At Idea Box, our focus is on interdisciplinary arts, so we rarely have camps that focus ONLY on performance skills. Also, ALL of our camps include some element of performance. The camps on this page are very “performance forward.” See below for details!

Musical Theater: Development Workshop

Why just put on a musical when you can write your own? Campers will work together to write a short musical including

• Composing solo and ensemble musical numbers

• Scriptwriting

• Choreographing solo and ensemble dance routines.

• Physical Comedy and/or Stage Combat

This camp ends with the world premiere of an original 30-minute musical written by the campers.

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• Creating a zine

• Outlining a comic strip or political cartoon

• Creating a short animatic or sketch comedy video

• Recording a vlog or blog

• Presenting a multi-media exploration of their artistic point of view.

Students are encouraged to create work that is silly, serious, bizarre, or beautiful— whatever they want the world to see!

This camp ends with a multi-media experience for family and friends during the last hour of camp on Friday.

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• Learn to respectfully navigate artistic discourse around sensitive and/or controversial topics.

• Develop one or more original pieces for public performance.

• Learn how to choose and secure a safe, legal public performance space.

• Build a trust relationship between performer and audience in public spaces.

Performances will be held in and around The Idea Box along with cooperating local restaurants and retailers. The performances will take place during the last 90 minutes of camp on Friday.

If you have questions about how we handle discussions around sensitive subject matter and activist art-making, please contact us prior to registration.

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Green Screen Skills

is a beginning/intermediate video recording & editing camp.

No previous video recording or editing experience is required. Advanced projects will be available for campers with previous green screen editing experience.

Campers will learn to

• Light and stage green screens for clean editing

• Remove and replace backgrounds in Davinci Resolve

• Move and manipulate the extracted video

• Add special FX and overlays

• Layer multiple green screen videos

This camp ends with a Short Film Festival during the last hour of camp on Friday.

NOTE: This camp requires campers to bring a laptop with Davinci Resolve installed*. We selected this software because it’s free, reliable, user-friendly, and resembles the interface of most professional editing programs.

Campers may choose to bring their own recording device (ie. phone or tablet), but it is not required.

*if your camper doesn’t have a laptop available for camp use, contact us to request a device loan for camp.

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Dice Boss
Dungeon Master Camp

is a week of character creation, dungeon design, and understanding the mechanics that create an awesome experience for your players. Campers will learn to:

• Create a world for their players to inhabit

• Devise challenges that are at the right level for players

• Improvise smoothly when players make unexpected choices

• Create unique and specific non-player-characters for encounters

• Bring their ideas to life with storytelling and mood-setting lighting, soundtracks, and even scents, snacks, and textures to make game play a “5-D” sensory experience.

This class culminates in a staged campaign (in the style of Critical Role) performed for a “live student audience” of family and friends. The performance will be held during the last hour of camp on Friday, and will be followed by a short reception celebrating the campers and their work.

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• EVA (craft) foam sculpting and patterning techniques

• Fabric identification and selection

• Adapting character designs to your own style and proportions

• Cosplay comfort— wearable layers that can be managed by the designer alone.

• Cosplay character performance— moving in cosplay, stage contest skills, and posing for photos.

This camp ends with a staged “costume contest” for the entertainment of family and friends with peer-selected awards for all campers. The event will be held during the last hour of camp on Friday, and will be followed by a brief reception celebrating the desigbner/performers.

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