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Old Crozet School Arts Becomes Crozet Arts with New website CrozetArts.org

…Classes …About OCSA …About us …Contact us …Directions
1408 Crozet Avenue
Suite 102
Crozet VA
Entrances and parking on the sides of the building.
Contact info:

NEW WEBSITE CrozetArts.org

Telephone: (434) 964 – 6770
Mailing Address:
OCSA, c/o 260 Deer Crest Heights Charlottesville VA 22903
OCSA FALL 2011 Session

OCSA's Fall Session is underway.
Click here to visit the CLASSES page.
NEW STUDENTS WELCOME!!
Crozet ArtsNewsletter
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"PAIRS" Children's Theatre Class begins Monday!!
Fall 2011 Classes
See Classes page for class descriptions and details!
Fall 2011 Classes:
- Exploring Movement for 3-year-olds
- Creative Movement for 4-year-olds
- Ballet for children, teens, adults – all levels
- Stretch & Movement for teens & adults
- Saturday Dance Master Classes
- Gentle Yoga NEW!! … Morning class for Adults
- Beginner/Advanced-Beginner Yoga for Adults & Teens
- Talent Education at OCSA
- Fall Flute Ensemble
- Fall Chamber Strings
- Acoustic & Electric Guitar
- Blue Ridge Music Together
- "PAIRS" Children's Theatre class for Grades 1 – 5
- Theatre Workshops for teens & adults
- Drawing & Painting with John A. Hancock
- Bookmaking & Art to Fill it for K – 5 or Gr. 5 – 8
- Collage & Painting for Grades K – 5
- Basket Weaving Workshop
- T'ai Chi Workshop
- French for Pre-Schoolers
More TBA!!
Office Hours
1408 Crozet Avenue, Crozet, VA
(side entrances)
OFFICE HOURS:
Please email info@crozetarts.org to set-up a time.
Questions?
Please email info@crozetarts.org.
Or call (434) 964-6770 to leave a message.
Thursday, November 17th
Submitted by sdtolczyk on Sun, 11/13/2011 – 10:53pm.
NEW LATE FALL CLASSES!! NEW STUDENTS WELCOME!!
"PAIRS" New Theatre Class for Children
with Boomie Pedersen.
For Children in Grades 1 – 5 –> 3:45 – 4:35 pm
BEGINNING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21st !!
New dates (as of 11/18):
Nov 21 & 28; Dec 12 & 19; Jan 2 & 9.
Students may register at the first class.
New Term for Beginner/Advanced-Beginner YOGA
with Scott Neisser.
November 14 – January 9
For Teens & Adults–> 7:15 – 8:30 pm
Drop-in's welcome; or register for multiple classes.
BOOKMAKING & ART TO FILL IT
with Kacie-Linn Engle.
Fridays 3:30 – 4:30 for Grades K – 5.
Fridays 4:30 – 5:30 for Grades 5 – 8.
NEW STUDENTS MAY STILL JOIN ON NOVEMBER 18th!!
Email info@crozetarts.org to register.
EXPLORING ART & DESIGN WITH COLLAGE
with Nym Pedersen.
New Class begins DECEMBER 1st!
Three Thursdays: Dec 1 & 8 & 15.
For Children in Grades K – 5–> 4:00 – 5:00 pm
For registration assistance, email info@crozetarts.org
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ON-GOING DROP-IN CLASSES:
(Click here for link to Classes page)
Monday Intermediate Ballet (Teens & Adults): 6:05 – 7:05 pm
Monday Flute Ensemble (Intermediate playing level): December 12th: 6:30 – 7:45 pm
Monday Beginner/Advanced-Beginner Yoga (Teens & Adults): 7:15 – 8:30 pm
Wednesday Morning Gentle Yoga (Teens & Adults): 10:00 – 11:00 am
Wednesday Advanced Ballet (Teens & Adults): 6:15 – 7:45 pm
Thursday Beginner/Advanced-Beginner Ballet (Teens & Adults): 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Thursday Stretch & Movement (Teens & Adults): 7:15 – 8:15 (but not 11/10)
Saturday Advanced Ballet (Teens & Adults): 1:30 – 3:00 pm
QUESTIONS? –> info@crozetarts.org
OCTOBER NEWS
Submitted by sdtolczyk on Fri, 10/07/2011 – 10:48pm.
Click here for mail-in Registration Form.
Registration is open for two new Saturday Workshops (click on blue links for info):
October 22: T'ai Chi with Hiromi Hangai Johnson
& November 12: Basket Weaving with Laura Mellusi
… and for the new Wednesday morning Exploring Movement for 3-year-olds
with Sharon Tolczyk
and Gentle Yoga with Scott Neisser.
NEW STUDENTS WELCOME IN CONTINUING FALL CLASSES!
Visit our Classes page for more information: www.crozetarts.org/classes
Hope to see you soon at OCSA!!

