The After Hours Elsewhere Experience
Shakespearience Performing Arts launched its inaugural after-hours program in the fall of 2006.
Expanding on the success of the workshops Shakespearience has been taking into schools since 1998, and the Shakespearience summer program, the Shakespearience After Hours Elsewhere Experience offers a twice weekly program that operates over a period of several months.
Certified teachers and actors, working with professionally trained Shakespearience artists, rehearse with a group of 12-16 participants, in scenes from the Shakespearean canon, tied together by a theme. Each day will begin with a physical and vocal warm-up offered by trained and experienced specialists. Actors from the Shakespearience roster will visit the workshop and demonstrate professional rehearsal techniques along with experts in the field of voice, improvisation, neutral mask and movement. Their method of working will serve as a model for working professionally and provide students with insights into how successful theatre artists overcome plot, character interpretation and language barriers.
The intensive rehearsal process will culminate with a presentation for family and friends on the final day of the program at a professional theatre in downtown Toronto.
The programs goals include:
- Empowering adolescence with the possibilities of the English language
- Strengthening basic communication and social skills
- Fostering an ability to work in groups
- Promoting empathy
- Encouraging creativity
- Building self-confidence
- Engendering an appreciation of dramatic literature and
- Developing an audience for cultural activities, especially the theatre and more particularly, classical theatre
Criteria:
- Willingness to take risks
- Prepared to commit to the twice weekly rehearsal schedule
- Enjoys meeting and working with new people
- Physically fit
- Openness
- Adaptable
Teachers are welcome to make inquiries regarding the application procedure for any students at their schools who they think would be most likely to benefit from this program. Applications will be accepted by fax (416-502-9970) or send an email to mkaron@shakespearience.ca
For more information about the deadline for applications to the next Shakespearience After-Hours Elsewhere Experience, please contact the office at the email address above or call 416-845-1407.
