WHY should your child – or you! – take a Theater class at Crozet Arts?

Crozet Arts Newsletter • 15 September 2014

WHY should your child – or you! – take a Theater class at Crozet Arts?

Excerpts below from Lisa Phillips, author of, The Artistic Edge: 7 Skills Children Need to Succeed in an Increasingly Right Brain World.

 

Confidence – Theater training gives children practice stepping out of their comfort zone and allows them to make mistakes and learn from them.…

 

Creativity – Being able to think on your feet, approach tasks from different perspectives and think ‘outside of the box’ .…

 

Problem Solving – Without even realizing it kids that participate in the arts are consistently being challenged to solve problems. All this practice problem solving develops children’s skills in reasoning and understanding.

 

Focus -The ability to focus is a key skill developed through ensemble work. Keeping a balance between listening and contributing involves a great deal of concentration and focus. It requires each participant to not only think about their role, but how their role contributes to the big picture of what is being created. Recent research has shown that participation in the arts improves children’s abilities to concentrate and focus in other aspects of their lives.

 

Non-Verbal Communication -Through experiences in theater and dance education, children learn to breakdown the mechanics of body language. They experience different ways of moving and how those movements communicate different emotions.

 

Collaboration – Through the arts, children practice working together, sharing responsibility, and compromising with others to accomplish a common goal.

 

Click here to read the full Washington Post article, “Top 10 skills children learn from the arts,” highlighting ideas from Phillips’ book. 

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Here’s your opportunity:

Theater classes begin the week of September 22nd!

REGISTER NOW at CrozetArts.org

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See below for our list of

Fall Theater classes at Crozet Arts

with Boomie Pedersen, Artistic Director of the Hamner Theater

Click here to register and enroll.

Click on class title to go to class webpage for class descriptions.

Telling Tales Together
Parent-Child Class for children ages 3 – 4 with parent/caregiver
Fridays 11:00 – 11:30 am
4 weeks:  September 26  – October 17
Tuition:  $42 + $3 registration = $45

Once Upon a Time
Theater Class for Pre-Schoolers for children ages 4 – 5
Wednesdays 4:00- 4:40
New dates:  4 weeks:  September 24 – October 15
Tuition:  $56 + $3 registration = $59

Stories on Stage
for children in Grades K – 2
Mondays 4:30 – 5:30 pm
New dates:  5 weeks:  September 22 – October  27 (no class September 29)
Tuition:  $81 + $4 registration = $85

Names, Games and Plays
for children in Grades 3 – 6
Wednesdays 5:00 – 6:00 pm
New dates:  6 weeks:  September 24 – October  29
Tuition:  $97 + $5 registration = $102

And for teens and adults, too!

Teen-Prov
for Grades 7 – 12
Wednesdays 6:15 – 7:15 pm
New dates:  6 weeks:  September 24 – October  29
Tuition:  $97 + $5 registration = $102

 

Theater Classes for Adults

The Elements of Acting
with Boomie Pedersen
Age 18 and up
2 hours – Time TBD

and/or

Shakespeare for Health
with Boomie Pedersen
This is a class geared towards older adults.
Time TBD

Click here to go to class page for more info!

 

Free Improv
for Adults
led by Boomie Pedersen
On-going (drop-in!)
Mondays 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Call  434-960-5936 for further information & to confirm meeting dates.

Senior Play Reading
If you are interested in this class, please email sharon@CrozetArts.org

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QUESTIONS?  Email Sharon@CrozetArts.org

 

Crozet Arts is located at 1408 Crozet Avenue in the rear of Field School.
Please use left side entrance, next to our large oval sign.
Crozet Arts is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit.  Need-based scholarships are available.

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