OCSA BALLET REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Submitted by sdtolczyk on Tue, 08/23/2011 – 10:41am.
BALLET REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
CLICK ON PHOTO BELOW FOR INFORMATION:
Registration for all other OCSA classes (see below) will be posted shortly
(an e-newsletter will be sent when registration opens).
WALK-IN REGISTRATION
for all fall classes will be held on
Friday, August 26 from 3:00 – 6:00 pm
and
Saturday, August 27 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm.

Click on photo above for Exploring Movement, Creative Movement,
Ballet, and Stretch & Movement registration;
registration information for all other classes will be posted shortly.
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Fall 2011 Classes:
- Exploring Movement for 3-year-olds
- Creative Movement for 4-year-olds
- Ballet for children, teens, adults – all levels
- Stretch & Movement for teens & adults
- Saturday Dance Master Classes
- Gentle Yoga NEW!! … Morning class for Adults
- Beginner/Advanced-Beginner Yoga for Adults & Teens
- Suzuki Cello
- Fall Flute Ensemble
- Fall Chamber Strings
- Acoustic & Electric Guitar
- Blue Ridge Music Together
- "Theatre Games" for Grades 1 – 5
- Theatre Workshops for teens & adults
- Drawing & Painting with John A. Hancock
- Papier Mache & Painted Wooden People for K – 5 or Gr. 5 – 8
- Collage & Painting for Grades K – 5
- Basket Weaving Workshops
- T'ai Chi Workshops
- French for Pre-Schoolers
More TBA!!
Summer 2011 at OCSA
Submitted by sdtolczyk on Sun, 07/10/2011 – 1:10pm. OCSArts Newsletter
A glimpse of Summer @ OCSA 2011:
Email info@crozetarts.org for registration assistance.
OCSA is a Virginia Non-Stock Corporation; need-based scholarships are available.
"Like" OCSA's new Facebook Page!
OCSA Forms & Docs to View/Print
2011 – 2012 Master Schedule
2011 – 2012 Registration Form
2011 – 2012 OCSA Calendar & Policies
2011 – 2012 Ballet Schedule
What to Wear for OCSA Ballet Classes 2011- 2012
Faculty News
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Click here for info on upcoming Terra Voce concerts!
Terra Voce duo, Elizabeth Brightbill (OCSA Flute Ensemble) and Andrew Gabbert (OCSA Chamber Strings), are currently recording a new CD, "The Frost is All Over," due to be released in late November. Click here to find out more about the CD and their recording project.
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Elizabeth Roberts, OCSA's Music Advisor and Principal Bassoon with the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra, has spent the summer and early fall substituting with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Washington National Opera, and the Richmond Symphony. She coordinated the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra's annual Youth Concerts in October which, for the first time, sold out two concerts with a waiting list of 200 people!
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OCSA Events
THANK YOU to the USAF Langley Winds for their fabulous FREE CONCERT in OCSA's Music Studio on March 29th! The genuine "chamber music" concert was throughly enjoyed by all (young OCSA students, and local residents from Crozet and Charlottesville).
And, THANK YOU to Hamner Theater for the loan of its chairs and platforms (and to Boomie Pedersen & J Taylor for their transport), and to Crozet School & Office Supply for printing the programs!!
Read about OCSA in The Hook!
"Old Crozet School into Arts"
1408 Crozet Avenue (Side Entrances), Crozet, VA

