Classes at PAC Spring 2012

Ages: Adults & Teens (Age 16+)
Day & Time: Sat 10:00-11:00 (10 classes)
Spring Session Begins: April 14
Instructor: Amira Jamal
Tuition: $160 (10 classes)

This class is designed for students who have already taken belly dance classes and for those taking the 9:30 Beginner Class. This will be a general technique class. This class will cover intermediate steps and movements, with an emphasis on drilling and using finger cymbals. We will also work with the veil, drum solo, canes and short compositions. 

Ages: Adults & Teens (Age 16+)
Day & Time: Sat 11:00-12:00 (10 classes)
Spring Session Begins:  April 14
Instructor: Amira Jamal
Tuition: $160 (10 classes)

Note: This class must be taken concurrently with the 10:00 class, unless special permission is given by the instructor.

Even if you are not intending to be a performer, this class will give you confidence and help you break out of any feelings of nervousness or limitations when you dance. This class is designed for students who have had prior belly dance experience, and who would like to learn performance skills to build self-confidence and to learn more about improvisation and the various parts of a belly dance routine. If you want to take only this class without the 10:00 class you MUST have permission of the instructor.

The instructor will provide a free workbook and classroom music CD of the work that will be done in this class for those students who pre-register at least one week in advance of the class.

**Students who register for both the Drills & Zills and the Performance Skills classes will receive a $20 tuition discount.

Ages: Adults & Teens
Day and Time:  Mondays, 7-8pm
Spring Session Begins:  April 9 (10 classes)
Instructor: Colleen Biron
Tuition: $160 (10 weeks)

Exciting class for those familiar with the basics. Tap shoes required.

Ages: Adults & Teens
Day & Time: Mondays, 6-7pm (10 classes)
Spring Session Starts: April 9
Instructor: Colleen Biron
Tuition: $160 (10 weeks)

For seasoned tap dancers looking for a fun way to keep up their skills. Explore new styles, steps and rhythms in this fast-paced class.

New Classes Starting All the time!
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Instructor: Jennifer Wiles-Balser
Tuition: $170 for 10 classes

For students with learning and sensory motor challenges. Emphasis on group and individual creative expression, coordination, balance, and flexibility. Dance therapy encourages physical, social, and emotional development.

Private and Semi-private sessions are also available.  Call the office (508-875-5554)  to inquire.

Ages: Toddlers and Pre-Schoolers (Ages 3-5)
Day & Time: Saturdays, 9:30-10:15 am
Winter Session Begins: March 17
Instructor: Jennifer Wiles Balser
Tuition: $160 for 10 classes

A pre-school and toddler movement program for able and disabled children. Created by Dicki Johnson Macy, M.Ed, BC-DMT, LMHC, the program enhances the development of healthy peer relationships through the use of ritual, song, gesture, story and natural movements (skipping, jumping, leaping, marching, reaching, reclining).  We will gather around a parachute for the 45 minute class and work on social empathy, self-confidence and self-regulation through story-telling, object lessons and movement set to cultural music and improvisation.  Rainbowdance provides the safe structure necessary for children to develop competency and relationships.

The stories and improvisations have themes of cooperation, respect, trust, honor, and gentleness, and are developed to expose each child to adaptive coping strategies for successfully meeting normal developmental challenges.  Children have the opportunity to explore their relationships to each other, self-regulation and modulation, and their unique places in the natural world through a story and movement improvisation.

Ages: Grades 2-6
Day & Time:  Tuesdays, 4:30-6:00 pm
Winter Session Begins: March 27
Instructor: Laura Prichard
Tuition: $160 for 10, 90 minute classes

This program will teach children the fundamentals of singing in a fun, interactive & nurturing environment.

Ages: Infants, pre-schoolers, toddlers and their parents & caregivers
Day & Times: Fridays, 10:00-11:00 am
Dates: March 16, 30; April 6, 20, 27; May 4, 18, 25, June 1, 15
Instructor: Ed Morgan
Tuition: $6.00 for one adult and one child each week, plus $1 for each additional child.

Drop-in! No registration necessary.

Ages: Grades 4-8
Day & Time: Tuesday or Wednesday, Time TBD – Please call the PAC office
Spring Session Begins: call for dates & times
Instructor: Jimmy Lanzillotta

Tuition: $160 for 10 classes

This is an excellent introductory course for students who are interested in learning to play the guitar. No experience necessary.

Ages: Grades 2-4
Day & Time: Tuesday or Wednesday, Time TBD – Please call the PAC office
Spring Session Begins: call PAC office for dates and times
Instructor: Jimmy Lanzillotta
Tuition: $160 for 10 classes

This class is designed for students who have had at least one semester, session, or year of group or individual guitar lessons.

Section I:  Ages 5&6, Mondays, 4:15-5:00 pm
Section II: Ages 7&8, Mondays, 5:00-5:45 pm
Day: Mondays
Spring Session Begins: March 26
Instructor: Anne Lemos Edgerton
Tuition: $190 for 10-week class

Students participate in rhythmic and movement activities, and learn piano keyboard layout, the musical alphabet and simple five-finger songs by ear. Class is sequential and should be enrolled as a full year commitment

Ages: 4-6 (Pre-K to 1st grade)
Day & Time: Wednesdays, 3:45-4:30
Spring Session Begins:  April 4
Instructor: Joey Talbert
Tuition: $160 for 10 classes

This is the perfect class for up-and-coming actors! Participants will use their voices, bodies, and imaginations to act out a story each week. Theater games and movement will feature prominently. An informal show will be performed for families on the final day of class.

Ages: 7-9 (Grades 2 & 3)
Day & Time: Wednesdays, 4:45-5:45
Spring Session Begins:  April 4
Instructor: Joey Talbert
Tuition: $160 for 10 classes

Children will use their voices, bodies, and imagination to play theater games and act out stories. There will be a performance for families and friends on the final day of class.

Ages: Grades 7 +
Day & Time:  Saturdays 10:30 am-12:30 noon
Spring Session Begins:  March 31
Instructor: Emily Snyder
Tuition: $300 for 10, two-hour classes

This class is designed for students who are looking for a challenging course in all aspects of musical theater – singing, dancing and acting.

Spring Session: Original Musical: Taking songs from various musicals (and perhaps an original musical or two) this class will explore how to put together song and dance to tell a story!