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The Marcia P. Hoffman Performing Arts Institute classes are transforming!

You have the opportunity to join a creative family at the Marcia P. Hoffman Performing Arts Institute, where the growth of the human spirit is celebrated through exploration, discovery and the experience and mastery of the arts.

On any afternoon or evening, hundreds of adults and youth from around our community attend arts education classes and lessons at The Marcia P. Hoffman Performing Arts Institute at Ruth Eckerd Hall.

They come in the evening after work or school, during the afternoon and over the weekend. They bring their hopes, their dreams and their aspirations with them. Entering the classrooms, studios and rehearsal halls with great anticipation of learning a new way of expressing themselves, they make their way past the other adults and youth to a spot they call their own. In moments, just before the artist begins to teach… they hold their breath. At that moment, something extraordinary happens. Participants of the class let their minds imagine themselves transformed. In the split second between the unveiling of the teaching artist’s lesson plan, and the beginning of introductions, the outside world fades away.  Through music, drama, theater, dance and movement, each experiences what they may only have imagined before – the pleasure of hitting the right note, the freedom of moving to the music, the joy of knowing the right line. The inspired world of arts education moves them, enriches them, teaches them and strengthens them.