Camp Ballibay for the Fine & Performing Arts

Established in 1964, Camp Ballibay is an American Camp Association accredited summer camp offering exciting programs in Theater, Art, Music, Dance, Video, Radio & Rock-n-Roll for kids, tweens, and teens

The Farm Arts Camp

Before the developments of Camp Ballibay's strong programs in the performing arts, in the mid-late 1960s and early 1970s, Ballibay's program emphasized the visual arts, horseback riding, and the outdoors. The Farm Arts Camp is a new camp of Ballibay Camps, Inc. that will be very close in activities and structure to the early days of Ballibay, with a stronger emphasis on the visual arts (painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, & ceramics) and traditional camp activities such as horseback riding, boating, outdoor cooking and camping, hiking, and nature study.

In 2008-10 Ballibay will launch several innovative new summer camps

Endless Mountains Dance Camp

Endless Mountains Dance Camp is the first in a group of proposed dance camps known collectively as Northeast Dance Camps, directed by long-time Ballibay camper, staffperson, and administrator Kristin A. Fieseler, a professor of dance at DeSales University and Artistic Director of Annex Dance Company. EMDC developed out of three elements of Camp Ballibay's dance program: Traditional dance technique and performance, dance on camera, and training in "non-dance" movement styles such as Capoeira, Freerunning/Parkour, and Tai Chi Chuan. EMDC will launch its first two-week session in 2009.

The Rock Farm

The Rock Farm is The Ballibay Camps' new Rock-n-Roll camp experience; Rock-n-Roll for everyone! TRF's program offers lessons daily in guitar, drums, and/or bass guitar; songwriting and improvisation classes; staff-directed bands; and great performance and recording opportunities. TRF will launch its first two-week session in 2009.

Camptown Theater Workshop

The Camptown Theater Workshop will take over operation of Camp Ballibay's popular 2-week August Theater Workshop session, repeating it several times during the summer so that more campers can take part in this innovative session which combines Theater Skills Curriculum, Shakespeare, Musical Theater, and Choral Music. Camptown Theater Workshop will take over the Ballibay Theater Workshop in 2010, moving it to its own facilities.

Ballibay Mountain Theater Camp

Currently Camp Ballibay offers a "full day of theater" option to its campers. With the opening of Ballibay Mountain Theater Camp in 2009, campers wishing to spend their entire day in theatre will attend this new camp, with a schedule and curriculum specifically geared towards the "all theater" camper.

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