Description
Summer 2025 Dance and Visual Arts Summer Camp for ages 6-10
Teaching Artists Josey Lee and Loren Groenendaal
Dates:
Week 1: June 16th -20th, 2025 (Monday-Friday)
Week 2: June 23rd – 27th, 2025 (Monday-Friday)
Description:
Student Schedule:
9:15am-3:30pm CAMP (at the studio and nearby parks) includes 3 classes:
One class in dance with Teacher Loren, one in Visual Arts with Teacher Josey, and a third class (either dance, visual arts, or both). There is also time for lunch, snacks, free play, transitions, and possible free drawing and nature appreciation time.
Extended Care Options:
(includes visual arts activities, reading, and games)
Teachers:
Loren Groenendaal is a dance teaching artist who holds degrees in Dance: a BA in Dance from Oberlin College and an MFA from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is a Certified Movement Analyst in Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies. As an educator of educators, she has provided mentorship to junior colleagues at Cardell Dance Studio, The Arts League, Koresh Kids Dance, and the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies and has taught Dance Pedagogy at Temple University. As an administrator, she has been the Program Coordinator for Mascher Space Cooperative as well as serving on their board and led many programs through Vervet Dance, Dissolving Doors, and Free Fleet. Most of her artistic work is through Vervet Dance which is based in Philadelphia and has performed in Canada, Mexico and many places in between. This creative work often references patterns in the natural world, investigates the community-building possibilities of live art, the spectrums between improvisation and composition and ritual and performance, and blurs the distinctions between dance, visual arts, music, and sometimes even comedy. For youth her teaching is focused on creative dance education, supporting young dancers to become improvisers and choreographers while also building their skills in coordination, collaboration, strength, agility, flexibility, and balance through predominately creative movement and modern dance with some influence from ballet, hip hop, and folk dances from around the world. Loren’s movement vocabulary in her choreography and adult class has similar influences as well as traditional Balinese dance and Contact Improvisation. Loren is a certified Trauma-Informed Practice Teaching Artist through Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation and she also has a strong history of holding space for learning differences with a particular interest in supporting neurodivergent children and adults.
Josey Seung-Ah Lee studied sociology and art at Penn State University and then participated in a two-year artist residency with Transform Arts as a painter. Since then, her art has included soft sculptures, paper sculpture, and wearable art. She has exhibited work in Long Island City, NY; Kansas City, MO; and Philadelphia. Josey has also worked in arts education for 9 years as both an assistant and teaching artist. Much of her experience has been with children grades K-4th. She taught sewing, drawing, and paper costume-making.
