Cross-Training Classes

Performing Arts Cross-Training Classes

Triple Threat Level 1 (Grades K-2, 1 hour per week) - Builds the groundwork for combining skills by using gross motor skills activities to teach spatial reasoning, weight shifts, coordination, musical downbeat, and rhythms to choreography and blocking.
Triple Threat Level 3 (Grades 2-5, 1 hour per week) - Musical theatre dance skills applied to musical phrasing, independent application such as rounds and canons with understanding the impact of dramatic choices.
Triple Threat Level 5 (Grades 5-8, 2 hours per week) - Formal ballet/musical theatre dance techniques with hearing and holding harmonies, understanding who to break down a character to fully embody the character both physically and emotionally.
Triple Threat Elite (Grades 8-12, 4 hours per week, audition required) - Trains multiple dance styles to build the actor’s understanding of musical theatre techniques. Recitative is added to understanding how to work with a score for timing, intention and the composer’s intentions.
Drama (Grades 6-12, 1 hour per week) - Acting techniques from the ground up. Finding reality is the actor’s job, learning how to be real on stage without adding caricature.
Film Acting (Grades 6-12, 1 hour per week) - Acting on camera requires different acting techniques to be effective in this medium. Video submissions are used almost exclusively now to book even stage productions; thus, understanding how to act on camera is more important than ever before.

Students are expected to attend all sessions other than conflicts disclosed at registration.
Students are expected to exhibit mature, respectful, and attentive behavior at all times during rehearsals, meal breaks, and performances.