Welcome to The Academy @ OCT

SUMMER 2025

ARTS FOR ALL SUMMER 2025 CAMP Register today!

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Class Times Max Enrollment More Information
Arts for All; ages 9 - 17; Summer 2025 Monday-Thursday June 9 - July 20: 9am to 5pm 65

For ages 9 - 17  ARTS FOR ALL - Summer 2025

Arts For All is back again this summer! This incredible theatrical intensive for ages 9-17 offers majors in acting, dance, music, or art, ending with two amazing student productions. This summer, the play Property Rites and the musical Beetlejuice Jr. are the grand finale.

PLACEMENT AUDITIONS: Auditions are for placement only, to determine a student's best fit for a major. Role auditions will be held a week into camp. Register ASAP for Arts For All, then audition on either Saturday, April 12 or Saturday, May 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Here’s what to prepare: 

•Acting:  60-second prepared or provided monologue

•Music:  30 seconds of a contemporary musical theatre song (bring sheet music)

•Dance:  Routine/combination will be taught to students at placement audition

•Art:  Any form of artwork created by student

MEETING TIME: Monday - Thursday; June 9 - July 20 • 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

***NO CLASSES July 3 - 4.***

PERFORMANCES: Property Rites (July 11-13) Beetlejuice (July 18-20)

TUITION: • $600

Pre register today with $50.  The balance can be paid in installments.

Contact the box office at (352) 236-2274 if you would like to set up a pay arrangement.

Arts for All Too; ages 6 - 8; Summer 2025 Saturdays; June 14, 21, 28 & July 12 • 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 20

For ages 6 - 8  ARTS FOR ALL TOO - Summer 2025

Saturdays; June 14, 21, 28 & July 12 • 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Arts For All Too camp is an inspiring and engaging educational environment for our youngest performers, designed to address all aspects of the live theatre experience at a developmentally appropriate level through active participation and ensembleship. Students will explore acting, dance, music, and art through expertly guided and collaborative activities, culminating in a final sharecase which reflects our young artists’ hard work and emerging skills.

Students will explore the power of their voices and bodies to communicate ideas and convey emotions via beginning acting techniques, creative storytelling, vocal exploration with text and music, and self-expressive movement activities. 

Creating the visible context for a performance is equally important in theatrical storytelling. The Arts For All Too immersive experience exposes young learners to various technical aspects of live theatre, from scenic painting techniques to lighting and props. 

Under the guidance and with the encouragement of The Academy’s teaching artists, nothing is as exciting as the creativity, self-confidence, and artistic growth found in the living, breathing space of Ocala Civic Theatre.

ACTING: Explore the excitement of creating vivid characters through fully realized storytelling, utilizing techniques aimed at liberating imagination and honing the theatrical mind.

MUSIC: Cultivate and advance musicianship and expression through introduction to music theory and vocal ensemble work.

DANCE: Develop a functional understanding of the body and spatial/sensory awareness through an introduction to theatrical movement.

ART: Discover and experiment with behind-the-scenes technical arts skills which transform a bare stage into a dazzling, showstopping performance environment.

MEETING TIME: Saturdays; June 14, 21, 28 & July 12 • 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

NO CLASS July 5.

SHARECASE: Saturday, July 19 & Sunday, July 20. Time: TBD

Tuition: • $175