Cumberland County Playhouse is enjoying the involvement of new students, new families, new teachers and new classes in its Playhouse Performance Education Center. With new students continuing to enroll, and nearly 300 class attendances each week, the Playhouse studios are humming, as new Director of Education, Jennifer Austin, and her remarkable faculty, “teach technique through choreography” and rehearsal as well as via traditional technical exercises. CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS, the holiday performance celebration Dec. 15-17, features intermediate and advanced students putting their training and technique onstage, in a colorful, musical and joyful performance filled with spirit of The Season. Christmas Blessings is performed in one act (under ninety minutes), and so is suitable for all ages and attention spans! Shows are at 7pm on Dec 15 and 16, and at 1:30 on Dec 17.
After Christmas, new classes will begin in Hatha Yoga on Tuesdays at 6:15PM with certified instructor Jennifer Austin, plus an expanded Adult/Teen Ballet class Monday Nights at 7pm, with passionate and energetic teacher Ashley Austin. New students may contact Meka Doxtator Barrier (484-4324, x243) to enroll, or add this class to an existing schedule.
Hatha Yoga is movement Yoga, and each 45 minute class burns between 300 and 600 calories. Jennifer Austin teaches certified Yoga all over East Tennessee, and offers this class starting January 3rd at the Playhouse. Students should bring their own mat and towel and “get ready to sweat and get your Zen on,” says Jennifer! “Class size is limited, so call early!” The first class is free!
Tickets for CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS and all Playhouse productions plus selected concerts at Crossville’s Palace Theater, performances by Cookeville Children’s Theater and Southern Stars Symphonic Brass, are available at 931.484.5000, and online at www.ccplayhouse.com. Currently showing is the great musical of tradition, faith, and family, Fiddler on the Roof, thru Dec 18 and sponsored by M. Stewart Galloway M.D./Cumberland Eye Care; see the true spirit of Christmas in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, thru Dec 17; and the beloved Sanders Family Christmas, thru Dec 23. You can now purchase gift certificates and memberships for the 2012 season!!
