Learning new skills
Working as a group of young children in a live performance needs collaboration and patience. They build listening skills, empathy, risk taking and perseverance. To tell a story on stage, the child needs to remember his or her lines, while wearing strange clothes and pretending to be someone else. Singing and dancing in front of an audience will most probably take them out of their comfort zone, but it is a very useful skill.
For our youngest performers in class, being seated on stage is already a challenge, more so because their parents are seated opposite them. For others whose vocabulary is still limited, taking part in a song and a dance is daring enough but it is fulfilling. Then there are those who can dance, sing and act and juggle props at the same time, carrying the show to its final act.