Photo Coverage: Dr. Phillips Center Previews Variety of School of Arts Classes

On Tuesday, December 9th, the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts School of Arts previewed classes for the January 5, 2015 inaugural spring semester. The preview event took place at the School of Arts Tupperware Brands Corp. Lobby at The Dr. Phillips Center. Registration for the spring semester is available and students can register for classes and view a complete listing of classes at drphillipscenter.org/arts-education or call the School of Arts at 407.455.5551. Registration by December 17 is encouraged to ensure placement. Any student that signs up from December 9 through December 17 will receive a Tupperware Brands water bottle on their first day of class. BroadwayWorld Orlando will have video from the preview event later this week.

The preview included a variety of classes offered including: Beginning Jazz Dance (Ages 9 - 18) with Instructor Tara McGugin; Vocal Performance (Ages 13 - Adult) with Instructor Priscilla Bagley; Yamaha Junior Music (Ages 4-5); Yamaha Young Musicians (Ages 6-8) with Yamaha Music Instructor Sarah Tellier; and Stretch (Ages 16 - 103) with Instructor Salem Murphy.

Speakers included Kathy Ramsberger, president & CEO Dr. Phillips Center, Tom Roehlk Executive Vice President Tupperware Brands and Scott Galbraith, Vice President of Programming and Education at the Dr. Phillips Center

"The transformative effect of the performing arts starts when we attend a performance and extends into arts for every life through arts education," said Kathy Ramsberger, president and CEO of The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. "The School of Arts is essential to the vision and mission of the Dr. Phillips Center and essential to our community."

The School of Arts is built on the foundation that participation in the arts builds self-esteem, integrates and enhances other education while building communication skills such as speaking, interacting, listening, and interpreting. The arts promote problem solving and teach students to work together to achieve a common goal. School of Arts innovative programs inspire and engage students from ages 3 to 103. A variety of classes start with dance for all levels of jazz, contemporary, Hip-Hop, African dance, tap, and lyrical. Adults can enhance their wellness with yoga, stretch or Zumba. Music classes range from the acclaimed Yamaha Music School for piano to vocal performance, guitar, theory, flute, violin, cello, trumpet, African drumming and even ukulele. Theater students have options like drama, theater games, improvisation, acting for the stage or screen, magic, and musical theater. For the little ones all the disciplines are available from creative movement to instruments to dance and fairytale acting

About the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization operating the new state-of-the-art performing arts center in downtown Orlando, Florida. With its opening in November 2014, the performing arts center launched its vision of Arts For Every Life® by being a gathering place for creativity and discovery; a vibrant urban destination where artists, audiences and students come to experience, explore and learn. The two-block community destination features the 2,700-seat Walt Disney Theater, 300-seat Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater, Seneff Arts Plaza, School of Arts, the DeVos Family Room, and other event rental spaces. Future expansion plans include a 1,700-seat Acoustical theater, rehearsal room and commercial development spaces. The Dr. Phillips Center is a public-private collaboration with the City of Orlando, Orange County, the State of Florida and generous donors. For more information please visit drphillipscenter.org.

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