Drama Theatre Arts Class

During drama activities especially when working with mixed-ability students, one should consider working within an open space and creating a circle. One should start the

Some people believe students should be required to take a music, a drama, or an art class. This requirement could prove problematic for many students. Students would be unable to take necessary classes before college. The classes should be electives because some people may want to take more advanced classes, some people do not have talents in the arts and if students are forced to take the classes, they may not focus as much.

It was the winter of 2014 when my mother forced me to go to The Corner Health Center Theatre Troupe. I was livid, and acting at the time was something that I was terrified of. I felt as if I was a bird being pushed from the nest too early. I knew there was no possible way that I could be able to: one,talk to strangers, two, learn a script,

1 Assignment 2 Drama Assignment/Do our Differences Define Us? 1. Do our differences define us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. Yes our differences do define us. Our differences affect our experiences, which shape our realities ,our perception of situations, and our futures.

"Gin and guns—either one is bad enough, but together they get you in a dickens of a mess, don 't they."—Accused murderer Belva Gaertner, 1924 (National Geographic, N.D)

The most recent collaborative experience I’ve been a part of was an entirely student-run production of Next to Normal at my school. After barely any cooperation from my school’s administration, the cast took it upon ourselves to raise the $3,000 required for rights, find a rehearsal space outside of school, and find independent ways to advertise. The environment in rehearsal was equally collaborative. Our two directors were students who were also in the show, both of whom very much respected and accepted our ideas and opinions about characters, blocking, and how to tackle the tough material the show focuses on. I learned through this experience that a, even if I do consider myself to be an incredibly open-minded person there is always room

Middle School Theatre as a student is really interesting. I have an amazing teacher and I learn everyday. We learn about lot’s of things in theatre that helps me grow in theatre. In this paper I’m going to talk about all the things I’ve learned so far in Theatre and my favorite unit this year.

In life, there are undoubtedly going to be a handful major events that may affect you in a really major way and change who you are as a person. But that’s it, there really is only a handful. The rest of the pleasure and enjoyment in life comes from the small moments. These moments aren’t necessarily awe-inspiring or mind-boggingly complex, but they put a little pep in your step or may cause you to think about something in a slightly different way. I think that’s what you have to focus on when you are performing for an audience. You need to create those moments for them, like ChiPs did for me, where I am still quoting a line from the show a week later to one of my good friends that I went with. The little moments are what matter; the little moments are what you remember. The little moments just may be a big deal after

Over the past 3 years at Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School I've been able to blossom into a culture of music and theater. I started choir in 6th grade, along side doing that years musical. Music and theater weren't new to me at that point, for I knew what it's like to dance to loud music in my room, and what it's like to sit through musicals and plays my older sisters did. And I was eager to star in my own musicals and concerts. That’s when "Shakespeare Comes to Calamity Creek" showed me what it's like to be in a performance, and how much work it takes outside of it. That it takes more than just the time at rehearsal to make a show great. How it takes a couple of hours just to remember lines, or how it takes a couple of rehearsals to really get

This last half term we’ve been looking at challenging stereotypes and misconceptions. To begin with we were given stimulus in the form of photographs; these prompted each of us to have thoughts on what was shown. The image showed a man or woman staring stone faced through the many legs of passers by. My feeling towards this photograph was partly sympathy; however I knew I would just be one of the many people who would walk past. Stereotypes can interfere; one of the first things that came into our minds was things like drugs and gambling. This makes you feel less sorry for the person and immediately ideas that could be entirely untrue come into your head.

On December 11th, 2015, my group and I will be presenting our topics for World Theatre and -Ism Project on the topic of Feminist Theatre. My group consisted of Vincent Quach, Amanda Witaker, Denise Orozco, and myself. Like most group projects, we experienced both highs and lows as we collected information about our topic to present to the class. While I learned a lot during this assignment, I had a hard time getting together as a group for this project.

As I entered the room I felt a cold chill; my whole body began to shake. As I stood up,  I felt like running out of the room. Something stopped me from running away from my performance. Of course I did not want to let my team down. It was me recalling the first time I sang to Mr. Blanton. He had spoken to me and said “ You are too shy, it’s going to be difficult to work with you as a vocalist. If this is what you want to do you need to step  up your game”. That stuck with me for a while, because I tried so hard to be confident and  to lose my stage fright. Before I could even think  of putting positive thoughts in my head, I heard my teacher announcing that my group was about to perform.

Dramatic Truth Ballet Theatre is a ballet company and ballet school that is located in Kansas City, Missouri. Dramatic Truth School of the Arts was founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1986. It is a Christ-centered professional performing arts school. Dramatic Truth School of the Arts develops in each of its dancers the unique fusion of excellent classical and modern technique with a heart of worship.

From a young age, the importance of communication is drilled into our minds. We are forced into situations that require us to collaborate and discuss. While the group work we've endured from a young age is intended to teach these skills through experience, the majority of the time, these skills are not fully utilized or learned. With group work, it is incredibly easy to divvy up the work or have one or two members do most of the heavy lifting. This occurs because there has been minimal to no instructional guidance on how to behave effectively in groups. Furthermore, this lacking of knowledge is what fuels the common feeling of dread directed towards group work. How does this apply to the service learning project where my group supported and helped Lindsay with her production of the musical, Alice? As initially stated, communication is key.

Despite the claim that Drama in Education ( DIE) as a pedagogy dimmed its popularity in the Western world since 1990 until 2016 (Gallagher, et al. , 2017), in the year of 2011, Morrow, et al. included it as one of the best practices in literacy instruction. Some of the teachers who had the experience of trying process drama in their classrooms found that the pedagogy improved students’ participations, pushed students to use their imaginations, performed deeper understanding of the topics being learned and made the students learn to have empathy ( Long, 1998). Do the voices from the classroom resemble to what researchers and theories have to say on process drama?