Make it a day at the Victoria Theatre!
If you are joining us for a The Frank M. Tait Foundation Discovery show, why not make a day of it? Come early or stay late, pack a lunch and choose one of The Frank M. Tait Foundation Discovery Workshops to make your visit to the Victoria Theatre even more valuable.
WORKSHOPS EXPLORING 21st CENTURY SKILLS
According to the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities’ recent report, Reinvesting in Arts Education: Winning America’s Future through Creative Schools, arts education is key in developing essential 21st Century Skills. With the help of a professional teaching artist from our partner, The Human Race Theatre Company, these performance workshops will use active techniques to explore your students’ creative and critical thinking skills, their leadership and collaboration skills, their communication and problem solving skills, and more. Each workshop is custom-designed to match the correlating performance and your classroom’s needs. Each one-hour show workshop is $75 and is limited to 25 students. Workshops are available to travel to your school for an additional fee.
The Actor’s Toolbox
For Grades K-8
The Actor’s Toolbox provides a basic overview of performance by sharpening the tools every actor brings to the theatre: the body, voice and imagination. A professional teaching artist will lead students through a variety of theatre activities, including warm-ups, improvisation, movement, character development and more. Your students will sharpen their tools of collaboration, communication and problem solving. Topics can relate directly to the curriculum you are studying in your classroom!
Now Playing: The Fluent Reader
For Grades 2-8
Using theatre activities, students will explore vocal and body techniques that will add gestures to their words, inflection in their voice, and an overall motivation to their oral reading. From exercises that teach students to control the volume and speed of their voice to opportunities to present themselves with poise, this workshop will have students demonstrating a new confidence the next time they are called upon to read aloud. Prompts may be chosen from the Physician’s for Kids Discovery show you attended or from your classroom readings.
Look, Ma, No Script: Learning to Improvise
For Grades 5-12
Look, Ma, No Script is an exciting interactive workshop that will help your students think on their feet and communicate more effectively. A professional teaching artist places students in theatrical situations and scenes that ask them to think quickly and logically while using improvisational skills to interact and work through a scene. Students are taught how to use body language, verbal cues, subtext and irony to create unique and original theatrical experiences in the same way professional actors do. Topics can relate directly to the curriculum you are studying in your classroom!
Acting Out: Accepting Diversity, Eliminating Bullying
For Grades 2-8
This new workshop examines what it means to bully others–and to accept them for their differences–by placing them in various role-playing situations. Students will learn the basic skills of acting, improvisation, and character study through exploring the issues associated with bullying: peer pressure, social media, texting and more. Specific topics may be explored at teacher’s request.
All workshops are led by a professional teaching artist in partnership with The Human Race Theatre Company. For more information or to book a workshop, please contact mindy.wallace@victoriatheatre.com or (937) 228-7591, x3039.
