Performance Arts

This fun class is a great introduction to the magic of acting. The young actor explores acting through costumes, storytelling, animal exercises, fairy tales, and improvisation. This is a wonderful class to build the young actor’s self-esteem by helping them to trust their own unique imagination. Rising

Stars: Ages 8-9
Students will develop a solid acting technique while having fun in the process. This course includes acting exercises, improvisation, storytelling, and place/imagination work. In doing so, they will develop self-confidence that will stay with them wherever they go. This program has 6 units pertaining to different acting techniques: improvisation, movement, voice, characterization, scriptwriting, and directing.

Shining Stars: Ages 10-12
This acting class will allow our students to focus on the craft of acting as well as performance in a fun and creative environment. This program has 6 units pertaining to different acting techniques: improvisation, movement, voice, characterization, scriptwriting, and directing. At the end of the session, students will participate in a showcase, featuring dialogues and monologues that the students have been rehearsing. This showcase will be a wonderful opportunity for students to show what they’ve learned through the program. Each scene or one-act play will be chosen to best suit the talents of the student.

More about the Rising and Shining Stars Units:
Every week we will be focusing our attention on a unit pertaining to the craft of acting. Each unit will provide students with specific skills and will help them with their acting abilities as well as increase their self-esteem. All of these units build on one another and students will learn that skills learned in each unit will help them with the other units as well. A more informative look at each unit is as follows: