Components of Academy Curriculum

• Creative Drama: Using theater games to encourage the development of the imagination, to enact, and reflect upon improvised situations.
• Acting Technique: Using Stanslavski and Strasberg "Method Acting" techniques, actors use the 7 steps to building a character; learn to make choices; discover inner actions, physical actions, subtext, emotions, perceptions, and motivations.
• Creative Movement: Use of movement techniques - including mime, dance, circus and stage combat - enhances control, agility, stage presence, body awareness. Movement techniques based on Grotowski method.
• Voice and Speech: Use of "Arthur Lessac* vocal techniques increasing relaxation, resonance, articulation, and projection.
• Improvisation: Use of character and scene improvisational exercises develops expressiveness, spontaneity, effective partnering and honesty.
• Play Study: Students explore text, character, relationships and blocking in scripts.
• Classical Scene Study: Students explore text, character and styles in scenes and monologues from Shakespeare.
• Musical Theater: Use of singing and dance techniques increases actor versatility, enhances stage presence and broadens familiarity with style.
• Design: Students will gain hands on knowledge of what goes into being a theatrical designer, while designing costumes and scenery.
• Playwriting: Learn the early process of expressing theme, character and plot through dramatic writing.
• The Theater Ensemble: The Academy will be auditioning in the near future 5th through high school age students to participate in our advanced pre-professional theater training program. Members chosen for the company must have participated in a minimum of two academy sessions.

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