Working Together for a Stronger Community Professional Development & Personal Enrichment Downingtown Area Recreation Consortium Program Catalog Winter 2019 Keep until March 2019 Health & Fitness Hamilton Trips and Shows Ski & Snowboard Tickets Register Online at darc.info NEW DANCE STUDIO in Eagle Now Taking Enrollments! Located just above the Turnpike, we are the closest dance academy to your schools! St. Elizabeth • Windsor Christian Academy Pickering Valley • Shamona Creek • Beth Israel West Vincent • Sixth Grade Center 2018-19 Programs Ballet • Twinkle Toes • Youth Hip Hop/Funk Teen Hip Hop/Funk/Jazz • Ball Room • Line Dance No registration, commitment or new membership fees! Simply register for the class online at www.darc.info or in person. EagleDanceAcademy.com • 610-458-9160 ext. 110 OPEN YEAR TAKE ME ROUND ICE SKATING Ice Skating Lessons • Parties Public Skating • Learn to Play PowerPlayRinks.com • 610-458-9160 Community Partnership between Darc and Eagle Dance Academy Every Day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. Join us for a FREE Fun filled day of Dance at the newly opened Eagle Dance Academy at Power Play Ice Rink! Saturday, February 16th, 2019 10 am - 2 pm DARC Community Residents only! You must register before attending. Register at www.DARC.info. Register according to age and the class/experience you would like to join in on! Ages 3 to 6. 10:00- 11:00. Free Twinkle Toes Ages 12-17. 12:00- 1:00. Free Hip Hop Class~By Ballet Class~Introduce your children to the breaking down stylized combinations of Street wonderful world dance~ the class includes Funk, Hip-Hop, and Pop, you will soon learn to instruction in basic ballet and props and music dance the patterns used by professional dancers - to create a super fun environment. After the class all while listening to the latest hits! After the class your children will have the chance to meet with a you will have the chance to learn some cool new real live Prince or Princess! fortnight moves! Ages 7-11. 11:00-12:00. Free Hip Hop Class~ Adults: 1:00-2:00. Free Line Dance Class- Line Just like you see in the popular music videos. Dancing is a popular activity at nightclubs and This is a fun, high-energy class designed to weddings, and it is an excellent way to stay in shape get you moving! After the class you will have no matter what your age. You will experience a a chance to Demo some cool new fortnight variety of popular line dances including party hits dance moves. This is a great opportunity to get like the Electric Slide and Cupid Shuffle, Fireball, fortnight players up and mobile! Blurred Lines, and Tush Push. Get ready to show off your moves at those spring weddings! CONTENTS Trips and Tours . 2 Adult Aquatics . 16 First Aid/CPR/Babysitting Safety . 5 Youth Sports & Leagues . 18 Health and Fitness . 6 Youth Science, Tech & Theater . 20 Yoga and Meditation . 10 Youth Aquatics . 21 Personal Development . 12 Youth Dance . 22 Music and Arts Instruction . 14 Community . 26 Cover photo courtesy of Jim Lawson Photography. Click to TRIPS AND TOURS Register Click to Register Frozen on Broadway The Prom on Broadway We were able to get a limited block of Wednesday THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE GETTING IN matinee tickets in March with balcony seating for a OTHER PEOPLE’S BUSINESS. reasonable price. See The Prom, the next hit from Broadway’s Musical They will make a great holiday gift and will sell out Comedy Dream Team – the geniuses behind The soon! Book of Mormon, Aladdin, The Drowsy Chaperone, A FAMILY. A SECRET. AN UNFORGETTABLE Elf, Mean Girls…must we go on? JOURNEY. What happens when four stars leave the bright lights This is the timeless tale of two sisters, pulled apart by of Broadway and take leading roles in a small-town a mysterious secret. Both are searching for love. They controversy making national headlines? Big drama. just don’t know where to find it. Bigger laughs. And the biggest musical showstoppers in years! You’ll agree with Variety, The Prom is Created for the stage by an award-winning team, “musical comedy heaven!” this stunning new production comes alive on Broadway through exquisite stagecraft and deepens Starring Tony Award® nominee Brooks Ashmanskas the beloved story with twice as many songs as the (Something Rotten!), Tony Award winner Beth original film. Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone) and two-time Tony Award nominee Christopher Sieber (Shrek) leading Wednesday a cast of 27. 