
SPACES STILL AVAILABLE!
Grades Pre-K/K
Tuesdays and Thursdays, January 3 - May 31, 2012, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuition: $150 per month
This two-day-a-week program offers an enriching, creative learning environment for your preschool-aged child to embark on a journey of imagination and discovery. Arts Adventures uses an arts-based teaching structure and child-centered learning environment, where the emphasis is on the process, allowing children to think and solve problems creatively. The arts of dance, music, visual art, drama, and literature are natural disciplines that help children grow through experience and find joyful, positive, and varied ways to express themselves with confidence.
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Grades Pre-K/K
Exploratory Acting (Section A) – Puppy Dog Tails
Mondays, February 6- April 23, 2012, 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM
Tuition: $160
Join the pack! Bring the characters and stories of dogs of distinction such as Carl, Clifford, Harry the Dirty Dog, barking George and others, to life. Act out waggley tales (or is it tails?) of mutts and purebreds.
25% Discount when taken in combo with Puss and Boots (Wednesdays)
Grades K-1
Exploratory Acting (Section B) – Puss and Boots
Wednesdays, February 8- April 18, 2012, 4:00-5:00 PM
Tuition: $160
Students explore movement, voice, and storytelling as well as arts and crafts in this popular class where you can join Puss in Boots on his exciting adventures. Find out the clever ways to defeat ogres and beasts.
25% Discount when taken in combo with Puppy Dog Tails (Mondays) or Mary Poppins (Wednesdays)
Grades 1-2
Exploratory Acting (Section C) – Junie B. Jones
Saturdays, February 4- April 21, 2012, 10:00-11:00 AM
Tuition: $160
My name is Junie B. Jones. The "B" stands for Beatrice. Except, I don't like Beatrice. I just like "B" and that's all. You too can be Junie B. or one of her friends in this exploratory acting class. You’ll use your imagination to bring some of her most memorable stories to life as she journeys into the first grade!
25% Discount when taken in combo with Mary Poppins (Wednesdays) or The Wizard of Oz (Saturdays)
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Grades 1-2
Musical Theatre 1 – Mary Poppins
Wednesdays, February 8- April 18, 2012, 5:10-6:10 PM
Tuition: $160
Join us for a “spoonful of sugar” as you jump into Mary’s magical world, dance with chimney sweeps, fly a kite, and learn the meaning of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."
25% Discount when taken in combo with 'The Wizard of Oz' or 'Junie B. Jones' (Saturdays)
Grades 1-2
Musical Theatre 1 – The Wizard of Oz
Saturdays, February 4- April 21, 2012, 11:10 AM- 12:10 PM
Tuition: $160
Follow the yellow brick road with Dorothy, Lion, Tin Man, and Scarecrow! This camp will explore songs and scenes from this memorable movie musical.
25% Discount when taken in combo with 'Mary Poppins' (Wednesday) or 'Junie B. Jones' (Saturdays)
Grades 3-5
Musical Theatre 1 – Mary Poppins
Wednesdays, February 8- April 18, 2012, 6:15-7:15 PM
Tuition: $160
Join us for a “spoonful of sugar” as you jump into Mary’s magical world, dance with chimney sweeps, fly a kite, and learn the meaning of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."
25% Discount when taken in combo with 'Wicked' or 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' (Saturdays)
Grades 3-5
Musical Theatre 1 – Wicked
Saturdays, February 4- April 21, 2012, 12:20-1:20 PM
Tuition: $160
Students work in a collaborative style to develop musical theatre skills through songs and scenes from the smash hit Wicked. Sing memorable favorites, such as “Defying Gravity,” “Dancing Through Life,” and “Popular.”
25% Discount when taken in combo with 'Mary Poppins' (Wednesdays) or 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' (Saturdays)
Grades 3-5
Acting 1 – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Saturdays, February 4 - April 21, 2012, 1:30-3:00 PM
Tuition: $200
Win a golden ticket on this fantastic tour through the sweet (and not-so-sweet) outlandish characters of Roald Dahl’s classic book. Develop memorable characters while exploring concepts such as voice, movement, character objective, and stage presence.
25% Discount when taken in combo with 'Mary Poppins' (Wednesdays) or 'Wicked' (Saturdays)
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Grades 4-8
Acting 2 - Acting a Role
Wednesdays, February 8- April 18, 2012, 4:00-5:30 PM
Tuition: $200
This is an intermediate course for the middle school aged student to explore acting techniques. Class will include character development, ensemble building, improvisation and scene-study.
