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SUMMER PRO GRAMS HIGH SCHO O L
MISSIO N The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities serves the artistically talented high school students of South Carolina through programs of pre-professional instruction in an environment of artistic and academic excellence. The school is a resource for all teachers and students in South Carolina.
PRO G RAMS Summer: Arts Odyssey Academy Summer Dance Residential High School: Grades 10-12
C REATIVE W RITING D ANC E VIS UAL ART ART D RAMA MUS IC AREAS
CREATIVE WRITING Developed by professional writers, the Creative Writing program is intensive and highly challenging to ensure talent development and productivity. Students concentrate on sound writing techniques in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and screenwriting. The program recruits the finest young writers in South Carolina by offering a creative, supportive atmosphere and a course of study supervised by practicing, published writers. The Creative Writing Department offers the following programs: Residential High School Program - a two-year program for high school juniors and seniors. Students apply in the 10th grade. Summer Academy Program - a two-week program for current 9th/rising 10th graders. Students apply in the 9th grade. Summer Arts Odyssey Program - a one-week program for current 8th/rising 9th graders. Students apply in the 8th grade.
DANCE The life of a dancer requires dedication, passion as well as physical agility and stamina, musicality and artistic potential. The SCGSAH Dance Department provides professional guidance, training and support through its two inclusive ballet training programs – the Residential High School Dance Program and the Summer Dance Program . World-renowned instructors impart patience, tenacity and motivation, along with the necessary well- rounded technical and artistic development required for a program reflective of the 21st Century. Dance Department Deadlines: Early Decision Dance Application Deadline: Friday, October 5, 2018 Regular Decision Dance Application Deadline: Friday, January 4, 2019
DRAMA The Drama department trains talented actors for careers on stage, screen, and television. Courses include foundations in acting, theatre movement, dance, voice and speech, singing, performance and special topics such as audition preparation, playwriting, and theatre history. The ultimate aim is the development of the total student-actor through discipline, hard work, scholarship, collaboration, and freeing of the creative imagination The Drama Department offers the following programs: Residential High School Program - a two-year program for high school juniors and seniors. Students apply in the 10th grade. Summer Academy Program - a two-week program for current 9th/rising 10th graders. Students apply in the 9th grade. Summer Arts Odyssey Program - a one-week program for current 8th/rising 9th graders. Students apply in the 8th grade.
MUSIC Music is everywhere. It is all around us even when we don’t notice it. If you have been practicing and feel that you are ready for a more challenging experience, then you are in the right place. The Music Program offers pre- professional training to gifted music students from all across the state in piano, harp, voice, strings, wind, brass and percussion. We focus on individual development of musical skills and knowledge through private instruction, ensemble training along with historical and theoretical context. The Music Department offers the following programs: Residential High School Program - a two-year program for high school juniors and seniors. Students apply in the 10th grade. Summer Academy Program - a two-week program for current 9th/rising 10th graders. Students apply in the 9th grade. Summer Art Odyssey Program - a one-week program for current 8th/rising 9th graders. Students apply in the 8th grade.
VISUAL ART The Visual Arts Program develops students' conceptual and creative skills, instilling the discipline and confidence necessary to investigate their own self-expression. Students learn to be constructively critical of their own and others' artwork while gaining the tools necessary to be competitive in a creative environment. With the knowledge that being an artist is a forever-developing process, students learn the hard work and focus to push them beyond expectations. The Visual Art Department offers the following programs: Residential High School Program - a two-year program for high school juniors and seniors. Students apply in the 10th grade. Summer Academy Program - a two-week program for current 9th/rising 10th graders. Students apply in the 9th grade. Summer Art Odyssey Program - a one-week program for current 8th/rising 9th graders. Students apply in the 8th grade.
VISITING GUEST ARTISTS Rita Mark Yekwon David Laurie Dove Rambo Godden Sunwoo Anderson Writing Drama Dance Music Visual Pulitzer Prize Choreographer World Arts Playwright winner, U.S. and dancer Renowned Screenwriter Multi-media Poet Laureate Pianist Artist
AC AD EMIC S Just as the school's arts programs maintain the highest instructional standards, academic programs provide educational excellence to prepare students for collegiate and career successes. Students fulfill their South Carolina high school requirements with teachers who are focused on providing innovative approaches to traditional subjects.