3/13/2019 8:00 AM - 7:30 PM Saturday Ashbridge Manor Rear Parking Lot 04/20/2019 $145 Res, $145 Non-Res 8:30 AM - 8:30 PM Ashbridge Manor Rear Parking Lot $150 Res, $150 Non-Res DOWNINGTOWN AREA RECREATION CONSORTIUM 114 BELL TAVERN ROAD, DOWNINGTOWN, PA 19335 EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: 610-269-9260 • FAX: 610-269-9264 WEBSITE: WWW.DARC.INFO GREAT TRAINS & GRAND CANYONS CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS WITH BOOKING DISCOUNT PER PERSON DOUBLE $2545 PP REGULAR DOUBLE JULY 21-27, 2019 $2445 MAY 5-10, 2019 $1950 2 Downingtown Area Recreation Consortium • Winter 2019 • www.DARC.info Click to Register Click to TRIPS AND TOURS Register Tootsie on Broadway New York City - On Your Own Tootsie is the new comedy musical coming to Skip the parking fees and tolls and have us drive you Broadway. to NYC. Spend 8 hours in the city and go shopping, Tootsie tells the story of a talented but difficult actor sightseeing, visit Central Park, visit museums, or who struggles to find work until an audacious, take a carriage ride. The day is yours to enjoy in the desperate stunt lands him the role of a lifetime. fabulous Big Apple. We will drop you off near Radio City Music Hall. Tootsie features an original score by Tony Award- winner David Yazbek (The Band’s Visit, The Full We offer two types of Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), a book by Robert NYC on your own trips. Horn (13; Dame Edna, Back with a Vengeance), Regular trips - these choreography by Tony Award nominee Denis trips are DARC run on Jones (Holiday Inn, Honeymoon in Vegas), and a bus specifically for an musical direction by Andrea Grody (The Band’s OYO trip. They depart Visit). Tootsie is directed by eight-time Tony Award at either 8 or 8:30 am nominee and Olivier Award winner Scott Ellis (She and go directly to NYC Loves Me, On the Twentieth Century). without any stops. Saturday Wait list trips - these 04/20/2019 trips are shared with a DARC run trip going to a 8:30 AM - 8:30 PM Broadway show. They depart at either 8 or 8:30 am Ashbridge Manor Rear Parking Lot and go directly to NYC without any stops. The OYO $175 Res, $175 Non-Res seats are only filled if extra seats are available after King Kong on Broadway the Broadway trip is booked. The cost is $5 cheaper than regular trips, you can sign up for the wait King Kong, the world’s most epic modern myth list for free, and we will let you know about 5 days comes alive on Broadway through an innovative mix beforehand if seating is available. of robotics, puppetry, music and stagecraft. Wait List Trips King Kong follows the ambitious young a ctress Ann Wednesday 3/13/2019 8 AM - 8 PM Darrow and maverick filmmaker Carl Denham as Saturday 4/20/19 and 6/29/19 8:30 AM - 8 PM they voyage from the bustling streets of 1930s New Ashbridge Manor Rear Parking Lot York to an uncharted island to capture the world’s $55 Res, $55 Non-Res greatest wonder. At the center of this 21st-century theatrical reimagining: a 2,000-pound, 20-foot high gorilla and the woman who risks everything to help him. CUSTOM BROADWAY BUS TRIPS Directed and choreographed by Olivier winner We are excited to announce this new Drew McOnie, King Kong features an electrifying program! If you have a group of 12 new score by Marius de Vries (La La Land) and or more and want discount tickets to Eddie Perfect (Strictly Ballroom The Musical), and select theater performances in NYC a book by Jack Thorne, the Olivier Award-winning we can get discounted tickets and writer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Don’t provide transportation on one of our miss this exhilarating, emotional encounter with a legend that’s always been too big to contain. New York City On Your Own trips. Saturday Please call our office at 610-269-9260 06/29/2019 or e-mail us at downingtownrec@ 8:30 AM - 8:30 PM gmail.com for more details. Ashbridge Manor Rear Parking Lot $155 Res, $155 Non-Res Downingtown Area Recreation Consortium • Winter 2019 • www.DARC.info Downingtown Area Recreation Consortium • Winter 2019 • www.DARC.info 3 Click to TRIPS AND TOURS Register Click to Washington DC - On Your Own Baltimore - On Your Own (Hamilton Register Skip the parking fees and tolls and have us drive you Traveling Production Option) to the Nation’s Capital. Spend 8 hours in the city Skip the parking fees and tolls and have us drive you and go sightseeing, visit all of the free Smithsonian to Baltimore MD. Spend the day in the city and go museums, or see the monuments. The day is yours to sightseeing, visit the inner harbor, Maryland Zoo or enjoy. We will drop you off near the National Mall. National Aquarium. The day is yours to enjoy.