit 60 Students. Camp staff size 18 (approx).

Performing Arts Camp II: Paris
Ages 6 - 13
August 2 - 6
Monday - Friday
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
$130
Early drop-off 7:30 AM and/or late pick-up by 5:30 PM and is an additional $20 for the week.
Performance: on the Friday of camp @ 4:00 PM (OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC)
* Students are to bring a sack lunch and water bottle. Two snack breaks provided by Junior Theatre.
* Students shuold wear closed-toed shoes to camp. We do many physical activities.
* Medical Release form required to be filled out by first day of camp.
* Camp limit 60 Students. Camp staff size 18 (approx).
* Spot in camp is not guaranteed until payment and the enrollment form are received.

Enrollment:
Online Registration is now available! After you select the link below, you will be taken to the homepage of Davenport Parks and Recreation. There you will select ONLINE REGISTRATION, Junior Theatre camps are found in CAMPS. Classes and Workshops are found in PERFORMING ARTS. Here is the link: www.cityofdavenportiowa.com/parks.

Puppetry Workshop (Ages 10 - 18)
Led by Stefano Brancato (Master Puppeteer Graduate from the Ballard Institute of Puppetry, University of Connecticut), Puppetry Camp will offer a week long experience sure to last a lifetime! This workshop will guide students to their deeper artistic truths, where their own mythologies and stories come to life. Through shadow puppetry, mask performance and movement, the students will gain exciting new tools for artistic expression. Collaboratively, students will develop original scripts, design and build their own masks and shadow puppets, and perform. Through shadow puppetry and mask performance students will develop the confidence and inspiration to express themselves. The camp concludes with a special Saturday afternoon showcase at 2:00pm for Family & Friends. In addition to the week of camp, students will be in final rehearsal on Saturday from 10:30am - 2:00pm, prior to showcase. Students should pack their own lunch each day. Early Drop-Off / Late Pick-Up not offered. Join us, as we enter a world of theatre rarely seen in the Midwest! <For a full bio on instructor Stefano Brancato, click here>

Ages 10 - 18
June 14 - 19
Monday - Saturday
9:30 AM - 2:30 PM
$175
* Early drop-off and/or late pick-up not offered
* Performance: on the Saturday of camp @ 2:00 PM (OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC)
* Students are to bring a sack lunch and water bottle. One snack break will be provided by Junior Theatre.
* Students should dress ready to move and wear closed-toed shoes to camp. We do many physical activities.
* Medical Release form must be complete for each student by first day of class.
* Spot in camp is not guaranteed until payment and the enrollment form are received.

Enrollment:
Online Registration is now available! After you select the link below, you will be taken to the homepage of Davenport Parks and Recreation. There you will select ONLINE REGISTRATION, Junior Theatre Classes and Workshops are located under PERFORMING ARTS. Here is the link: www.cityofdavenportiowa.com/parks.

Teen Shakespeare Workshop
Led by Andrew Wade (former head of voice for over a decade with the world renowned Royal Shakespeare Company, England), the Shakespeare Workshop will be the opportunity of a lifetime! Mr. Wade has traveled the world working with actors such as Emily Watson, Helen Hunt, Samuel L. Jackson, Toby Stephens, and more. Camp will immerse students in the language of Shakespeare. Time will be spent on voice work appropriate to the use of text and then different extracts from the canon will be worked on. These extracts will open out students’ understanding and response to Shakespeare. The sessions will be practical and very much about working as a company in order to understand the Form and Structure, Imagery and Meaning of the language. There will be a certain focus on the plays of ROMEO & JULIET and MACBETH. Students should eat lunch before coming to the workshop. One healthy snack break will be held each day. Early Drop-Off / Late Pick-Up not offered. Join us, as we enter the realm of the world’s greatest playwright; Shakespeare! <For a full bio on instructor Andrew Wade, click here>

Ages 13 - 18
July 26 - 30
Monday - Friday
12:15 PM - 4:15 PM
$200
* Early drop-off and/or late pick-up not offered
* Students should eat lunch prior to camp. One snack break will be provided by Junior Theatre.
* Students should dress ready to move and wear closed-toed shoes to camp. We do many physical activities.
* Medical Release form must be complete for each student by first day of class.
* Spot in camp is not guaranteed until payment and the enrollment form are received.

Enrollment:
Online Registration is now available! After you select the link below, you will be taken to the homepage of Davenport Parks and Recreation. There you will select ONLINE REGISTRATION, Junior Theatre Classes and Workshops are located under PERFORMING ARTS. Here is the link: www.cityofdavenportiowa.com/parks.

