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New York Conservatory for the Arts

Studio and school for the Performing Arts focusing on the art of musical theater, dance, acting, and voice including the related arts of tap, jazz, ballet, choreography, playwriting, music, painting, design and theater arts through year-round educational and performance projects and programming.

Established in 1986 in Hurley, New York between Kingston and Woodstock, NYCA offers a Music Theatre Performing Arts curriculum educating children ages 4 through adults in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Voice, Acting and Theatre Arts.

Performances are presented throughout the year by several NYCA theatre groups: a Repertory Company, a Student Theatre Company, a Theatre for Children by Children Company, and a combined NYCA Theatre Company presenting highly acclaimed theatrical presentations.

Summer Arts Workshop programs fill the months of June and July with Special Performance and Education opportunities for teens and children 7 & up in a Day Camp setting in the Catskill Forest Preserve; a National /International Touring Song & Dance 'Troupe' is offered for advanced students ages 12 & up.

NYCA programs and theatre presentations continue to train and showcase top-notch talent of students and adult performers whose careers have moved on to include performing and technical work on Broadway, Television, Film, Theme Parks, Touring Companies and the Top College Performing Arts Programs in the Nation.

The New York Conservatory for the Arts (NYCA) offers a year-round roster of celebrated educational programs which includes classes in acting, dancing - tap, jazz, ballet, - singing, college prep, musical theatre and theatre performance.