Teaches students how to create their own songs, poems, and rhymes while understanding "economic decision making" and cause and effect. Alden explores the concepts of irony, parody, rhyme structure, and elements of speech, and exp...

Students will study the role of the dancer and palmero (rhythmic hand clappers) as they explore basic flamenco dance techniques and rhythms. Students will also be exposed to Spanish cultural studies and vocabulary.

Tony Tsendeas' residencies focus on developing and strengthening fundamental skills of the actor's craft. Imagination and concentration are emphasized and explored as two of the most important of these fundamentals. Residencie...

Tamara teaches the students that songs are the combination of melody, lyrics, and music. She cleverly integrates reading strategies, such as inferring, and challenges students to identify and explain words that create tone in a s...

At the end of the residency, students will be able to identify and explain poetic elements that contribute to a poem's meaning, while creating a melody for a poem. Students will use their voices to improvise simple melodic phrase...

Students will receive a brief introduction of Stanislavski for actors and playwrights, and then follow the step-by-step process of scriptwriting through brief writing exercises and a combination of lecture/discussion. Students wi...

In this residency, drama, sign language, and social studies concepts are integrated for students to explore cultural diffusion and diversity. Investigating the roots of sign language in this country, we travel back 200 years to t...

Students explore the three elements Synetic Theater integrates into its performances: movement, acting, and pantomime. Following a workshop in each discipline, students will choreograph selected fables. 2 artists.

Students will be introduced to the basic structure of a story, the five elements of a story, and the tools of storytelling: Voice, facial expressions, and body/movement/gestures. Students will learn that to tell a story that belo...

Multicultural studies (e.g., how Native Americans, early settlers, or Industrial Era Americans lived) will come to life as Synetic actors help students tackle and explore a subject by creating a theater scene about it. Students u...

Singing is a whole-brain activity. Songwriting strategies for creating and producing melody and rhythm address Music standards, while Language Arts standards, such as identification of a main idea, exploration, organization, and ...

Students learn some of the dances and rhythms of traditional and modern East Africa. Ssuuna can tailor the program to the needs of the classroom, focusing on only dancing, singing, storytelling, or drumming, or including some of ...

Students will learn how to make a story come alive by using different voices, facial expressions, and movements. They will learn to tell one or more stories.

This arts-integrated residency teaches students dramatic writing, narrative literacy, and conflict resolution skills such as empathy, deep listening, and emotional awareness, as well as peaceful problem solving techniques. Due to...

The Listen-See-Tell approach to storytelling explains and gives focus to basic concepts of active listening and natural oral and written expression. Storytelling is a natural activity, performed - at least informally - by almost ...