BCC Circus Camp Applications Available03:04PM / Friday, June 12, 2009
Pittsfield, Mass. - Applications for the 16th annual Berkshire Circus Camp for boys and girls, ages 8-15, are still available at Berkshire Community College. The three-week, day camp is scheduled for July 27 through August 15 at the college’s main campus in Pittsfield. Instruction is available for beginning and intermediate campers.
Circus activities focus on such performing arts as tumbling, artistic cycling, juggling, clowning, stilt and wire walking, trapeze skills, partner acrobatics, and pyramids. Intermediate campers receive additional instruction in acrobatics balancing, manipulation and clowning.
Campers also learn about the history of the circus and the arts in circus; makeup, costumes and prop construction; and circus publicity, tickets, concessions, and management. Regular day camp activities include field sports, cooperative games, trust and team-building activities, and outdoor water activities.
In addition to the fun and excitement of the circus, past experience has shown that most campers also gain hidden benefits in such areas as decision making, coordination, patience, concentration, self-motivation and discipline, teamwork, creativity, fear control and responsibility.
Campers display their newfound skills to the public during two “Grande Finale” performances scheduled for Friday evening, August 14, and Saturday afternoon, August 15.
Applications are available from BCC's Office of LifeLong Learning. The fee is $595 for regular campers and $675 for intermediate campers. A deferred payment plan is available.
For more information, call Linda Pierce, at 413-236-2122 |
