SPAI 2025 Convention July 31 - August 3, 2025

Summer Performing Arts Convention 2025

July 31 - August 3, 2025

Cost $375

Thursday and Friday from 4:15-8:30pm

Saturday from 9:00am - 4:30pm

Sunday from 9:00-3:30 (with performances Sunday at 4:00 and 5:00)

Ages 8-11 Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced 
Ages 12-16 Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced 
Ages 17-22 Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced 

*May combine ages or levels as needed

Level Options:

Beginner- The beginner level will be geared toward participants who are new to theater or have been in 5 or less productions.

Intermediate - The intermediate level will be geared toward participants who have been in 6-15 productions and attend classes.

Advanced - The advanced level will be geared toward participants who have been in over 15 productions. For dance, they have been actively taking multiple classes, and for voice, they are studying privately with a teacher. For acting, they have been in multiple sessions of Improv. Prior permission is necessary in order to enroll at the advanced level. Please contact [email protected] to request permission.

Summer Performing Arts Convention 2025 Schedule

• Electives: Thursday
  from 4:15-8:30 p.m. and Saturday from 8:45 a.m. arrival check in ; 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Participant will be in 6 elective classes
• Performance Material Friday
  from 4:15-8:30 p.m. and Sunday from 8:45 a.m. arrival check in; 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. 
• Using the skills learned on
  Thursday and Saturday, learn and perform songs and scenes from MTA’s 18^th Season!
  
• Sunday Performances 4:00,
  5:00, and 6:00 p.m. (6:00 would be TBD on enrollment); performance will run
  about 30 minutes

Elective Class Options

• You will recieve a follow-up form where you will select your elective class options. You will receive the follow-up form by email after you complete your registration.  
• Please mark 1, 2, 3 with 1 being
  your first choice, next to each elective in the time slot provided on the follow-up form.
  Classes with an *asterisk must receive prior approval to participate, so please
  email [email protected] for
  permission to take those classes.
• Late registration participants after 9pm on Tuesday 7/29/25 will not be able to pick their electives and will be charged a $75 late registration fee.  You will be placed in the elective classes that best fit your age/skill level based upon current elective numbers.

Thursday 4:30-5:45

🎵Beginning/Intermediate Tap

🎵Dance Audition Prep (from show in
18th Season)

🎵Intermediate/Advanced Audition Song Coaching
Observer

🎵*Intermediate/Advanced Audition
Song Coaching Participant

You will select either the observer or participant for Audition Song Coaching NOT BOTH 

Thursday 5:50-7:05

🎵Intermediate/Advanced Tap

🎵Stretching and Flexibility

🎵Beginning/Intermediate Improv

Thursday 7:10-8:25

🎵*Advanced Contemporary Dance
Improv

🎵Beginning/Intermediate Directing
and Character Study

🎵Intermediate/Advanced Audition
Song Coaching Observer (all levels can observe)

🎵*Intermediate/Advanced Audition
Song Coaching Participant

 You will select either the observer or participant for Audition Song Coaching NOT BOTH

Saturday 9:00-10:15

🎵Beginning/Intermediate Ballet

🎵Intermediate/Advanced Improv

🎵Vocal Callbacks (all levels)

Saturday 10:20-11:35

🎵Intermediate/Advanced Ballet

🎵Beginning/Intermediate Hip-Hop

🎵Cold Reads (all levels)

Saturday 11:40-12:55

🎵Intermediate/Advanced Vocal
Callbacks

🎵Beginning/Intermediate Musical
Theatre Dance

🎵Beginning/Intermediate Singing in
Harmony and Ear Training 

A digital copy will be available for purchase of MTA's Summer Performing Arts Convention 2025.  Within 3 business days after a production has been recorded, cast members and parents will receive an email with a link to purchase and download the video to their choice of device. The link used to purchase a digital copy can be forwarded by the cast members and parents, making it easier for family and friends to also purchase and download a copy of the production recording.

**PARTICIPANTS WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL BY 9PM ON 7/30/25  WITH A FINAL LIST OF THEIR ELECTIVES! THANK YOU!! **