Adult Puppetry Workshop
Led by Stefano Brancato (Master Puppeteer graduate from the Ballard Institute of Puppetry, University of Connecticut), the puppetry workshop will offer a week long experience unique to the Quad Cities! This workshop will guide participants to their deeper artistic truths, where their own mythologies and stories come to life. Through shadow puppetry, mask performance and movement, participants will gain exciting new tools for artistic expression. Collaboratively, participants will develop original scripts, design and build their own masks and shadow puppets, and perform. Through shadow puppetry and mask performance, participants will develop new tools of expression. The workshop concludes with a special Saturday afternoon showcase at 2:00pm for Family & Friends. In addition to the week of camp, participants will be in a final rehearsal on Saturday from 10:30am - 2:00pm, prior to showcase. Join us, as we enter a world of theatre rarely seen in the Midwest! <For a full bio on instructor Stefano Brancato, click here>

Ages 18 +
June 14 - 19
Monday - Saturday
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
$130
* Performance: on Saturday of workshop @ 2:00 PM (OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC)
* Participants should eat dinner prior to workshop. One healthy snack break will be provided by Junior Theatre.
* Participants should dress ready to move and wear closed-toed shoes to camp. We do many physical activities.
* Spot in camp is not guaranteed until payment and the enrollment form are received.

Enrollment:
Online Registration is now available! After you select the link below, you will be taken to the homepage of Davenport Parks and Recreation. There you will select ONLINE REGISTRATION, Junior Theatre Classes and Workshops are located under PERFORMING ARTS. Here is the link: www.cityofdavenportiowa.com/parks.

To register in person or inquire futher, Davenport Parks and Recreation's Main Office is located in the Wiese Building next to the Putnam Museum/IMAX (1757 W. 12th St. / Davenport,IA 52804). 563-326-7812. Classes fill incredibly quickly, so don't delay!

Adult Shakespeare Workshop
Led by Andrew Wade (former head of voice for over a decade with the world renowned Royal Shakespeare Company, England), this Shakespeare workshop is a rare opportunity for the QCA. Mr. Wade has traveled the world working with actors such as Emily Watson, Helen Hunt, Samuel L. Jackson, Toby Stephens, and more. The aim of Workshop will be to immerse ourselves in the language of Shakespeare. Time will be spent on voice work appropriate to the use of text and then different extracts from the canon will be worked on. We will use these extracts to open out our understanding and response to Shakespeare. The sessions will be practical and very much about working as a company in order to understand the Form and Structure, Imagery and Meaning of the language. There will be a certain focus on the plays of ROMEO & JULIET and MACBETH. This workshop will benefit players of all experience levels, as Mr. Wade adapts the teaching to each student. Participants should eat dinner prior to workshop. One healthy snack will be provided each evening. Join us for this extraordinary QCA opportunity, as we journey through the realm of the world’s greatest playwright; Shakespeare! <For a full bio on instructor Andrew Wade, click here>

Ages 18 +
July 26 - 30
Monday - Friday
6:00pm - 10:00pm
$200
* Participants should eat dinner prior to workshop. One healthy snack break will be provided by Junior Theatre.
* Students should dress ready to move and wear closed-toed shoes to camp. We do many physical activities.
* Spot in camp is not guaranteed until payment and the enrollment form are received.

Enrollment:
Online Registration is now available! After you select the link below, you will be taken to the homepage of Davenport Parks and Recreation. There you will select ONLINE REGISTRATION, Junior Theatre Classes and Workshops are located under PERFORMING ARTS. Here is the link: www.cityofdavenportiowa.com/parks.

This Saturday, Mr. Wade will be participating in a "Conversation / Q&A" session that will be open to the general public. This is a FREE event. The details are as follows:

When: Saturday, July 31st

Time: 9:30am - 10:00am : Coffee and Pastries

10:00am - 10:30am: Conversation

10:30am - 10:50am: Q&A

Cost: FREE!

Where: Davenport Junior Theatre

Nighswander Theatre

2822 Eastern Avenue

Davenport, IA 52803

Mr. Wade's Bio below:

Andrew Wade was Head of Voice at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003. He joined the Company in 1987 as Assistant Voice Director to Cicely Berry. When he took over the Department, his responsibilities involved overseeing all the voice work for the RST, Swan and TOP and for all touring, residencies and, until the Company left the Barbican in 2001, the work in London as well. He co-directed and devised with Cicely Berry ‘Journeys’, ‘Words, Words, Words’, ‘More Words’ and ‘Lifespan’ - a poetry and prose collection later developed into a theatrical program which was commissioned by the BBC World Service and won a Bronze Medal at the International Radio Festival in New York in 2000.

