Early Learning

Imagine young children learning basic math, science and reading skills by acting, singing and dancing. The arts can stimulate memory, facilitate understanding, enhance symbolic communication, promote relationships and build confidence in students. Young Audiences Early Learning Program is based on these principles and provides children, ages 2 - 6, with educational experiences in music, dance, theater and visual arts through age-appropriate performances, workshops and residencies.

Louisiana Wolf Trap

Wolf Trap is an internationally respected program that provides innovtive arts-based teaching strategies and services for early-childhood teachers, caregivers, and parents of children from birth to age six through the disciplines of drama, movement, and music. Young Audiences is one of 19 Wolf Trap affilliates in the nation.

"Preschool children whose classes and teachers participated in residencies by a Wolf Trap professional teaching artist made quantifiable improvement in the following six categories: Initiative, Social Relations, Creative Representation, Logic and Mathematics, Language and Literacy, and Movement and Music."

- Douglas Klayman, PhD
  U.S. Department of Education

Early Learning Offerings

Rhymes, Rhythm, and Rock Artist: Dave James This program is specifically designed for younger students to learn about the most basic concepts of music like melody, rhythm and singing. Participation is encouraged with percussion, clapping and call and response singing.

Thinking Caps and Listening Ears Artist: Adella Adella the Storyteller Designed to spark readiness through stories, song and rhymes, this program is sure to excite emerging readers!