Tailor-made for each acting class or performance ensemble, this can be a workshop or residency. It can include body language analysis and practice, kinesthetic awareness and control, mime, image work, safe stage combat, breath and energy work, ensemble building, juggling, improvisation, and individual coaching for actors working on characters in plays.
Especially geared for youth-at-risk and reluctant writers, this residency begins with setting guidelines for behavior together. The group brainstorms and discusses hot topics for a performance. Students write short pieces on topics that are important to them in genres that make sense to them. They collaborate on taking their writings from the page to the stage. If all goes according to plan, the residency culminates in a performance conceived and created by the performers about the issues that keep them awake at night and get them out of bed in the morning.
