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2016 Drama School Summer Catalog PDF

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WELCOME TO SUMMER 2016 Soooo much is new at SCT: new staff (Welcome, Claire!), new summer day camp partner (Welcome, The Museum of Flight!), new artistic director on the way (hard even to write it –happy retirement to you, Linda Hartzell, legend of children’s theatre and all-round great person!). Another change: Karen Sharp, former SCT Education Director, now Managing Director for all of SCT, is expertly navigating all these changes. In the next few years we will be giving our facility a major upgrade. And as in summers past, we have new Summer Season shows, new classes, new students, and new teaching artists (though we know them well, as they come into their own from our intern and apprentice programs). What has not changed is the commitment and love we all feel for theatre and the way it can transform the lives of young people. Recently someone asked me, ‘Why is this all so important to you?’ I found it hard to give a brief answer, and when I didn’t respond right away she went on to say ‘It must be important. You give your life to it.’ It is. We do. I still find it hard to give a brief answer, but I hope you find one in the pages of this catalogue and the experiences you have with us this summer. Your New Education Director, Don Fleming SPRING SeSSion Can’t wait until summer? Want to try out a new class? Check out our website or give us a call to find out about the great classes we offer in spring. CoNTENTS REGiStRatiON OPeNs 206.443.0807 ext. 1186 206.443.0807 ext. 1186 FEBRUaRY 8 www.swcwt.wo.srcgt.o/rgs/cschhooool/cll/acssleassses Registration form on page 30 Registration form on page 30 7 3 5 cORE ELectiveS creative TO SUMMER actiNG drama for grades 3-12 classes for age 3 ½ -grade 3 for grades 3-12 Acting for the Camera, Story Drama Acting, Acting 2, Acting 3 Creating Character, Shakespeare, Treasure Trunk Theatre Studio Performance Labs, Magic Doorway One-Day Seminars Theatre Arts Splash Drama Quest 13 11 ParTNeRSHiP DIscOVeRieS 9 MULTI-LEVeL caMPS DaY caMPs eLectivEs for grades 1-8 for age 5-grade 4 SCT with Museum of History & for grades 3-12 SCT with Woodland Park Zoo, Industry, Seattle Aquarium, SCT with Pacific Science Center EMP Museum, Frye Art Museum, Musical Theatre, Musical Revues The School of Acrobatics and New Improv, Long-Form Improvisation Circus Arts, The Museum of Flight Physical Comedy, Comedy Troupe Backstage, Backstage 2 21 23 15 YOUNG actOR SUMMEr SeaSON iNsTItUte StUDENT PRODUCTIONS Program description and audition for grade 4-age 21 SUMMEr information for Young Actor Frindle Institute, a six week intensive for 2016 CLasS The Humor Games: A Parody serious actors entering the 10th High School Hamlet/ grade to age 21. Midsummer Night’s Macbeth ScHedULE (secret musical!) Shrek The Musical 27 29 25 OtHeR REGiStRatiON aND aUDitiONs OPPORtUNiTIeS eXteNDed care & aUDItiON iNFORMatiON WOrKSHOPs School-year preschool and home-school classes, Education Audition schedule and guidelines Outreach, Volunteer Assistants, 30 REGiStRatiON for Summer Season productions, Drama School T-shirts and more Young Actor Institute and advanced FOrM placement in classes CREATIVE If you see this symbol next to your class, you will receive an SCT Creative DRAMA Drama T-shirt to wear during class. At the end of the week, this T-shirt will be yours to keep. You are still welcome to purchase Drama School T-shirts and sweatshirts as well. AGE 3½ -GRADE 3 StORY DRaMa Ages 3½-4½ Great children’s books serve as launching pads for dramatic adventures. In Story Drama, we go beyond reenactment to create new characters and dramatic situations in which we work together to overcome all sorts of dramatic challenges. Along the way, we use theatrical elements including costume, music, art, and props to engage all of our senses. SCT teaching artists collaborate to develop a detailed curriculum for every book that we select for Story Drama. TReaSURE TRUNK THeatre Half-Day Program Ages 4-5 Our treasure trunk provides a dramatic focus for each class, concealing something mysterious and exciting. We open the trunk to discover the spark that inspires that day’s interactive adventure. The adventures build into a week-long story that we create as we act it out. Students learn how to band together as an ensemble and use their voices, bodies and imaginations to overcome a myriad of dramatic challenges. The three-hour time frame allows us to create complex characters who inhabit an intricate tale while building the specific vocal, physical