Affiliated with the national Young Audiences Arts for Learning network
Students will learn to create bird masks using simple materials. They will also explore the use of their voices and bodies to transform into their bird characters and tell stories.
Medium: Theatre
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Character Expression with Tony Fuemmeler
Through games, observation, drawing, and discussion, students will name a number of emotions and find ways these feeling can be expressed and understood in their body and the bodies of others. They will further develop their ideas by creating an imagined character in their body.
Medium: Theatre
Clown Class with Heather Pearl
Students will be introduced to the theatrical form of clowning. Through warm-ups, exercises and creating a scene, the class will explore expressing shapes and emotions, observing others, and responding to others' characters.
Medium: Theatre
Construye Un Cuento (Build a Story) with Valentina Ortiz
Students will identify with the character of the story through basic research and body movements. There will be a closing reflection about how important it is that a person has unique authentic stories, how it is crucial to listen to other persons´ unique stories, and how listening to our different versions brings us together as a community.
Medium: Theatre
Crafting Community Through Storytelling with Orion Bradshaw
Students will investigate, self-reflect, and share their personal stories in various ways - while also practicing deep listening, observation, and collaboration processes to create and share a variety of stories about individual and communal identities, culture, interests, and concerns.
Medium: Theatre
Del Corazón al Escenario with Valentina Ortiz
Students will explore human emotions and learn how different individuals or characters can respond differently to the same event. Through exercises like body isolation and facial movements, they’ll develop awareness of their body’s position and movement.
Medium: Theatre
Inventions in Action with Heather Pearl
Students will learn to use their bodies as tools for acting through exercises and games. They will create characters (including objects) and use them in a scene showing an invention by a Black American. Students will be the audience for each other, developing observation skills and respect.
Medium: Theatre
Object Play with Barnaby King
After a physical warm up, students will explore how objects can say a lot about who we are and how we are feeling. Building on this, they will use a personal object to create and share a short improvised performance that expresses something about themselves.
Medium: Theatre
Stories With Physical Expression with Jaese Lecuyer
Students will practice using physical expression as a way to identify and communicate feelings, emotions, character, objects/images and their interpretations of the world around them.
Medium: Theatre
Tableau with Jayna Sweet
Students will learn how to tell compelling stories by creating silent, frozen images - or, tableaus. They will work together in pairs and teams to foster collaboration and practice social awareness.
Medium: Theatre
Unpunctuated Scenes with Eric Braman
Students will engage in an improv game to practice collaboration through a listening, observation, and response exercise. They will then work on short scenes in pairs to explore how punctuation can change the meaning and tone of a story. The lesson will result in a final performance of a short script that combines the ideas and contributions of the group members.
Medium: Theatre
with Speaking Out Collective (Tessa Henderson and Laura Hill)
Students will be introduced to gesture as a theatre tool and how to work collaboratively in group settings. Students will explore the use of gestures to express emotion and personal identity and observe and respond to the work of their peers.
Medium: Theatre