Description

Participate in a unique and unforgettable trip when you share your dance or circus arts expertise with a circus arts group in Costa Rica! Youll help empower a community by teaching dance, acrobatics, mime, or juggling to at-risk teenagers. Along with contributing your skills and energy to the group, you will develop your own performance techniques and craft. Learn about Costa Rican culture and performing arts through this exciting volunteering opportunity! Volunteer placement requires at least ten hours a week for a minimum of one week.

Highlights

* Live in the zone of Costa Rica with the most area devoted to national parks and most
biodiversity
* Give local at-risk teens a productive way to express their opinions, ideas, and creativity
* Become fully immersed in the Spanish language by living with a host family

Languages

• English

Cost in US$:

1 Week 1,450; 2 Weeks 1,625; 3 Weeks 1,800

Cost Includes:

• Excursions
• Food
• Housing
• In-country orientation/Training
• In-country staff support
• Language instruction
• Pre-departure orientation/Training
• Travel while in host country

Program Fees Include:

* Airport pickup and drop-off
* Accommodation with host family
* Guaranteed volunteer placement
* Welcome orientation
* Cultural activities such as cooking, Latin dance, and Spanish conversation
* Tour of city including guided accompaniment of how to travel to internship
* Weekly individual meeting with program leader to ensure successful experience
* Free luggage storage, internet usage, and Costa Rican coffee and juice at program headquarters
* Optional excursions
* Professional, English-speaking on-site staff
* 24-hour emergency support
* Pre-departure orientation
* Post-program support
* Opportunity to add Spanish course for discounted price

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Home-stays

Participants Travel

Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work

Independently

Application Process Involves

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Typically The Application Process Time is

Two weeks

Post Services Include

• Re-Entry Debriefing at Home

Performing Arts Abroad's Mission Statement

Performing Arts Abroad offers unique and fulfilling international performing arts programs to individuals and groups, enhancing understanding of our diverse world through the transformative arts of theater, music, and dance. Our organization sends U.S. students and professionals on trips for study abroad, internships, volunteering, and career workshops. PAA believes the experience of cross-cultural collaboration is invaluable for performing artists and is committed to providing international programming of the highest caliber to promote a more global perspective for our participants.

Year Founded

2011