{"id":11002,"date":"2018-12-20T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/?p=11002"},"modified":"2024-03-21T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T01:25:08","slug":"colburn-drama-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/colburn-drama-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things we loved about Colburn’s Community School Drama Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the Fall Session, my daughter was invited by Colburn School<\/strong><\/a> to attend a Community School<\/strong><\/a> class (and for me to review). We chose the Creative Dramatics Class<\/strong><\/a>, for ages 5-7. It is a the class young students take to prepare them for the regular drama classes.<\/p>\n

Located in Downtown Los Angeles and held on Saturday mornings, my husband and I enjoyed watching our five year old’s progress and enthusiasm for drama and improv. From September through December, she didn’t miss one class and looked forward to it every week. Here are some of the reasons why:<\/p>\n

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Debbie Devine<\/strong><\/a>, the instructor, is fantastic. She is an award-winning theater director, teacher, and respected leader in the field of arts education for over thirty years. [read her bio here<\/a>] She is extremely skilled at capturing and keeping the children\u2019s attention, and builds on what she taught the previous week. She has realistic expectations of the children but doesn’t dumb anything down because of their age. She packs a lot of punch in the 30 minute class and everyone walks away talking about what they learned and implementing it in their daily routine.<\/p>\n

The Assistants<\/h2>\n

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Debbie uses students from other classes to assist with instruction and demonstrations. In my daughter\u2019s class (which was for children ages 5-7), we had three wonderful regular assistants (Bjorn, Sam, and Noah), with an occasional substitute. The assistants learned skills through teaching and demonstrating acting principles through scenes, and taking the lead on several movement exercises.<\/p>\n

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