2007 CTB Schedule
Joyful Arts Camp:
June 25-June 30, 2007
Dance classes and art classes designed to foster teamwork, creativity, and the joy of accomplishment.
Boys and girls come Monday through Friday for one week and have a daily dance class with a live musician, learn and rehearse choreography, help design and create costumes, and paint a backdrop. Culminates with a free outdoor performance for friends, family and the public.
Location: Basalt
Ages: 4-6
Times: 10:00-12:00
Fee: $100.00
Wear play clothes and sneakers.
Joyful Arts Camp:
July 16 - July 21, 2007
Dance classes and art classes designed to foster teamwork, creativity, and the joy of accomplishment.
Boys and girls come Monday through Friday for one week and have a daily dance class with a live musician, learn and rehearse choreography, help design and create costumes, and paint a backdrop. Culminates with a free outdoor performance for friends, family and the public at the Aspen Saturday Market, South Hunter and East Hopkins at 10:00 a.m., July 21st.
Location: The Aspen Club
Ages: 4-6
Times: 1:30 - 3:30
Fee: $100.00
Wear play clothes and sneakers.
Registration: Contact 920-3202 or tracystraus1@mac.com
Vail Summer Pop Hop Camp:
August 6 - August 11, 2007
Vail International Dance Festival and Vail Valley Foundation present Celebrate the Beat.
The Vail Daily gave us a stellar review:
"Tracy Straus is joyful and her enthusiasm is catching. With her dark hair pulled back in double braids, Straus bounces around the Barry Creek Middle School gym in colorful Adidas tennis shoes. Fifteen kids watch her intensely, straining to mimic every movement — including her wide grin."
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Summer Performance Camp:
August 13 - August 18, 2007
Dance classes and group painting project designed to foster teamwork, creativity, and the joy of accomplishment. Children take daily dance class, paint a backdrop, and learn and create choreography which culminates in an outdoor performance.
Location: Basalt
Ages: 7-11
Times: 9:00-12:00
Fee: $150.00
Registration: Dorothy Howard 970-927-8214 or dorothyh@basalt.net
Wear play clothes and sneakers.
CTB In-School Programs
East Harlem School:
September 17 - October 18, 2007
For the first time, CTB is bringing its program to this extraordinary middle school. CTB instructors will work with every students in the entire school (grades 5-8) twice weekly for five weeks. This program is generously underwritten by the One world Fund. The program culminates in a performance on Thursday, October 18th.
Crested Butte School:
October 15 - November 3, 2007
The parents and teachers of Crested Butte have banded together to “bring back the beat” as they call it, and have taken the initiative to raise the funds to bring CTB to their children for the fourth consecutive season. The schools involved are Slate River School and The Community School. The curricular theme is AFRICA.
Aspen Community School:
November 29 - December 20, 2007
This will be the seventh consecutive year of partnership with the Aspen Community School. Every day during the month of December, all students and faculty at ACS will have a daily dance class to enhance the joy of learning, focus, discipline and teamwork. We will transform the ACS gymnasium into a beautiful THEATRE in which the daily classes will culminate in a performance on Thursday, December 20th. This year’s curricular theme is HEROES. Using dance and music to celebrate world heroes throughout time, all students in the entire school (grades K through 8th, the teachers and the Principal) will, through academics, music and dance, learn about the beliefs, actions and character values that made/makes them heroes.