HUMANITIES The Humanities course emphasizes the arts in context so that students have an opportunity to study the ways in which the arts speak to each other as they also connect to specific times, places and people. The guiding questions discussed throughout their Humanities experience are: Who are we as artists? Why do we do what we do? Why do the arts have value for society?
CAMPUS LIFE The 8.5-acre campus overlooks Reedy River Falls Park in the cultural hub of downtown Greenville. Designed to emulate a Tuscan village, the campus community includes a residence hall, state-of-the-art performance hall, black box theatre, contemporary library, classrooms, studios, laboratories, practice rooms, fitness center, and an art gallery, all surrounded by gardens, sculpture and open courtyards.
AFTER GRADUATIO N Class of 2018: 106 students awarded $32 million in scholarships Presidential Scholar in the Arts Students Attend: - Rutgers University - New York University - Savannah College of Art - Fordham University - Eastman School of Music and Design - USC Columbia - Parsons School of Design - Cleveland Institute of Art - College of Charleston - Hollins University - The New School - Furman University - John Hopkins Peabody - The Pratt Institute - American University - University of Alabama - Winthrop University - The Julliard School - Warren Wilson College - McGill University - Clemson University - Fashion Institute of - Indiana University Technology - Loyola University - Florida State
ALUMNI Malia Griggs (2007) had a stint Whitney Huell (2004) In 2011, she was at Cosmopolitan magazine, one of Dance Magazine’s Top 25 to Watch before landing a job at Comedy and was also featured in the September Central as a digital production 2012 issue of Pointe Magazine. She then assistant and production joined the Kansas City Ballet in 2014. She coordinator, primarily on The has been featured as the Caterpillar in Colbert Show. Currently, she is Septime Webre’s Alice (in Wonderland) , and 3 rd Theme in Balanchine’s The Four social media editor at The Daily Beast , an online news Temperaments . She has also modeled for publication. Elevé Dancewear. Brandon Hall (2011) Maggie Luis graduated from The Juilliard Gould (2008) Gould has Salcedo (2007) founded performed on Late the design School in 2015 and has Night with Seth Meyers firm GhostShop. appeared in Unforgettable, and Good Morning GhostShop has worked Broad City , and Rookie . Brandon will be acting in America . Additionally, with major brands and Maggie was also a member clients ranging from several films to be released of the pit orchestra for the CocaCola to Toyota, Nike in 2018 including God hit Broadway and Apple, to LA Indie Friended Me, Monster Party , show, Hamilton . bands. and The Airport Run .
Govie Saturdays: September 22, October 6 & 20, November 17, December 1 & 15 First Look: November 3, tours, demonstrations, information sessions Student Shadowing: Mondays – Thursdays in October For 10 th graders only PRE-REGISTRATIO N REQ UIRED Sign up online www.scgsah.org
IMPO RTANT DATES 2018 - 2019 APPLICATIO N D EAD LINES October 5, 2018 – Early Decision Dance Only November 30, 2018 – Arts Odyssey Application Due November 30, 2018 – Deadline for Application Fee Waiver January 4, 2019 – Final Application Deadline AUD ITIO N D ATES Early Decision Dance Only Saturday - October 13, 2018 – Greenville, SC Sunday – October14, 2018 – Columbia, SC Sunday – November 4, 2018 – Greenville, SC Regular Decision Dance Only Saturday – February 2, 2019 – College of Charleston, Charleston, SC Saturday – February 9, 2019 - SCGSAH Campus, Greenville, SC All Art Areas Saturday – February 2, 2019 – College of Charleston, Charleston, SC Saturday – February 9, 2019 – SCGSAH Campus, Greenville, SC Saturday – February 16, 2019 – Columbia College, Columbia, SC
Q UESTIO NS? WANT MO RE INFO RMATIO N? Megan Hueble Field Liaison Visual Art meganhueble@scgsah.org 864-546-0197 www.scgsah.org
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