WHY should your child – or you! – take a Theater class at Crozet Arts?
Crozet Arts Newsletter • 15 September 2014WHY 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.
••••• Here’s your opportunity: Theater classes begin the week of September 22nd! REGISTER NOW at CrozetArts.org 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 Once Upon a Time Stories on Stage Names, Games and Plays • And for teens and adults, too! Teen-Prov
The Elements of Acting and/or Shakespeare for Health Click here to go to class page for more info!
Free Improv Senior Play Reading • QUESTIONS? Email Sharon@CrozetArts.org
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Category : Blog &Special Events &Theater &Uncategorized Posted on September 16, 2014