2016 Drama School Summer Catalog

32 Pages·2016·3.16 MB·English

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
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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
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11
ParTNeRSHiP
DIscOVeRieS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.