Young Performers of America
New Orleans
Broadway Bound with YPA

SUMMER INTENSIVE
June 12-15, 2017
This YPA Summer Intensive is open to rising 6th graders - graduating high school seniors. (Students will be separated by age groups.) 

  Deadline to register and to pay in full is May 15, 2 017.  

We must have 15 participants for this session by May 15, 2017 to continue as currently scheduled.
Students will train, develop, and perform with Broadway's Best of the Best during four days of intensive acting, vocal performance, and dance workshops. The Summer Intensive will culminate with a full performance with YPA's Broadway stars.

Summer Intensive Schedule:
Monday, June 12: 5:00pm-9:30pm
Tuesday, June 13: 5:00pm-9:30pm
Wednesday, June 14: 5:00pm-9:30pm
Thursday, June 15: 4:30pm-9:30pm
Monday, June 12 & Tuesday, June 13 Schedule:
5:00-6:00pm: Master Dance Workshop
6:00-6:30pm: Dinner
6:30-8:00pm: Master Vocal Performance Workshop
8:00-9:30pm: Master Acting Workshop      
Wednesday, June 14 Schedule:
5:00-6:00pm: Master Workshop: Putting It all Together
6:00-6:30pm: Dinner
6:30-9:30pm: Final Showcase Rehearsal 

Thursday, June 15 Schedule:
4:30pm: Call & Early Dinner
5:00-7:30pm: Final Rehearsal
8:00pm: Performance 

$700.00 per student
(includes all workshop and performance materials and dinner daily)   

Dell Howlett  (Artistic Director) 
is a native of Richmond, VA who began his classical dance training under the master tutelage of Elizabeth Venini of the Chesterfield Dance Center. He is faculty in the NYU/Tisch School of the Arts in the Department of Drama's New Studio on Broadway where he teaches Ballet, Jazz, Movement Dynamics, and does acting based movement work for a variety of other classes. He comes to Young Performers of America fresh from choreographing a much celebrated production of Ragtime for New York University. Choreography highlights include: Assassins (dir. Kent Gash), The Boyfriend (dir. Brian Hill), Nine (dir. Kent Gash), and Tearing Down the Walls (dir. Daniel Beatty). His performance credits range from contemporary ballet to Broadway and everything in between with highlights including: Bombay Dreams (Original Broadway Cast), Aida (Broadway, Amsterdam), West Side Story (International Tour), The Color Purple (Broadway workshop), Pippin ( National Tour), Across the Universe (Major Motion Picture), and the Koresh Dance Company. Professor Howlett is thrilled to bring his energy and focus to the training of young artists across the country. "Change is a process, not an event." Let's get to work.

  Dina Sarno Slawson
(Educational Director) 
is owner and Artistic Director of nationally award-winning Academy of Theatre Arts and The ATA Theatre and is also Co-Founder and president of Teen2Teen...Theatre is for Life, a non-for-profit organization celebrating cultural diversity and racial tolerance for young adults through theatre. She has been performing, creating, writing, directing, and producing theatre for children and young adults for over twenty three years. She has personally been the recipient of numerous awards including the 2012 Freddie G Award, Small Business of the Year Award, 40 Under 40, Outstanding Women in Business Award, Outstanding Woman of Merit, and was awarded as a 2007/2008 Woman of Excellence for the National Association of Professional and Executive Women and the 2008/2009 National Outstanding Woman of the Year in Children's Entertainment and Theatre by the Association of Professional and Executive Women. She has seen first hand, through her own three children, how powerful and life- altering theatre can be in a young person's life.

With your YPA experience, you work with top award-winning Broadway professionals, up close and personal, for a unique one-on-one theatrical experience like you will never forget!

 
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