and ensemble skills needed to bring those characters to life. MaGic DOORWaY Half-Day Program Ages 4-5 Clues to solving a mystery await us on the other side of the doorway. We work together and discover new ways of using our voices, bodies and minds every day as we step through the doorway to explore a fantastical place. We collect clues provided by colorful and mysterious characters created by teachers and students. At the end of the day, we cross back through the doorway, piece together our clues and take 3 one more step towards solving our week-long mystery. THeatre aRts SPLasH Half-Day Program Ages 4-8 Students in Theatre Arts Splash rotate between three All three Theatre Arts Splash classes—Creative Drama, different classes every day, each with its own instructor. Movement and Visual Art—focus on a common theme In Creative Drama, we create and act out a story that throughout the week and on a different aspect of that continues throughout the week, reaching a dramatic theme each day. This summer’s Splash themes are: conclusion on the last day of class. In Movement, students develop both individual and ensemble motor skills. In UNDER THE SEA: We will dive under the sea and use our Visual Art, they create their own works of art using a variety bodies, voices, and imaginations to become creatures, of media. habitats and animals, both real and mythical, that you find under the sea. We divide all sessions into three age-appropriate groups. Each group of students also has a counselor who guides SEASONS: The contrasting elements of fall, winter, spring them through the day. and summer provide a fun framework to explore using our bodies, voices and imaginations. DRaMa QUeSt Full-Day Program Grades 1-2, 2-3 We provide the flexible framework for a week-long adventure. Each class creates characters and a detailed dramatic environment to support the story we develop and act out. In addition to the creative drama teacher, a specialty teacher works on specific skills that help students enact the story and create characters. We have four Drama Quest themes to choose from: SPACE SQUAD: Chart a challenging course through the Milky Way. Bravely encounter extreme conditions and extraordinary organisms. Zoom on to discover and name a new galaxy full of new stars, planets and moons, as well as friends and foes. We will create art of all kinds to depict the exciting discoveries we made. CASTLES & KINGDOMS: Travel to a far-off kingdom filled with magical surprises and swashbuckling adventures. We learn medieval ballads from the traveling troubadour, juggling from the court jester, combat skills from the knight and spellbinding stories from the wizard! CIRCUS SLEUTHS: Jump into the world of flying trapeze artists, clowns, and jugglers as you uncover hidden mysteries under the big top! The adventures that unfold make for a zany and adventurous week at the circus. PREHISTORIC PLAYGROUND: Join an elite team of fossil-hunters to unearth landscapes of long ago where the greatest and mightiest of reptiles once roamed! We design and craft an assortment of prehistoric puppets to help us tell the story as we travel back to the time when dinosaurs walked the earth. eXteNDed care We offer morning and afternoon 4 extended care. See page 29 for more information. CORE ACTING Actors who have had training and experience may audition to be placed in higher level classes. See pages 15-20 for our schedule of classes and pages 25-26 for audition information. GRADES 3-12 actiNG caMP actiNG Full-Day Program Grades 3-5, 4-6 Half-Day Program Grades 3-4, 3-5, 4-6, 5-6, 6-10, 7-12 In addition to covering Acting curriculum, each of these sections of Acting will cover SCT Drama School’s Acting teaches fundamentals specific techniques in either improvisation or that every actor needs. Theatre games and exercises physical comedy, taught by a specialist. will stretch your voice, body and mind. Open scenes and improvisation enable you to embody a character, identify obstacles and work to achieve an objective through a variety of tactics. Acting focuses on key physical, vocal and improvisational skills. Students must have taken two sessions of Acting or pass an audition before moving on to Acting 2, which incorporates scripts and scene work with skills learned in Acting. Pairing Options: You can pair any Acting class with an Elective class to create a full-day program. We provide free supervision during the break. REGiStRatiON OPeNS FEBRUaRY 8 206.443.0807 ext. 1186 www.sct.org/school/classes Registration form on page 30 5 actiNG 3 actiNG 2 Full-Day Program Grades 7-12 Full-Day Program Grades 4-6, 7-12 In