CCD is one of "5 Top Performing Arts Programs in Chicago for Speech and Language Development" according to North Shore Pediatric Therapy.
First Online With Fran: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things in the Arts
"It’s an exercise in creativity and in bravery, and our students will walk away with a little more courage, a little more trust, and a sense of responsibility and teamwork. They’ll walk away with the magic of live performance, and I hope that never leaves them."
Read the full article here.
Read the full article here.
Sheboygan Press
"J.J. Reed likes drama, but she’s not a drama queen. 'I just like acting,' the 9-year-old said. 'Sometimes me and my sister will mess around and play games at home where we’re acting and we’ll have to be all dramatic and start crying, ... (but) I’m not a drama queen.'
J.J., who lives in Milwaukee, had an opportunity to hone her acting skills this past week, while at the same time learning life skills that will help her stay away from the drama queen persona.
She participated in theater camp put on by Compass Creative Dramatics. The weeklong camp, which began Monday, took place at Sheboygan County Christian High School."
Check out the full article and video here.
J.J., who lives in Milwaukee, had an opportunity to hone her acting skills this past week, while at the same time learning life skills that will help her stay away from the drama queen persona.
She participated in theater camp put on by Compass Creative Dramatics. The weeklong camp, which began Monday, took place at Sheboygan County Christian High School."
Check out the full article and video here.
Sheboygan Press
Americans for the Arts: ArtsBlog
"But even administrators and policymakers aren’t only convinced by hard facts—by numbers and graphs and formulas. Those figures may help a person wrap their head around why what we do is so important, but numbers don’t tell the whole story."
Read more about our Stories Behind the Statistics project here.
Read more about our Stories Behind the Statistics project here.
Bedford Times Mail
Bedford Native Hoping to Return
By Becky Wright
"There's something magical about being able to become a completely different person on stage to tell a story...Quinn looks forward to bringing her program to her hometown, which she says prepared her for success."
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By Becky Wright
"There's something magical about being able to become a completely different person on stage to tell a story...Quinn looks forward to bringing her program to her hometown, which she says prepared her for success."
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Eliza Lynn Taylor's You Never Know
Community Theater Excellent Opportunity For Children
By Eliza Lynn Taylor
"Does anyone think about how drama (theater) helps students? Try acting if you can't read and read well. Theater helps with confidence, overcoming shyness (as it did me), learning to multitask, which is important in most jobs, keeping grades up if their parents (and the schools) make it a part of participation, staying active (learning dance steps and when to do them). I had two left feet and I learned to dance because of community theater...I have to wonder if more people in other areas endeavored to undertake such projects the void left by the schools would be filled and children would find something to do who might otherwise just sit around the house vegetating, or get into trouble 'just hanging out...Get involved, won't you?"
Read Eliza Lynn Taylor's entire blog entry about Compass Creative Dramatics here
By Eliza Lynn Taylor
"Does anyone think about how drama (theater) helps students? Try acting if you can't read and read well. Theater helps with confidence, overcoming shyness (as it did me), learning to multitask, which is important in most jobs, keeping grades up if their parents (and the schools) make it a part of participation, staying active (learning dance steps and when to do them). I had two left feet and I learned to dance because of community theater...I have to wonder if more people in other areas endeavored to undertake such projects the void left by the schools would be filled and children would find something to do who might otherwise just sit around the house vegetating, or get into trouble 'just hanging out...Get involved, won't you?"
Read Eliza Lynn Taylor's entire blog entry about Compass Creative Dramatics here