Summer Performing Arts Camp at Lankershim Arts Center

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Performing Arts Division (DCA|PERF) has developed a new initiative to support youth performing arts in the North Hollywood (NoHo) area. In an effort to enhance Council District 2’s continued commitment to foster NoHo as a mecca for performing arts in Los Angeles, DCA is committed to developing a youth performing arts program at the Lankershim Arts Center.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an unprecedented residual impact on the youth of Los Angeles. Through the performing arts—dance, music, theatre, set design, costume design, sound and lighting design—DCA is investing in youth by building self-confidence, technical skills, social skills, and a positive vision of future opportunities in the performing arts for youth 7 to 17 years old.

DCA|PERF is proud to announce that we have an unlimited amount of scholarships available to those who qualify. The scholarship process is an easy one page application with a piece of basic documentation. We encourage families needing assistance to reach out to [email protected] to request easy information on how to apply. Additionally, families may inquire with Julia regarding weekly payment plans.

DCA|PERF is excited to have commissioned CUBCAKES and Interact Theatre Company's INTERPLAY to facilitate the 2023 Summer Performing Arts Camp which runs for four weeks Monday through Friday from June 12 to July 7, 2023. Camp starts at 9:00 a.m. with drop off starting at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 4:00 p.m. daily with pick up between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Morning performing arts activities at the DCA|PERF Summer Performing Arts Camp will be facilitated by CUBCAKES...

CUBCAKES is dedicated to providing holistic and inclusive dance experiences that promote conscious-based learning. We train our movers to be diverse and open minded. We are a mission, training, performance, and project based crew.

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Thalia Ramos, Director and Creator

Based in LA, Thalia has been honored for her work as a professional dancer, choreographer, and creative director. Her work to facilitate conscious learning into the dance educational system is best represented in her youth crew CUBCAKES.

Since paving her own professional career her work can be characterized as a blend of powerful versatility and artistic range. She has made space and taken on work that allows her to support others, teach mindfulness, spark conversation, create collaboratively, and pursue endless explorations in movement. She is endlessly grateful to continually witness how this work transforms dancers, audiences, community, and herself.

Markus Pe Benito, Co-Director of CUBCAKES

An LA based artist, dance instructor, freestyler, choreographer, and leader, specializing in a style coined “Morphing,” established through his organizations: Metamorphs Movement as well as Cubcakes Organization, the youth crew which Markus co-directs alongside his partner Thalia Ramos. Markus has taught and performed internationally in 20+ countries and across the US. Markus continues strives for further exploration and experimentation as he cultivates the ever-evolving Morphing community.

Afternoon activities at DCA|PERF Summer Performing Arts Camp will be facilitated by Interact Theatre Company's INTERPLAY...

Founded as a nonprofit organization in 1992, Interact Theatre Company is dedicated to nurturing professional theatre artists and bringing bold ensemble works to the Los Angeles stage. The company has been honored with 95 performance and production awards (168 nominations), including Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Ovation, Stage Raw, Garland, LA Weekly, Telly, and NAACP Awards. In addition, the company produces a wide variety of educational and cultural enrichment programs in ongoing partnerships with the Los Angeles Public Library, the UCLA School of Law, and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Performing Arts Division. For further information about ITC, please visit www.interactla.org

Barry Heins (ITC Artistic Director) has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, leading regional theaters across America, and in film, TV, and radio. After graduating from The Juilliard School and then touring America with John Houseman's The Acting Company for a season, Barry landed his first Broadway job as an understudy in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Good starring Alan Howard, directed by Howard Davies. Four years later, he worked with Davies on Broadway again, appearing in Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan. His Off-Broadway credits include An Enemy of the People with Roy Dotrice, The Boys Next Door, On the Verge, Ten by Tennessee, and Liviu Ciulei's innovative production of Spring Awakening at the Public Theatre. In Los Angeles: Much Ado About Nothing at the Ford Theater (Drama-Logue Award, Outstanding Performance), and ITC productions of Counselor-At-Law starring John Rubinstein (Ovation Award, Best Ensemble), Other People's Money at Pico Playhouse, and Nice Fish at The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. Barry has served on the faculties of NYU Tisch School of the Arts/Playwright's Horizons Theater School, SUNY Purchase College, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (NYC). He has worked extensively as a voice-over artist and also as a dialect consultant on Broadway and for American Playhouse on PBS. Memorable film and television credits include Baby Boom, Fear of a Black Hat, and Grace and Frankie. As a producer, his credits include two staged readings series for the Los Angeles Public Library's LA Made cultural enrichment program: The Tony Award® Winners (viewed worldwide on BroadwayOnDemand.com) and The Pulitzer Prize Winners: Ten Plays from Ten Decades. In that series, he directed You Can't Take It With You and The Great White Hope. During the pandemic, Barry produced and directed two short films for ITC written by Catherine Butterfield, Faultless and Just Another Birthday in Bedlam. Both shorts received multiple international film festival honors, including Gold and Bronze Telly Awards.

