Weekly Class Overview
Our multi-week after-school program held on your school's campus is designed to engage students at their level of comfort with improvisation, acting and singing. Through these performing arts, we also strive to help students expand their skills in creative expression.
Sample ten-week program:
Week 1: How not to feel stupid in front of people
This Introduction to Improvisation will help students feel comfortable in front of others and in getting to know one another through the use of improvisation games.
Week 2: How to hit the high note
By learning two to four songs, our continuation of Introduction to Singing will include a vocal technique group lesson that focuses on posture, breathing and vowel production. Our Introduction to Acting helps students learn to express a given emotion or intention.
Week 3: How do I get what I want?
In our continued Introduction to Acting, students learn to personalize their interpretation and expression through the use of strong intentions.
Week 4: Letting your drama loose through acting
In week 4 we dive below the surface and find the deep emotions one needs to express oneself effectively in front of others through a scene or monologue.
Week 5: Say what you really think!
Week 5 brings us to working on memorized monologues and scenes and applying acting techniques to songs.
Week 6: Physicalize it!
This week students learn to personalize their songs, scenes and monologues through physicalization.
Week 7: Sing out, Louise!
This week we work on preparation for a song, scene or monologue, bringing together all the elements from previous weeks’ work and projecting the voice while expressing oneself.
Week 8: Practice, practice, practice...and more practice
In week 8, working in small groups with individual instructors, we practice songs, monologues and/or scenes with instructor feedback.
Week 9: Did I get it?
Working towards putting it all together, in week 9 students rehearse their final performance piece(s) as we dive deep and work intensely on the elements needed to create an effective performance.
Week 10: Go for it!
In a final two-hour class, the students put all their skills together to present a showcase for invited family and friends in chosen songs, scenes or monologues.
Sample ten-week program:
Week 1: How not to feel stupid in front of people
This Introduction to Improvisation will help students feel comfortable in front of others and in getting to know one another through the use of improvisation games.
Week 2: How to hit the high note
By learning two to four songs, our continuation of Introduction to Singing will include a vocal technique group lesson that focuses on posture, breathing and vowel production. Our Introduction to Acting helps students learn to express a given emotion or intention.
Week 3: How do I get what I want?
In our continued Introduction to Acting, students learn to personalize their interpretation and expression through the use of strong intentions.
Week 4: Letting your drama loose through acting
In week 4 we dive below the surface and find the deep emotions one needs to express oneself effectively in front of others through a scene or monologue.
Week 5: Say what you really think!
Week 5 brings us to working on memorized monologues and scenes and applying acting techniques to songs.
Week 6: Physicalize it!
This week students learn to personalize their songs, scenes and monologues through physicalization.
Week 7: Sing out, Louise!
This week we work on preparation for a song, scene or monologue, bringing together all the elements from previous weeks’ work and projecting the voice while expressing oneself.
Week 8: Practice, practice, practice...and more practice
In week 8, working in small groups with individual instructors, we practice songs, monologues and/or scenes with instructor feedback.
Week 9: Did I get it?
Working towards putting it all together, in week 9 students rehearse their final performance piece(s) as we dive deep and work intensely on the elements needed to create an effective performance.
Week 10: Go for it!
In a final two-hour class, the students put all their skills together to present a showcase for invited family and friends in chosen songs, scenes or monologues.