Old Crozet School Arts Concept Narrative
The concept of Old Crozet School Arts, a non-profit school for arts instruction, grew out of the Old Crozet School Re-use Workshop, conducted in June 2008. The results of the Workshop indicated the community's decisive preference to revitalize the old school as a cultural and community center (see "The Old Crozet School Re-use Study" by PMA Planners & Architects, July 2008, Pages 1 and 9 [see Table 1]). While Albemarle County continues its discussion regarding a permanent use for the old school building, OCSA seeks to occupy a portion of the building for the purpose of offering classes in dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and other art forms, thus establishing the beginnings of what could evolve into a vibrant cultural center in the western Albemarle community.
OCSA's plan for its portion of the old school turns classrooms into studios, each of which will be coordinated by a teacher or group of teachers centered around teaching in one of the arts. OCSA will be overseen by an Artistic Director (Sharon D. Tolczyk), an Administrative Director (Mollie Washburne), and governed by a Board of Directors.
OCSA will offer a schedule of classes that includes instruction for students of all ages. Classes will be scheduled throughout the day in order to accommodate various populations, including preschoolers, homeschoolers, adults, elementary/middle/high school students, and senior citizens.
OCSA aims to create a unique opportunity for arts instruction in Albemarle County. By offering classes across the arts, students participating in OCSA will encounter others who share their interest in the arts, but who may be involved in a completely different art form. Surprisingly, this is a rare occurence since most instruction in the arts takes place one art at a time. That is, students may study dance at a dance school, theatre at a theatre school, music at a music studio (or from a private teacher), or art at an art studio. The intermingling under one roof of artists and students from various arts disciplines will promote growth, awareness, and integration of the arts which, in turn, will lay vital groundwork for the development of a cultural center at the Old Crozet School.
The Old Crozet School is an ideal home for OCSA. Its spacious layout, with numerous classrooms free of supporting poles and with abundant light, makes it ideally suited to arts instruction. Its proximity to schools makes it easily accessible after school; Henley and WAHS buses even drive past the Old Crozet School. Furthermore, its location in Crozet means a reduction in traffic and gas consumption since students will not need to travel to Charlottesville for arts instruction. Our proposal is a "green" alternative.
OCSA is deeply committed to creating new and unique opportunities for arts instruction in Albemarle County. We believe firmly that, besides being enjoyable and rewarding, study in the arts enhances learning and thinking. "For students living in a rapidly changing world, the arts teach vital modes of seeing, imagining, inventing, and thinking […] how to see new patterns, how to learn from mistakes, and how to envision solutions" (Ellen Winner, "Art for Our Sake," Boston Globe, September 2, 2007 [please see attached article]). At the same time, we seek to bring life to the now-vacant old school building by nurturing its natural calling as a home for the arts.
Our venture, from the beginning, has been a collaborative effort to support the community's need to find an occupant for the Old Crozet School. We hope that by responding to the community's expressed desire that the school become a cultural/community center, we will be granted the opportunity to continue our collaboration with the our fellow Albemarle County citizens, and thereby make a vibrant contribution to our community.

 

Ballet
Sharon Donohue Tolczyk previously taught ballet on the faculties of the Boston Ballet School, Walnut Hill School for the arts (Natick, MA), Boston Ballet's Children's Summer Dance Workshop, Amherst Ballet Centre (MA), Schwarz School of Dance (Dayton, OH), Wright State University's PRODANCE (Dayton, OH), Albemarle Ballet Theatre, and recently at the Greenwood Community Center. At Walnut Hill School, she was a member of the dance department's ballet faculty, and Director of the Dance Extension Division and Summer Dance Workshop. Prior to her teaching career, Sharon danced with the Dayton Ballet Company and Peridance, a contemporary ballet company in New York City. While in Dayton, she also served as Ballet Mistress for the company and apprentice company, Dayton Ballet II. More Info…
Yoga
(Mary) Scott Neisser- began studying and practicing yoga twenty years ago. It was a natural transition from a professional dancing career. She studied with a variety of teachers at Angel City Yoga in LA, and intensively with Anna Delury, a senior Iyengar teacher. She continues to grow and learn through her teachers at Allied yoga, having studied with Joe Adlesic, Sandra Pleasants, and Mary Bridle. She has attended many workshops over the years including Kofi Busia, Max Strom, and Rajiv and Swati Chanchani. She is thrilled to be sharing her passion for yoga and its benefits of strength, flexibility, and a centered calmness.
Art

Kacie-Linn Engle was an art and science specialist for Seattle Public Schools prior to moving to Charlottesville in 1999. Upon arriving, she decided that she wanted to spend more time with her own family, and opened an art studio in her basement where she teaches year long after- school art classes. She is thrilled to also be teaching at the Old Crozet School Arts program this year. She was voted, "Favorite Teacher in the School" by her students in Seattle, and likes to believe it's her warm, nurturing attitude that the students like. She's an artist in her own right, and can often be found laboring over her own pieces at her desk at all hours of the day and night. She lives with her husband Blair, her son Brett who attends Western Albemarle, and her dog Cami. When she's very lucky she gets a visit from her wonderful daughter Jenna, who attends Virginia Tech. Visit her website for more pictures and information: www.Kacie-LinnEngle.com.

