Something New! Performing Arts Camps Come to Studio 1219
Posted June 26, 2009
Besides the usual wealth of summer workshops and classes in art for youth and families at Studio 1219, a number of kid-fun and challenging theatre workshops for area students are available this summer from theatre artist and workshop leader Jenny Rogers-Belleau. Ms. Belleau has come up with some exciting sessions, including “Story Time with a Twist,” “Mask and Performance,” “Theatre for Young Audiences,” “Props 4 U!” and “Young Playwrights.”
See the class listings for more information about these fun workshops and camps for your student!
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Jenny Rogers-Belleau recently produced a reprise of the critically acclaimed “Picasso Becomes You” with Saginaw youth at the Saginaw Art Museum as part of the Children’s Art Fair. She has also conducted summer theatre workshops at Pit and Balcony Community Theatre, Saginaw, Michigan, in 2007, and the successful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s, “Nick Adams Stories” in the summer of 2008. (That program was a part of the Michigan Humanities “Great Michigan Read” program, and brought together 15 students to dive into a production of Hemingway they produced from top to bottom.) She also led the winter youth theatre workshop at the Andersen Enrichment Center in Saginaw this past season.
Ms. Rogers-Belleau has both a B.A. in Theatre and in Music. Her career has taken her from recording studios and record companies and into theatres—wearing many hats along the way! She recently directed “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” at the Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy. Besides being a playwright and theatre teacher, she is also a performer—most recently with memorable performances in Saginaw’s Pit and Balcony’s “The Snow Queen” (as the Snow Queen) and the popular “Smoke on the Mountain” as the family matriarch, Vera Sanders.