Shakespeare’s Spotify Playlist: Sonnets & Soundtracks on Stage
Shakespeare’s Spotify Playlist: Sonnets & Soundtracks on Stage is a week long musical theatre camp that explores the enduring power of Shakespeare’s characters through contemporary music inspired storytelling. Using iconic figures such as Ophelia, Hamlet, Juliet, Romeo, and Lady Macbeth as creative anchors, campers investigate how the emotions, conflicts, and questions in Shakespeare’s plays continue to resonate in modern music and performance.
Through acting, movement, music inspired exploration, and collaborative creation, students uncover the symbiotic relationship between literary tradition and contemporary sound. Shakespeare provides character, structure, and language. Modern music culture provides rhythm, emotional immediacy, and attitude. Campers transform both into original performance work that is entirely their own.
The camp emphasizes creative choice, collaboration, emotional expression, and confidence. Students are encouraged to explore performance in ways that align with their interests, whether onstage or behind the scenes.
Learning Objectives
Students will develop foundational skills in acting, movement, and musical theatre collaboration.
Students will explore storytelling across time, genre, and artistic form.
Students will practice creative decision making and artistic risk taking.
Students will build confidence using voice, body, rhythm, and imagination.
Students will contribute to a collaborative performance as both individual artists and ensemble members.
Artistic Focus Areas
Acting and Storytelling
Campers explore character point of view, motivation, and emotional stakes through theatre games, improvisation, and short scripted scenes inspired by Shakespeare’s characters and themes.
Movement and Musicality
Students translate emotion, rhythm, and story into physical expression. Movement work draws inspiration from contemporary music styles and focuses on ensemble awareness, timing, and expressive flow rather than technical dance.
Voice, Rhythm, and Sound
Campers explore how voice, pacing, and musical rhythm shape storytelling. Music is used as inspiration rather than imitation. Students do not perform copyrighted songs, but instead create original scenes, transitions, and ensemble moments informed by modern musical styles.
Design and Visual Storytelling
Students interested in behind the scenes work contribute through simple set pieces, props, costumes, and visual elements. Design choices help communicate mood, identity, and story and are valued equally alongside performance roles.
Ensemble Collaboration
Campers learn to listen, respond, support one another, and build shared work. Emphasis is placed on respect, inclusion, and the idea that strong performances are created together.
Final Performance
The culminating performance is an original ensemble piece combining short scripted scenes, music inspired movement, improvisation, and visual storytelling. The performance highlights collaboration, creativity, and confidence rather than memorization or perfection.
Social Emotional Approach
Themes of identity, ambition, vulnerability, and expression are handled with care and age appropriate framing. Camp prioritizes emotional safety, consent, and positive self expression. Students are encouraged to explore both boldness and sensitivity as valuable creative tools.
*SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE. CONTACT US FOR INFORMATION
Shakespeare’s Spotify Playlist: Sonnets & Soundtracks on Stage
Shakespeare’s Spotify Playlist: Sonnets & Soundtracks on Stage is a week long musical theatre camp that explores the enduring power of Shakespeare’s characters through contemporary music inspired storytelling. Using iconic figures such as Ophelia, Hamlet, Juliet, Romeo, and Lady Macbeth as creative anchors, campers investigate how the emotions, conflicts, and questions in Shakespeare’s plays continue to resonate in modern music and performance.
Through acting, movement, music inspired exploration, and collaborative creation, students uncover the symbiotic relationship between literary tradition and contemporary sound. Shakespeare provides character, structure, and language. Modern music culture provides rhythm, emotional immediacy, and attitude. Campers transform both into original performance work that is entirely their own.
The camp emphasizes creative choice, collaboration, emotional expression, and confidence. Students are encouraged to explore performance in ways that align with their interests, whether onstage or behind the scenes.
Learning Objectives
Students will develop foundational skills in acting, movement, and musical theatre collaboration.
Students will explore storytelling across time, genre, and artistic form.
Students will practice creative decision making and artistic risk taking.
Students will build confidence using voice, body, rhythm, and imagination.
Students will contribute to a collaborative performance as both individual artists and ensemble members.
Artistic Focus Areas
Acting and Storytelling
Campers explore character point of view, motivation, and emotional stakes through theatre games, improvisation, and short scripted scenes inspired by Shakespeare’s characters and themes.
Movement and Musicality
Students translate emotion, rhythm, and story into physical expression. Movement work draws inspiration from contemporary music styles and focuses on ensemble awareness, timing, and expressive flow rather than technical dance.
Voice, Rhythm, and Sound
Campers explore how voice, pacing, and musical rhythm shape storytelling. Music is used as inspiration rather than imitation. Students do not perform copyrighted songs, but instead create original scenes, transitions, and ensemble moments informed by modern musical styles.
Design and Visual Storytelling
Students interested in behind the scenes work contribute through simple set pieces, props, costumes, and visual elements. Design choices help communicate mood, identity, and story and are valued equally alongside performance roles.
Ensemble Collaboration
Campers learn to listen, respond, support one another, and build shared work. Emphasis is placed on respect, inclusion, and the idea that strong performances are created together.
Final Performance
The culminating performance is an original ensemble piece combining short scripted scenes, music inspired movement, improvisation, and visual storytelling. The performance highlights collaboration, creativity, and confidence rather than memorization or perfection.
Social Emotional Approach
Themes of identity, ambition, vulnerability, and expression are handled with care and age appropriate framing. Camp prioritizes emotional safety, consent, and positive self expression. Students are encouraged to explore both boldness and sensitivity as valuable creative tools.
*SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE. CONTACT US FOR INFORMATION
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