Performing Arts Discovery

This course will provide your tiny dancer or budding actor with a sampling of artistic experiences. Our professional teaching artists will work with your child to provide introductory instruction in performing arts disciplines: 4 weeks of music, 4 weeks of drama, and 5 weeks of creative movement. Your child will have the opportunity to explore his or her own talents and interests while becoming a well-rounded artist.

Day and Time: Saturday, 10 –10:50am

Instructor: Melanie Melcher, Kim Ratliff, and Linda Putthoff
Ages: 4 to 6

Fee: $130

 

 

 

Theatre from Head to Toe

Actors don't just speak.....They move! The greatest musical theater actors in the world are called "triple threats," which means they can sing and dance as well as act. This course will be the beginning of your triple threat training. Get started! Learn to project voice and body on stage!

Day and Time: Saturday, 10 –10:50am

Instructor: Brad Shaw
Ages: 5 to 7

Fee: $130

 

 

 

 

Act Up!

At last, a place where students are encouraged to "act up". Your child's self esteem will grow through theatre games, ensemble techniques and improvisation. Using well known stories and their imagination, students will create and perfrom short skits and scenes.

Act Up! students must be able to read.

Day and Time: Saturday, 11 –11:50am

Instructor: Brad Shaw

Ages: 6 to 8

Fee: $130

 

  

 

Acting I

Learn acting techniques used by the pros! Professional actor Andi Meyer will lead young performers through theatre games and improvisation techniques designed to stimulate the actor's imagination, voice and body. The class concludes with introductory scene and character study.

Section A
Day and Time: Monday, 5 –5:50pm
Instructor: Andi Meyer
Ages: 8 to 12
Fee: $170

 

Section B
Day and Time: Thursday, 6 –6:50pm
Instructor:
Ages: 8 to 12
Fee: $170

Improvisation

 

Learn how to live in the moment and take positive risks in drama, comedy, and real life through games and activities that exercise improvisational skills.

 

Day and Time: Saturday, 11-11:50am

Instructor: John Mulvey

Ages: 10-14

Fee: $170

 

NEW! Performance Lab

 

Students learn as they put experience into practice.  Advanced acting students will come together as an ensemble to rehearse and perform a play that will be featured in the Student Demonstration in Decemeber.  Special emphasis is placed on audition, rehearsal, and performance techniques used by professional actors. 

Prerequisite: At least one semester of an acting class and instructor's recommendation.

Day and Time: Monday, 7–7:50pm

Instructor: Andi Meyer
Ages: 9 and up

Fee: $170