photo: Eric Monrad
Crucible 2006
Imaginists Teen Ensemble
Winter/Spring Term: February - June
Tuesday & Thursday - 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Class begins: February 10, 2009
Cost: $475/semester or $95/month
Scholarships are available. Contact us for more information.
Tuesday & Thursday - 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Class begins: February 10, 2009
Cost: $475/semester or $95/month
Scholarships are available. Contact us for more information.
The Imaginists Teen Ensemble (ages 14-18) focuses on advanced training in voice, movement, text, and performance through group process. 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 theatre history. Every project's process is designed to generate images, ideas, and staging from the group through improvisation and exercises. Through this practice we find innovative ways to involve the Ensemble as a whole throughout every production.
Past productions have included plays by Miller (The Crucible), Chekhov and Ionesco (The Bear, The Bald Soprano), Sophocles (Antigone), Pirandello (Tonight We Improvise), and Shakespeare (The Winter's Tale). The Ensemble has performed original adaptations of the Russian folktale Baba Yaga, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The Teen Ensemble requires that students challenge themselves and remain open to new ideas. It is about opening up your own creative force, learning to trust, and learning to fail. No auditions, no prior experience necessary.
We actively encourage a diverse classroom.