Nym Pedersen grew up in New York City and studied art at Columbia University and the Art Students League of New York. His father, Doug Pedersen, was a painter and big inspiration, although Nym thinks of himself as primarily self-taught. Nym moved to Virginia 12 years ago after spending a few years in Oregon. He has shown his work in galleries and other venues in Virginia, Oregon, California, and elsewhere. Nym lives in Crozet with his wife and two sons and a bunch of animals. Please visit his website, www.nympedersen.com for a look at his artwork.
Theater

Boomie Pedersen was born and raised in NYC. She has lived in NY; Tokyo, Japan; Los Angeles, CA and now lives in Crozet with two, sometimes three, of her six children. She has a dance background, holds a BA in English and Theater from Princeton University, and has worked in the theater most of her life. Most recently she has taught Improv at North Branch School, theater at Renaissance School, acting and directing at Randolph College. She is currently the Co-Artistic Director of the Hamner Theater in Nelson County where she has directed, produced and acted in over a dozen productions.
Music
Cellist Andrew Gabbert performs in the Crozet-based chamber duo Terra Voce with his wife, flutist Elizabeth Brightbill. In addition to their numerous performances on college campuses, Terra Voce has appeared on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, in the Christ Chapel Chamber Series at New York City's Riverside Church, and as finalists in the National Flute Association's 2008 Chamber Music Competition in Kansas City. Prior to moving to Crozet, Mr. Gabbert held titled full-­-time positions with the Tulsa Philharmonic and Opera orchestras for eleven years and regularly presented educational concerts as a member of the Tulsa Philharmonic String Quartet/Quintet. He graduated with high distinction from Indiana University's School of Music, and also has a M.M. from Louisiana State University. He has taught as a Visiting Instructor at the University of Oklahoma, and as a graduate assistant at Louisiana State University. He currently teaches at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA and maintains a private studio in Crozet, VA. www.TerraVoce.com
Award-winning flutist Elizabeth Brightbill performs in the Crozet-based duo Terra Voce. Prior to moving to Crozet, she held the position of Principal Flute with the Tulsa Philharmonic and Opera orchestras for ten years. She holds the D.M. degree from Indiana University, has taught at a number of colleges and universities around the country, and currently teaches at Mary Baldwin College, Longwood University, Eastern Mennonite University, and St. Anne's- Belfield School. Contact Elizabeth at info@terravoce.com

 

