Theater

Where the Wild Things Are

Imaginative Play for Grades 1-3
October 2nd - 23rd

This class will introduce and reinforce the basic tools for creative drama - imagination, voice, and body - for making stories come alive. Participants will explore vocal pitch, pace, and projection skills as well as physical characterization and control. They will learn about stage directions while using simple stories/fables for creative dramatics activities.

Four sessions
Saturdays
October 2 – 23
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Fee: $38

Walking on the Moon

Creative Drama for Grades 4-6
October 2nd - 23rd

This class will review and reinforce the basic tools for creative drama - imagination, voice, and body - for making stories come alive. During session one, skills assessment will be made to inform activities for the next three sessions. Participants will explore vocal pitch, pace, and projection skills with an emphasis on voice and articulation. They will also explore dialect. Other topics include physical characterization and control, stage directions and mechanics of stage pictures, improvisation exercises, character and scene work (monologue and duo reading assignments provided), and audition technique.

Four sessions
Saturdays
October 2 – 23
10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Fee: $57

Instructor Danette Olsen is a theater generalist who works as a teaching artist, arts administrator, and theatre arts-maker. Her credits include education director for the Arts Council Lake Erie West, field consultant to the Ohio Arts Council, producer with CLIMB Theatre, and executive director of the St. Croix Festival Theatre. Accomplished in facilitating both youth and adults in drama education, she teaches a spectrum of drama classes and formats, including workshops, retreats, and weekly classes in fundamentals of drama, creative dramatics, audition technique, improvisation, character and voice, directing, and technical theater.