G.A.P Academy – Performing Arts Holiday Club Easter 2025

The activities we will be delivering will be a combination of performing and creative arts and team games. We will have Dance classes in multiple styles such as street, contemporary, Jazz & Musical theatre. Our acrobatics arts sessions combines gymnastic & dance elements of balancing, limbering, tumbling, partnering, flexibility, contortion, and strength. In our arts & crafts sessions participants will be making collages, masks, designing clothing, origami, painting, sculpting, drawing, and jewellery making. In our Music sessions they will have the opportunity to take part in Drums, Keyboard, and guitar lessons and also write and record there own orignal song. In our Drama sessions participants will learn various acting techniques through scenario-based and themed topic which will help them develop confidence and understand the parts will play in society.

G.A.P delivers high quality performing and media arts sessions. Especially designed to introduce young people to the world of performing arts. It has proven that performing arts help to improve classroom behaviour and stimulate academic performance. Performing & creative arts can be a “tool” to develop children in terms of social skills, behaviour, attitude, respect and emotional wellbeing.

The children will take part in a wide range of activities within performing and creative arts as well as sports and life skills. During these sessions, they will have fun engaging in creative activities as well as learn how to take care of their health and well-being.

The performing arts sessions will consist of a range of workshops within drama, dance, and music performance. These sessions will be based on a theme which will be used as a stimulus for a performance incorporating drama, dance and music. Similarly, the creative arts sessions will be made of arts and crafts, music production, and media.

G.A.P Academy is no ordinary holiday club, we an accredited arts academy with specialist instructors. Over the last 10 years we have worked with thousands of young people providing regular performing arts sessions. We are proud to say that our young people have achieved great success during their time training with us, we have produced regional choir champions, dance champions and many of our children have successfully auditioned and appeared in theatre, film, television & radio. The G.A.P Kids have also starred in their very own kids TV show, ‘The G.A.P Kids Show’ which aired on Sky.

DANCE
Over the recent years dance has become a worldwide phenomenon and has become ever so popular amongst young people. The skills and technique you learn through dance are invaluable whether it is ballet or hip-hop. It is also a fun way to keep fit and healthy, working all parts of the body.

Our dance program includes;
• Hip- Hop, Contemporary, Jazz, Lyrical, Musical Theatre & Afro dance styles

DRAMA
Acting is all to do with portraying and conveying character. Acting enables a person to think about others by putting themselves in somebody else’s shoes. By portraying different characters the youth will learn about the different types of people in this world.
Participants involved in Drama will benefit from;
• Learning different acting styles & technique from stage, screen, abstract to musical theatre
• Creating original plays for performance
• Filming, videos, short films, web shows etc. (with Media Arts class)

MUSIC
Music is a powerful medium, an international language that speaks to people’s hearts and allows room for creative freedom where all partakers have a voice. At G.A.P we have all areas covered, from music composition, song writing to performance & vocal technique.

Pupils can benefit from;
• Private & group Vocal Coaching
• Playing an instrument
• Writing & composing music.
• Singing in a Show Choir

MEDIA
It is important for pupils to know that there is so much more that goes into media production than what can be seen on screen. Participants will not only learn media theory but practice and work in small production groups with every member fulfilling a role as a writer, producer, director, camera or editor.

Through Media Arts members will;
• Study both theoretical & practical Media
• Learn how to create different types of media, animation, graphic design
• Learn how to write, produce, direct, film and edit
• Learn how to use industry software

LIFE SKILLS
A GAP we set ourselves a part from other arts organisations. We do not just educate we engage, edify and empower and allow young people to experience arts from a purpose driven perspective and encourage them to use arts to aid them through life. We let the young people lead from their own dreams and aspirations , we allow them to set their own goals and guide them with steps to help them achieve. We are firm believers in stewardship and developing leaders. The young people are taught to teach so that they can be the difference make in another persons life. Our life skills classes target a young persons, mental, social and psychological needs through arts and creativity.