Sharon D. Tolczyk, Artistic Director & OCSA Founder
Sharon Donohue Tolczyk previously taught ballet on the faculties of the Boston Ballet School, Walnut Hill School for the arts (Natick, MA), Boston Ballet's Children's Summer Dance Workshop, Amherst Ballet Centre (MA), Schwarz School of Dance (Dayton, OH), Wright State University's PRODANCE (Dayton, OH), Albemarle Ballet Theatre, and recently at the Greenwood Community Center. At Walnut Hill School, she was a member of the dance department's ballet faculty, and Director of the Dance Extension Division and Summer Dance Workshop. Prior to her teaching career, Sharon danced with the Dayton Ballet Company and Peridance, a contemporary ballet company in New York City. While in Dayton, she also served as Ballet Mistress for the company and apprentice company, Dayton Ballet II. She has choreographed for the Amherst Ballet Theatre Company, Dayton Ballet II, Walnut Hill, and Albemarle Ballet Theatre. Sharon received her early training at the Princeton Ballet and in London, England. She studied at Walnut Hill School and the Amherst Ballet Centre during high school, and completed the Major Exams for the Royal Academy of Dancing, London, qualifying her as an Associate Member. After graduating from high school, she was a scholarship student for two years at the School of the Pennsylvania Ballet where she trained with Lupe Serrano and performed in the Pennsylvania Ballet's Nutcracker. During her professional dancing career, she studied in New York City with Maggie Black, Marjorie Mussman, Benjamin Harkarvy, Larry Rhodes and others. She attended workshops with the Twyla Tharp and Paul Taylor dance companies. Since moving to Charlottesville in 1996, Sharon has studied art at PVCC with Chica Tenney, John Hancock, and Rebekah Wostrel, and at Mary Baldwin College with Sue Marion. She was a T.A. at Murray Elementary School, where she also served as Chair of the PTO's Cultural Enrichment for three years, and was an Art Print volunteer. She is a member of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society. She and her husband, Dariusz, an Associate Professor in the Slavic Department at the University of Virginia, live in western Albemarle with their two children, Adam and Aleksandra.
Mollie Washburne, Administrative Director & OCSA Founder
Mollie Washburne holds a B.A. in Journalism and Theater from Indiana University, Bloomington. A lifelong ballet enthusiast and supporter, Mollie began her dance training at the Montgomery School of Ballet in Alabama and danced with the Montgomery Civic Ballet, under the direction of Audrey Gryder and Duane Dishion. She went on to train with George Verdak, formerly of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and with Jürgen Pagels at Indiana University. She also studied at the Briansky Ballet Center and was a scholarship student with the Joffrey Ballet in New York City. Mollie and her husband, Jake, who is the General Registrar for Albemarle County, have lived in Crozet with their three children, Spalding, Ben, and George, since 1988. Mollie established the Art Print program at Brownsville Elementary School and has taught ballet at the Lexington School of Ballet (Virginia) and more recently at Albemarle Ballet Theatre. She is the Managing Editor of New Literary History, a journal of theory and interpretation at the University of Virginia.
Elizabeth Roberts, Music Advisor
Principal Bassoon and Outreach Coordinator of the Charlottesville Symphony, and Principal Bassoon of the Roanoke Symphony, Elizabeth Roberts joined the performance faculty at the University of Virginia in 2001. She freelances on bassoon and contrabassoon with orchestras such as the National Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, and Virginia Symphony. She is an active chamber musician, serving as the bassoonist for the Albemarle Ensemble, and greatly enjoys teaching private lessons in bassoon and reedmaking to local middle school and high school students. As a student she attended the Aspen Music Festival (summers 1998-2003), the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (2004), and the Banff Centre for the Arts (1997, 2008-2009). She has served as a performer and faculty member at several summer festivals, including Music Mind and Reading (Winston-Salem, NC), the Wintergreen Performing Arts Festival, and the Cascade Festival of Music (Bend, OR). Ms. Roberts is the Director of the UVA Summer Chamber Music Festival. Her principal teachers include Arthur Weisberg, Stephen Maxym and Frank Morelli.
Boomie Pedersen, Theatre Advisor & Instructor
Boomie Pedersen was born and raised in New York City and was for many years a professional-track scholarship student with the Joffrey Ballet. She gave up the dance to attend Princeton University, where she eventually majored in English and Theater and won the Frances LeMoyne Paige Prize at graduation for both theater and dance. She spent 10 years on and off in Tokyo, Japan, where she did professional voice-over work, ran Tokyo Theater for Children, was actor, director and board member for Tokyo International Players and wrote several commissioned pieces for Earth Day and other special events. She also taught English at several Tokyo colleges and worked with a group using drama to teach language skills, as well as doing a stint at Temple University as a theater teacher. Next came a brief 18 months in Los Angeles, where she was involved in the Asian Theater Lab and acted in the premiere performance of Widescreen Version of the World by Han Ong, as well as working with the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. When she relocated to Charlottesville in 1995, Boomie became involved at Live Arts both as an actor (Scrooge, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Assassins, Edward the II, Copenhagen, Noises Off, Old Times) and a director (Three Tall Women, Buried Child, Play About the Baby, The Underpants, Glengarry Glen Ross). She also worked with the Nelson County Drama Foundation and mounted an outdoor production of Earl Hamner's The Conflict at Mountain Cove Vineyard in 1998 and 1999. She has worked with Offstage Theater, Four County Players, Piedmont Virginia Community College, UVA's Drama Department, Heritage Rep and Wintergreen Performing Arts. She taught theater at Renaissance School in Charlottesville for four years, served as an adjunct theater teacher at the Governor's School in Fishersville and was adjunct professor of Acting and Directing at Randolph College in Lynchburg. Boomie lives in Crozet with three of her six children, a husband/theater collaborator and several cats and dogs. She has been Co-Artistic Director of the Hamner Theater with Peter Coy since the theater opened in 2005 and has directed and produced over a dozen productions there. She served as Artistic Director for the Earl Hamner Playwrights Conference (now the Virginia Playwrights' Initiative) in 2006 and 2007 and continues in that capacity for the Virginia Playwrights and Screenwriters Initiative. She recently saw her long-time vision of theater collaboration come to fruition with the founding of the Central Virginia Theatre Alliance (CVTA) of which the Hamner is a founding member.
John A. Hancock, Visual Arts Advisor
John A. Hancock has over 30 years experience teaching a broad range of painting, watercolor, drawing, and design to adults, college students, and teens. As an artist, he has exhibited his work in competitive exhibitions and solo shows around the country and in England. Click to read John A. Hancock's full bio and Artist's Statement.