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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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Black Inventors Charades with Heather Pearl
Students will use acting as a tool for communication. By acting out inventions from the past, students experience history in new ways.
Medium: Theatre
Character Creation with Julia Cuppy
Students will use the "3 Bs" - Breath, Brain, and Body - to create an imagined character that interacts with an environment.
Medium: Theatre
Character Creation with Rae Davis
Students will connect with one another through communal problem-solving-oriented storytelling.
Medium: Theatre
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
Creating a Story as an Ensemble with Francisco Garcia
Students will work together to notate the beginning, middle and end of a story or fable. Students will collaborate as an ensemble through tableau to show their understanding.
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
Different Ways to Communicate with Rikki Jo Hickey
Students will be introduced to theatrical improvisation based on Viola Spolin’s Improvisation for the Theatre and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed methodologies combined with classic literature and influenced by The Happy Child; Conscious Discipline; and Mental Health First Aid training.
Medium: Theatre
Dramatic Structure: Action and Consequence with Francisco Garcia
Students will be intorduced to the use of dramatic structure in theatre and how it can be used to create a story.
Medium: Theatre
Elements of Design with Julia Cuppy
Students will use elements of design to identify characteristics in found objects in their classroom.
Medium: Theatre
Embodied Storytelling with Ki Ridenour-Starnes
Students will be introduced to an adaptation of a Southwestern/Southeastern indigenous story and embody the characters they learn about.
Medium: Theatre
Gesture Poems 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
Image Theatre with Jaese Lecuyer
Students will practice using physical expression as a way to create meaning, tell stories, engage in active listening, embrace curiousity, communicate their interpretations of the world around them and collaborate effectively to share ideas, thoughts and feelings.
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
Let’s Be A Character with Nikki Flinn
Students will explore creating character through creative movement, sound, play, connection, and interview, focusing on details of physical, vocal, and emotional choices.
Medium: Theatre
Little Puppets with Big Feelings with Lauren Jost
Students will learnto create a simple puppet and use it to express emotions in different settings.
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
Voice Experiments with Eri Zinke
Students will explore different ways they can use their voice and body through warm-ups and drama games. In small groups, students will use these skills to act out a short story in collaboration with others.
Medium: Theatre