Classes

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2010 Dragon’s Summer Acting Camp for ages 12-15

Aug. 9-20

Monday-Friday, 9am to 1pm

Final showcase featuring each student

Saturday Aug. 21 @ 4pm

$300

(Payment plans & scholarships available. Just send an email for inquiry info@dragonproductions.net)

Max. 12 students

Not the same old children’s acting camp. Your children are young artists in our eyes & we want to nurture that. They will learn the basics of acting, or develop the acting skills they’ve already acquired, in a fun and stimulating environment. The first half of each day will be spent working on voice, movement, and character through games and exercises. The latter part of the day will be dedicated to working on pieces that each child will be featured in & will be presented in a showcase for friends & family. Because we have 2 teachers for each camp, each young artist will receive a great deal of personal attention. They will be working on scenes & monologues from Tony award-winning plays as well as song & dance numbers (some that they’ve conceived of themselves). The focus of the camp will be the development of a character and of an interactive relationship their fellow artists.

Teacher # 1

Lessa Bouchard is a performer and director with 20 yrs of experience in Detroit and Chicago, working with all ages creating and performing plays about the things that are most important to them. She is particularly trained in an Inquiry, learner centered approach to working with performing artists ages 10 and up. She has a B.F.A. in Theatre from University of Detroit/Mercy and an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts and Media from Columbia College Chicago, where she assisted in teaching Aesthetics, Production and editing 1 & 2 and Writing for television.

Teacher #2

Kristen Nash is currently a student at Bard College at Simon's Rock, majoring in Theater with a Program of Study in Dance. She is familiar with a diversity works and techniques from those of William Shakespeare to Christopher Durang, from musical theater to Anne Bogart's Viewpoints. She enjoys both the artistic and technical sides of theater as an actor as well as a stage manager and director.

Beginning Improv

Workshop Leaders: Susie Danzig and Terry Sandke

Six Wednesdays (7:00pm - 9:00pm), July 28 through September 1 *

Cost: $210 for six sessions ($180 if you sign up before July 22) *

Workshop is limited to 12 participants. * Ages 18 and up, please.

Improvisation is play. Improvisation is fun. Improvisation is a skill that anyone can learn.

Improvisational theatre skills – trusting your spontaneous reactions, listening, making your partner look good, taking risks, and accepting failure with a smile - can have a positive impact on your life: at home, at work, and in your relationships. And you don’t need to be an actor or comedian to develop those skills. Why? Because you improvise every day, and have been doing so since the day you were born.

Using the techniques of improvisational theater with a small group in a safe, friendly, and fun atmosphere, this workshop will help you trust your own ability to think, speak, and act spontaneously. You will play short improv games and experiment with creating characters and scenes, all as a fun way to develop a more nimble and responsive engagement with your life.

As one student said, "You can learn new ways to 'play' at any age. I did when I was sixty years old!"

Come and join the fun. Newcomers and experienced improvisers welcome.

*With two-hour sessions fitting the schedules of working adults, smaller classes taught by active Improv performers, and lower prices, Dragon Productions’ workshops are the best Improv class value on

the Peninsula and in the South Bay.

MORE CLASSES/WORKSHOPS TO COME!