Artsplay! integrates music, dance, and drama in engaging learning experiences that center on imagination and creative self-expression. Music, drama, and creative movement support and enhance young children's intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development. Classes are team-taught by 2 Wolf Trap Teaching Artists.

Registration Information

Online registration is now available.
By registering, you agree to our classes policy.
During the Winter term, 8 classes will be held on Saturdays from January 14 - March 3, 2012.
Classes are not interchangeable.
Participants can only attend their registered class.
Space is very limited and available on a first come, first serve basis.

Tuition: $200 per 8-week session

With you registration you will receive

• A special Artsplay! kit with the featured children's book, an Artsplay! CD, basic rhythm instruments, Wolfie (Wolf Trap's signature furry friend), and other multisensory props.
• Activities and resources to enhance and extend you and your child's experience with the artist.
• Complimentary snacks and drinks for parents and caregivers

Location

All classes held at the Center for Education at Wolf Trap.
Changing stations are available in male and female restrooms.

Class Dates
Saturdays, January 14 - March 3 at 11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Teacher Bio

Kofi Dennis is a graduate of the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, and studied early childhood and adolescent education at Komenda College, University of Cape Coast. He performs as half of the duo Anansegromma, presenting music, dance, drums, games, and stories. Dennis has been teaching creative drama at the Montessori School of Northern Virginia, Annandale, for the past 10 years and has been a Wolf Trap Teaching Artist since 1998. He co-created and performed for many years in Grandmother's Footsteps, an interactive children's performance at The Barns of Wolf Trap. Dennis is also a Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist who conducts Artsplay! and Baby Artsplay! as well as residencies in early-childhood classrooms. Since 2004, he has teamed up with the faculty of the World Children's Choir to present African drumming for concepts and for peace. His 3 daughters sing with the choir.

Melissa Richardson is a teaching artist specializing in drama and has been teaching with Wolf Trap since 2005. She received a BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and is also a stage manager and director. As a teaching artist, she has worked with students ages three through 18 with theatres throughout the metro area, including Round House Theatre, Arena Stage, Pied Piper Theatre, Educational Theatre Company, and the Helen Hayes Legacy Project. She writes and directs curriculum-based plays with Kindergarten through second grade students through the Adventure Theatre Plays for Education program, and is a mentor teacher for InterAct Story Theatre’s Creative Kids program, a literature-based after school drama program.