25% Discount when taken in combo with Musical Theatre 2 (Wednesdays)
Grades 4-8
Musical Theatre 2 - Footloose
Wednesdays, February 8- April 18, 2012, 5:45-7:15 PM
Tuition: $200
Join the movie musical craze! Foster the skills for a “triple threat” performer: singing, acting, and dancing. Students advance their musical theatre skills as they work on favorite numbers from the movie turned musical, Footloose, that is now remounted on the silver screen.
25% Discount when taken in combo with Acting a Role (Wednesdays)
Grades 8-12
Acting 3 – Teen Scene
Wednesdays, February 8- April 18, 2012, 5:45 - 7:15 PM
Tuition: $200
This is an intermediate course for the teen student to polish scene study techniques. Class will include in-depth character development, text analysis and scene-study using contemporary plays, scenes for film, and must-know theatre literature.
25% Discount when taken in combo with Musical Theatre 3 (Wednesdays)
Grades 8-12
Musical Theatre 3 – The Art of Auditioning
Wednesdays, February 8- April 18, 2012, 4:00-5:30 PM
Tuition: $200
Celebrating each student's unique ability to create a memorable audition, participants will be introduced to techniques that will strengthen their auditioning skills: material selection, monologues, 32 bars of a song, reading sides, and learning choreography. Perfect preparation for the Village Theatre Institute or summer show auditions occurring in late Spring, but also perfect for students who just want to continue fine-tuning their singing, dancing, and acting skills.
25% Discount when taken in combo with Teen Scene (Wednesdays)
Grades 5-12
Singing for Musical Theatre
Saturdays, February 4- April 21, 2012, 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM
Tuition: $160
A complete song-learning class, designed to help performers learn more about singing and story-telling through music. Areas covered include vocal technique, music theory, breath control, rhythm, melody, sight-reading, and acting through song. Students expand their vocal range, fine-tune their ears, strengthen breathing, and learn new music, all in a small class of eight students maximum. (This class does not take the place of individual voice lessons, which should be taken privately, year-round, for serious singers.)
25% Discount when taken in combo with Dance Essentials, Tap, or Stage Combat (Saturdays)
Grades 5-12
Saturday Dance 2 - Dance Essentials (Beginner/ Intermediate)
Saturdays, February 4- April 21, 2012, 10:00- 11:00 AM
Tuition: $160
Dance Essentials provides tools to increase flexibility and improve core strength. Work on need-to-know theatre dance steps, and the fundamentals of turns and jumps. Explore acting through dance, specificity of movement, dancing with strength, and selling a dance number.
25% Discount when taken in combo with Tap, Singing for Musical Theatre, Stage Combat (Saturdays)
Grade 6- Age 20
Saturday Dance 1 - Tap (Beginning)
Saturdays, February 4- April 21, 2012, 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM
Tuition: $160
Tap is an essential skill for all musical theatre performers. Develop fundamental technique, rhythm, flexibility, coordination, and style.
25% Discount when taken in combo with Dance Essentials, Singing for Musical Theatre, Stage Combat (Saturdays) or Teen Scene, Musical Theatre 3 (Wednesdays)
Grade 6-Age 20
Saturday Dance 2 - Tap (Intermediate)
Saturdays, February 4- April 21, 2012, 12:00- 1:00 PM
Tuition: $160
Tap is an essential skill for all musical theatre performers. Develop fundamental technique, rhythm, flexibility, coordination, and style.
25% Discount when taken in combo with Dance Essentials, Singing for Musical Theatre (Saturdays) or Teen Scene, Musical Theatre 3 (Wednesdays)
Grade 6th- Age 20
Stage Combat- Armed (Rapier) NEW!
Saturdays, February 4- April 21, 2012, 12:30-2:00 PM
Tuition: $200
Come explore the world of stage combat! In this class you will learn the basics of armed stage combat, focusing on rapier and dagger work. You’ll learn to fight like a Musketeer. This class will also incorporate some scene work.
25% Discount when taken in combo with Tap, Dance Essentials, Singing for Musical Theatre (Saturdays) or Teen Scene, Musical Theatre 3 (Wednesdays)