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Now taking registrations for 2010!

* NEW 2009 Pictures posted in the Gallery

3 Ways to Register!

1. Register Online

2. Register by Phone by calling 888 497 3553

3. Register by Mail. Download Form and mail to:
   100 Meadowcreek Dr Suite 102
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US Performing Arts Camps is directly partnered with theater, dance, and film departments at the nation's top tier universities. While you experience their faculty, they will help you grow as an artist.

* Receive outstanding training from America's best
  theater educators and professionals.
* Improve your skills and developing your craft.
* Work with college faculty and industry professionals.
* Be recruited by top US colleges.
* Live in a college atmosphere.
* Narrow your college search.
* Earn college credit. (available at some locations)
* Work with like-minded, talented, and
  passionate peers.
* Gain an understanding of the business and
  the profession.
* Establish new lifelong friendships.
* Become part of a networking mentorship.
* Develop and strengthen self-esteem.
* Have fun!

Genius vs Media Sensationalism
I'm usually a first weekend movie-goer. That comes from spending my life around the "business" and knowing the importance of the first weekend box office receipts. To be truthful, it probably really comes from hearing dinner table talk as a child. My father was a television executive in the early days of television and his company ABC merged with Paramount Theaters. Leonard Goldenson, President of Paramount became head of the merged companies and to the day he died he checked the theater box office numbers every day! If it had been a good night at the theaters it was a good day in television. So out of habit, I drag my husband to two or three movies on the weekend.

For that same insider's reason I don't like overly hyped movies because I know why they are generally hyped so I usually avoid them. That's the reason I didn't go see "This Is It" when it opened on the 28th of October. That, and the fact that I was a little Michael Jacksoned out. The reasons I had been a HUGE fan of his had been obscured by all of the bad press and the subsequent doubts about the man himself over the past six years. Monday night I acquiesced to a movie date. What I saw and what I'm writing makes no allusion to the persona of the off stage Michael Jackson....

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