2007-2008 classes

Classes for ages 8-18
Call for registration information; must register before beginning of term

Class descriptions

STUDIO II Ages 8-10 Tuesday & Thursday 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Acting workshop that explores the possibilities of the imagination. Introduces voice, movement, improvisation, and collaboration. Students will work on a play to be presented for friends and family on the last day of class.
Spring term: Feb. 5-April 29, 2008 Cost: $255 $85/month*

IMAGINARY ENSEMBLE   Ages 10-14   Monday & Wednesday 4:00-6:00 p.m.
This class focuses on voice, movement, text, improvisation and performance for the stage. It develops the process of writing, creating, and working as a group. Through improvisation and classroom exercises the group creates original theater and adapts classic stories and poems for the stage. Students learn to trust themselves and their collaborators, taking wild leaps into the unknown: their imaginations. Interested students must interview with the directors.
Spring term: Jan. 7-May 14, 2008   Cost: $475   $95/month*

IMAGINISTS TEEN ENSEMBLE   Ages 14-18   Tuesday & Thursday 5:30-7:30 p.m.
This class focuses on advanced training in voice, movement, text, and performance. Each year exercises are structured around two diverse performance projects: a group-created original work and a classic written play through which we study a particular style and period of theater history. Every project's process is designed to generate images, ideas, and staging from the group through improvisation and exercises. The Teen Ensemble requires that students challenge themselves and remain open to new ideas. No auditions, no prior experience necessary.
Spring term: Feb. 5-June 12, 2008   Cost: $475   $95/month*

*Class fees may be paid in monthly installments; please contact us for more information. The Imaginists offer full and partial scholarships. Please call or email us to find out about scholarship criteria and availability.

Faculty

Amy Pinto & Brent Lindsay
Imaginists directors Amy Pinto and Brent Lindsay were professionally trained at North Carolina School of the Arts. Before co-founding KITUS, Amy worked with the Living Stage in Washington D.C. Brent worked in New York with Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Living Theatre.

What will I learn?

SHAPE SHIFTING & MOVEMENT The body is the actor's foundation. Every stage character is built on a base of balance, coordination, grace or lack thereof. Physical awareness and expression create theater.

VOICE, the most important instrument in communicating the text of a story. We must find our own voice before we can lend it to the characters we create. Releasing vocal tension and basic breath control lead to vocal projection and refined diction.

ACTING TECHNIQUE Study plays; learn about moments, beats, objectives, impulses, intuition, communication, and character development for many styles of theater.

IMPROVISATION & PLAYWRITING Create your own world. Write your own words. There are infinitely many ways to create a story and tell it on stage. Every voice is as unique and important as the next.

PRODUCTION & PERFORMANCE Set design and construction, costuming, direction, stage management, lighting and backstage crewing are essential ingredients of a theatrical production. The rehearsal process refines the story told by the actors. Last, but never least, the AUDIENCE makes its entrance.

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