Performing Arts Sampler
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: creative movement, drama,and music. Your child will have the opportunity to explore his or her own talents and interests while becoming a well-rounded artist.
Section A
Day and Time: Saturday, 10–10:50am
Instructor: Linda Putthoff, Kim Ratliff
Ages: 4 to 6
Fee: $130
Section B
Day and Time: Tuesday, 4–4:50pm
Instructor: Brad Shaw
Ages: 4 to 6
Fee: $130
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.
Day and Time: Saturday, 11 –11:50am
Instructor: Brad Shaw
Ages: 6 to 8
Fee: $130
Acting
Learn acting techniques used by the pros! Our professional teaching artists 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: Jamie McCall
Ages: 8 to 12
Fee: $170
Continue developing your skills and delve deeper into character, monologue
and scene study.
Pre-requisite: Acting I or instructor approval.
Day and Time: Monday, 6-6:50pm
Instructor: Andi Meyer
Ages: 8 to 12
Fee: $170
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
Acting is a craft as well as an art form. Hone that craft by delving deeper into character development skills, monologue and scene study. Special emphasis is placed on audition and rehearsal techniques to get you cast in your school, community or professional production.
Day and Time: Monday, 7–7:50pm
Instructor: Andi Meyer
Ages: 13 to 18
Fee: $170
Enroll now for the Community School of the Arts acting troupe! The CSA Players will be featured in a number of performances throughout the session and will also perform at Open Mic Nights on February 24, March 31, and April 28.
Auditions: Saturday January 24, 2009 at 12:00 noon. Please prepare a short monologue, poem or story.
Eligibility: Any student aged 8-18 is welcome to audition. Please Note: You must be enrolled in a spring 2009 CSA class (group or private) to join the CSA Players. (If you are a current member of CSA Players, you do not need to audition)
If cast in the CSA Players, rehearsals will be Saturdays from noon – 1:20pm beginning the first Saturday in February. These rehearsals are mandatory. If you miss 2 rehearsals you may be asked to leave the Players, so check your calendars before auditioning.
If cast, there is a one-time fee of $100.00 for props, costumes, and other related materials.
To audition, please email or call Larry Greer at (816) 531-4022 ext. 1011.