Core Workshop Sessions

Participants will attend each of the following three classes every day.


Under the Mask: The Body as Text
Instructor: Jonathan Becker
Explore the world of masked acting, actor training with masks, and physical storytelling. Thorough group collaborative work and individual experimentation, participants will discover ways of working that awaken the body as a primary source of text in the communication of story and relationship.


Putting It Together: Staging, Picturization, and Choreography for Your Musical
Instructor: Luis Perez
This is a course designed to give practical and invaluable tips for creating dynamic stage pictures and unraveling the mystery of choreographing for a large group. Covered topics will include balancing the stage, using planes, using levels, tried-and-true patterns to move large groups, and focusing the stage picture.

Improv Affect/ Create Your Own Show!
Instructor: Michael Anthony Williams

Participants will create original revues and plays through a series of improvisation exercises. The workshop will explore methods teachers can use to create comedic performance pieces as well as dramatic, long-form improvised dramatic pieces for stage.