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Scene Study For Young Actors
This 6 part series will focus on strengthening acting techniques & skills.
Scene work guided by experienced teaching artists.
Participants will learn practical tools for text and character development.
Appropriate for all levels.
Ages: 10-16
Dates: Tuesdays, January 6,13,20,27 & February 3rd and 9th
Time: 4:30 -5:40
Cost: $285
Limited Space Available
Classes, Workshops and Camps
The Hippodrome Theatre classes and camps offer young people an outlet for creative expression. The classes and camps provided by professional Teaching Artists focus on providing quality educational experience opportunities, inviting kids, teens and adults to learn, grow and create.
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Lend Me Your Ears
Pairing students with playwrights, professional actors, writers, and artists to create an original piece.
Theater of the Oppressed
How to transform the audience into“spect-actors,” where those participating in a performance both observe (spectator) and create (actor) dramatic meaning and action?
Starting in September 2023, over twenty resident students at the Alachua Academy will engage in a performance class based on Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed. This artistic and political methodology wishes to transform (passive) spectators into (active) subjects: the spect-actors. To break the cycle of incarceration for young people, these students learn the poetics of the oppressed to create, as theater practitioner Diane Conrad says, “alternative endings, opportunities to reimagine themselves, and various possible futures.”
To achieve such a goal, students will watch videos and photographs and listen to recordings about challenging situations of people at a crossroads. They will discuss the materials and offer concrete responses by storyboarding a short film. Finally, they will translate their interpretations by creating a collage of images and sounds where they add their voices to evoke a desire to transform reality.