SUMMER PROGRAMS
KRAVIS CREATES!
Connect, imagine and create your world through the performing arts. Young artists will be guided by the Kravis Center’s professional teaching artists through creative week-long workshops in various arts specialties, including acting, dance, spoken word, script writing and stop motion filmmaking. This virtual program is for ages 7-18.
Sponsored by
Rita and Charles Bronfman
Space Quest: Write Your Own Journey!
Instructor: Stefanie Anarumo
June 21 – 25
10:30 – 11:30am
Recommended Age: 9-15
Have you been dreaming of what it would be like to go to Mars? Do you want to travel in your own rocket ship? Then this is the class for you! Bring your Space Odyssey gear and get ready for the greatest quest this galaxy has ever seen! Join us this summer for an original script building summer course designed for ages 9-15. Over the course of a week, students will learn the basics of theater performance and will work together to create and perform an original script.
Writing for the Theater: Monologues, Scenes, and Short Plays
Instructor: Dr. Susan Wemette
June 28 – July 2
10:30 – 11:30am
Recommended Age: 11-18
This course will guide writers through the process of creating three pieces of dramatic writing: a monologue, a short scene, and a ten-minute play. Over the course of the week, we’ll cover playwriting/theater vocabulary, formatting, dramatic structure, character development, and how to create compelling dialogue. The objective of this course is to create three original short pieces of theater, demonstrating both creativity and basic playwriting skills.
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Instructor Jashua Sa-Ra
July 12 – 16
10:30 – 11:30am
Recommended Age: 11-18
A course in writing and performing lyrical language. Produces self-confidence, enhances literacy, activates creativity, and prepares students to perform their own works in front of audiences.
Ready, Set, Stop Motion!
Instructors: Kravis Center Film and Video Department’s Jon Glassman, Kenneth Greenbaum, Matthew Wilt
July 12-16
1:00 -2:00pm
Recommended Age: 7-10
The Kravis Center’s Film & Video Department offers this highly imaginative class on Stop Motion. Stop motion is the creative technique in which physical objects are moved in small increments and photographed and edited together to convey the effect that the object has moved on its own. Students will learn the history of stop motion and how it has been used in aspects of advertising and in entertainment (such as Gumby, Wallace and Gromit, or The Nightmare Before Christmas). Creative experimenting will start with cut fruit, then move on to a household toy, and finally live actors. Students will learn camera, lighting, and basic stop motion techniques, as they enjoy conceptualizing, producing, and finalizing their very own stop motion scene to be showcased on the final day. Requirements: smart phone, iPad, or tablet.Stop motion app: Stop motion studio. Free version will suffice (by Cateater).
Collection of objects to animate
Suggested: tripod or stand for device
“Dance it Out!” in Musical Theater
Instructor: Lindsay Bell
July 19-23
10:30 – 11:30am
Recommended Age: 9-13
Lindsay Bell is a dancer, actor, singer and choreographer who has performed, toured and choreographed at many prestigious theaters and Stadiums in America and Canada! She provides an active and engaging Musical Theater dance class where you will not only focus on dance technique, but students will explore various dance styles used in Broadway shows. The young artists will get to train and refine their performance skills, all while paying special attention to connecting to the audience and telling the story through movement and emotion. This class is perfect for the young performing artist who wants to further their passion and talent for the stage!
House of Visual Art
Instructor: José Mendez
July 26 – 30
10:30 – 11:30am
Recommended Age: 8-14
Create works of art by using items you find in your home. Students will learn the fundamentals of basic drawing to using items in your home to create sculptures and crafts. Students will create a different project every day throughout the week.
THE BROADWAY ARTISTS INTENSIVE
This by audition only, musical theater training program, is for talented students ages 14–21. The faculty is comprised entirely of Broadway professionals from New York, offering the experience of more than 100 major musical productions. During the three-week summer program, students are immersed in the three major areas of the performing arts: acting, voice and dance. Curriculum includes acting, vocal technique, vocal repertoire, ballet, jazz, theater dance, tap, audition technique and improvisation. Live virtual audition is Saturday, April 10. To register and for more information, visit thebroadwayartistsintensive.com. See the TBAI video.
