CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

Shakespeare Applied: a 60-90 minute, participatory workshop for educators.

Presented at educational theatre workshops around the U.S. and in Canada, this workshop examines the play production process as the ideal means to bring out the best in any group.  The play is not "the thing;" the play is the vehicle for creating cohesiveness and mutual respect.  Reading skills, speaking skills, self-confidence, and appreciation for Shakespeare are tangible by-products of this approach.  As a teaching artist, former camp director, and co-founder of Community Shakespeare Company, Richard Carter has more than thirty years of experience as a writer, director, and leader of young people.  "Shakespeare Applied" is an interactive demonstration of some of the techniques developed in his youth theatre company:  Community Shakespeare Company.

KIDS SUMMER WORKSHOPS - 2009 - on Lopez Island - June 22 - 26

There are 4 EXCITING KIDS SUMMER WORKSHOPS available through LIFRC, including Stage Combat (all ages & experience levels) and Acting Techniques from the Juillard School.  These are co-sponsored by CSC and taught by people coming to the island ESPECIALLY FOR YOU!  The workshops are an incredible bargain: $85 for one 5-day workshop; only $75 per workshop for two!  Scholarships are available via LIFRC and there may be a couple of tuition-trade slots (pending). 

Co-sponsored by CSC with the Lopez Island Family Resource Center. Please contact LIFRC to enroll.

BEGINNING STAGE COMBAT,  age 11 and up (finished with 5th grade). 9-11am daily, with final demonstration for parents & friends Friday, June 26

Learn how “fights” on stage and in films are actually constructed, move by move, until the finished performance looks and sounds real! With an emphasis on safety and proper technique, students will be introduced to the fundamentals of hand-to-hand combat and will also receive some training with appropriate weapons for the stage.  Instructor Ilene Fins is a veteran of 16 seasons teaching for Seattle Children’s Theatre, and currently Dean of Theatre at a performing arts high school in Florida.

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED STAGE COMBAT, age 13 and up (finished with 7th grade).  11:15am – 1:15pm daily, with final demonstration for parents & friends Friday, June 26

This class is for students who have already received some instruction in combat techniques for the stage.  Appropriate weapons use, including swordplay, will be central to this focused, exiting opportunity for student actors to advance their skills.  This class is also taught by (certified?) instructor Ilene Fins.

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ACTING TECHNIQUES FROM THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL, age 12 and up (finished with 6th grade).  9-11am daily, with final demonstration for parents & friends Friday, June 26

For students with previous acting experience who wish to learn some of the techniques taught to aspiring professional actors at New York’s renowned Julliard School of Theatre.  The actor’s “instrument” is the body and mind. Students will study voice, movement, relaxation, taught by veteran instructor John Bunzel, who took his BFA in acting from Julliard and founded the Drama program at Camp Nor’wester.

THEATRE GAMES, IMPROVISATION AND ACTING TECHNIQUES, age 7 and up (finished with 1st grade). 11:15am – 1:15pm, daily, with final demonstration for parents & friends Friday, June 26

No acting experience required!  This class is for students whose basic interest is in acting, and/or for families who want students to receive instruction in the lifelong skills that will give them self confidence in front of an audience.  A variety of theatre games and exercises, studies in voice, diction, movement and relaxation will be used to create original scenes or a short play improvised by students.

ALSO:

There will be a POTLUCK, PERFORMANCE/SHARING (Kids Summer Workshops) & SHAKESPEARE 10-YEAR CELEBRATION following the summer workshops.  DATE: JUNE 26. Location and time are tentatively LCCA  at 5:30 (subject to change).  This will provide a wonderful mix of on and off-island families, sharing the successes of workshop participants and celebrating 10 years of Shakespeare on Lopez.  MARK YOUR CALENDARS and please tell all our friends and former CSC participants to come!