Discipline Description: Please use the following more as a guideline of the residency offered rather than a solidified version of it. No two institutions are the same, so using this format, we will work with your school to create the most optimal residency for your students.
- Basics of Acting/Improvisation
All the acting residencies begin with this. Through fun and physically active improvisation games, the students will be taught the fundamentals such as stage directions, "what is acting", theater etiquette, getting comfortable with public speaking and the important technique of building trust in his/her fellow actors...And Having Fun While Doing So!!!
- Creating A Scene
Once the students have the basics down, they are ready to put their new knowledge into action. Through character and animal study, more advanced improvisation and basic show structure, they will, as a group, initiate an idea, develop it and have an opportunity to present it. The instructor will merely act as an educator and guide during this process, allow the children to explore the full spectrum of their imaginations.
- Advanced Acting/Improvisation & Character Creation
The longer residencies will allow the students an opportunity to take a more active role in initiating exercises and games as well as learn more advanced acting techniques. The class goes beyond the scene and teaches them to use their minds, instincts and bodies to create characters from themselves and their imaginations. These characters the students create individually will be the foundation of their scenes they create as a group.
- Performance
All residencies will conclude with a performance for fellow classmates and faculty (with school approval) to allow each student to not only exhibit the skills they learned but to teach them the last step of the process...Relaxation and Confidence in Public Speaking and Performance.
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