Excellence in Performing Arts
Summer TUTTI Performing Arts Camp at Denison University offers talented high school dancers, musicians, and theatre-makers a chance to deepen their skills while collaborating with professional artists and ensembles and peers from across the country, such as Available Light Theatre, ETHEL, and Third Coast Percussion.
What Students Say
Camp Life
Live & Learn Together
At Denison’s Summer TUTTI performing arts camp, you’ll live and learn with high school peers from across disciplines (and the country) as you deepen your talents and skills, explore new ways of making art, and collaborate with professional artists and ensembles.
Meet Our Faculty
Guest Artists and Ensembles
Learn from and create alongside award-winning, nationally known artists, recognized for their collaborative and inventive new approaches to the performing arts.
Available Light is Ohio’s hippest and hottest presenter of new and original theatrical productions. AVLT is renowned by audiences and critics alike for bold creations by local artists and regional premieres of important new work by playwrights from around the globe.
One of America’s most adventurous string quartets, at the heart of ETHEL is a collaborative ethos – a quest for a common creative expression that is forged in the celebration of community. In addition to premiering 21st-century works by a broad range of groundbreaking composers, the quartet creates and tours rich, often multimedia, productions in which community engagement is a key element.
A GRAMMY® Award-winning Chicago-based percussion quartet and GRAMMY®-nominated composer collective, Third Coast Percussion creates exciting and unexpected performances that constantly redefine the classical music experience.
Extraordinary Facilities
108,000 boldly designed square feet of creative freedom.
The Eisner Center houses state-of-the-art stages and rehearsal spaces, numerous classrooms and offices, as well as many open spaces especially configured to encourage interdisciplinary activity.
TUTTI Origins
“Tutti” is a musical term, taken from the Italian for “all together,” signifying that all instruments participate in the performance. TUTTI expresses our passion for bringing together artistic collaborators from across disciplines.
“Tutti Tutti” also means “little bit” in Wolof. It’s a way to say take your time, slow down, don’t rush. Teachers that would use that phrase to say we learn best when we tutti tutti. So this is a week where we are all in, we are all learning, and we are taking our time absorbing new techniques, new concepts, new ideas.
Denison’s TUTTI Festival is a days-long celebration of original works emerging from collaborations among professional and student composers, musicians, fine artists, dancers, theatre-makers, and creative people across the genres. Summer TUTTI is an outgrowth of this exhilarating experience.
