2024 Summer Camps
An Imaginative Full-day Arts Camp
Ballet SUNMI 2024 Summer Camps explore themed creativity and guided collaboration culminating in a premier performance of campers original plays (2 week session enrolled). Camps are multidisciplinary, interactive and immersive, engaging students’ creative flow with codified dance technique, comic book writing, playwriting, prop and set design and character development. The goal is for students to express their own personal ideas in a collaborative, and guided environment where they take their performing arts skills learned from camp to create their own performance (with their peers)for parents to watch on the Friday of the last day of camp.
Ages 4-8 and 9-13
Full Day Session: 9am-3pm
1 week session cost: $450
2 week session cost is $880*
Half Day Option: 9am-12pm
$300/week
*Complimentary Water Bottle with Registration for 4 Weeks of Camp
Early Bird Sign Up - Sign Up before March 1st and receive 15% discount
Sign Up before March 15th and receive 10% discount
Sibling discount 5% - Can be combined with Early Bird Discount
SAMPLE WEEK:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday
9-9:30 am Check in and Friendship Time
9:30-10:30 am Ballet Class
10:30- 11:15 am Contemporary/Hip-Hop
11:15-11:45 am Stretch and Movement
11:45 am Change Clothes/Park Ready
11:50-12:50 Lunch at the Rail Park
1-2 pm Story/Comic Book creating
2-2:45 pm Prop Designing/Set Designing
2:55-3 pm Dismissal
Tuesday/Thursday
9-9:30 am Check in and Friendship Time
9:30-10:30 am Ballet Class
10:30- 11:15 am Tap
11:15-11:45 am Acrobatics
11:45 am Change Clothes/Park Ready
11:50-12:50 Lunch at the Rail Park
1-2 pm Character Sketching/Plot Creating
2-2:45 pm Staging
2:55-3 pm Dismissal
All arts and craft supplies included. Children will take home props and/or crafts at the end of the 2 weeks. Two week Sessions are recommended and required for the performance. One week sessions are available and are noted below..
Magical Creatures - June 17th-June 28th (One Week June 17th-June 21st)
Students will develop fictitious creatures that connect and explore their inner worlds of imagination, emotions, and feelings to plot and structure for a show that will use the students' dance, acting and characterization skills they learned from camp. The magical creatures will learn to interact and resolve challenges through interactive storytelling.
Fantastical Worlds - July 8th-19th (One Week July 8th-July 12th)
Students will create a culture and alternative world to help explore ideas of acceptance, creativity, and kindness.
Using their imaginations and performance skills, students will collaborate to design traditions, foods and explore what daily life will be like in this fantastical world they create. Campers will come up with a plot, conflict resolution and characterizations to perform their unique show..
From Here to There, and Everything In Between - July 21st- August 2nd (One Week July 21st-July 26th)
Students will explore ideas of city mapping and what type of alternatives we can use for transportation, like aviation, underground subway, high rails, bike alternatives, and all inventive locomotion. Campers will answer the question of “Who will we visit and why would we be visiting them?” The campers will learn to storyboard, create sets, props and characterizations to include in a final performance.
Bedtime Chronicles- One week only August 5th-August 9th
Students will come up with their own bedtime series from nighttime rituals, to ways they would feel most relaxed, to setting goals for rest. Students will learn to be more creative about their sense of agency within a nightly ritual they create. They will make comic book series and focus on imaginative ways they will help each other wind down from a busy day. Characters and props will be used to help them build a narrative that is relatable and identifiable.
All of our Faculty are Philadelphia Professional Artists who are incredibly generous with their talent, hearts, passion, and dedication to genuinely care about the well-being of each child. More than just a dance camp, your child will be engaged in an immersive experience into the world of active and physical creativity.
Lindo Yes
Lindo was a favorite Faculty teacher at last year’s Ballet SUNMI’s Summer Camp. Lindo is a spoken word poet whose work has been featured in the Philly Weekly, Philadelphia Inquirer, Button Poetry, and Def Poetry Jam, just to name a few. Lindo’s poetry has expanded into short animations, gumball machines, playwriting and co-producing a choreopoem at the Painted Bride Theatre. He received the 2023 Jackie Robinson Award by Color of Change, and the 2023 Change Maker Award by Uptown Standards. Lindo has years of experience teaching art activism, performance poetry, and creative writing. He is excited to bring his teaching talents to Ballet SUNMI where he will lead the creative writing and comic book writing sections of the camp.
Angelina Olson
Angelina will start her Junior Year at the Science Leadership Academy in the Fall 2024. This will be her third year as Camp Assistant with Ballet SUNMI. She is excited to help, hug and guide new and familiar faces this summer. Angelina is known for her warmth and caring heart for all of our campers.
"It was so lovely to watch how calmly and patiently Sun-Mi got them into their bodies doing some really tough, focused work! I loved how their minds were totally engaged while they were working with all that sensation! She is such a phenomenal teacher and artist!”
- Tania Isaacs, mom to Naomi and Eve.
“Sun is such an amazing teacher. I didn’t think my daughter would enjoy ballet but she loves it because of Sun. She is a very dynamic teacher and really engages the kids. It’s obvious she loves the kids and loves to teach.”
