Winter Classes
Drama and Dress-Up
Ages 4-5
With Jess Callahan
Mondays 3:30-4:30pm
8 classes beginning January 16th
Tuition: $100
The classroom is bedecked with a rack of wild clothes, musical instruments, and lots of silly props. Each day a dramatic story will be used as a springboard for imaginative and supported play for youngsters. We will incorporate acting, singing, dancing, and even some yoga! Every class will be a new adventure into different cultures, characters and emotions. It will be your child’s first step into the NEYT family.
Page to Stage
Ages 6-8
With Ben Stockman
Saturdays 11-12:30pm
8 Classes beginning January 21st
Tuition: $160
Page To Stage is the perfect way to give young students the chance at a hands- on experience in all aspects of play-making. Over our eight weeks together we will be adapting a script, creating characters, building scenery, designing and constructing costumes, all leading up to a performance for friends and family on the final session.
Monologue Preparation and Performance
Ages 9-12
With Rebecca Waxman
Wednesdays 3:30-5pm
8 Classes beginning January 18th
Tuition: $200
This class will explore how to connect to written material so that the story and the actor's personality can come through. Students will learn a process for developing a piece and will finish the class with a set of skills to use in any acting situation.
Beginning Improvisation
Ages 11-15
With Jane Baker
Saturdays 11-12:30pm
8 Classes beginning January 21st
Tuition: $160
Lots of people feel that Improv is about acting or preparing for the stage. Improv teaches many things which are far reaching and much more than just acting. Improv can teach you to: think fast on your feet; find out that you are much more creative THAN you know; to go with the flow; to learn to lead; to learn to follow; to say yes…AND... build your self-confidence; to work as a team. The class will be group work so you don’t have to appear on stage all by yourself, unless you want to. The class will be safe and encouraging for newcomers to theater. It’ll be interactive, relaxed and FUN.
Embodiment of movement on stage
Ages 13-19
With Aurora Corsano
Mondays 4-5:30pm
8 Classes beginning February 27th
Tuition: $200
This course develops skills in the art of making concise, conscious and clearly executed movement decisions in performance. Class time is aimed at fine tuning movement through proposals, games and exercises that hone the actors awareness of space, time, quality, emotion, gradations and physical presence as well as sensitivity to the environment of the stage including the audience and other actors. Please come to class prepared to remove your shoes and bring clothing that is comfortable for movement.
Viewpoints 2-Day Workshop
Ages 13-19
With Eric Bass
January 13th from 3:30-6:30 and January 14th 10am-2pm
Tuition: $150
Hey Actors! Do you sometimes wonder what to do with your bodies while you are speaking — or not speaking — onstage? What’s your strong position? How do you take focus — and give it when necessary? How do you frame a moment? All of this is part of Viewpoints, an approach to theater that is not about character analysis, but works from the Body’s natural impulses and develops informed intuition and variety.
If you’ve worked with me before, you know that this is one of the core methods of my approach. But rehearsals are rehearsals and there’s rarely time to learn, just for the sake of learning. So here’s a chance to really try this out. Viewpoints empowers the actor and enables the actor and the director to become partners in the process of staging theater. It helps us understand that dramatic tension is created by the physical choices we make on stage. It helps us think with our bodies!
Hope to see you in the class.
Eric
Adult Improv
Ages 18+
With Jane Baker
Thursdays 6:30-8pm
8 Classes beginning January 19th
Tuition: $150
Lots of people feel that Improv is about acting or preparing for the stage. Improv teaches many things which are far reaching and much more than just acting. Improv can teach you to: think fast on your feet; find out that you are much more creative THAN you know; to go with the flow; to learn to lead; to learn to follow; to say yes…AND... build your self-confidence; to work as a team. The class will be group work so you don’t have to appear on stage all by yourself, unless you want to. The class will be safe and encouraging for newcomers to theater. It’ll be interactive, relaxed and FUN.
Theatre Adventure Program Class Descriptions
Youth Troupe: Ages 7+
Adult Troupe: Adults
With Laura Lawson Tucker and Darlene Jenson
Classes begin in January
Tuition $275
Theatre Adventure classes are designed for students with mixed abilities. Most of our students have disabilities, however, we welcome students without disabilities to join us in creating brave and dynamic theater. Our focus on strengths and abilities emboldens our Troupe Members to reach for independence as well as inspire an awakened view from their audiences. For further information, please contact the Directors: Laura Lawson Tucker, laura@theatreadventure.org or Darlene Jenson,darlene@theatreadventure.org
Theatre Adventure Wednesday Morning Youth Troupe
9:30 to 11:30 am. Students enroll in this school morning theater class as part of their educational programs. Students worked with our “Skills for Stardom” curriculum during the Fall 2011 semester. Students will continue essential theater and acting skills as groundwork for their spring show, “Follow the Yellow Brick Road.” The Troupe will spend the Winter/Spring semester creating their May production while putting into practice their skills with characterization, blocking, projection, troupe work, memorization, story line, pantomime, dancing, singing, and drumming.
Classes meet: January 25, February 1, 8, 15, 29, March 7, 14, 21, 28, April 4, 11, 25, May 2, 16 (CAST PARTY)
Monday Rehearsals (9:30 am to 11:30am): April 2, 9, 23, 30, May 7
SHOW: Wednesday, May 9/Thursday, May 10 at 10:30 AM
Theatre Adventure Wednesday Afternoon Youth Troupe
3:45- 5:30 pm. Troupe Members are encouraged to continue building their Troupe skills from their fall production, “The Princess and the Goblin.” Students will work with our “Skills for Stardom” curriculum for strengthening essential theater/acting skills: characterization, blocking, projection, memorization, story line, pantomime, dancing, singing, costuming, and drumming. All of this skill building will prepare this group for their Fall 2012 production.
Classes meet: January 11, 18, 25, February 1, 8, 15, 29, Mar 7, 14, 21, and 28
Theater Adventure Thursday Morning Adult Troupe
9:30 am to noon. Adult Troupe Members are encouraged to take bold and independent risks as actors to support their growing sense of self. Students worked with our “Skills for Stardom” curriculum during the Fall 2011 semester that introduced essential theater and acting skills as groundwork for their spring show, “Trouble Comes to River City.” The Troupe will spend the Winter/Spring semester creating their April production while putting into practice their skills with characterization, blocking, projection, troupe work, memorization, story line, pantomime, dancing, singing, and drumming.
Classes meet: January 12, 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, March 8, 15, 22, 29, April 5, 12, 26 (CAST PARTY)
Friday Rehearsals (9:30 am to noon): March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, April 6, 13, (MONDAY) 16
SHOW: Thursday, April 19 at 10:30 am and Friday, April 20 at 7 pm