March 22 - May 10 at 10 - 11 AM for Youth ages 8 - 13 and 11 AM - 12:30 PM for Teens.
An Exciting Fun-Packed Experience
The students will have a long-term beneficial theatrical experience, leaving them with performance and/or technological skills and the feel of the process involved in a production. It will also help the student develop self confidence and self esteem.
The curriculum will include: creative drama, theater games, voice and speech activities, mime and acting experiences. Teen curriculum will include: scene study, character development, acting and audition preparation. These classes are for the beginner or experienced. Classes will taught by Frances Calter who has experience at the Center with our summer Kids and has taught acting skills in many other venues.
he will share her enthusiasm for theater with the students.
Due to many requests, the Montgomery County Cultural Center will extent the summer arts program, offering after school and weekend acting programs during the Spring. Beginning in March, classes will be in in theater for children and teens. The class for children ages 8 - 12 will run for eight weeks on Saturdays beginning on March 10. The Saturday class will be held mornings from 10 to 11 30 a.m. Teen classes are also planned and will run from the week of March 12 for eight weeks. The day and time will be determined after discussion with students.
Geared towards students interested in either the backstage or the onstage experience, the program offers a fun-packed, exciting experience on both sides of the footlights. Classes are organized to offer students a long-term beneficial theatrical experience, leaving them with performance and/or technical skill by providing a process oriented atmosphere culminating in an actual performance for parents and friends. The curriculum will include: creative drama, voice and speech, movement and stage crew. In addition, students will have the opportunity to meet visiting actors from professional theater companies and question them about professional life.
The instructor for this exemplary series of classes is Claire Golden Drake, a graduate of University of the Arts with a BFA degree in Theater Arts. Since that time she has worked with professional theaters in and around the Philadelphia area both on and off stage, and teaches theater arts and creative movement at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Overbrook pre-school and the Germantown Jewish Centre. Claire is a regular performer in touring shows with the Vagabond Acting Troupe, performs in conflict resolutions theatre workshops for schools and has taught and directed shows at ESF summer camps since 1995. She will bring to her students her love for theater and will share her creative talents with them.
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