StageCraft:
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Gain practical/hands-on experience with set and costume building, light hanging and focusing, sound and light operation, along with set design, costume design and lighting design. Students learn a variety of backstage and production elements.
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Theatre 1/2
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In addition to fulfilling your UC Visual & Performing Arts credit, you'll have a great time exploring a wide range of theater topics. For those with no previous experience, you'll learn how to be more confident in new situations and how to take risks For more advanced & experienced actors, you'll learn the fundamentals of what you will need to know in order to be successful in DP's Theater program and beyond: audition technique, acting techniques (Boal, Stanislavski, Meisner, Adler, Strasburg, Bogart), character and script analysis, scene study work, improv., musical theater, and theater history. You'll also perform a musical theater review for an elementary school. The class presents several projects during the year for lunchtime and small class audiences.
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Theatre 3/4
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This is the second class in the series of three levels. In this class students practice acting techniques they've learned from theater 1/2 in a more intensive environment that focuses on scene work. Students create individual acting goals at the beginning of the year and work towards achieving these goals with each new scenes. New goals are set as progress is made. The class is based on the model of a professional acting class where students choose their own scenes and rehearse on their own, under the guidance and instruction of Mr. Sayre. The class also performs a theme night, consisting of student written and directed scenes around a single theme. Students also work throughout the year on technique for readings by working with the Young Playwrights in the class (The 3/4 and Playwriting class are usually combined.)
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Theatre Advanced
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The third class in the sequence of theater classes, this class focuses entirely on musical theater. Students work with a dance instructor on dance technique and choreography from Broadway shows. They work with John Douglas on learning and perfecting audition songs and performance pieces. Finally students work with Clark Sayre on vocal technique, dramatic interpretation and audition technique. The students present two shows during the year in which every class member is featured. Students also read and watch a wide range of Broadway musicals to increase their appreciation and provide them with some historical context for their scenes and songs.
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Young Playwrights/
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Each student in this class is paired up with a professional writing mentor who guides him/her through the process of writing his/her own one-act play. These plays will then be performed as readings with professional actors and directors. Actors from the 3/4 class perform weekly class readings of original student written scenes in order that the young writers can see/hear their work onstage and receive feedback from both audience and actors in a safe classroom environment. (NOTE: Theater 3/4 and Playwriting are usually combined.)
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Play Production
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Each student in this class is paired up with a professional writing mentor who guides him/her through the process of writing his/her own one-act play. These plays will then be performed as readings with professional actors and directors. Actors from the 3/4 class perform weekly class readings of original student written scenes in order that the young writers can see/hear their work onstage and receive feedback from both audience and actors in a safe classroom environment. (NOTE: Theater 3/4 and Playwriting are usually combined.)
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