Warming up before a performance! |
Theater, Music, and Creative Writing in-school and after-school residencies and workshops available for elementary, middle school, and high school students, with curriculum specifically designed for each learning community, including parent/child workshops and family programs.
Theater Arts-in-Education
Giving notes to young actors, helping them to think critically about their performances. |
Some examples of past theater residencies and workshops:
Kindergarten Through Second Grade:
Showing Off My Creative Dramatics: Building Self-Esteem Through Theater
Telling the Story with Our Bodies: Using Creative Movement to Bring Books to Life
Bringing Books to Life with Music and Creative Movement
Creative Dramatics: Mother Goose in My Neighborhood
Creative Dramatics: Taking Fairy Tales from the Page to the Stage
Third Through Fifth Grade:
Mask Theater: Native American Legends
Creating a Choreopoem Through Image Theater
Creating Magic Onstage: Exploring the Real and Unreal Through Acting and Playwriting
Performance Poetry
Sixth Through Eighth Grade:
Mask Improvisation
Drama and Myths: Acting, Literacy, and the Study of Ancient Cultures
Drama Underground: Subway Plays
Performance Poetry
Bringing to Life Short Plays from Around the World
Know More Drama: Increasing Self-Esteem and Self-Knowledge Through Theater Skills
High School:
Playwriting
Acting
Theater Games
Directing
Play Production (experience directing and producing full-length plays and musicals with high school students, as well as student-written and/or devised work)
Music Arts-in-Education
Elementary music students in Brooklyn performing their original songs for their peers and families. |
Some examples of past music residencies and workshops:
Kindergarten through Eighth Grade:
Music and Rhythm (using handheld percussion instruments)
Singing and Songwriting
STEM Songwriting: Writing Songs About Science
American Folk Songs
Songs to Celebrate Me and My Communities
Singing Songs from Around the World
School Rocks: Writing Songs to Show Off Our Learning and Ourselves
Jazz for Kids
Writing Songs for Mother Earth
Residencies and Workshops: Creative Aging
A new short story author reads her work at the culmination of a Writing Short Stories class. |
Ongoing residencies and workshops available for older adults at senior centers, libraries, and other community-based organizations.
Some examples of past creative aging residencies and workshops:
Writing Short StoriesCreative Dramatics
Arts and Memory: Theater Improvisation at New York Memory Center
Professional Development Workshops
The DREAMSPACE workshop at the Face to Face Conference. |