Megan Zakarian Adell (InterPLAY Co-Producer) is the K-12 Performing Arts Department Director at Campbell Hall School in North Hollywood, where she oversees curricular and extracurricular programming in drama, dance, choral and instrumental music, theater tech, and TV production. She started her tenure at Campbell Hall as a part-time producer of the mainstage shows, as well as the founder of the K-6 adjunct Story-Theater and Improvisation program. Soon after, she was moved up to the full-time position of Production Manager as well as the creator and director of the Creative Arts Academy (the summer arts program at Campbell Hall). Eventually, she became the K-12 Performing Arts Department Director, a role created for her and for which she has served for the last 8 years. Prior to her time at Campbell Hall, Megan was the Production Manager for Interact Theater Company and produced critically acclaimed theatrical productions, play festivals, and the summer arts program, InterPlay. She also served as the Director of Educational Development at Nelvana Entertainment, focusing on several children’s series airing on PBS Kids and launching their national educational outreach campaigns. Throughout the years, Megan has taught theater arts to children of all ages at InterPLAY, Campbell Hall, Young Actors' Studio, Flintridge Prep, and Sherman Oaks Elementary among others. Megan is a graduate of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.

Marcy Capoferri (InterPLAY Co-Producer) first came to work with Interact Theatre Company in 2002 on Death of a Salesman. She has produced InterPLAY every summer since 2003. She has served as box office manager for Guys and Dolls, Our Town, 'night, Mother, Urinetown, State of the Union, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, All American Girl, Other People's Money, Nice Fish, and more. She has been a producer for Club Interact, many benefit performances, and for ITC's InterACTivity festival. She served as ITC treasurer for three years, photographer, and VP of its Artistic Committee. Marcy has also worked with VS. Theatre Company on such shows as The Credeaux Canvas, Modern Dance for Beginners, Beggars in the House of Plenty, Blackbird, On An Average Day, and The Mercy Seat at [Inside] The Ford, Cops and Friends of Cops and Gus's Fashions and Shoes, True West and many shows for the NoHo Arts Center, including Scary Musical, One November Yankee, Onward, The Diana Nyad Story, Go Figure, The Randy Gardner Story, and Discord. Other productions include Nuttin' But Hutton, Be a Good Little Widow, and Spring Awakening. Marcy most recently worked for Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles on Henry IV with Tom Hanks at the VA's Japanese Gardens.

Remington Moses (Lead Instructor) is a lifelong actor, teacher, and drama therapist. She holds a BFA from NYU Tisch where she majored in Drama and Devised Theatre. Film and television credits include Lifetime’s A Fatal Obsession, Buddy Hutchins, Villains of Valley View, Murphy Brown, The Crew, Kecksburg, The Mental State, and others. Theatre credits include The Tempest (Caliban), Rhinoceros (Mrs. Bouef), Gruesome Playground Injuries (Kayleen), Happy Days (Winnie), Student Body (April). Closed Circuit (Shannon), and more. Remi was a long time student of the late Wynn Handman and is currently employed as the youngest method acting teacher in the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute’s history. She is in pursuit of her masters degree in Drama Therapy at Lesley University and is a true believer in the therapeutic benefits of theatre. She currently teaches social skills through drama education at Actors for Autism and facilitates therapeutic drama programs for adults in substance addiction recovery.

ABOUT THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS (DCA)

As a leading progressive arts and cultural agency, DCA empowers Los Angeles’ vibrant communities by supporting and providing access to quality visual, literary, musical, performing, and educational arts programming; managing vital cultural centers; preserving historic sites; creating public art; and funding services provided by arts organizations and individual artists.

Formed in 1925, DCA promotes arts and culture as a way to ignite a powerful dialogue, engage LA’s residents and visitors, and ensure LA’s varied cultures are recognized, acknowledged, and experienced. DCA’s mission is to strengthen the quality of life in Los Angeles by stimulating and supporting arts and cultural activities, ensuring public access to the arts for residents and visitors alike.

DCA advances the social and economic impact of arts and culture through grant-making; public art; community arts; performing arts; and strategic marketing, development, design, and digital research. DCA creates and supports arts programming, maximizing relationships with other city agencies, artists, and arts and cultural nonprofit organizations to provide excellent service in neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles.

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ABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTS DIVISION (PERF)

Through public and private support for performing arts programs, DCA implements initiatives to create festivals and platforms to select artists to create and/or present site-specific public art projects and/or programming. The Performing Arts Program champions Los Angeles artists through advocacy on a local, national, and international level by enhancing relationships with national touring circuits, for-profit promoters, national service organizations, other government agencies, foreign consulates, and important festivals and cultural centers across the globe.

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