Acting 3, you will tackle three essential aspects of dramatic performance: the monologue, classical material and verse scenes. Monologues require the actor to create In Acting 2, you will apply acting skills to scripted theatre without scene partners, using the voice and body to scene work. We carefully select scenes that respond to circumstances that exist only in the imagination. are appropriate for young actors and we use Classic period scenes require actors to learn new vocabulary these scenes to teach the process of bringing a and to breathe life into eras and styles that are different from playwright’s vision to life. You will learn to search our own. Scenes in verse require advanced vocal technique out the clues in a script that reveal the objectives and help the actor develop an ear for finding the sense of characters, the tactics they are using and the of a scene from the sound of its words. Each student will obstacles they must overcome. You will learn rehearse and memorize verse material, period material and rehearsal techniques, memorization tools and at least one monologue to be shared with family and friends the vocabulary of a stage actor. Each student will on the last day of class. rehearse, memorize and perform at least one scene to be shared with friends and families on the Students must have taken two sessions of Acting 2 and two last day of class. electives or pass an audition to take Acting 3. Students must have taken two sessions of Acting or pass an audition to take Acting 2. 6 ELECTIVES ELECTIVES GRADES 3-12 GRADES 3-12 Pairing Options: You can pair any half-day elective with an Acting class to create a full-day program. We provide free supervision during the break. StUDIO PeRFORmaNce LaBS actiNG FOR tHE caMeRa Full-Day Program Half-Day Program Grades 4-7, 7-12 Grades 4-6, 7-12 Advance your acting skills by learning to rehearse Acting in front of a camera requires special and present a complete script in one of our rehearsal techniques. Learn how to relate to a camera as though studios. you are facing your goal, your enemy or a distant horizon. Learn how to act out of sequence, to act The Secret Lives of Toads (grades 4-7) one line at a time, to maintain concentration amid Harvey faces his first day at a new school, where the distractions of a film set and to stay within the there’s no room for kids with weird attitudes—like Cissy, tight movement parameters that acting for a camera who never talks or Barrie, who plays with frogs. When often requires. We help you achieve the honesty and Harvey befriends them, he gets stuck in the middle of relaxation that produces the best on-camera acting. a simmering feud. Meanwhile, the science lab frogs have their own ideas about what it means to be stuck. cReatiNG cHaRaCTEr Excitement peaks when frogs and kids find themselves on the wrong side of a locked door. Half-Day Program Grades 6-10 Ten Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse (grades 7-12) In this class you create dramatic characters. You Reason? True Love? Sacrifice the weak? Kung-Fu? A explore the world the character lives in, as well as that group of intrepid teens try out various apocalypse- character’s inner life, thoughts, feelings, hopes and defying scenarios. fears. You also learn how to translate this work into how the character speaks, moves, and relates to the Students must have taken two sessions of Acting or a world and others. Each student works with a variety of session of Acting 2 or Acting 3 or pass an audition to characters taken from life and plays. be placed in Studio Performance Lab. SHaKEsPEaRE Half-Day Program Grades 3-5, 6-10 Shakespeare presents challenges to both beginning and experienced actors; he is also a great acting teacher. He wrote not to be read, but to be spoken and heard. The words express the innermost thoughts and strongest feelings of the characters, through their meaning and their sound. In this class we work towards actively embodying these words with movement and voice. This training stretches us as actors and leads to a deeper understanding of all drama. 