INTRO TO THEATRE
Standards: CREATE PERFORM CRITICALLY RESPOND!
Week 1 & 2 August 21 - August 31 Building the ensemble and defining the Actor's Tools
Define and develop SELF DISCIPLINE, TRUST, FREEING THE ACTOR WITHIN
OUR TOOLS
VOICE -- BODY -- IMAGINATION
VOICE: Work on Articulation and Projection - choose a short poem or a longer quote to work with in class.
Breathing exercises
Ten Steps ( Vibrate the wall)
Energy Up - Energy Down ( squats, jazz hands and a ten-count to full projection)
Recite your poem or quote
Awareness of your ability to control PITCH, TEMPO, INFLECTION
Improving Focus and Concentration: Zip Zap Zop and Rabbit-Elephant-Horse-Donkey
Week of SEPT 4 Developing our skills
VOICE and BODY together----- TO TEll THe TRUTH IN groups of five select a true story of one member. All tell it as their own. can we tell who's story it really is? If you use your imagination as well to not just memorize, but visualize the story you tell as your own, it will be difficult or impossible to tell who is telling the truth. How can the audience tell if are remembering your own story or somebody else's story?
What's on Broadway? Share non- musicals now and soon to be in New York.
Week of September 10 -- Body and Imagination together
BODY -- pantomimes
Choose an activity that you do every day. Practice doing it at home, paying attention to your own hands, body, so that you can do the activity exactly WITHOUT any objects. For example, brushing your teeth -- pay attention to how much space the tube takes up in your hand and form your hand exactly that way WITHOUT the tube.
Work with partners to tell a story without words -- only your body. Choose a poem or a fable or a fairy tale or a children’s story….. time limit:5 minutes
Critically respond – what worked. What was enjoyable to watch? Can you tell us what the MOOD of your story was?
Can the sound techs find an appropriate soundscape for you?
Re do with selection of appropriate music.
Critically respond---
How does the music enhance the performance?
Week of September 17 -- Putting it all together
Animals Animals!
Circle on stage:
Part 1 Choose an animal to imitate. Come into the circle and move like the animal. Make sounds like the animal.
Part 2 Consider whether you are predator or prey. Consider your environment. How does this affect your movement? Will movement be the same at all times? What situations affect the way you move?
Part 3 Divide into 3 groups ( use the farm animals game –ducks, sheep, cows)
Three groups : add music and lights to create a performance of a watering hole where the animals gather.
Apply what we have learned: Using voice, body and imagination together.
Some students may volunteer to redo their poem/quote more skillfully than the first time by employing all tools at once.
Read through PLAY : The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Shall we put the play on its feet?
Vocabulary: blocking, mime, characterization, cheating, Stage Directions
Tech: How would you light this play? How would the lighting affect the telling of the story? What is the purpose of stage lighting? Demonstrations of purposeful lighting.
Standards: CREATE PERFORM CRITICALLY RESPOND!
Week 1 & 2 August 21 - August 31 Building the ensemble and defining the Actor's Tools
Define and develop SELF DISCIPLINE, TRUST, FREEING THE ACTOR WITHIN
OUR TOOLS
VOICE -- BODY -- IMAGINATION
VOICE: Work on Articulation and Projection - choose a short poem or a longer quote to work with in class.
Breathing exercises
Ten Steps ( Vibrate the wall)
Energy Up - Energy Down ( squats, jazz hands and a ten-count to full projection)
Recite your poem or quote
Awareness of your ability to control PITCH, TEMPO, INFLECTION
Improving Focus and Concentration: Zip Zap Zop and Rabbit-Elephant-Horse-Donkey
Week of SEPT 4 Developing our skills
VOICE and BODY together----- TO TEll THe TRUTH IN groups of five select a true story of one member. All tell it as their own. can we tell who's story it really is? If you use your imagination as well to not just memorize, but visualize the story you tell as your own, it will be difficult or impossible to tell who is telling the truth. How can the audience tell if are remembering your own story or somebody else's story?
What's on Broadway? Share non- musicals now and soon to be in New York.
Week of September 10 -- Body and Imagination together
BODY -- pantomimes
Choose an activity that you do every day. Practice doing it at home, paying attention to your own hands, body, so that you can do the activity exactly WITHOUT any objects. For example, brushing your teeth -- pay attention to how much space the tube takes up in your hand and form your hand exactly that way WITHOUT the tube.
Work with partners to tell a story without words -- only your body. Choose a poem or a fable or a fairy tale or a children’s story….. time limit:5 minutes
Critically respond – what worked. What was enjoyable to watch? Can you tell us what the MOOD of your story was?
Can the sound techs find an appropriate soundscape for you?
Re do with selection of appropriate music.
Critically respond---
How does the music enhance the performance?
Week of September 17 -- Putting it all together
Animals Animals!
Circle on stage:
Part 1 Choose an animal to imitate. Come into the circle and move like the animal. Make sounds like the animal.
Part 2 Consider whether you are predator or prey. Consider your environment. How does this affect your movement? Will movement be the same at all times? What situations affect the way you move?
Part 3 Divide into 3 groups ( use the farm animals game –ducks, sheep, cows)
Three groups : add music and lights to create a performance of a watering hole where the animals gather.
Apply what we have learned: Using voice, body and imagination together.
Some students may volunteer to redo their poem/quote more skillfully than the first time by employing all tools at once.
Read through PLAY : The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Shall we put the play on its feet?
Vocabulary: blocking, mime, characterization, cheating, Stage Directions
Tech: How would you light this play? How would the lighting affect the telling of the story? What is the purpose of stage lighting? Demonstrations of purposeful lighting.