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.
Dates and Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, January 5 - May 31, 2012, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuition: $215 per month
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Grades Pre-K/K
Exploratory Acting (Section A) – Puppy Dog Tails
Tuesdays, January 10 – March 13, 2012, 2:30 - 3:30 PM
Tuition: $180
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 waggly tales (or is it tails?) of mutts and purebreds.
Grades K-1
Exploratory Acting (Section B) – Tangled Tales
Tuesdays, January 10 – March 13, 2012, 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Tuition: $180
What happens when Jack encounters Rapunzel while climbing his bean-stalk (or is it her hair?) Popular fairytales will be twisted and tangled up as the students take favorite characters and create their own original stories.
Grades 1-2
Exploratory Acting (Section C) – Puss and Boots
Tuesdays, January 10 – March 13, 2012, 5:15 - 6:15 PM
Tuition: $180
Students explore movement, voice, and storytelling in this popular class where you can join Puss in Boots on his exciting adventures. Find out clever ways to defeat ogres and beasts.
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Grades 1-2
Musical Theatre 1 – Mary Poppins
Section A - Wednesdays, January 11 – March 14, 2012, 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Section B - Saturdays, January 14 - March 17, 2012, 9:30 – 10:30 AM
Tuition: $180
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."
Grades 3-5
Musical Theatre 1 – Wicked
Section C - Wednesdays, January 11 – March 14, 2012, 5:15 – 6:15 PM
Section D - Saturdays, January 14 - March 17, 2012, 10:45 – 11:45 AM
Tuition: $180
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 “One Short Day”, “Dancing Through Life”, and “Popular.”
Grades 3-5
Acting 1 – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Section A - Thursdays, January 12 – March 15, 2012, 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Section B - Saturdays, January 14 - March 17, 2012, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Tuition: $220
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.
Grades 4-8
Saturday Dance 1 - Dance Essentials (Beginning)
Saturdays, January 14 - March 17, 2012, 9:00 – 10:30 AM
Tuition: $220
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.
Pair with Saturday Morning Tap for the special price of $300.
Grades 4-8
Saturday Dance 1 - Tap (Beginning)
Saturdays, January 14 - March 17, 2012, 10:30 – 11:30 AM
Tuition: $180
Tap is an essential skill for all musical theatre performers. Develop fundamental technique, rhythm, flexibility, coordination, and style.
Prerequisite: Attendance in fall quarter tap class.
Pair with Saturday Morning Tap for the special price of $300.
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Grades 4-8
Musical Theatre 2 - Footloose
Tuesdays, January 10 – March 13, 2012, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Tuition: $280
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.
Grades 6-10 (younger by permission)
Singing for Musical Theatre
Thursdays, January 12 – March 15, 2012, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Tuition: $280
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.)
Grades 6-8
Acting 2 - Acting a Role
Saturdays, January 14 - March 17, 2012, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Tuition: $220
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.
Grades 6-12
Musical Theatre 3 – The Art of Auditioning
Wednesdays, January 11 – March 14, 2012, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Tuition: $280
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 Institute or Summer show auditions occurring in late Spring, or for students who just want to continue fine-tuning their singing, dancing, and acting skills.
Grades 9-12
Acting 3 – Teen Scene
Thursdays, January 12 – March 15, 2012, 5:45 - 7:15 PM
Tuition: $220
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.
Grade 7-Age 20
Saturday Dance 2 - Dance Essentials (Intermediate)
Saturdays, January 14 - March 17, 2012, 9:00 – 10:30 AM
Tuition: $220
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.
Pair with Saturday Morning Tap for the special price of $300.
Grade 7-Age 20
Saturday Dance 2 - Tap (Intermediate)
Saturdays, January 14 - March 17, 2012, 10:30 – 11:30 AM
Tuition: $180
Tap is an essential skill for all musical theatre performers. Develop fundamental technique, rhythm, flexibility, coordination, and style.
Pair with Saturday Morning Tap for the special price of $300.
Grade 9-Age 20
Saturday Dance 3 - Dance Essentials (Advanced)
Saturdays, January 14 - March 17, 2012, 9:00 – 10:30 AM
Tuition: $220
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.
Pair with Saturday Morning Tap for the special price of $300.
Grade 9-Age 20
Saturday Dance 3 - Tap (Advanced)
Saturdays, January 14 - March 17, 2012, 10:30 – 11:30 AM
Tuition: $180
Tap is an essential skill for all musical theatre performers. Develop fundamental technique, rhythm, flexibility, coordination, and style.
Pair with Saturday Morning Tap for the special price of $300.
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