Creative Drama/Theatre
The creative drama classroom provides a space for imagining possibilities in concrete ways. Using imagination and critical thinking skills, students collaborate on activities that challenge them to “become” other people and things. Through the embodying of others, students gain an increased sense of empathy as well as a strong self-awareness. An actor's tools are the body and voice; all work in the drama room focuses on these important instruments. Each year begins with emphasis on a technique know as Image Theatre where actors create performances of still shapes and images. As the year progresses students explore the use of creativity through sound and movement as well.
This program is offered weekly for all Kindergarten-5th grade students.
The drama program in 6th-, 7th-, and 8th grades takes on a global perspective. The sixth grade's six week continuum (weekly mini-course) is an overview of important moments in theatre throughout history and across the world. The 7th grade students study Shakespeare from an actor's perspective in a weekly ten week course. Eighth graders finish their drama experience with experiments in the French style of clowning; they meet weekly for ten weeks, and again weekly for a six week continuum.
Kindergarten
- Introduction to creative drama
- Exploring expressivity in stillness
- Thanksgiving play
- Sound and movement
- Characters and feelings
- Putting on a show
- Story telling
Grades 1 - 4
- Understand classroom rules
- Understand the drama space as a space for free expression
- Understand the concept of tableaux and be able to execute tableaux
- Continued work towards body placement in sun salutation
- Use the concept of tableaux to tell stories and express ideas
- Develop multiple modes of expression
- Understand that sound, breath, and movement are connected
- Understand that sound, like movement, carries meaning
- Develop sense of characters being different from ourselves
- Think how people sound and move in different ways
- Develop characters based on imaginative sounds and movements
- Preliminary theatre vocabulary
- Understand audience etiquette
- Develop excitement for live performance
- Discover ways to invent creative stories
- Understand the qualities of the beginning, middle and end of stories
- Develop small performances of original stories
Grade 5
- Understand classroom rules
- Understand the drama space as a space for free expression
- Remember the sun salutation
- Understand all vocabulary associated with Rudolph Laban’s effort qualities
- Notice the effort qualities in everyday life
- Develop original dances using the effort qualities
- Develop original characters and stories using the effort qualities
- Learn how actors use tactics, spontaneity and tactics to develop believable circumstances on stage
- Continue to explore believable circumstances
- Learn games from Boal’s Arsenal of the Oppressed
- Learn stage directions
- Learn about the audition process
- Learn about the history of musical theatre
- Learn parts of the stage
- Learn dances and songs for the middle school play
- Develop the ability to notice small details on stage
- Use and observe the performance dance sacs
- Write original monologues and scenes
- Perform original scenes
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