It's that time of year again (even though it's only December) when people are starting to talk about camps. My gymmie LOVES Woodward, though many of her teammates are going to the PSU gym camp this summer, so she has a decision to make. However, each and every summer I am frustrated by the lack of an equivalent "Woodward" experience for my dancing DD. PSU offers a dance camp too, but it is jazz/hip hop and DD is more of a ballet/modern kind of girl. It seems like most fine arts camps I come across last for multiple weeks and cost lots and lots of money (so if we start with the assumption that Woodward is "affordable", you can see just how much money we must be talking about here... thousands of dollars). I know there are some fine arts camps in Michigan, but I'd like to keep it a little bit closer to home (we live in PA) and again those tend to be multiple week camps. I've even looked into the Graphic Arts programs at Woodward, but most of the participants (if you look at the pictures) appear to be boys (not thrilling to my almost-12-year-old daughter... not yet at any rate) and mostly seem to use skateboarders and BMX bikers as the subjects of their graphic art projects (also not thrilling to my ballerina).
Does anyone know of any week-long (could be 2 weeks if it was reasonably affordable) sleep-away camps within a few hours of PA that might be a good fit? It wouldn't even HAVE to be a dance camp... poetry, fine arts, graphic arts, even academics (engineering maybe?) would be OK... she's tried a YMCA camp but found the experience too "campy" for her... she didn't want to have to sing silly songs before she gets to eat or be forced to participate in backward clothing day or whatever. She's not prissy, but she has a pretty low tollerance for anything that she might consider "embarassing" which includes a lot of the traditional camp stuff. And she only wears skirts. And she only eats white foods. I actually think Woodward would be a good fit for her (lots of freedom about how to spend her time, what to eat, etc.), except that she doesn't do anything that Woodward does. I don't suppose Woodward is likely to build a ballet studio anytime soon...
Thanks!
Does anyone know of any week-long (could be 2 weeks if it was reasonably affordable) sleep-away camps within a few hours of PA that might be a good fit? It wouldn't even HAVE to be a dance camp... poetry, fine arts, graphic arts, even academics (engineering maybe?) would be OK... she's tried a YMCA camp but found the experience too "campy" for her... she didn't want to have to sing silly songs before she gets to eat or be forced to participate in backward clothing day or whatever. She's not prissy, but she has a pretty low tollerance for anything that she might consider "embarassing" which includes a lot of the traditional camp stuff. And she only wears skirts. And she only eats white foods. I actually think Woodward would be a good fit for her (lots of freedom about how to spend her time, what to eat, etc.), except that she doesn't do anything that Woodward does. I don't suppose Woodward is likely to build a ballet studio anytime soon...
Thanks!
There's also Interlochen. They aren't un-drivable, but it would be a painful drive to have to do round-trip twice in two weeks. What I remember most about BLFAC was that it was freezing cold when we woke up in the morning and blazing hot by noon.
