Acting

 *Classes start June 5, 2012*
 

• Comedy and Improv to help students instantly create a character, expand their vocabulary, solve problems creatively and even defuse situations
• Cold script reading and Audition Skills, which teach youngsters how to pick up a script, analyze it quickly and perform it on camera with confidence. 
• Voiceover classes
• Advanced acting for Adults*
  
  
  The first actor is believed to be Thespis of Icaria, a man of ancient Greece. "Plays" of this time, called choric dithyrambs, involved a chorus of 50 who sang the story to the audience. The possibly apocryphal story says that Thespis stepped out of the chorus and spoke to them as a separate character in the story. Before Thespis, the chorus in all plays would sing in a narrative way, "Dionysus did this, Dionysus said that." When Thespis stepped out from the chorus, he said "I am Dionysus. I did this."
  
  From Thespis' name derives the word thespian, meaning any sort of performer but chiefly an actor. The International Thespian is said to possess a number of skills, including good vocal projection, clarity of speech, physical expressiveness, a good sense of perspective, emotional availability, a well developed imagination, the ability to analyze and understand dramatic text, and the ability to emulate or generate emotional and physical conditions.