Andrew has a particular interest in exploring language in a practical way, which he fulfills by working with youngsters, students, teachers and academics.

Andrew has traveled widely, lecturing, leading Master Classes and Workshops, as well as coaching with theatre companies and actors abroad - Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Singapore, Switzerland, Trinidad and extensively in the United States of America. He has published several articles on his work. In conjunction with Cicely Berry, he has recorded ‘Working Shakespeare’, a series on voice and text work with Helen Hunt, Samuel L Jackson, Toby Stephens, Clare Danes, Blythe Danner, Emily Watson and introduced by Jeremy Irons. He is currently working with SourceBooks on ‘Shakespeare Experience’, editions of Shakespearean recordings, plus audio excerpts with contemporary actors, currently ‘As You Like It’, ‘Julius Caesar’, ‘Macbeth’, ‘Hamlet’, ‘King Lear’, ‘Taming of the Shrew’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’.

Andrew trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama from 1973 to 1976. He has worked in many different drama schools including Mountview Theatre School, the Rose Bruford College, the Arts Educational School, and he was Head of Voice at East 15.

From 1993 to 1997 he was External Examiner for the Postgraduate Diploma in Voice Studies and MA in Voice Studies at the Central School of Speech and Drama. In 2002 he was made a Fellow of the Rose Bruford College.

Andrew was Verse Consultant on the film ‘Shakespeare in Love’. He also coached Courtney Love for the role of Lady Macbeth.

‘Working Shakespeare’ is a filmed series of Workshops led by Cicely Berry and Andrew. The series addresses approaches to working on the language of Shakespeare. It is introduced by Jeremy Irons and features Kate Burton, Claire Danes, Blythe Daner, Lindsay Duncan, Victor Garber, Tony Goldwyn, Helen Hunt, Samuel L Jackson, Cherry Jones, Robert Sean Leonard, Latanya Richardson, Toby Stevens, Cathy Tyson, Diane Venora, Emily Watson and others.

Since leaving the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2003 he has continued to work all over the world in a freelance capacity, lecturing, voice coaching and leading Master Classes. He has particular links with the Stella Adler Studio in NYC, Delaware University, the National Theater School in Montreal and with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where he has voice coached ‘Antony and Cleopatra’, ‘Comedy of Errors’, ‘Othello’, ‘As You Like It’, ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Merchant of Venice’. Since 2003 he has worked on the Guthrie Experience each summer and regularly contributes to the BFA Guthrie Theater/Minnesota University course.

Andrew is Consultant Adviser to the faculty at the London Business School in Regent's Park, London. He also works as Consultant for the CLE Minnesota, working with lawyers.

In 2005 he worked on ‘Lord of the Rings, The Musical’ in Toronto and again in 2006 in London. Also in London he coached ‘La Traviata’ at the ENO, ‘Donkeys’ Years’, and ‘Boeing Boeing’, as well as teaching at St Olaf College, Carlton College and Syracuse University. Andrew worked on ‘Triple Sensation’, the reality TV program charting the progress of a group of young actors through an intensive training program for CBC, filmed in Toronto in the summer of 2007 and 2008. He also was Artist in Residence at Rhodes College, Memphis, NYU's Classical Studio and the Experimental Studio in their study abroad program in Amsterdam, the Blackfriars Theatre in Staunton, Virginia, Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He worked with the Collage Dance Company in LA on ‘Beowulf’.

In 2008 Andrew coached ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ and ‘Clay Cart’ at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ at the Guthrie Theater. In 2009 Andrew coached ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ and ‘Henry V’, for the Guthrie Theater, ‘Henry V’ was also a co-production with the Acting Company.

Andrew is currently working on ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Romeo & Juliet’ at the Guthrie Theater, ‘R&J” is also a co-production with the Acting Company and will tour nationally. Andrew then works in Glasgow at the Royal Academy, the Stella Adler Studio, Julliard, the National Theatre of Canada in Montreal, Delaware University, leads a Workshop for Director’s for TFANA in New York, a Summer School on Shakespeare and begins working on 2010 Guthrie Experience before arriving at Davenport Junior Theatre.

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