Children and teenagers benefit from drama classes in numerous ways. Here’s just ten reasons why your child or teen should take drama classes and explore acting with Centauri Arts this year:
1. Acting classes promote self-confidence!
Drama skills such as improvisation present young people with the unexpected, encouraging them to think on their feet and showing them just what they can do.
2. Acting classes encourage creativity.
This is a vital life and career skill in today’s ever-changing world.
3. Acting classes help young people to develop communication skills.
In drama classes, young actors interact with one another, learning to become more proficient as communicators.
4. In a drama class, teenagers develops social skills.
As they play characters, young people discover how to interact in a variety of situations. Role play and improvisation help them to develop the skills they need for real-world interaction.
5. Drama workshops actually help with academic skills.
As young actors interpret and analyze a script, they are developing reading and text interpretation skills that will help in school. Memorizing lines corelates directly with study skills as well.
6. In a drama class, young people learn the advantages and pleasures of working as a team.
They learn to rely on one another, helping other members of the ensemble and contributing as much as they can to the group effort. Team skills are essential for life – we speak of this in relation to sports… but acting classes offer team skills, too.
7. Acting classes promote self-awareness.
Trying on a character, young people discover more about themselves.
8. Learning to present in front of an audience is an essential life skill.
At Centauri Arts, our young actors create their own performances, sharing their own ideas – which is empowering. They have a chance to perform in front of a live audience, developing essential skills for life.
9. The individual skills children and teenagers work on during their drama classes are directly relevant to life.
Classes in movement, voice skills, character development and improvisation all help them learn to use their bodies, voices, emotions, intellect and creativity to their best of their ability.
10. Acting classes are FUN!
We see proof of this each week at Centauri Arts. Young people may arrive weighed down by pressures in school, but within minutes they are laughing, sharing, supporting one another, making friends and having fun.
To learn more about our year-round acting classes in West Toronto, go to https://centauriarts.com/academy
