Beaupré Creative Arts Center was an American summer camp for girls, located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
Mildred Chase di Lorenzo founded Beaupré, a summer school for the arts, in 1944 and presented her first season in 1945, with forty girls enrolled.
[3] In her memoir, Lois wrote that “The former owners handed us a format which had been operating more or less successfully for a number of years so with an inherited kitchen crew, a large part of the faculty signing on and with our own wide acquaintances among the potential instructors, we had a viable set up, however, the first year was a baptism of fire that almost did us in.”[4] For the first three summers, the camp was located in Lenox, Massachusetts.
It looked forlorn and the foundation was sagging.”[5] They bought it anyway and they had only a few months to build a pool and tennis court, clean the place out, buy new furnishings, install mirrors and barres to create a dance studio, and more.
Tweens and Seniors majored in dance, Drama or Art, while Juniors had a general program including all types of classes.
Classes were offered for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels of technique in Ballet, Modern, Ethnic Dance, and eventually Jazz.