This fall, we are expanding our Acting Classes at the Centauri Arts Academy, offering a Junior Acting Course for ages 9-14 as well as a Senior Acting Course for ages 13-18. Why the expansion now? COVID has kept us apart for far too long, and acting classes offer young people the opportunity to brush up on those acting skills that may have suffered over the past months – all while having a HUGE amount of fun.

Acting is a Collaborative Art Form

Working together isn’t easy on a screen – but learning to work with others is an essential life skill. In acting classes, young people learn to collaborate, developing team skills in a way that is enjoyable as they get creative with others.

Acting Helps Build Social Skills

When we improvise in acting class, we role play scenarios we may find ourselves living through in the real world. While life is not a dress rehearsal – acting courses can be! Sophisticated social skills help guarantee success in so many aspects of life, and in acting class, young people develop them naturally, while begin creative and having a great time. Society anxiety is very real these days – but acting teachers understand how to build the kind of trusting and respectful environment that puts everyone at their easeActing Classes Are All About Communication!

Communication skills are essential – and the type of communication that happens face to face, in a group situation, is more important than any other. Theatre games, imagining characters, devising a performance, developing a scene, rehearsing a play – all these components of an acting course encourage sophisticated communication skills.

Acting Classes Encourage Self Confidence!

A sense of accomplishment is essential to self confidence and acting teachers know how to encourage young people to grow at their own pace, with the support of those around them. In the right kind of environment, young people explore their creative skills and discover just how much they are capable of doing. This kind of confidence has a ripple effect on all aspects of life.

Acting Classes Encourage Public Speaking Skills

Last week, I was hiking in Algonquin when a hiker going in the opposite direction called out my name. She told me she had attended our acting programs for 4 years, quite some time ago. Weeks ago, she had attended an interview for veterinary college and she told me, “I could never have spoken in public the way I did, nor aced that interview, if I hadn’t learned the skills you taught me.” Public speaking skills matter. When we devise theatre, improvise and perform on stage in acting classes, we learn how to ace oral presentations of all kinds in the real world.

Sometimes, we tend to think acting classes are all about young people wanting to be actors in the future. While this is sometimes the case, it’s never the full story. An acting course can help young people develop vital life skills for the future – enhancing their self confidence, teaching team skills, improving all forms of communication and developing their social skills – whatever their future dreams may be.

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