Summit School of Music and Dance - NW and SE Calgary Music and Dance Classes For Children and Adults

Theatre Classes

Itty-Bitty Stars	Youth on Stage	Teens on Stage
Little Stars	Youth Improv	Teen Improv

Itty-Bitty Stars		Ages: 3-4 Length: 30 minutes
		Class Description Find your inner star: It's all the fairy tale fun your child loves to read about. Centre Stage provides the props, costumes and stories and they can bring their wonderful and wild imaginations. Set out into the great unknown and explore favorite childhood tales of adventure and excitement with our Centre Stage professional actor-instructor. These classes finish with a final show for their family and friends. Itty-Bitty Stars is a drama class designed for your itty-bitty star at home. The students are taught a warm-up that they practice every week. They then learn fun dance moves, activities that relate to that week's theme and then read the weekly story with the instructor. After seeing the story in print, the students spend the rest of the class acting out the action of the fictional work they just learned about. For extroverts and introverts both, this class offers excitement for the out-going child and structure for the shy child. This is a beginner level class for Little Stars. This class will follow similar structuring as Little Stars, but within a condensed time to allow for better focus of the students.
		Class Outline Each week will be a lead by a unique class theme with warm-ups, music, and dancing followed by a similarly themed book that the students will read with the instructor. They will then partake in exercises relevant to the book. They will use costumes and/props to enact the story from their imaginations. The final show will be formatted the same way, but parents are welcome to watch the final performance.

Little Stars		Ages: 5-6 Length: 60 minute class
		Class Description Find your inner star: It's all the fairy tale fun your child loves to read about. Centre Stage provides the props, costumes and stories and they can bring their wonderful and wild imaginations. Set out into the great unknown and explore favorite childhood tales of adventure and excitement with our Centre Stage professional actor-instructor. These classes finish with a final show for their family and friends. Little Stars is a drama class designed for your little star at home. The students are taught a warm-up that they practice every week. They then learn fun dance moves, activities that relate to that week's theme and then read the weekly story with the instructor. After seeing the story in print, the students spend the rest of the class acting out the action of the fictional work they just learned about. For extroverts and introverts both, this class offers excitement for the out-going child and structure for the shy child.
		Class Outline Each week will be a lead by a unique class theme with warm-ups, music, and dancing followed by a similarly themed book that the students will read with the instructor. They will then partake in exercises relevant to the book. They will use costumes and/props to enact the story from their imaginations. The final show will be formatted the same way, but parents are welcome to watch the final performance.

Youth on Stage		Ages: 7-11 Length: 60 minute class
		Play COMING SOON!
		Class Description Each class will begin with a mini-lecture. This mini-lecture will be geared towards the work being done in class and will allow students to learn a bit more about the real-life experience of being in the theatre.
		Class Outline Introduction and Auditions What is a Play: Learning about the play What is a Director: Beginning Blocking of the Play What is an Actor: Continue Blocking the Play What is a Choreographer: Learning Movement for your character What is a Musical Director: Learning Voice Exercises for your character What is a Designer: Running the play What is a Stage Manager: Running the play Dress Rehearsal Final Show for family and friends

Teens on Stage		Ages: 12-16 Length: 60 minute class
		Play COMING SOON!
		Class Description Each class will begin with a mini-lecture. This mini-lecture will be geared towards the work being done in class and will allow students to learn a bit more about the real-life experience of being in the theatre.
		Class Outline Introduction and Auditions What is a Play: Learning about the play What is a Director: Beginning Blocking of the Play What is an Actor: Continue Blocking the Play What is a Choreographer: Learning Movement for your character What is a Musical Director: Learning Voice Exercises for your character What is a Designer: Running the play What is a Stage Manager: Running the play Dress Rehearsal Final Show for family and friends

Youth Improv		Ages: 7-11 Length: 60 minute class
		Class Theme Superheroes are Us! - At the halfway point in these improvisation classes, students will be provided with a box of superhero costumes. With their collective creativity and newly acquired improvisation skills, they will put together a final show to present for family and friends.
		Class Description These classes are designed to teach the students about improvisation and reacting 'in the moment'. Halfway through the class process, the students will begin to build the foundations for a final performance with themes, ideas, and moments planned, allowing for the 'script' to develop within their class setting, at the supervision and guidance of the instructor.
		Class Outline Introductions and Beginning Improv Exercises Improv Games with the Imagination Improv Games with Physical Movement Improv Games with Props Improv Games with Intent Begin to build the final show: Comedy, Tragedy, Tragi-comedy Add props to the final show Play with the structure of the final show: Beginning, Middle, End Dress Rehearsal Final Show for family and friends

Teen Improv		Ages: 12-16 Length: 60 minute class
		Class Theme Hats and Props: Who are you? - At the halfway point in these improvisation classes, students will be provided with a box of hats and a box of props. With their collective creativity and newly acquired improvisation skills, they will put together a final show to present for family and friends.
		Class Description These classes are designed to teach the students about improvisation and reacting 'in the moment'. Halfway through the class process, the students will begin to build the foundations for a final performance with themes, ideas, and moments planned, allowing for the 'script' to develop within their class setting, at the supervision and guidance of the instructor.
		Class Outline Introductions and Beginning Improv Exercises Improv Games with the Imagination Improv Games with Physical Movement Improv Games with Props Improv Games with Intent Begin to build the final show: Comedy, Tragedy, Tragi-comedy Add props to the final show Play with the structure of the final show: Beginning, Middle, End Dress Rehearsal Final Show for family and friends

Information Regarding Fees:

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