Developing our children’s skills in acting, feeling, thinking, creating, and performing including developing their actors’ voice.

Students enroll in our high school Theater Arts classes are learning to find and development their voice as actors and performers.  Our theater courses include technique courses, where student use movement and voice to help students acquire and hone stage-worthy skills. Students perform for others including solo improvisations and theater games. As they progress, students learn to improve voice and posture, to increase concentration and recall, to follow stage directions, to relax, to focus energy, and to act spontaneously in given situations.  Students also develop skills in the analysis of plays through scene studies and other projects as they work to identify playwrights’ intentions.

Students in the Movement in Theater course learn the dance basics including jazz, ballet, tap, acting, hip-hop, and modern dance. Students learn basic terminology in each genre and study specific choreographers and their methods. Students become familiar with warm-ups, choreography, combinations, barre techniques, and across the floor drills specific to each genre.