Rise Up! Hamilton Inspired Camp
We are SO excited about this NEW summer camp offering.
Students ages 7-18 will have an opportunity to sing and perform songs from the smash hit Tony award winning Broadway play HAMILTON! We will be dividing this weeklong workshop into groups by ages, 7-11 and 12 -18.
This week we will be diving into Hamilton as it relates to a multicultural authentic experience. Students will study hip hop dance, use of spoken word in music, and the history of Hamilton. We will also touch on age appropriate themes around inclusion, diversity, and equality.
Students will end the week by performing 3 songs from Hamilton.
This camp will be taught by Artists in Residence from Chicago: BRAVEMONK and K-SOUL, faculty members atprestigious Columbia College Chicago in the Dance Department and interdisciplinary Hip Hop Studies Minor program, and at Chicago's famous Hubbard Street Dance! Campers will learn and perform Hamilton songs with Hip-Hop choreography! We will study elements of hip-hop and themes around diversity and inclusion through the Hip-Hop motto: Peace, Unity, Love & Having Fun! Hamilton Campers will sing, rap and dance in a performance at the end of the week. The content will be age appropriate.
Week of June 24th
9am-4pm
Mon-Friday
Ages 7-18 (divided into two groups, 7-11 and 12-18)
Cost: $275
Meet Daniel "Bravemonk" Haywood
DANIEL “BRAVEMONK” HAYWOOD is a 2017 recipient of the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award. Co-founder and Co-artistic Director of BraveSoul Movement and a cultural ambassador and leader in the Hip-Hop community, he has served nationally and internationally as an artist, performer, educator, choreographer, host, judge, and competitor for more than eighteen years.
His credits include the International Cultural Festival of Contemporary Dance in Algiers, The Hip-Hop Theater Festival at the MCA, the film Dreams (Lionsgate Films), and a feature in the anthology Black Theater Is Black Life: An Oral History of Chicago Theater and Dance, 1970–2010. BRAVEMONK is a member of Chicago’s legendary and internationally recognized breaking crew Phaze II Crosstown Crew (est. 1982), a founding contributor and Co-host of Power Style Radio, and an advisory board member of the Chicago Dance History Project.
BRAVEMONK’s movement vocabulary is rooted in African American urban vernacular dance forms including Breaking, Hip-Hop social dances and house. He also draws on his training in martial arts and other embodied Afro-diasporic movement languages. He is on the faculty at Hubbard Street Dance and the Dance Department of Columbia College Chicago.
Meet Kelsa "K-Soul" Robinson
Kelsa “K-Soul” Robinson, Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of BraveSoul Movement, and member of the internationally known street-dance crew, Venus Fly, is a dance artist, choreographer, educator and community development specialist with strong grounding in the underground house, Hip-Hop and street-dance communities. Kelsa has performed and shown work at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL), B.Supreme (London, UK), B-girl Be (Minneapolis, MN) J.U.I.C.E. Hip-Hop Dance Festival (Hollywood, CA), and Pritzker Pavilion (Chicago, IL).
Kelsa is also Assistant Professor of Instruction at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, Director of Columbia’s new Hip-Hop Studies Minor, and Curator of The B-SERIES, a biannual festival and co-curricular program celebrating Hip-Hop & street dance culture at the College since 2013.
K-Soul holds a bachelor degree in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master of urban planning and policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.