{"id":1372,"date":"2021-07-09T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2021-07-09T20:17:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T20:17:52","slug":"troy-universitys-department-of-theatre-and-dance-offers-children-a-chance-to-shine-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/07\/09\/troy-universitys-department-of-theatre-and-dance-offers-children-a-chance-to-shine-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University&#8217;s Department of Theatre and Dance offers children a chance to shine in the spotlight."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A group of children are getting to show off their creative sid<a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">e Troy University<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-communication-fine-arts\/departments\/theatre-dance\/index.html\">Department of Theatre and Dance<\/a>&#8216;s annual Summer Spotlight Creative Drama camp this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Campers ranging in age from four to seven are taking part in a week long camp that, according to counselors, not only teaches them about theater but allows the kids to channel their energy creatively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It is a week every summer that kids get to spend a week creatively expressing themselves,&#8221; says Lead Counselor Caitlin Hicks. &#8220;Learning different movements through creativity and doing different stage crafts. Learning about props. Learning about the theater without any intention of turning them into child stars or child actors. It&#8217;s just a chance for them to get to use all that great energy that kids have and play and redirect it through a creative outlet.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the full story watch Cailey&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of children are getting to show off their creative side Troy University&#8216;s Department of Theatre and Dance&#8216;s annual Summer Spotlight Creative Drama camp this week.<\/p>\n<p>Campers ranging in age from four to seven are taking part in a week long camp that, according to counselors, not only teaches them about theater but allows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/07\/09\/troy-universitys-department-of-theatre-and-dance-offers-children-a-chance-to-shine-in-the-spotlight\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[592,550,320],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-caitlin-hicks","tag-summer-spotlight","tag-theatre-and-dance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}