your school or organization.
Arts Collaborative Program (AC)
This program offers integrated arts programming that your school or organization can use as a
collaborative effort with other schools and organizations to supports school curricula and bridges
school-based learning with real-life experiences and applications. It is truly
“hands-on” learning. Students gain skills in dance, instrumental music, writing, historical research,
visual arts and design, technical theatre and marketing.
Perhaps even more important, students involved in the program learn vital life skills
self-discipline, perseverance, commitment, cooperation, and the satisfaction that results from working
together to achieve something positive. In the current educational climate, where schools are often
struggling to do too much with too few resources, the AC program helps build school spirit, improve
communication and raise morale while reaching out to the community in partnership to be a part of
making community schools better.
Artist in Resident Program (AIR)
Provides the opportunity for PT ARTS artists to share their technical expertise and unique artistic
perspective with students and teachers at your school. Teachers, students and artists will work
together in building a program that they will perform. These experiences can range from a 4 to 8
weeks or a semester-long series of classroom visits with one grade level or the entire school. Artists
are available in the following disciplines: dance, drama and drumming. For grades K-12
Pre-Dance
Rhythm, music and creative movement combined with age appropriate exercises aid in developing
body awareness and focusing attention in the young child. This class forms the base for dance
training by developing locomotion and introducing beginning dance fundamentals. For Grades K-2
Jazz Dance
Using music of today, this form of dance involves muscle toning, stretching, and rhythm exercises.
Students learn various forms of movement and the wide terminology utilized in this form of dance. For
Grades 3-12
Hip-Hop
This form of dance is the most popular with students. Useing East and Weast Coast styles of Hip-Hop
mixed with Funk this class is high energy and lots of fun for students. For Grades 3-12
Classical Ballet
Russian Technique: Students learn beginning or intermediate level exercises and ballet terminology.
Classical Ballet is the foundation for every dance form and every dancer should have ballet as part of
their dance education. It develops self-discipline, beautiful posture, a controlled body, strength,
stamina and poise. For Grades 2-12
Acting I
Taking imagination and energy and channeling it through creative dramatics, students will be
introduced to the basics and fun of acting as well as the opportunity to develop their existing acting
skills. For Grades 3-6
Acting II
Improvisation, theatre games and age-appropriate scenes to develop acting skills for the
beginning/intermediate student
For Grades 7-10
Drumming/Percussion
Students will learn the basics of drumming and percussion through the study of various African
drumming traditions.
For Grades K-12
PT ARTS understand that many children often have special needs that manifest themselves in the
classroom. Our instructors all have experience in working with these challenges, and come prepared
with innovative strategies for focusing energy into creative and productive expression. our mission to
provide positive role models and clear expectations for the youth of today.
Please email us info@goptarts.com or call (616) 633 - 3179