7 ONe-DaY SeMINaRs IMPROV – Practice a variety of improv games and formats. In all of them, we learn how to say Full-Day Program “yes, and …!” to the offers we get from fellow Grades 4-6, 7-12 performers in order to build scenes that CROWW— that is, they contain distinct Characters, linked by Try something new or gain more experience doing specific Relationships, who are motivated by strong something you love. We offer one-day seminars to Objectives within a well-defined Where and When. students of all levels. You can take all five in a single week at a discounted price. One-day seminars do STAGE COMBAT – Learn some moves and skills for not fulfill prerequisite requirements. on-stage combat. We will practice convincing falls, slaps and fights in a safe environment. ACTING FOR THE CAMERA – Develop camera acting techniques and learn how to relate to a camera as STAGE MAKEUP – Delve into some of the a partner in a scene. We will record and watch on- fundamental principles of stage makeup: how to camera scenes in studio. exaggerate, diminish and create facial features to help an actor portray a character. We will also learn SKETCH COMEDY – Explore a range of classic how to create special-effects makeup like bruises, sketches from vaudeville routines to modern video wounds and fantasy creatures. shorts. We will also develop, write and stage our own original comedic sketches. 8 MULTI-LEVEL ELECTIVES Pairing Options: You can pair any half-day elective with an Acting class to create a full-day program. We provide free supervision during the break. GRADES 3-12 GRADES 3-12 MUsicaL tHEaTRe imPROV PHYSICaL cOMedY Half-Day Program Half-Day Program Half-Day Program Grades 3-5, 4-6, 6-10, 7-12 Grades 3-5, 4-6, 6-10, 7-12 Grades 3-4, 3-5, 5-6, 6-10 A choreographer and musical Improv is an important (and often Combine precise physical movement director will introduce you to essential hilarious) art form that also provides with the acting skills necessary to dancing, singing and acting skills actors with a deeper understanding bring those moves to comedic life. while you rehearse and perform at of dramatic structure. We build In Physical Comedy you learn a least two ensemble numbers from the stories without scripts or rehearsal, wide variety of different takes, lazzi musicals listed below. In each session creating them at the same time and pratfalls. You also learn how of Musical Theatre we learn how to that we act them out, using a wide to control, isolate and exaggerate use dance and well-crafted songs variety of improv games and formats. physical and facial reactions and how to develop strong characters and We learn how to say “yes, and …!” to incorporate those skills into comic engaging scenes. to the offers we get from fellow characters, bits, routines and scenes. performers in order to build scenes Grade 3-5 sections: that CROWW—that is, they contain cOMedY trOUPe Cinderella and Peter Pan distinct Characters, linked by specific Grade 4-6 section: Relationships, who are motivated Full-Day Program Mary Poppins by strong Objectives within a well- Grades 5-8 defined Where and When. We go on Grade 6-10 sections: to create more complex stories that Crazy For You and If you have experience in physical include stronger conflicts and a clear Little Shop of Horrors comedy and want to learn how to tie beginning, middle and end. your skills more deeply to character Grade 7-12 section: Hairspray and dramatic action, join Comedy LONG-FOrM Troupe. Learn tumbling and juggling MUsicaL revUe skills and new slips, slaps, falls and imPROViSaTION rolls. We will develop both solo and Bye, Bye, Birdie and Big River group comedy routines and scenes Full-Day Program Full-Day Program where characters that you create Grades 4-7, 7-12 Grades 7-12 are placed in bizarre settings and struggle against impossible obstacles Put your musical theatre skills to work Offered in partnership with Jet City in hilarious ways. as you rehearse and perform a revue Improv. Classes held at Jet City featuring scenes and songs from Bye, Improv in the University District. Students must have taken one session Bye, Birdie (grades 4-7) or Big River of Physical Comedy, Physical Comedy (grades 7-12). A musical director and Learn the techniques you need to Camp or pass a physical comedy a choreographer will work with you to create and perform an improvisational audition to be placed in Comedy integrate dialogue, song and dance play. The class will work with both Troupe. into cohesive scenes. On the last an SCT acting teacher and an day of class, family and friends will experienced JCI director, exploring be invited to see the revue that your a myriad of genres, characters and class has created. environments while working within different improvisational structures. Students must have taken one On the last day of class, we will session of Musical Theatre or pass a perform an unscripted play using the musical theatre audition to be placed skills we have developed. in Musical Revue. Students must have taken one session of Improv or pass an improv audition to be placed in Long-Form 9 Improvisation.

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