Performing Arts Classes in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA

The Los Angeles Academy of Performing Arts:
The Los Angeles Academy of Performing Arts (LAAPA) offers conservatory training to children and teens in the areas of drama, dance, and music. We are conveniently located on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA. We also offer open adult classes, workshops, performance camps, and school outreach programs. Our instructors are some of the leading professionals in the world of performing arts. Our Junior Academy students (ages 7-12 years) are exposed to the same material as the Academy students (ages 13-18 years). Workshops are included as part of the curriculum. No audition is required for admittance into the Junior Academy.

At LAAPA, we believe that cultivating all areas of the performing arts is important to each student’s development as an artist and a person; therefore we take an interdisciplinary approach to our training. Students will be exposed to a curriculum that includes Shakespeare, Musical Theatre, Dancing, Singing, and Guitar, all the while learning the important life skills required to work successfully within a group environment.

Many classes run simultaneously so parents can attend one class while their children attend another. Acting, singing, and group guitar classes follow the same twelve-week schedule as Academy classes. Drop-in classes are available for dance, yoga, and pilates only.

The Los Angeles Academy of Performing Arts is committed to training our students to be first-rate professionals through skills training in class, and through collaborating with fellow students. We are committed to expanding the performing arts in our community through programs open to the public and learning institutions.

We are committed to including people from all social, cultural, political, and economic backgrounds in celebrating the diversity of ideas. We are committed to helping develop our students as leaders in the performing arts and beyond.

Quality Training:
Our instructors and guest instructors are not only gifted educators, but also professional performers of the highest caliber. They regularly perform on Broadway and in regional theatre, on television and film, they’ve been nominated for and have won Tony Awards, danced with major companies, and have played alongside some of the biggest names in music. All of them provide the instruction and inspiration required to help our students become leading professionals in the performing arts.

We offer year-round performing arts training for children & teens in the areas of drama, dance, and music (12-week sessions). Admittance into the Academy is by audition. There is no audition required for the Junior Academy.

- Children ages 7-12 years are eligible to enroll in the Junior Academy. Classes meet 2 nights a week, in addition to Saturday rehearsals.
- The Academy is a pre-professional performing arts conservatory for students ages 13-18 years.
- Open classes in acting, dancing, singing, yoga, pilates & group guitar are available to adults & children.
- In addition, LAAPA offers performance camps, and workshops taught by some of the leading professionals in the world of performing arts.
- We also provide school outreach programs.