 Centerstage
Do you like to act???? Learn the necessary skills to create a believable character and play a role in a dramatic production! Explore the process of bringing a script to life while developing your performance skills. At the end of the trimester, students will showcase their work for parents and peers. Are you a seventh grader interested in drama? Do you have an active imagination? Develop your acting skills and explore your creativity through drama. Learn how to pantomime, explore improvisational comedy, create believable characters and act out scripted scenes in a non-threatening environment. Learn what goes on behind the scenes for a theatrical production: create scenery, costumes, and props for a stage production. Acivites include set design and construction, costume design, painting, lighting, and prop construction. Some extracurricular work may be involved as students serve as the running crew for the performance at the end of the trimester. In this performance class, students learn the necessary skills needed to create a well-rounded musical theatre production, weaving music, drama and movement toether. It offers dramatic acting opportunities, as well as a chance for both solo and ensemble musical work. Some extracurricular work may be involved as the trimester culminates with an opportunity for students to showcase their work for parents and peers. (Students in this class must make a two-trimester commitment.)  Express yourself in this drama-based class where the creative exploration of theatrical art goes beyond acting to include storytelling, improvisation, and mask work. This class offers students interested in drama the opportunity to expand their knowledge of theatre and enhance performance techniques. Students who have taken drama in seventh grade as well as those who have not are all welcome! |