Class Descriptions
Music Class Descriptions
Fall 2025
***each class runs for 6 weeks***
🎤🎶 Songwriting 🎶🎤
For Ages 11–14
Friday | 5:30 - 6:30
🎧 Got a music-loving tween with songs in their heart?
This is a fun, hands-on songwriting class where creativity takes center stage!
🎵 In Each Session
Dive into lyric writing & creative storytelling
Explore chord progressions – what they are & how they work
Play musical improv games to unlock ideas
Work toward creating a song of their very own!
🌟 Participants will leave with the tools and confidence to start writing their own songs!
🎤🎶 Songwriting 🎶🎤
For Ages 15-18
Monday | 6-7:30
Unlock your creativity in this collaborative music lab designed for young songwriters ready to grow their craft!
🎤 What to Expect:
Bring your own original songs (at least one started required)
Develop new material during the course
Learn songwriting history, theory & creative techniques
Get individual & group feedback in a band-style setting
Collaborate, refine, and perform your music with peers
Final performance of original songs as a group!
🎶 Who Should Join:
Aspiring songwriters ages 15–18 who are ready to write, revise, and perform their original work in a supportive and fun environment.
Mini Music Makers
For Ages 3-6
Tuesdays 3:15-4:15 PM
Get ready to sing, move and make music! In this interactive class, young musicians will explore the building blocks of music through fun songs, games, movement, and hands-on instrument play! Children will begin to develop listening skills, and collaborate with their classmates in creative exercises that will build their musical confidence. This class will set a foundation for any young student’s lifelong interest in music!
Music Explorations
For Ages 7-10
Tuesdays 4-5 PM
Calling all young musicians! Explore the world of sound that shapes the music we play and listen to! In this fun and hands-on class, students will have the opportunity to make songs, play instruments with their peers, and learn listening skills that will help them connect with the music they make!
Theater Class Descriptions
Fall 2025
***each class runs for 6 weeks***
Adventures in Acting
(ages 4-6)
Let your child’s imagination take center stage! Adventures in Acting introduces our youngest performers to the magic of theater through fun, engaging, and age-appropriate activities. Through games, creative movement, storytelling, and pretend play, students will build confidence, learn to work as a team, and express themselves in new and exciting ways. Along the way, participants will explore the building blocks of acting—including vocal projection, movement and character development.
From Story to Stage
(ages 7-10)
Take the leap from page to performance! In From Story to Stage, students will become a true acting ensemble—using their voices, bodies, and imaginations to transform stories into live theatrical moments. Through energizing games, character work, and scene creation, young performers will dive into the fundamentals of acting while learning how to bring characters and stories to life on stage. This class emphasizes performance skills, collaboration, and creative expression—perfect for budding actors ready to shine!
Acting for Tweens and Teens
(ages 11-17)
In this dynamic acting technique class, students will build a versatile toolkit to approach any role with confidence and creativity. Through engaging activities that include improvisation, character development, and focused work on scenes and monologues, students will strengthen their performance skills and grow as well-rounded actors. Designed for all experience levels, this class blends fun and focus—helping young performers sharpen their technique, build stage presence, and connect meaningfully with their peers.
Audition Preparation
(all ages)
Perfect for performers preparing for auditions, this one-on-one personalized coaching session is designed to help students feel confident, prepared, and polished. Whether auditioning for a school play, community production, or performing arts program, students will receive individualized guidance on selecting and refining monologues or songs, making strong acting choices, and presenting themselves professionally. Sessions may focus on material preparation, cold readings, vocal delivery, or callback techniques—tailored to meet each performer’s unique needs and goals.
Dance Class Descriptions
Creative Movement (AGES 3-6)
Activity oriented class. Children practice coordination and basic dance movements. Obstacle courses and props are used to engage children and to encourage cognitive recognition of sound paired with movement. Ballet pantomime is used to encourage expressive behaviors.
Ballet Level I (AGES 6-10 (no experience) / 8-10 (with experience)
Students practice classroom etiquette, stretching techniques, basic body positions and proper alignment. Turnout is taught and executed per body position and advances with weight transfers. Combinations of 2-4 movements are introduced. Music and movement are paired by clapping to beats and counting beats thus beginning to move to counts. Activities and pantomime are used to encourage absorption and self expression.
Ballet Level II (ages 8-11)
Movement becomes much more personalized at this crucial level. Class begins with floor stretching and ankle strengthening. A classical ballet barre routine focuses on technique and alignment, coordination of foot and arm, and strengthening exercises. Combinations gradually increase to 4-8 movements which are performed repetitively. Students are encouraged to reverse combinations on their own as they advance. Terminology expands. Pantomime, props and activities are used to encourage expressive understanding of the individual dancer within the group.
Ballet Level III (ages 10-13)
Dancers have acquired the strength to focus on extension and suspension while maintaining alignment. New terminology is introduced as new movements are. Adagio combinations gradually become larger and proper use of the sternum and head are encouraged. Dancers begin to advance turns and learn to add beats to steps. Combinations increase in difficulty. Basic plyometrics are introduced. Repertoire is practiced thus developing a confident ability to add an expressive nature to ones movement.
Ballet Level IV (ages 13-18)
The curriculum moves at a faster pace and dancers are knowledgable of the terminology and the array of combinations in ballet. Coordxinating the head with the body at fast and slow paces is emphasized and every combination is encouraged to become expressive. Dancers learn advanced movements by stretching and strengthening muscles they will use for these movements. Training in plyometrics is gradually advanced. Dancers are challenged to execute traveling zig-zags, circle waltzes and other staging movements that are crucial for performance. Repertoire becomes more advanced in a broader range of ballet styles.
Pointe (instructor approval)
Pointe training generally begins at the age of 12 yet there are many factors that determine whether a student is ready. A private assessment with instructor, parent/guardian and student will be made regarding such decisions. Student is assessed based on number of years of ballet training and the following will be reviewed: ankle and foot strength and flexibility, proper alignment and core and back strength. All students dancing on pointe are required to attend weekly pointe and technique classes as well as their regularly scheduled ballet class. All students are encouraged to have a regular stretching and strengthening routine outside of class.
Modern I (ages 8-12) Modern II (ages 13-18)
Class begins with warm-up rituals involving strengthening techniques and flexibility training. Students will learn isolations, contractions, spirals, and basic inversions. Exciting group and individual activities are in place to help students absorb the fundamentals of spacial awareness and force. Students will learn to move on and off the beat and at varying tempos. Traveling steps are introduced. Improvisation is used each class and gradually becomes individualized. Stage patterns, lines and formations are practiced and students are given the opportunity to invent and reinvent. With advancement, improv activities last longer durations and students are encouraged to perform these activities in situational and elemental fashions, within specified formations, and at varying tempos.
Contemporary I (ages 8-12)
Contemporary II (ages 13-18)
Dancers are encouraged to explore their own unique movement style and convey their emotions through their movements. Warm-up is featured in center to loosen up the muscles of the body. Breathwork is used to enhance expression. Combinations of movements are practiced repetitively to encourage movement to become larger and more refined. Incorporates elements of improvisation, allowing dancers to respond and adapt to the music, space and other dancers in the moment adding spontaneity and creativity to the classroom