Chris Bodwitch - co-founder
has been performing, teaching and choreographing improvisational dance and physical theater for over three decades. She has presented her work in various New York City venues and has performed with artists, Banana Peel Dance, Dana Salisbury, and Julia Ritter who she toured to Czech Republic, Germany and Toronto. After an intensive clown program at the well-known Dell' Arte International School of Physical Theater in Blue Lake, CA, she became a lover of theatrical clown which eventually brought her to Kendall Cornell's training and Clowns ExMachina, an all-women clown troupe in NYC through which she explored her passion for
being absurdly funny on stage.
Her interdisciplinary approach to creating led her to a five-year collaboration with Liberty Science Center (LSC), a hands-on science museum in Jersey City, NJ. At the museum and in schools, she created and performed dance works that illuminated scientific concepts and celebrated the body by intertwining dance and kinetic sculptures. In 1999, she founded Rhombus Dance and during a three-year dance residency at LSC, Rhombus Dance created three dance works, M/Sec, City Inside and Velocity 0 funded by Exxon Corporation, AT&T Foundation, New Jersey Department of Health and Liberty Science Center.
From 1999 -2010, she was a teaching artist for Young Audiences of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvanica offering creative movement and science integrated classes. And from 2003-2008 she was the movement instructor for The Artist/Teacher Institute at Rutgers University. She has all over the tri-state area in schools, art centers and museums like: West Windsor Arts Center, West Windsor, NJ, Neighborhood Playhouse School, New York, NY, Liberty Science Center Camp-In Girls Scouts Program, Jersey City,NJ, Meadowlands Environmental Center, Lyndhurst, NJ, Soma Yoga Center, Highland Park, NJ, and Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY. From 2013- 2017, she was an educator for Girls Leadership (GL..) Currently, she is the Associate Director for Groundwork Retreat, a unique program that curates experiences for small yet diverse groups of people to share their process of creativity and cross-pollinate ideas. She is also a Licensed Dynamic Emotional Integration® Trainer from the Emotion Dynamics Foundation where she offers creative workshops to learn about the gifts of our emotions. She holds a dance degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and a certification in Soma Yoga. She continues to clown train with the Nose to Nose organization whenever they are in the U.S. and keepsher playful, goofy spirit alive with the guidance of 8 chickens, a dog, 2 cats and some very young human friends.
being absurdly funny on stage.
Her interdisciplinary approach to creating led her to a five-year collaboration with Liberty Science Center (LSC), a hands-on science museum in Jersey City, NJ. At the museum and in schools, she created and performed dance works that illuminated scientific concepts and celebrated the body by intertwining dance and kinetic sculptures. In 1999, she founded Rhombus Dance and during a three-year dance residency at LSC, Rhombus Dance created three dance works, M/Sec, City Inside and Velocity 0 funded by Exxon Corporation, AT&T Foundation, New Jersey Department of Health and Liberty Science Center.
From 1999 -2010, she was a teaching artist for Young Audiences of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvanica offering creative movement and science integrated classes. And from 2003-2008 she was the movement instructor for The Artist/Teacher Institute at Rutgers University. She has all over the tri-state area in schools, art centers and museums like: West Windsor Arts Center, West Windsor, NJ, Neighborhood Playhouse School, New York, NY, Liberty Science Center Camp-In Girls Scouts Program, Jersey City,NJ, Meadowlands Environmental Center, Lyndhurst, NJ, Soma Yoga Center, Highland Park, NJ, and Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY. From 2013- 2017, she was an educator for Girls Leadership (GL..) Currently, she is the Associate Director for Groundwork Retreat, a unique program that curates experiences for small yet diverse groups of people to share their process of creativity and cross-pollinate ideas. She is also a Licensed Dynamic Emotional Integration® Trainer from the Emotion Dynamics Foundation where she offers creative workshops to learn about the gifts of our emotions. She holds a dance degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and a certification in Soma Yoga. She continues to clown train with the Nose to Nose organization whenever they are in the U.S. and keepsher playful, goofy spirit alive with the guidance of 8 chickens, a dog, 2 cats and some very young human friends.
Scott Gallagher - co-founder
was a public school middle and high school teach for over 16 years at Metuchen High School in Metuchen, NJ where he developed the hugely popular film studies course, created a school garden and experimental poetry performances. In addition to teaching English, film and speech classes, he served as faculty adviser for the high school literary Magazine, ILL LIT. He has a MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College. Since Fall of 2017, he has joined full-time Princeton Learning Cooperative, a self-directed community school for teens and helped open Raritan Learning Cooperative in Hunterdon County. He teaches creative word and sound play at our annual camp. Scott is interested in changing the current education paradigm to one that meets the needs of all humans. He loves the ocean, gardening, music, and all things radio. Check out his show: Soulful Sunday on the independent, listener-supported radio station, WDVR/89.7.
Camp Teaching Artists/Collaborators:
Katie Trukis an accomplished artist who has exhibited throughout New Jersey and the surrounding region. She appeared on News 12's On The Scene as a fresh, emerging artist, featuring her award-winning pantyhose-and-wire creations. In her role as a multimedia art teacher, Truk has won grants to lecture and teach children and adults in New Jersey schools and art centers. She has also curated, judged, and juried events for schools, clubs, and organizations in the state. Discover her talent here: www.katietruk.com/
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Jenny Hillis a poet, playwright, arts educator, and performer. She is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the fascinating connections between writing and movement. For the past 20+ years she has worked in the Arts-in-Education program with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, where she shares creative writing and movement residencies in schools, senior centers, and community organizations. You can find her online at actsofjennius.com.
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Sharon Ferguson
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is a local artist and art instructor and art teacher for River Valley Waldorf School in Upper Black Eddy, PA. She has taught a diverse offering of visual arts classes for all ages and skill levels for the past ten years. She loves helping students to stretch their creative limits while building their artistic skills. Her emphasis is always on the individual student’s creative development and growth through the processes of making art.
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Kelley Robertsis a visual artist and former owner of Paperboat and Bird Art Shoppe in Stockton, New Jersey. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, both in Sculpture. She lived and showed in Philadelphia for ten years before moving to the New Hope, Stockton area. Passionate about the way that the handmade movement has revolutionized the art world by creating access and commerce between artists and patrons outside of the museum, she opened her brick and mortar store in 2014. However, her greatest passion is being the mother of the rarest and most amazing bird. Kelley was was the co-developer of Camp Muck and Gold which began in 2015.
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