Performing Arts Lessons in Naval Anacost Annex, DC. It's your time.

Kat Arias is a Venezuelan born dancer who is currently the Owner and Managing Director of the Ferocity Dance Company. Ferocity houses multiple bachata focused competitive and performing teams, and has won various accolades throughout the years. Her vision was to have a company where anyone who wanted to be family, could be.

She is a Bachata Fusion dancer with specializations in Fusion, Modern and Sensual Bachata and is available for private lessons and coaching for everyone from the social and wedding dance student to aspiring competitors and performers.

Looking for help with learning how to sing in a choir? Worship team? Improv/Caberet group? Let me help! Children's choir director for over 15 years, guest choir director, choir/group/praise and worship team vocal coach since 2001. Rates shown are for groups of 3-20 people per session. I can travel within a 15 mile radius for an additional travel fee.

Preparing music for performance - making your rendition the best it can be and rehearsing it effectively; relating to your fellow musicians; relating to support staff such as sound techs; dealing with nerves and stage fright; relating to audiences; delivering your best performace

Focusing on diverse techniques, including types of characters, staging, blocking of scenes, costuming, creating characters, improv and games for each concept.

We are constantly play games to reinforce the techniques presented each week and the students always have fun. They walk away confident and wanting to learn more.

Spend time on costuming and set design, by creating with the materials we find at Goodwill, thrift stores and other retail businesses. We look over the characters descriptions and utilize our creative to flow with costuming and scenery.

In the past years we've done excerpts from The Polar Express, The Wizard of Oz, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and George and the Marvelous Medicine.

This summer of 2014, we're doing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where we are discussing staging, blocking, creating costumes and props.

As a communication professor, my mission is to inspire and develop students' unique gifts. I have exceptional experiences performing, producing, directing, and writing screen and stage plays. Enjoy fun, interactive, and applicable teaching techniques that will motivate the best you!

As part of voice and piano lessons, students are trained to entertain and be comfortable in front of an audience. They receive coaching on stage presence, stage etiquette, movement, slating, speech projection and more.