The GO-FAME Performance Lab was created to enrich the lives of local youth by nurturing creative freedom in a safe and structured environment.

All classes take place at the GO-FAME Studio in the Long Beach Towne Center (Carson St. & 605 fwy).

Fall Session (Movement & Ensemble)

Students are introduced to acting and musical theater in a series of improvisational workshops designed to encourage participation and ensemble formation. Emphasis is on movement, body awareness and physical freedom.

  We meet the California State Board of Education Content Standards for the Performing Arts in several ways:

• Our Theatre Arts Training classes are designed to enrich children’s lives by cultivating their natural ability to think creatively and critically.

• Children work in collaboration with other children to become a strong ensemble.

• We empower children to become self-confident and outgoing. We create well rounded, capable and engaged young adults.

• Our curriculum is based in an historical and cultural context. Students gain an understanding of the role Theatre has played and contin ues to play in society.

 In training, our areas of focus include:

• Building skills in acting, music, and dance. We heighten every child’s awareness of his or her creative potential. Students express themselves through exercises, improvisation, rehearsal and production, and benefit from valuation, revision, and self-reflection.

• By learning the history of drama, literature, acting styles, and theatre conventions, children gain a wider platform for their own work, while creating empathy for situations outside of their everyday awareness. They acquire the ability to think and become active, engaged participants in everyday life.     

• Through rehearsal, improvisation, and scriptwriting, students showcase their understanding of important concepts in many subject areas. And by dramatizing events from history or current events, they learn how to structure a story and empathize with it’s protagonists.