We offer year-round classes for all ages

Please keep an eye on this page. Teen Cohort classes will be posted by the end of the year.
​Shaking the Tree classes are story based. We work our way through a story (or story collection) and act it out each week. In addition to this, students play skill building warm-up games at the start of each class.
Below is our core mission when it comes to teaching classes:
Shaking the Tree Studio is a laboratory for tomorrow's theatre makers. By using the same principles we hold dear for play-making, we seek to provide students with rich and varied literature, allow them to explore it through immersion, and witness them experience a deeper connection of thought, feeling, and action, as a result.

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Winter Classes 
January 14th - March 14th
​(no classes Feb 11-14)

Discover Russian Fairy Tales (Ages 5-8)

$195.00

Tuesdays
​4:00 - 5:30
(No class on Tuesday 2/12)

Explore the intricate and ornate world of Russian Fairytales. Each week we will act out a different story and Father Frost, The Feather of Finest the Falcon; The Frog Princess; The Firebird and the Grey Wolf. The Sea King's Daughter, The Gigantic Turnip and many others.

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The Magic of the Flame (Ages 8-11) CLASS FULL

$195.00

Wednesdays
​4:00 - 5:30
​(No class on Wednesday2/13)

Join us on a quest to learn about the power and magic of fire. Meet heroes from myth, legend and fairytale, like Prometheus, Vasilisa, and Two Flint, who must utilize their bravery and wits to capture fire or flame. We will perform our favorite story for family and friends at our final class.

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The Myth of Persephone (Ages 11-14)

$195.00

Mondays
​4:30 - 6:00pm
(No class on Monday 2/11)
Persephone was gathering flowers with the Oceanids along with Artemis and Athena in a field when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth.
Demeter, when she found her daughter had disappeared, searched for her all over the earth with Hecate's torches. She neglected the earth and in the depth of her despair she caused nothing to grow. Helios, the sun, who saw everything, eventually told Demeter what had happened and at length she discovered the place of her abode. Finally, Zeus, pressed by the cries of the hungry people and by the other deities who also heard their anguish, forced Hades to return Persephone, but first he tricked her, giving her some pomegranate seeds to eat. Persephone was released by Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, but because she had tasted food in the underworld, she was obliged to spend a third of each year (the winter months) there, and the remaining part of the year with the gods above. 


We will dissect this tale by imagining all the characters and realms they inhabit, and piece together the story of both the underworld and the world above. We will perform our story for families and friends at our final class.

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Intermediate Classes

Audition Prep for Intermediate Students

$195.00

Thursdays
​4:00 - 5:30pm


A perfect class for students who want to work with text, and find the right monologue/s to use in auditions. We will focus understanding what makes our chosen character tick, what motivates them, and how to tell their story in the clearest and most compelling way.


This class is for any Shaking the Tree student who has taken classes for a year or more (no matter what their age), or any new student who has moved past the beginner level in drama.


You are welcome to contact Samantha with questions


Monologues will be performed for family and friends at our final class.

 

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