PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Up With Kids students are trained in acting and performing for stage and film. The Up With Kids performing arts curriculum is based on the works of the Great Masters of Music, Dance, Literature, Art, and Theater. Our students experience their rich cultural heritage through age-appropriate activities: singing, dancing, drama, choral readings, and creative movements to classical music. Our students are taught that the Great Masters of our culture were once children themselves, who discovered and nurtures their beautiful talents and gifts. These precious young people are further taught that each one of them have wonderful talents and gifts inside of them that will bring them great happiness and fulfillment throughout their lives. It is our firm conviction that cultural awareness, dramatic abilities and confidence enhance success and enjoyment not only in the performing community but in every walk of life. Our activities promote creativity and self-esteem for the students and teachers in an atmosphere of love and friendship.

DIRECTOR: Michelle Galloway is the mother of three fantastically talented and energetic boys and one beautiful little girl. They are the light of her life. They, along with her amazing husband Dave make her life a wonderful adventure. Michelle has taught children professionally for 15 years. Her love of children and training as a teacher enable her to maintain loving control in the classroom to make learning fun! Her lifetime of involvement in the performing arts is and asset in her ability to teach musical theater. As a child in Utah, she was taught a love for music, dance, and theater. She began performing at the age of three. She has been involved with the performing arts ever since. In high school, she was a lead singer and a back-up singer in a professional "Fifties" band called "The Time Cruisers." She has been in many musicals and plays throughout her life. Musical theater is "in her blood"!
Michelle’s philosophy for teaching children is to love them, know who they are, and help them become the best they can be. Michelle is excited and honored to get to know each uniquely talented child who will be in her program!